Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Dec 15, 2009, 5:00 pm
There is no question as far as this blogger is concerned that Gold and Silver remain the investment opportunity of a lifetime and the case for a stake only gets more compelling. News Kontent are gold ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Dec 15, 2009, 3:56 pm
Full Circle of Govt Debt Default by Jim Willie, CB. Editor, Hat Trick Letter | December 15, 2009 The continuation of the bank dominoes took 14 months, but it occurred. The initial destructive impact ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Dec 14, 2009, 2:15 pm
Not our usual remit but this item summarises the view we take of the climate change issue. audio Robyn Williams: Charlie Veron is one of the top scientists in the world, working on corals. He's ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Dec 11, 2009, 4:41 pm
A fine piece. News Kontent does not endorse paranoia and denial and asks if its the climate science community or the owners of fossil carbon infrastructure who have the biggest incentive to muddy the ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Science Kontent - Dec 11, 2009, 3:38 pm
A synthetic chemical similar to the active ingredient in marijuana makes new cells grow in rat brains. What is more, in rats this cell growth appears to be linked with reducing anxiety and depression....
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Dec 11, 2009, 3:32 pm
Wall Street Revalued: Imperfect Markets and Inept Central Bankers by Andrew Smithers (2009) The Road to Financial Reformation: Warnings, Consequences, Reforms by Henry Kaufman (2009) A book review...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Dec 11, 2009, 3:27 pm
Hat tip to Charles Powell for this one. I spoke with some friends who are Greek and also in the shipping business. They hate the problems that Greece is facing. The 12.7% budget deficit is the highes...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Dec 11, 2009, 3:12 pm
Thanks Charles! from Oklahoma, historical hotbed of economic doctrine AND debate: http://anecdotaleconomics.blogspot.com/2009/11/but-this-time-it-is-different.html the thinking person's commons...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Dec 10, 2009, 4:04 pm
Kiyosaki gives the thumbs up for Silver as the best Investment for the Future. ~ Hat Tip Duncan
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Dec 8, 2009, 3:35 pm
Requiem for the Dollar By JAMES GRANT Illustration by WSJ; iStockphoto (3) Ben S. Bernanke doesn't know how lucky he is. Tongue-lashings from Bernie Sanders, the populist senator from Vermon...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Dec 6, 2009, 3:32 pm
... left to spend and then scream for help to the Federal Government. China is in very serious trouble as the U.S. consumers have stopped buying ... mind new job growth gains. If the worry of Ch...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Dec 4, 2009, 9:26 pm
Outside vanilla derivative products their sole function is to flog off hidden risk. The western banks mentioned monitised their cred and died, end of story. BEIJING -- A senior Chinese official who o...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Dec 3, 2009, 3:18 pm
Gold Desafio: Global Struggle by Jim Willie, CB. Editor, Hat Trick Letter The gold market has become, despite little recognition by the financial press, the battlefield for global control of the fina...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 30, 2009, 2:54 pm
The current issue of Institutional Risk Analytics features an interview with Bob and David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors. To me it is a must read, literally packed with insightful analysis about the di...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 26, 2009, 3:21 pm
a bit of a second coming for Gold and aussie nous and cred, imo. The Second Coming TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 26, 2009, 2:51 pm
The public will not bail out the financial services sector for a second time if another global crisis blows up in four or five years time, the managing-director of the International Monetary Fund warn...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 26, 2009, 2:03 pm
We kept the number of predictions small here at News Kontent but we have always been gold and silver bulls and generally secular equity bears. The news out of Dubai is bad for equities and another iss...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 24, 2009, 1:23 pm
IEA credibility under fire by Tony Allison Is the Peak Oil clock ticking closer to midnight than generally believed? The credibility and integrity of the International Energy Agency (IEA) took a hit ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Science Kontent - Nov 21, 2009, 4:39 pm
BOULDER—Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio o...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 21, 2009, 4:15 pm
Repudiating the architects of the faux boom is a necessary but not sufficient condition for world economic recovery. From Liberal Krugman, "Government officials, perhaps influenced by spending too mu...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 21, 2009, 3:39 pm
This is an interesting item but it misses so much. Extremely unbalanced economies resolve by way of painful adjustments. We have dodged nothing but the new methods and tools have transferred risk to ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 18, 2009, 2:59 pm
Gold is different from other commodities in many ways. Still, the price of the yellow metal depends on the same three factors as oil or wheat: supply, demand and financial conditions. Put them togethe...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 18, 2009, 5:51 am
VANCOUVER (BNWNews.ca) - Silver may yet outshine gold in 2010 as spot prices for the white metal respond to the prospect of a surge in industrial demand. With a little additional help from investme...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 17, 2009, 2:15 pm
Stocks are overvalued and the US economy is likely to fall back into a recession next year, well-known analyst Meredith Whitney told CNBC. "I haven't been this bearish in a year," she said in a ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 17, 2009, 1:54 pm
WINDS OF CHANGE by Puru Saxena Editor, Money Matters November 13, 2009 The 19th century belonged to Britain, the 20th century belonged to America and in the 21st century, China will rule the busines...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 13, 2009, 2:58 pm
We believe that U.S. government and private debt levels will diverge over the next four or five years as the authorities attempt to use government debt to replace the private debt that is almost certa...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 12, 2009, 4:20 pm
