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 At the same time, Crypto Currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash etc., are beginning to dominate the financial news.

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Ethers.Money
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Nems.Money

Neos.Money

Cryptos.Money

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Wallets.Money

BankCards.Money

Bnk.Money

Tex.Money

Bots.Money

Doll.Money

Hide.Money

Americans.Money

Rupees.Money

Yuans.Money
 
Incomes.Money

IncomeTax.Money

 

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Economies of U..S.A. and Canada on divergent paths!

According to the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, U.S. and Canadian job markets have struck a divergent path since December of 2007 when the recession in the USA began.  This chart explains how divergent those paths have been in graphic terms.

At this writing, Canada has reproduced all of it's recession job losses and, in fact, has increased that number by 2%.

When the Canadian dollar was trading at .77 cents I wrote an article that basically told you to "hold on to your loonies".  I reiteratted that sentiment over a year later when the loonie was trading at .97 cents to the usd again telling you to hold on to your loonies.  Now, even with the Cannuck buck trading at over $1.04 usd I am reiterrating that same sentiment. Hold on to your loonies!

In the 1950's the Cannuck buck traded around $1.08 to $1.10 to the usd.  I believe those levels will be reached again and will hold true for the forseeable future. There are many reasons for this opinion, not the least of which is the massive debt load of the U.S. and a number of it's states.  The U.S. bond market is in for a financial tsunami at some point beyond when quantitative easing ends, and maybe before that time.

The U.S. has been, for the past year, buying up to two thirds (2/3) of all of it's own debt on the bond market. As that giant Kenseyian experiment ends, listen carefully for the underwater earthquake that could eventually spawn a Tsunami called hyper inflation.

Markets usually like inflation. Commodities like inflation. Even housing likes inflation and remember, the U.S. Federal Reserve always errs on the side of inflation. The problem is, once this Genie is out of the bottle, no one really knows where it will go, but it does not bode well for the usd.

Since commodities love inflation, and Canada is a country rich in almost every single commoditiy from water, to wheat, grains, cattle, oil, gas, gold, silver, lithium, diamonds, gypsum, lumber, seafood, coal, etc. etc  look for the cad to strengthen, even from these levels.  As two billion more people from China to India, Brazil, Russia and Indonesia join the middle class, the demand for all commodities will climb, and climb and climb.

Anyone who thinks the commodities bull market is over will miss out on huge upside. This lull is a buying opportunity and when everyone gets extremely negative over the next month or so, it will be even a better buying opportunity.

Look for Canadian interest rates to remain above U.S. rates, to rise slowly and strengthen the Cannuck buck.

Now remember, "hold on to your loonies"!

Happy investing.

HP

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Creating wealth or preserving wealth - Why chose?

What should I do with my nest egg? Where should I invest?  How should I invest? Gold, Silver, Stocks, Bonds, Funds?  Can you help me decide please?

These are some of the questions investors have when they seek financial help. Fund managers and bankers know these questions will be asked. They know, because they are quite familiar with the driving force behind those questions.

Bankers, fund managers and money managers often break down clients into two categories. Those who want to create wealth and those who want to preserve wealth. Now, ask yourself this simple question: Are you in either camp?  If so I am sure you have your reasons. Some of you believe your portfolio, which may be fairly substantial or even just adaquate, should be protected and preserved for your retirement years. That, my friends, seems to make good common sense, Does it not?

Pigs really do get slaughtered! So don't be one!

"Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered"
Jim Cramer - Mad Money


Yes, Jim Cramer can drive you nuts with his ranting and raving about stocks and investing. Sometimes he is right, sometimes he is wrong (just like the rest of us) but of all of his rantings, I sure like the quote "Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered". Jim drives home this simple thought every night on his CNBC show, Mad Money.


Jim's style can grate on serious investors and newbies alike, but one thing is for sure, he does try to enlighten the small retail investor and this quote is far and away, one of the best pieces of advice he gives every single night to his viewers. If you don't listen to this golden piece of advice, you stand to lose your shirt, and more.

