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Pater Tenebrarum is an independent analyst and economist/social theorist. He has been involved with financial markets in various capacities for 31 years and currently writes economic and market analyses for independent research organizations and a European hedge fund consultancy as well as being ...more
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Russia Moves Toward Increasing Economic Freedom
Monday, November 24, 2014 2:41 PM EDT
Well, isn’t that a shocker. With Russia’s economy under serious threat from Western economic sanctions and falling oil prices, a major Kremlin faction has quite unexpectedly gotten some wind behind its sails.
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Euro Area Money Supply And Credit Growth
Friday, November 21, 2014 5:00 PM EDT
While money supply growth is slowing down in the US, it has recently continued to accelerate somewhat in the euro area.
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The Consequences Of Imposing Negative Interest Rates
Friday, November 21, 2014 2:11 PM EDT
Ever since the ECB has introduced negative interest rates on its deposit facility, people have been waiting for commercial banks to react.
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US Pension Insurer Needs A Bailout
Thursday, November 20, 2014 12:49 PM EDT
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is insuring the pensions of more than 40 million Americans employed in the private sector that have defined benefit pensions.
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Consumer Prices – Fantasy And Reality
Thursday, November 20, 2014 10:22 AM EDT
The average domestic airline ticket during the 12-month period ending in September rose 3.5 percent to $372.21.
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News From Bubble-Land
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:14 AM EDT
Sentiment on stocks continues to be a mirror image of the gold market. Investor complacency is quite pronounced, to put it mildly.
In this article: HYG, TLT, NDX, SPX
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Wrinkles Of The Swiss Gold Referendum
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 6:18 AM EDT
To quickly summarize: gold is quite different from industrial commodities and therefore cannot be analyzed like an industrial commodity. This is in spite of the fact that renowned gold institutes like the World Gold Council (WGC) and numerous other “experts” are doing just that.
In this article: GLD
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Vacuous Blabber Association Meets In Brisbane
Monday, November 17, 2014 4:27 PM EDT
The G-20 met in Brisbane again this weekend for a shrimp-fest at reportedly considerable cost to tax payers (it cost more than $400 million and shut down an entire city for the best part of a week).
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Gold Peeks Above Resistance
Monday, November 17, 2014 12:15 PM EDT
Gold has taken a positive initial step, but a little bit more evidence is required from a technical perspective to confirm that a durable trend reversal is in place.
In this article: GLD
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EU – Planning To Spend Money It Doesn’t Have
Monday, November 17, 2014 9:48 AM EDT
New European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is preparing a 300 billion euro ($375 billion) investment plan he will present as a cornerstone of efforts to revive an ailing economy.
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Gold Sentiment – A Contrarian’s Dream?
Friday, November 14, 2014 6:08 AM EDT
Oil, other commodities will be in the dumps for another decade (gold is one of those “other commodities” the article focuses on).
In this article: GLD
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Open Season On JC Juncker
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 3:12 PM EDT
Mr. Juncker actually did something right: during his time as the prime minister of Luxembourg, he allowed, to paraphrase Mises, “capitalism to breathe”, by making it possible for companies to save on their tax bills.
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France’s “Winter Of Discontent”
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 3:11 PM EDT
France’s new economy minister, 36-year-old Emmanuel Macron, who has been tasked with tackling long-delayed reforms to reverse the country’s decline, is having a hard time. Every statement of his, it seems, provokes a storm of abuse from the politicians to the public.
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Yellen’s Message To Draghi: Print, Baby, Print
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 11:12 AM EDT
Bloomberg informs us that there is a “Yellen Message to Europeans Divided on QE: Do Whatever It Takes”. The belief that central bank bureaucrats can “rescue” the economy by printing more money evidently remains as firmly ingrained as ever.
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Keynesian Dogma – Garbage In, Garbage Out
Friday, November 7, 2014 5:52 PM EDT
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday called on politicians across the globe to get their fiscal houses in order during good times to prop up economies during times of turmoil.
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It’s All Good
Thursday, November 6, 2014 6:15 AM EDT
The recent two week rise in the poll’s bullish percentage was the biggest in at least 20 years.
In this article: SPX
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