Forget Gold, Buy Silver ETFs Instead ... Gold bullion exchange-traded fund SPDR Gold Shares ETF (NYSEARCA:GLD) is up over 27% so far this year (as of August 1, 2016). Investors should note that not only gold, most precious metals are on a tear this year on a subdued greenback, as these metals are linked to the U.S. dollar. -Seeking AlphaThis article, excerpted above, makes the case for buying si...Read More
Trump's Border Wall Idea Dismissed by Mexico's Foreign Minister ... Nation 'not even considering' candidate's proposal: minister Ruiz calls for passage of TPP trade deal to build on Nafta ... Mexico's foreign minister, Claudia Ruiz Massieu, dismissed Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump's calls for the nation to pay for a border wall, calling instead for greater integration betwee...Read More
Social Media Blitz Has Russians Asking: What's a Central Bank? ... Bank of Russia expanding its reach by turning to social media Inflation expectations remain high despite slower price growth ... Here's what Governor Elvira Nabiullina's latest quest to uproot high inflation expectations is up against: most Russians don't know what a central bank is, and the price growth many of them actually f...Read More
Gloucester ammo store's sign criticized for its 'ugly timing' ... The sign outside the Gloucester Supply Center has generated criticism of and support for the shop owner ... When George Allen Jr. mounted a 15-square-foot sign that reads "WE SELL AMMO" outside of his shop here, just days after a mass shooting in an Orlando nightclub, he posted the bright yellow marquee not only to let customers k...Read More
The list of Republicans who support Hillary Clinton is growing - quickly ... Richard Armitage, Henry Paulson, Brent Scowcroft. Three big-name former George W. Bush administration officials in the past few weeks have announced that they are supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016 - all because Donald Trump is simply a bridge too far for them. -Boston GlobeTrump may be a "bridge too far," but why are R...Read More
Social Media Blitz Has Russians Asking: What's a Central Bank? ... Bank of Russia expanding its reach by turning to social media Inflation expectations remain high despite slower price growth ... Here's what Governor Elvira Nabiullina's latest quest to uproot high inflation expectations is up against: most Russians don't know what a central bank is, and the price growth many of them actually f...Read More
Gloucester ammo store's sign criticized for its 'ugly timing' ... The sign outside the Gloucester Supply Center has generated criticism of and support for the shop owner ... When George Allen Jr. mounted a 15-square-foot sign that reads "WE SELL AMMO" outside of his shop here, just days after a mass shooting in an Orlando nightclub, he posted the bright yellow marquee not only to let customers k...Read More
The list of Republicans who support Hillary Clinton is growing - quickly ... Richard Armitage, Henry Paulson, Brent Scowcroft. Three big-name former George W. Bush administration officials in the past few weeks have announced that they are supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016 - all because Donald Trump is simply a bridge too far for them. -Boston GlobeTrump may be a "bridge too far," but why are R...Read More
Trump reportedly asked adviser why US can’t use nuclear weapons ... MSNBC host Joe Scarborough told a stunned panel Wednesday morning that when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump met with an unnamed national security expert earlier this year, he repeatedly asked why the U.S. couldn’t use its nuclear weapons stockpile. -AOL Trump has asked a good question about nuclear wea...Read More
Abenomics’ return to fiscal stimulus shows failure to reach economic goals ... Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s return to the fiscal-stimulus lever he first pulled three years ago shows how far he remains from hitting ambitious targets for reviving Japan’s economy. The cabinet on Tuesday approved a spending-and-lending package totalling ?28 trillion ($363 billion), including ?4....Read More
North Korean Missile Lands Close to Japan ... North Korea fired a ballistic missile early Wednesday that landed unusually close to Japan, drawing a strong protest from Tokyo a day after it warned of Pyongyang's advancing missile threat. ... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the latest missile had fallen into Tokyo's territorial waters and called it an "unforgivable act of aggression that...Read More
Trump reportedly asked adviser why US can’t use nuclear weapons ... MSNBC host Joe Scarborough told a stunned panel Wednesday morning that when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump met with an unnamed national security expert earlier this year, he repeatedly asked why the U.S. couldn’t use its nuclear weapons stockpile. -AOL Trump has asked a good question about nuclear wea...Read More
Abenomics’ return to fiscal stimulus shows failure to reach economic goals ... Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s return to the fiscal-stimulus lever he first pulled three years ago shows how far he remains from hitting ambitious targets for reviving Japan’s economy. The cabinet on Tuesday approved a spending-and-lending package totalling ?28 trillion ($363 billion), including ?4....Read More
North Korean Missile Lands Close to Japan ... North Korea fired a ballistic missile early Wednesday that landed unusually close to Japan, drawing a strong protest from Tokyo a day after it warned of Pyongyang's advancing missile threat. ... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the latest missile had fallen into Tokyo's territorial waters and called it an "unforgivable act of aggression that...Read More
Donald Trump: 'I'm Afraid the Election Is Going to Be Rigged' ... Donald Trump on Monday night repeated his earlier assertion that the 2016 general election will be "rigged" against him ... "I'm telling you, Nov. 8, we'd better be careful, because that election is going to be rigged," Mr. Trump said in the Fox News interview. "And I hope the Republicans are watching closely or it's going to be t...Read More
The big puzzle in economics today: why is the economy growing so slowly? ... The growth of the US economy keeps falling short of expectations. On Friday, we learned that the US economy grew at an inflation-adjusted rate of 1 percent in the first half of 2016. That's the slowest six-month growth rate since 2012, and it continues the slow growth that has characterized the recovery since 2009. So w...Read More
Donald Trump: 'I'm Afraid the Election Is Going to Be Rigged' ... Donald Trump on Monday night repeated his earlier assertion that the 2016 general election will be "rigged" against him ... "I'm telling you, Nov. 8, we'd better be careful, because that election is going to be rigged," Mr. Trump said in the Fox News interview. "And I hope the Republicans are watching closely or it's going to be t...Read More
The big puzzle in economics today: why is the economy growing so slowly? ... The growth of the US economy keeps falling short of expectations. On Friday, we learned that the US economy grew at an inflation-adjusted rate of 1 percent in the first half of 2016. That's the slowest six-month growth rate since 2012, and it continues the slow growth that has characterized the recovery since 2009. So w...Read More
WND Exclusive Secret: Service Agent Warns of ‘Dictator’ Hillary: ‘There are rules for the Clintons, and there are rules for everybody else’ ... Gary Byrne worked in the White House during the Clinton administration, but he wasn't among the speakers invited to give testimony at the Democratic National Convention last week of Hillary Clinton's character and deeds. Had he b...Read More
“The path of least resistance in the short term seems to be for stocks to go higher, but to do so sustainably we need to see much stronger economic growth and positive earnings growth,” said Wiegand, adding that he is surprised by the absence of volatility and range-bound markets. - Fox BusinessThe path of least resistance is up.Until it's down.And we told you so. Remember this DB art...Read More