Category: Futures, Options and Commodities
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Reassessing Risks with the U.S. Dollar Strengthening
Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the USA holding 290 votes of the Electoral College against 228 earned by former Secretary of State Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton. In the popular vote the democratic candidate won by 668,273 votes, but Trump’s success to gain in key swing states took the majority of the…
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The Day After: SRI Conference to Present “Economic Forecast: What Awaits our new President?”
Immediately on Heels of Voting, Leading Economist to Unveil Economic Forecast in Live Phone Feed From The SRI Conference in Denver, Colorado. DENVER (NEWS ADVISORY) — The recovery following the end of the Great Recession has lasted over seven years. Is it nearing the end? What is the status of recovery? Is a recession a…
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Aging Investor Protection
Don Blandin named by Next Avenue as one of Top 50 “2016 Influencers in Aging” WASHINGTON, D.C. & ST. PAUL, MN. – October 27, 2016 – Don M. Blandin, president and CEO of the Investor Protection Trust (IPT) and the Investor Protection Institute (IPI), is being honored by Next Avenue as one of its 50…
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Calling all commodity traders
Whether you go to Wall St, the Chicago Merc, or any online commodities forum, all commodity traders will tell you the same thing: the apps designed to track them are poorly designed, difficult to use, and don’t offer nearly enough features. Now available for iOS, Materials is a new commodities app set out to re-imagine…
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Fixed System and Gold Market Speculation
Q: Is now a good time to be buying gold share or bullion? You have still not issued a buy signal. When do you think you will be able to give a buy signal on the Fixed System? A: January or February 2017 is the target now. Q: Are you expectation the gold market to…
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Sun Tzu and the price of gold
Q: Would Sun Tzu have a definite opinion on whom the winner of the White House prize will be this year: Clinton or Trump? A: You ask a very good question. The answer is clear and unequivocal from just a casual reading of text quoted in the book. If you control the time and place…
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Gold And Debt: The 1929 Great Depression vs The Next Great Collapse
The situation Americans face in the future will be nothing like anything they have experienced in the past. While we have seen old footage and heard stories about the Great Depression (starting in 1929), we have no idea how bad things really were during the 1930’s. At that time, approximately 25% of the American population…
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Gold and Bonds
Market dislocations occur when financial markets, operating under stressful conditions, experience large widespread asset mispricing. Welcome to this week’s edition of “World Out Of Whack” where every Wednesday Capitalist Exploits take time out of their day to applaud insanity, laugh, poke fun at and present to you absurdity in global financial markets in all it’s glorious insanity.…
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It’s Outcome, Not Income, That Should Be Stressed In Retirement Planning
Retirement Planning? Most Americans are pessimistic about how well off they’ll be financially when they reach retirement. “People have a lot of worries and that’s understandable,” says Dan Carter, an Investment Advisor Representative for Safeguard Investment Advisory Group (www.safeguardinvestment.com). “Their savings may not be what they hoped for. Pensions for most people are a thing…