Many people I have a lot of respect for tend to rework a loss of respect for financial elites and the excesses of medicine into anti vaccination diatribes. Clean water and a place to shit that doesn&#...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 12, 2009, 3:41 pm
Another Reason to Buy (More) Gold By Chris Mayer Gaithersburg, Maryland The age of de-leveraging is upon us. Bad news for the US economy; good news for gold. For the past 60 years, corporate debt ha...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 11, 2009, 4:15 pm
... are growing wary of Western paper money and debt. China has quietly doubled holdings to 1,054 tonnes and is thought to be adding gradually on price dips, creating a market floor. Gold remains ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 9, 2009, 3:28 pm
This blogger prefers Liam Halligan to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, any day.... So terrible was Gordon Brown's economic stewardship during his decade as Chancellor from 1997, and so huge has been his ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 8, 2009, 3:36 pm
Willie has called it well. Whereas this blogger is just a little tired of the general assumption that we are out of the woods, especially here in Australia. Ultimate Conditions For Recovery by Jim W...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 8, 2009, 2:20 pm
The dollar will get "utterly destroyed" and become "virtually worthless", said Damon Vickers, chief investment officer of Nine Points Capital Partners. "We don't have resources. Neither does a ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 8, 2009, 5:35 am
Gold suppression is public policy and public record, not 'conspiracy theory' Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2009-11-07 18:16. Section: Essays Remarks by Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer Gold ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 2, 2009, 4:20 pm
The combination of massive fiscal stimulus and a monetary policy set to "full flood" did a lot of the heavy lifting but the real kicker was a flood of "hot money" driven by a carry trade by investment...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 2, 2009, 3:19 pm
Hat Tip to Duncan~ Great find. The late Jesse Livermore is considered one of the best traders of all time. His exploits have been chronicled in several books, with the most widely read being Reminisce...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Nov 2, 2009, 5:24 am
Taleb soars over pompous journos, the clueless predictions of economists and a politician called David. Not to be missed. The idea that All swans are white" was held to be true, in all possible wor...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 30, 2009, 3:55 pm
If you want to understand why Congress seems completely incapable of checking the power of Wall Street, look back to a hearing on the Hill last October 7, and the subsequent events surrounding it. On ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 30, 2009, 3:39 pm
Kenneth Davidson has been one of the most consistent voices for sensible economic analysis in the Australian media for decades now (another I’d give a similar accolade to is Brian Toohey), and he’...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 30, 2009, 3:26 pm
... most deep seated monetary practices in full speed on American shores. The United States financial arena is the ... for ruinous credit derivative losses under its offered shelter for Fannie Mae ...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 25, 2009, 2:41 pm
You talking to me, Liam? Its the coming QE driven hyperstagflation, isn't it. As a result, the argument goes, we have "no choice" but to keep the Bank of England's printing presses in overdri...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 25, 2009, 2:20 pm
Hat Tip qqq. Foreword: The market has rallied quite strongly during the past several months. A couple of popular long-term technical indicators, the Stochastics and the RSI, signaled a buy at the end...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 24, 2009, 3:20 pm
Hat tip to Duncan Gillian Tett: “Was October 2008 just a dress rehearsal?” A lot of investors I know lamented the loss of Gillian Tett. As the Financial Times’ capital markets editor in the ru...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 22, 2009, 3:24 pm
China has begun to show its patterned behavior. They buy gold precisely at weak technical points, thus maximizing accumulation at optimal price. They buy gradually, thus permitting the market to bring...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 22, 2009, 2:14 pm
Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Silver may outpace gold through mid- 2010 as a recovering global economy increases industrial demand, said Citigroup Inc. The CHART OF THE DAY shows the ratio of gold to silve...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 20, 2009, 4:31 pm
Interview with Jesse at the Café Américain I am Australian and Australians have a unique political heritage. Starting off as a penal colony prevented the evolution of excessive idealism here; turn...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 20, 2009, 4:14 pm
The U.S. is an empire in decline, according to Niall Ferguson, Harvard professor and author of The Ascent of Money. "People have predicted the end of America in the past and been wrong," Ferguson con...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Science Kontent - Oct 19, 2009, 2:48 pm
Marijuana opponents in the federal government are up against the wall and the wall is crumbling. The feds have fought marijuana use for decades, disregarding its medicinal applications, in a senseless...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 17, 2009, 5:18 pm
Nobel Prize economist Paul Krugman – of Princeton and the New York Times – wrote a noteworthy piece this week: Misguided Monetary Mentalities (NYT 10/12/09). “One lesson from the Great Depre...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 16, 2009, 8:44 pm
The major trends at work in the 4th and 5th phases of the global systemic crisis (the decanting phase and the global geopolitical dislocation phase) are unveiling every day (1). Everyone has now reali...
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Kevin McKern posted an article on Kontent News - Oct 16, 2009, 3:55 pm
I want readers to improve, live more rewarding lives and take charge of their investing and trading, I recommend meditation, authentic yogic relaxation and the use of positive affirmations. Don't ...
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