Silver: Being Bearish A Crowded Trade ... Bullish sentiment on silver is at its lowest reading since July of last year. ... A Trump win in the election was supposed to be bullish for precious metals stocks, but instead investors have seen the plunge in mining shares exacerbated. Despite the 40-week moving average being strong support this year, silver plunged through it post-election like it...Read More
Silver: Being Bearish A Crowded Trade ... Bullish sentiment on silver is at its lowest reading since July of last year. ... A Trump win in the election was supposed to be bullish for precious metals stocks, but instead investors have seen the plunge in mining shares exacerbated. Despite the 40-week moving average being strong support this year, silver plunged through it post-election like it...Read More
Don’t Lower Corporate Taxes. Abolish Them ... Lowering the corporate tax rate appears to be all the rage. Donald Trump has promised a cut to 15 percent from 35 percent in the U.S., and British Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged to make the U.K.’s corporate tax the lowest in the G-20, which would mean taking it lower than Trump intends to … Now that business-friendly governmen...Read More
Don’t Lower Corporate Taxes. Abolish Them ... Lowering the corporate tax rate appears to be all the rage. Donald Trump has promised a cut to 15 percent from 35 percent in the U.S., and British Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged to make the U.K.’s corporate tax the lowest in the G-20, which would mean taking it lower than Trump intends to … Now that business-friendly governmen...Read More
No, Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See ... Making everyone who shares fake news part of a Russian conspiracy is not helpful. One of the themes that has emerged during the controversy over "fake news" and its role in the election of Donald Trump is the idea that Russian agents of various kinds helped hack the process by fueling this barrage of false news. But is that r...Read More
No, Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See ... Making everyone who shares fake news part of a Russian conspiracy is not helpful. One of the themes that has emerged during the controversy over "fake news" and its role in the election of Donald Trump is the idea that Russian agents of various kinds helped hack the process by fueling this barrage of false news. But is that r...Read More
Don’t Entrust Economics to the Experts ... Why has so much of the world succumbed to populist demagoguery and xenophobic nationalism? To a non-trivial extent, economists may be responsible. This idea finds some support in a new book, “The Econocracy,” written by three U.K. economics students — Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins. – BloombergAustrian economi...Read More
Don’t Entrust Economics to the Experts ... Why has so much of the world succumbed to populist demagoguery and xenophobic nationalism? To a non-trivial extent, economists may be responsible. This idea finds some support in a new book, “The Econocracy,” written by three U.K. economics students — Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins. – BloombergAustrian economi...Read More
Legalized Marijuana Could Drive A New Tech Boom … The revolution to legalize marijuana is marching slowly-but steadily-forward. Half of the states in the United States plus the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana or cannabis for medical use, and more states are legalizing recreational use with each election cycle. – ForbesThis Forbes article reminds us of how much progress ma...Read More
Legalized Marijuana Could Drive A New Tech Boom … The revolution to legalize marijuana is marching slowly-but steadily-forward. Half of the states in the United States plus the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana or cannabis for medical use, and more states are legalizing recreational use with each election cycle. – ForbesThis Forbes article reminds us of how much progress ma...Read More
Merkel Blames Populist Gains on Rise of 'Fake News' ... This week Merkel blamed "fake news" in driving the rise of populism in the West. It looks like the left is just going to blame "fake news" every time they lose their grip on power. – Gateway PunditThe elite is leveraging its "populism versus globalism" meme by declaring that populism is closely linked to "fake news."We've written numero...Read More
Merkel Blames Populist Gains on Rise of 'Fake News' ... This week Merkel blamed "fake news" in driving the rise of populism in the West. It looks like the left is just going to blame "fake news" every time they lose their grip on power. – Gateway PunditThe elite is leveraging its "populism versus globalism" meme by declaring that populism is closely linked to "fake news."We've written numero...Read More
We got the very sad news today, Nov. 22, 2015, that Dave McGowan passed away from cancer at 12:47 p.m. - Truth and ShadowsWe missed the anniversary of McGowan's death, which was yesterday, but he was one helluva a writer, exposing in brief books the"directed history" of the modern era. So, we'll remember him today. We've written about him before, here.He died of an extremely aggressive form of l...Read More
To silence dissidents, Gulf states are revoking their citizenship Many are left stateless as a result. - The EconomistThe Economist "newspaper" is worried that nations are beginning to use passports as a way to punish people that leaders don't like.This article focuses mainly on the Middle East, especially Bahrain, which the article calls an "energetic stripper."More here:Bahrain's ... Sunni ro...Read More
We got the very sad news today, Nov. 22, 2015, that Dave McGowan passed away from cancer at 12:47 p.m. - Truth and ShadowsWe missed the anniversary of McGowan's death, which was yesterday, but he was one helluva a writer, exposing in brief books the"directed history" of the modern era. So, we'll remember him today. We've written about him before, here.He died of an extremely aggressive form of l...Read More
To silence dissidents, Gulf states are revoking their citizenship Many are left stateless as a result. - The EconomistThe Economist "newspaper" is worried that nations are beginning to use passports as a way to punish people that leaders don't like.This article focuses mainly on the Middle East, especially Bahrain, which the article calls an "energetic stripper."More here:Bahrain's ... Sunni ro...Read More
Trump Shouldn't Bully the Fed ... U.S. President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly criticized Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen during his campaign. British Prime Minister Theresa May has questioned the Bank of England's recent actions, for a while putting Governor Mark Carney's tenure in doubt. The long-cherished principle of central-bank independence seems to be under attack. – BloombergThe...Read More
Trump Shouldn't Bully the Fed ... U.S. President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly criticized Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen during his campaign. British Prime Minister Theresa May has questioned the Bank of England's recent actions, for a while putting Governor Mark Carney's tenure in doubt. The long-cherished principle of central-bank independence seems to be under attack. – BloombergThe...Read More
CEO of Denison Mines, David Cates, explains who the real consumers of uranium are. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/2gerzpp ...Read More
'Truth Decay' Makes Facts Subjective and Polarization More Extreme ... Disagreements over policy have always existed-but disagreements over basic facts have not. It's a phenomenon that RAND CEO Michael Rich calls "truth decay." -Rand Corporation blogMichael Rich, head of Rand Corporation has come up with a new phrase to describe "fake news," calling it "truth decay." The Rand Corporation is a le...Read More