• Pivotfarm
    05/24/2013 - 10:04
    Everyone has heard of Marie-Antoinette screaming from her balcony at the Palace of Versailles in the early hours of the French Revolution: “if there’s no bread, then let them eat cake!”. Right!

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Doug Casey: The Virtues of Capitalism

Cronyism Daniel Hannan Fail Hong Kong None Reality Too Big To Fail What almost everybody calls capitalism is actually fascism, a system where both consumer and capital goods are privately owned, but they are strictly regulated and controlled. This is a huge distinction.
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What Happens When the Bond Bull Market Ends?

Bear Market Bill Gross Bond default Gross Domestic Product Italy Japan Sovereigns   Bill Gross, who manages the world’s largest bond fund, has indicated that the 30+ year old super cycle bull market in bonds has ended. This is very bad news for the markets.  
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Bubble Mentality, Now Even In Germany

China Daimler European Central Bank Eurozone Germany Gross Domestic Product Kool-Aid McKinsey Reality recovery Unemployment Uranium Vladimir Putin A 'second Economic Miracle' and other psychedelic feats, but inconvenient data gets in the way.
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THe MaSTeR & APPReNTiCe...con't

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.--Bob Woodward History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.--Mark Twain
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Gold Demand Remains Strong As Buying Records Continue To Tumble

Bear Market Blackrock British Pound Central Banks China Exchange Traded Fund India Middle East Reuters World Gold Council There are no surprises in the latest World Gold Council Gold Demand Trends report other than the fact that statistics show global demand for gold in Q1 2013 was on the increase before the COMEX raid on April 15th. This is a clear indication that the fundamentals supporting a strong price for gold in the long term remain and also helps to explain why there was such a shortage of gold bars and coins in the weeks after April 15th.
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“Leadership” or Lack Thereof

Debt Ceiling Gambling Ohio President Obama Recently in the United States we’ve heard news that the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) is guilty of discriminating against conservative “non-profit” or not-for-profit entities.  Any group with the name “Patriot” or “Tea Party” in their name was immediately held as suspect and the IRS in essence dragged their feet in terms of granting them a non-profit status. 
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Has the Web and Social Media Finally Provided The Level Playing Field That Can Obsolesce The Mainstream Media?

Apple Information, Inspiration, Influence: No longer locked in the iron grip of Big Media?
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Theory of Interest and Prices in Paper Currency Part II (Mechanics)

Backwardation Copper ETC fixed Money Supply Reality In this part, we discuss stocks vs. flows, how prices are formed in a market, a broad concept of arbitrage, spreads, and how money comes into and goes out of existence.
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One Last Gasp

Japan Nikkei Is the runup in the Nikkei the result of effective central bank intervention or the spasms before the collapse?
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ECB ‘s Flex Can’t Stop the Contagion

China Economic Calendar European Central Bank France Germany Market Conditions Quantitative Easing Recession recovery Smart Money Like an infectious disease without a cure, the contagion within Europe widens its grasp…
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McDonald's Could do a Better Job!

CRAP ETC Japan McDonalds None Ohio   The United Nations is a corrupt, bureaucratic nightmare and should be abolished. Free market capitalism already does more of the UN mandate than the UN ever has or will.
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Stocks Disconnect From Reality... and Every Other Asset Class

Copper Reality   Investors, take note… stocks are always the last to “get it.” This bubble will end as all bubbles do: in disaster.  
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The Hollowing Out Of Chinese Manufacturing

China Ford Japan Mexico Nikkei Reality Renaissance Shenzhen Standard Chartered Yuan The great American manufacturing renaissance? Maybe not. But China is losing the low-wage edge.
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Rick Rule: Uranium’s Wounds Are the Making of a Bull Market

Australia Bear Market France Japan Kazakhstan Three Mile Island Uranium Natural resource speculators know that past uranium bull markets offered some ’explosive’ (pun intended) upside. I have been fortunate enough to experience two uranium bull markets: the 1970s bull market, which saw a tenfold increase in the uranium price and a hundredfold increase in some uranium equities, and the bull market of the last decade, which saw a repeat of the earlier performance.[1] If past is prologue, the stage may be set for a third uranium bull run.
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