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Re Peter Schiff, The Fed, and Q-E baloney
Interest rates have been dropping ever since the Fed said they were cutting back on amount of bonds being bought. Well, something is wrong. Less Q-E and falling rates.
One of the two is lying.
Either the Fed is Q-E ing behind everyone’s back, or…
Natural market forces wrested control from and are doing the Q-E ing.
The excess creation of paper money for decades, far in excess needed for buying goods and services HAS to be OVER flowing into bank accounts, CDs, Bonds etc, and not enough people wanting needing or able to borrow money to spend.
In a sense its all dead money. Even the tiny amount of bond interest available (2.6% on 10 year) are probably not deserved. In other words, these pathetically “low” US bond rates are probably manipulated higher than warranted.
Wouldn’t it be awesome to have Putin and Fung Schway in China declare interchangable gold backed Yuan/Ruble just before the Fed and midterm elections?
Care to dream along with me?
Floridagold @ 15:58
Australia has already lost their guns along with most other countries. No reason to chance infecting those countries.
The US still has their guns. Need a reason to declare Martial Law, go door to door looking for Ebola victims, and at the same time collect all the guns. Maybe fill all the FEMA camps with anyone who protests. Just saying!! Silverngold
MAYBE??
Dollar lower highs lower lows so far.
http://scharts.co/10xnv8p
Dow 2 lower lows and 2 lower highs too.
http://scharts.co/10xpauW
R640 – LOL
The stock markets rally on the “consumer confidence” report. Wonder where they found those consumers? Wall Street?
Silverngold. Great stuff you posted at 13:59. Thank you for making that available to
Oasis readers. Tim Ball gives some balance to the prevailing thoughts about climate warming. I much appreciated listening to this presentation, and his points make so much sense. Equiz.
Climate Change HOAX exposed by Geologist straight to the UK Govt
I guarantee you will recognize the knowledge and expertise of this presenting Geologist, and also appreciate his great sense of humor. Please watch, learn, and enjoy the sound of the truth for a welcome change. Silverngold
Richard
The market: I think they’re going to try to keep oil down and market up to give credit to the democrats. Never mind how high they were still are, rising costs of everything, a unconstitutional unaffordable Heath care bill and another taxation without representation, somehow got past congress which still isn’t clear, attack on liberties including religion bowing to the idols of evil, attacking the constitution and judges that should be impeached, militarizing police, market manipulation, creating ISIS, spying on and recording all communications without a warrant, confiscation of people property just on a assumption also unconstitutional just plain theft, allowing illegals in by the thousands and letting them vote, rigged voting systems, but let’s forget all that, oil going down before next election market going up all is well.
I say: Bull mkts are born in despair and die in optimism—DYOD
Markets Are Up at Midday; Consumer Confidence at Seven-Year High
U.S. markets are trading in the green after consumer sentiment figures blew past expectations.
Stock Market Today: Consumer Confidence Pushes Stocks Higher Ahead of Fed Meeting
U.S. stocks rise Tuesday after the Conference Board’s index of consumer confidence hit a seven-year high as gas prices nationwide plummeted to multiyear lows.
I think they all fight in the middle east
because they’re a bunch of deranged heroin addicts that get confused about religion and converting people
Floridagold @ 10:55
That’s very likely!
Wouldn’t it be nice if peace broke out in Afghanistan and the sun shown, the bluebirds sang and the beaming, happy people went about their lives with lite hearts … but a more realistic positive scenario would be if all the different factions fought amongst themselves and their violence remained within their own country.
The reason I participate in mail in ballots in CO
is that the establishment has made it very difficult for me to understand the voting issues at hand and it takes time to research how to vote on this shite
The Ebola Outbreak — A Black Swan
The Ebola Outbreak — A Black Swan
A friend recently asked us whether the massive Ebola outbreak in West Africa could be regarded as a “black swan” in the sense of Nassim Taleb’s definition of the term. After thinking it over, we concluded that yes, it can definitely be characterized as one. Evidently, something is very different about this year’s outbreak compared to previous ones, and a number of unexpected developments have occurred. Chief among them is that a hitherto firmly held belief had to be abandoned. It was thought that the very thing that that makes the illness rather terrifying, namely its high mortality rate, helped in containing outbreaks.
