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  • What If My Pension Becomes Frozen?

    Pensions were once the Holy Grail of secure retirement plans, but they have become far less reliable over time. Sadly, in order to maintain the pension, participating employees had to give up pay raises for many years, in many cases. That’s money that will never be recouped. In an announcement today, General Electric (GE) became

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  • Where Can We Get Black Swan Insurance?

    Volatility, expansion, and recession are all regular forces to be dealt with in the stock market. But last Monday, liquidity in the overnight lending market evaporated. Illiquid markets create nebulous pricing issues for a great deal of the banking system’s financial instruments, which can quickly lead to panic, market selloffs, and concerns for bank insolvencies.

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  • Anticipated ECB Policy Easing Pushes Gold Higher!

    During a press conference held today, European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi announced that the interest rate on deposit facilities will be lowered by 10 basis points to -0.5% and further that the central bank is also restarting its monthly bond-purchase program. Specifically, “Net purchases will be restarted under the Governing Councils asset purchase

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  • An Economic Slowdown Seems Inevitable

    The 10-year Treasury note wasted no time diving to its lowest level since 2016, following a report today from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) indicating an August contraction in the U.S. manufacturing sector, for the first time since early 2016. After reviewing the report, Ian Lyngen, Head of Rates Research at BMO Capital Markets

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  • Gold Is Going Mainstream!

    Gold is not a word frequently utilized by hedge fund managers and when it is, it typically is in reference to an ETF or mining stock. However, Ray Dalio, the founder and Chief Investment Officer of a very large and successful hedge fund management group called Bridgewater Associates, which manages in excess of $160 billion,

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  • There is a Black Hole at the Center of Our Economy!

    05/30/2019, Los Angeles The S&P 500 double-topped in September of 2018 and by December it had dropped more than 20%. Last month, the S&P double-topped again and since then it’s been one step forward and two steps back, so no one should be the least bit surprised if it’s down at least 20% before the

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  • $1.2 Trillion Trade War Sell-Off May Just Be the Beginning!

    Since May 3rd, the S&P 500 has lost $1.2 trillion. At its low on Monday, the DJIA was down 700 points, or about 2.7%. The S&P was down similarly. But the NASDAQ lost more than 3.5% due to the greater concentration of companies in industries that are most affected by the current trade discord with

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  • The Economy is not Fine, It’s Financed!

    Following a conversation with Steve Eisman, the Neuberg Berman Group money manager who famously predicted the collapse of subprime mortgages in advance of the 2008 financial crisis, Bloomberg is reporting on his new and equally disturbing concern, that the U.S. corporate debt market will suffer “massive losses” if the U.S. economy falls into recession. The

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  • Bank of America Says Gold Is Set To Soar Above $1,300!

    Bloomberg has reported that Bank of America Merrill Lynch believes that gold is set to surge over the next year, as the country’s widening budget deficit and tariff-driven trade war begins to damage the U.S. economy. In a phone interview last week, Francisco Blanch, the Head of Bank of America’s Global Commodities and Derivatives Research

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  • A Sucker Punch May Win the Battle, but Probably Not the War!

    It’s become extremely clear that President Trump does not believe that maintaining the status quo has been beneficial for the United States. There is no doubt that foreign countries have viewed the U.S. like an open book and that at least generally speaking, the country’s response to anything has been clear, calculated, and quite predictable.

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