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What Causes Asset Bubbles?

By silveristhenew | Published December 13, 2017

As we showed yesterday, the price of bitcoin has finally surpassed "Tulips" in the global bubble race. Overnight the former Bridgewater analysts Howard Wang and Robert Wu, who make up Convoy Investments, released their thoughts on what happens next… and most importantly, what causes asset bubbles… When we see a dramatic rise in asset prices, […]

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Weekend Reading: $7 Trillion To Manipulate Prices

By silveristhenew | Published October 13, 2017

Authoreed by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As the stock market continues to press new highs, the level of optimism climbs with it. I discussed yesterday Richard Thaler’s, a recent recipient of the Nobel Price in Economics, comments about not understanding the current “irrationality of investors relating to their investing behavior.” What is interesting is that […]

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Is Bridgewater A Fraud? Here Are The Troubling Questions Posed By Jim Grant

By silveristhenew | Published October 12, 2017

Jim Grant, author of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, first hinted last week that not all is well when it comes to the world’s biggest hedge fund, Ray Dalio’s $160 billion Bridgewater (of which one half is the world’s biggest risk-parity juggernaut). Speaking to Bloomberg last week, Grant said he was “bearish” on Bridgewater because founder […]

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Is Bridgewater A Fraud? Here Are The Troubling Questions Posed By Jim Grant

By silveristhenew | Published October 11, 2017

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / Oct 11, 2017 4:05 PM Jim Grant, author of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, first hinted last week that not all is well when it comes to the world’s biggest hedge fund, Ray Dalio’s $160 billion Bridgewater (of which one half is the world’s biggest risk-parity juggernaut). Speaking to Bloomberg last week, Grant said he was “bearish” […]

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The “Wolf Of Wall Street” Says Jamie Dimon Is Right About Bitcoin

By silveristhenew | Published September 28, 2017

The guy who made tens of millions of dollars misleading American retirees into buying worthless pink sheet stocks says he agrees with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon’s comment that bitcoin is “a fraud.” Jordan Belfort, the inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in the 2013 Martin Scorsese film “The Wolf of Wall Street,” […]

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Precious Metals Outperform Markets In August – Gold +4%, Silver +5%

By silveristhenew | Published September 1, 2017

Precious Metals Outperform Markets In August – Gold +4%, Silver +5%  – All four precious metals outperform markets in August– Gold posts best month since January, up nearly 4%– Gold reaches highest price since US election, climbs due to uncertainty and safe haven demand– S&P 500 marginally higher; Euro Stoxx, Nikkei lower for month– Platinum is […]

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Gold Reset To $10,000/oz Coming “By January 1, 2018” – Rickards

By silveristhenew | Published August 30, 2017

Gold Reset To $10,000/oz Coming “By January 1, 2018” – Rickards – Trump could be planning a radical “reboot” of the U.S. dollar– Currency reboot will see leading nations devalue their currencies against gold– New gold price would be nearly 8 times higher at $10,000/oz– Price based on mass exit of foreign governments and investors from […]

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Are You Prepared For These Potentially Disruptive Economic Storms?

By silveristhenew | Published August 29, 2017

Authored by Frank Holmes via StockBoardAsset.com, Summary Are government inflation numbers more “fake news”? A falling dollar is good for U.S. trade. Are you ready for a big fight? Here in San Antonio, grocery stores were packed with families stocking up on water and canned food in preparation for Hurricane Harvey, which has devastated Houston […]

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Buy Gold As Washington “Stumbles” Advise Blackrock

By silveristhenew | Published August 28, 2017

Buy Gold As Washington “Stumbles” Advise Blackrock – Gold set to shine as Washington stumbles– “Bet on gold’s diversifying properties rather than political stability”– World’s largest asset manager believes Trump and political drama in the U.S. means gold likely to rise–  Real rates flattening out and rising political instability – Blackrock’s Koesterich– “For now my […]

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Matt King: Global QE And “ETFs Everywhere” Have Created An Unstable, One-Way Market

By silveristhenew | Published August 27, 2017

While the financial industry remains divided over what precisely is the cause of the malaise that affects modern markets, characterized by plunging volumes and trading activity, record low volatility and dispersion, a relentless ascent disconnected from fundamentals, and generally a sense of foreboding doom, manifested by an all time high OMT skew – or record […]

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