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Top 3 Foreign ETFs Of Q2

International investing has been extremely upbeat lately on the improving health of several economies. Policy easing has played a major role in driving global economic growth over the last couple of q...
On July 6, 2017 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Cash For Clunkers Was A Complete Failure

Keynesian economics is fundamentally misguided because it focuses on how to encourage more spending when the real goal should be to figure out policies that result in more income. Consumption doesn�...
On July 6, 2017 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Silk Road Gold Consumption For May

Silk Road (China, India, Russia & Turkey) gold consumption. May showed strong demand at 398.8 tonnes which is well in excess of global gold production at 269 tonnes per month....
On July 6, 2017 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Balance Of Trade Deficit Near Expectations: Analyzing The Impact On Second Quarter GDP

Today the BEA reported the US trade deficit was $-46.5 billion. The Econoday economists’ consensus estimate of $-46.2 billion for international trade was nearly on the mark, but the advance readin...
On July 6, 2017 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Economic Theory: Limitations And Biases

Arnold Kling tackles the hardy perennial topic “How Effective is Economic Theory?” in the Summer 2017 issue of National Affairs. His overall approach is to focus on “five interlo...
On July 6, 2017 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Forming Trading Rules In A Neutral Mindset With Mark Gardner

Audio Length:00:56:13 Mark Gardner began working in the field at 17-years old, straight out of high school. Initially he began with back office duties, before broking on the floor of the Sydney Future...
On July 6, 2017 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Stocks Going Ex Dividend The Second Week Of July

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividen...
On July 6, 2017 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Silver Cycle Model Chart – Thursday, July 6th

2017.05.26 Silver Cycle Model Chart The silver cycle model is performing well, as can be seen from the previous iteration below and on my blog. A Spring peak in price was anticipated. If the model i...
On July 6, 2017 / By Kurt Osterberg
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EURUSD – 1.1500 In View?

The euro continues to be on a tear as ECB is clearly moving towards a taper sooner rather than later. Although ECB officials continue to warn that inflation is still subdued, they clearly see that the...
On July 6, 2017 / By Kurt Osterberg
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Time For A New Gold Standard For Asia

Over half the world’s population, living in the Eurasian land mass, understands that gold is money. The leaders of the Asian nations also know that this is true as well. The leaders of the security ...
On July 6, 2017 / By Kurt Osterberg