Kevin McKern

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There is no question as far as this blogger is...

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Full Circle of Govt Debt Default by Jim Willie, CB....

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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The coral reef crisis and climate change

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Climate change and the global energy policy nexus

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain~ New Scientist

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Value and Rules ~ Satyajit Das

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Greece, China, USA and the Euro - All Connected?

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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C H Powell tenders some reading recomendations.

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Robert Kiyosaki - Silver hedge against inflation

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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WSJ ~ Requiem for the Dollar

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Predictions for 2010...Good News - Bad News

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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China denounces U.S. banks for 'evil intent' with derivatives

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Gold Desafio: Global Struggle by Jim Willie, CB. Editor, Hat...

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Liquidity vs. Solvency: Interview with Bob Eisenbeis and David Kotok

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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The wisdom of Calvin J Bear

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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IMF warns second bailout would 'threaten democracy'

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Gold & Mount St. Helens

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Blowing the Whistle on Cheap Oil

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Record High Temperatures Far Outpace Record Lows Across U.S.

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Banks drift toward being part of the problem and not the solution

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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It isn't over until its over and it isn't over yet

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Gold at $5,000 an ounce? Don't disgard it

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Silver Prices to Hit New Highs in 2010

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Recession Will Return ~ Meredith Whitney

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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China Unstoppable ~ Saxena

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Debt Dynamics Will Hold Back Economy

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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On swine flu; Speaking Personally I strongly advise vaccination

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Another Reason to Buy (More) Gold

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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More "Peak gold" talk ~ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Financial mess isn't even the end of the beginning.. Halligan

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Ultimate Conditions For Recovery

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Dollar Will be "Utterly Destroyed": Strategist

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Gold suppression is public policy and public record, not 'conspiracy theory' ~ GATA

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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"Have we dodged the Iceberg? " ~ Nope, I also posit...

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Good advice for life, as well as trading..

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Black swans, debt, risk and mother nature ~ Taleb audio

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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An Object Lesson in Governmental Failure: Derivatives reform

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Excellent post on $A Carry Trade in SMH, Age

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Golden Accumulation Opportunity in Silver ~ Willie

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Those once called bonkers now point to where the madness lies

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Indicator of the Week: Monthly MACD By Rocky White, Senior Quantitative Analyst

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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"they have failed to address the financial sector's overall size"

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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THE 'BEIJING PUT' AT WORK IN GOLD ~ Willie

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Silver, 'Bullion's Bridesmaid,' May Outpace Gold ~ Bloomberg

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Le' proprietor speaks...

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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The Ascent of China ~ Niall Ferguson

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Marijuana isn't so good for the brains of children but otherwise a universal panacea, imo

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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Misguided Monetary Mentalities ~ Nolan

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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GEAB N°38 is available! Global Systemic Crisis – The European Union at a crossroads in 2010: an accomplice or a victim of the collapse of the dollar?

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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The neurological entrainment of positive affirmations.

Kevin McKern posted an article on - 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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