We can definitely state that the current outbreak is anything but “well contained”. Below is a statistical table that shows all Ebola outbreaks since the discovery of the disease in 1976. Note that this graphic is already dated by now — the 2014 event has literally “gone off the chart” in the meantime. Even so, this graphic gives a good impression of how small the previous incidences of Ebola outbreaks were by comparison.
From a statistical viewpoint, the 2014 outbreak definitely must be regarded as a “black swan” — it was hitherto held to be impossible for the illness to propagate in such fashion (source: news.au.com)
Another way of looking at the “black swan” quality of the current outbreak is its geographical spread. All previous Ebola outbreaks were confined to a few isolated locations at most, mainly because they occurred in remote villages in the bush. As a result sick (and therefore infectious) people simply didn’t manage to reach any other villages to spread the virus further. Moreover, since also many of those who catch the illness quickly die, the virus was thought not to propagate very easily. Death is obviously the ultimate impediment to mobility (the dead do however remain infectious for quite some time).
The fact that the outbreak already has “black swan” qualities makes it more likely that a few other strongly held beliefs could also turn out to be wrong. There is already an intense debate over how the virus actually moves from person to person. Given that it is present in sputum, a number of virologists have stated that if one were for instance bathed in a gentle spray of saliva emitted by a coughing and sneezing person that has been infected, one will probably catch it. In fact, a recent warning issued by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy is mainly noteworthy for its admission regarding the uncertainties about possible transmission vectors. It recommends that health care workers be fitted out with proper respirators to ward off infection via aerosol particles.
Before hearing about this, we remarked as follows in a recent email conversation: Even considering the low standards of hygiene and certain cultural idosyncracies that make it more likely for the disease to spread in African countries, it seems not as difficult to get infected as was generally held. One must also keep in mind that the official numbers almost certainly understate the number of infected people by a fairly big margin — many people reportedly get infected and simply die without ever making it into the statistics.
The progression of the outbreak shows that many hitherto widely accepted nostrums about Ebola and the likelihood of it spreading beyond a fairly small group of people have proved wrong. There is therefore possibly one more article of faith that may prove wrong as well, namely that there is no reason to worry that it could spread in developed countries.
What if it did?…
I give em 3 months
Afghan forces prepare to fight alone as foreign troops leave
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/28/us-afghanistan-military-idUSKBN0IH0YP20141028
Australian commandos may join with Iranian Quds in fight against Islamic State
Australian commandos could work alongside soldiers from the feared Iranian Quds forces in the battle against the Islamic State group in Iraq, Defence Minister David Johnston has said.
Senator Johnston said the crisis created by the Islamic State’s brutal capture of vast tracts of territory was sufficiently acute that differences should be put aside in the common interest of stopping their reign of terror.
His remarks came as the government revealed that Australians were continuing to join extremist groups such as the Islamic State either as fighters or supporters, with the total now reaching about 185.
Senator Johnston, when asked whether Australia’s commandos, who will advise and assist Iraqi forces, would work alongside Iranians, told Sky News: “They may be. I don’t see a problem in that, given the nature of the threat.”
The revelation highlights the complexity of the battle against the Islamic State, which has brought together a broad but brittle coalition of countries that are often usually at odds and whom, in many cases, are continuing to pursue their own interests on the side, even as they work in common to stop the militant group.
Maya
We’re not in Colorado anymore, Toto. 😉
Swiss Gold Train
The Swiss love Gold… and trains. They build some pretty amazing
railroads up in those mountains!
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=491364
Good morning Oasis
Metanor Reports its Financial Results for the Quarter and Year Ended June 30th, 2014 with a Net Income of $1,078,441 in the Quarter
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/metanor-reports-financial-results-quarter-231250149.html
B2Gold Reports 2014 Third Quarter Gold Production and Revenue
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/b2gold-reports-2014-third-quarter-073000693.html
McEwen Mining Files Early Warning Report in Connection With Private Placement in Visible Gold Mines Inc.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mcewen-mining-files-early-warning-123000628.html
Santacruz Silver Files San Felipe Preliminary Economic Assessment Report
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/santacruz-silver-files-san-felipe-123400147.html