If your investment strategy is to throw money on hot stocks and hope for a home run, then you should change the game. You are better suited to the game of craps at the local Casino. With that attitude, you may actually do better at the Casino, than in the market.

Economic forecasts are never certain. If you put three economists in the same room, you will end up with three entirely different opinions of where the economy, and by extension, the market is headed. Don't invest in stocks because of an economic forecast! Invest only when you have done your own home work on an individual stock, it's market niche, it's earnings/potential, it's management, it's trading range, and analysts opinions. (Actually we like stocks that are under the radar of analysts, but is for another post).

The bottom for traders is this!  If you have a stock that is up say 20% to 30% and you don't take at least "some" profit, then consider yourself a pig, and expect to get slaughtered. You don't have to sell because a stock is up, but taking "some" money off the table when you are up is simply a fact of good trading.

If as opposed to "trading" you consider yourself a long term investor and you are not concerned with short to medium term profits, you may still wish to "take some off the table". It just make sense because, as you've heard many times, "a bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush"!

And Pigs can't fly! but of course, you already know that!

Good investing-   HP


PS: and by the way, don't forget to pay down some debt this year. A great investment is not to owe more money than you have. You don't want that burden in retirement, especially in this environment. 

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Capitalism, greed, and the faustian bargain of more liquidity

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone" John Maynard Keynes

"The best way to destroy the Capitalist system is to debauch the currency" Vladimir Lenin

As more Billionaires are made, and the current ones increase their wealth in leaps and bounds, in the same year that workers are tremendously punished, and stand to lose their futures, one wonders if Capitalism itself isn't the third system to meet it's fate after National Socialism (Nazism) and Communism. Today, the pure Capitalist system is shown wanting, as never before. Let's call it "Kudlow Capitalism" after CNBC's very outspoken, cheer leader, of the billionaire club, Larry Kudlow. You know, the TV host who never allows anyone with a different slant on Capitalism to talk more than 20 seconds without either cutting them off or talking over their voices. The same guy that is now blaming President Obama for all the troubles, along with Fox news, who now resemble the Nazi propaganda machine of the 1930's

When "investment banks" hoard tankers full of oil offshore, awaiting a rise in oil prices, so as to pounce on the unsuspecting consumer like a cougar, is that good for the rest of the economy? Remember, this is not an oil company that needs storage space for a glut on the market, but an "investment bank"! Should they be allowed to speculate on such a large scale, in such a necessary commodity? Oil speculation is only one example of the "fingers in the cookie jar" mentality of big investment banks like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. As I've said before, if the price of oil is $70, you can probably chock up $25 of that price to these types of giant, market moving, speculators. (That's about 36% of the cost of filling up your cars gas tank). No wonder GS has come to be labeled a "Giant vampire squid" smothering the face of society with their tentacles following the smell of money into every orifice.

Several years ago, GS collected a $300,000,000 fee to help the country of Greece essentially fudge the numbers of their national debt. (to allow the lying Greek government to get into the Euro zone by skirting the necessity to disclose it's total debt ratio) Now their bets against that same debt stand to make them even more money. Essentially they gave Greece a reason to burn the house down, then bought insurance against the fire. Is this fraud or just good money management. You decide if they deserve the title of Vultures of Wall Street! (See Bank Bets - New York Times )

Investors in the Euro have already decided, by dumping their Euro's. Greece may yet get bailed out by it's Euro partners, but don't count on it. Why should hard working, prudent Germans, who have recently been told they cannot collect old age security pensions until after age 67, suddenly feel the urge to bail out free spending and freeloading Greeks, who can retire at 60. With Spain Portugal and Italy waiting in the wings for their own rescue, why would Germany and France (who have troubles of their own) even consider it. Greece should be ejected from the Euro zone unless or until they get their sick fiscal house in order, and their bulging debt under some sort of control. Civil unrest will result.

