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Canadian Housing Affordability Hits 27 Year Low

By silveristhenew | Published December 22, 2017

Authored by Steve Saretsky via VanCityCondoGuide.com, Nothing says Merry Christmas like a 27 year low for Canadian housing affordability. That’s right, real estate across Canada has not been this un affordable since the year 1990 per RBC. Spoiler alert house prices tumbled shortly thereafter. RBC Bank released their updated Q3 numbers for housing affordability. To […]

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Frustrated Investors File Lawsuits Against World’s Largest ICO

By silveristhenew | Published December 2, 2017

Here's the latest sign that the massively fraudulent ICO market is headed for a collapse. Tezos’s investors are still waiting to learn when they can expect to receive the digital tokens that they paid a premium for during the company’s record-setting crowdsale. But as reports of abuse, internal strife and outright embezzlement have surfaced in […]

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Stockman: “Bitcoin Is The Poster-Boy For An Unhinged Financial System”

By silveristhenew | Published November 30, 2017

Authored by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, The lemmings are now in full stampede toward the cliffs. You can literally hear the cold waters churning, foaming and crashing on the boulders far below. From bitcoin to Amazon, the financials, the Russell 2000 and most everything else in between, the casinos are digesting no information except the price […]

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Get Out Now: SocGen Predicts Market Crash, Bear Market For The S&P

By silveristhenew | Published November 23, 2017

While the charade of sellside analysts releasing optimistic, and in the case of Barclays and Goldman “rationally exuberant”previews of the year ahead… … is a familiar, long-running tradition on Wall Street, rarely has the intellectual dishonesty and cognitive dissonance been quite so glaring: take Goldman, which while admitting that valuations have never been higher, and […]

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Russia-Gate Spreads To Europe

By silveristhenew | Published November 18, 2017

Authored by Robert Parry via ConsortiumNews.com, Ever since the U.S. government dangled $160 million last December to combat Russian propaganda and disinformation, obscure academics and eager think tanks have been lining up for a shot at the loot, an unseemly rush to profit that is spreading the Russia-gate hysteria beyond the United States to Europe… British Prime […]

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Uh-Oh…Draghi’s Ammunition To Buy Italian Bonds Before The Election Is Less Than We Thought

By silveristhenew | Published November 8, 2017

Having successfully pulled off the announcement of the ECB’s “dovish taper” – where monthly bond purchases will be halved to Euro 30 billion from January 2018 – last month, a challenge for Mario Draghi in Q1 2018 has appeared on his radar. The ECB’s bond buying ammunition is slightly less than analysts thought and there […]

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Bitcoin Spikes Back To $6000: Five Reasons Why It’s Not A Bubble

By silveristhenew | Published October 26, 2017

Bitcoin is surging once again this morning, up over 8.5% to retest $6000 once again (after dropping to $5366 just 2 days ago), but according to Nasdaq, "Bitcoin is not a bubble," citing five reasons demonstrating why it's nothing like Tulip Mania… Via Nasdaq's Alex Lielacher, The digital currency bitcoin rallied by over 300 percent […]

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No Vol And No Volume – Even The WSJ Questions Equity Melt-Up

By silveristhenew | Published October 19, 2017

It’s encouraging to see that one mainstream media outlet questioning the recent market melt-up which wasn’t just notable for the lack of volatility, but also a severe lack of volume. The new normal seems to be “No vol and no volume”, although we saw a bit of a regime shift today, before the normal reversal. […]

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Bank of America: “This Is The Most Consensus Trade In The World”

By silveristhenew | Published October 13, 2017

One week ago, BofA chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett laid out his reasoning for why a market correction is imminent: Global stock market cap up a massive $18.5tn (= US GDP) since Feb’16 lows 3P’s (Positioning, Profits, Policy) thus closer to peak than trough: BofAML Bull & Bear Indicator was 0 in Feb’16, now 6.9; […]

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“Investing Is Not A Competition… It’s A Game Of Long-Term Survival”

By silveristhenew | Published October 9, 2017

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Melt-Up Gains Traction Back in November, just following the election of President Trump, I wrote about the market entering into potentially the final “melt-up” phase of the cyclical bull market. However, while economic and fundamental realities HAVE NOT changed since the election, markets are pricing in expected impacts of changes […]

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