Speaking about sick fiscal policies and massive debt, The United States budget forecasts a $1.7 Trillion dollar debt for this year, bringing total debt to around $14T (depending on which number are crunched) by year end. If America continues to pump liquidity into the system, the storm clouds of 2008 will begin to pail in comparison with those forming over 2010 and beyond. The U.S. Government is now the sole backer of mortgages in the Country through it's control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If they nationalized those two entities right now, that would add over $5 Trillion to the U.S. Debt book. Add to that the fact that China is owed a big chunk of the United States debt at a time when a trade war with the Country looms large and those storm clouds get darker still. China holds $2 Trillion in their FE account, (including $800 Billion in U.S. debt) has been storing up massive amounts of commodities, is ahead in the production of green energy initiatives and has more than three times the population, so who is best suited to withstand a protracted trade war? Couple all of this with the continuing "gaming of the U.S. system" by the vultures of Wall Street, and the picture for prosperity in the Good Ole U.S. of A is dimming daily.

Weighing in on the "Faustian bargain" of Keynesian economic theory this week was none other than Conrad Black, in a letter to his old Alma Mater, the National Post (Almost surely written from his jail cell). The audacity of an old Bay Street fraudster, writing about the futility of propping up markets with so much liquidity, while other, bigger frauds are being precipitated upon an unsuspecting public purse, by much bigger "Wall Street" fish, exactly because of the liquidity infusion, was a little comical.

Whether the infusion of money comes from taxpayers (TARP and it's ilk) or from common shareholders, (as in Conrad Blacks case) there is always a vampire squid swimming nearby to latch on and leach every bit of money it can settle it's tentacles upon. Why does the general public always seem surprised when Wall Street Vultures pay out to their executives, over $100 Billion in bonuses for one year of speculation, while the American taxpayer is given a bill that neither they, their children or their grandchildren will be able to pay.

It is said that, "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". Since the early 1970's we've been fed the mantra" greed is good" and "free markets can regulate themselves" (greed good - regulation bad - ie: Larry Kudlow and company) and that Government should just get out of the way and let markets regulate themselves. We are now reaping the painful rewards of that mindset. The vultures of Wall Street have proven that "Greed is corrupt, and absolute greed is corruption absolute"! The opposite of greed is not thrift. It is generosity. Generosity is a word completely lost on Wall Street. Vultures aren't generous, indeed they don't really care who they feed upon, but only that they feed.

The crooks settled in and took over the store so long ago that they have convinced the police that they are actually the owners. Only when the real owners return and demand change, will real change occur, but don't hold your breath. Every time that notion takes shape, the crooks rally the troops in Washington and the uninitiated across America, then threaten to close the great Casino, and everyone goes away until it re stocks and re-opens for business again.

Maybe it's time to tear down the Casino and start again!

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Tiny Tim and the Chinese Money Monster...

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Hello my friends. Congratulations on throwing a great Olympic party last year. My name is Tim Geithner and do I have a great deal for you.

My Uncle Sam is printing money... Uh,I mean he is selling these great investment certificates called Treasury bills, you know, the same ones you bought last year, and the year before that and the year before that etc. only this time, he is willing... well maybe not willing, but he will give you a higher interest rate this time, if you buy a lot more of these certificates this year. (Actually a whole lot more)

You see, he's already had three auctions back in the good old U.S.A., but not many people were buying because they don't trust the value..., I mean they don't have much money, so he sent me to tell you, our very good customers, and bestest friends, that he will give you a great deal, better than before.

Oh yes my friends, they are backed by the American dollar, the same currency that has made the business world go round for the past 50 years, so you don't have to worry.

What's that? What other currency? No we don't have any of those, but not to worry because my uncle has printed more....I mean he is rich in American dollars and he really just wants to share the wealth with our bestest friends.

Make no mistake, this is a fantastic deal my friends. Now how much can we put you down for? that much huh! You know, Uncle Sam thought you would want a lot more than that!

What? No we don't have any gold left. We sold it all in the early 1970's, you know, when everyone in the world came to the realization that the American dollar was worth much more than gold.

So, how much was that again?

Update July 30th

Merk June 2nd

Breaking View June 11th

Huffington Post Aug 3

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