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Are Gold Miners Making Money at Newmont Mining Corp?

June 14, 2018 daniel 0 Comments Are Gold Mining Stocks a Value Investment?, Autonomous Mining will help Newmont Make More Money, Green Energy will soon cut Mining Costs, How Technology will Help Newmont Make More Money, Is Gold a Value Investment?, Is Newmont Mining a Value Investment?, Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM), Newmont Mining Corp, Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA

Gold is one of the most interesting economic barometers around because its price is a good measure of the fear

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Retail Jobs Apocalypse is worse than you think

October 21, 2017 daniel 000 created over the past four years still exceeds the number of lost department store positions; 80, 000 department-store positions were cut between July 2016 and July 2017., 000., Around 32, Destructive Effects of the Retail Job Apocalypse, Online retail jobs pay far better than department-store work., Retail Job Apocalypse, Retail Jobs Apocalypse is worse than you think, Sears Canada is dead, The number of new retail jobs 100, The rate of overall employment fell in 75% of the counties the Fed studied between 2012 and 2017, the retail jobs apocalypse is more widespread and destructive than most people think

It looks as if the havoc being wreaked by the retail apocalypse is worse than we thought. This study also gives us a rough picture of the future of retail employment and it is not pretty.

There will be fewer jobs in fewer places in the future but they will pay more. That means more competition for fewer jobs between employees and communities.

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Big Earnings Week Amazon, P&G, Alphabet and Facebook Reporting

July 24, 2017 daniel Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Alphabet and Facebook Reporting, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Big Earnings Week, Big Earnings Week Amazon, Earnings Week, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), How Amazon or Alphabet could trigger a Market Crash, Is McDonald’s Stock about to Collapse, McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), PG, Proctor & Gamble (NYSE: PG), Same Old Same Old with some Great Stocks

What’s even more frightening is that one bad earnings report from either Amazon or Google might trigger a market crash. Those companies are simply that huge and important to investors; that alone should have us asking if those behemoths are now too “big to fail.”

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Data shows why Americans’ Retirement Accounts will be subjected to Confiscatory Taxes

May 29, 2017 daniel confiscatory taxation aimed at the rich, Data shows why Americans’ Retirement Accounts will be subjected to Confiscatory Taxes, Great Wizard Trump, Half of All Americans Have no Retirement Savings, high confiscatory taxes directed at affluent seniors and their retirement accounts, Nearly half of whom have no pension; or meaningful retirement savings, Retirement Income Inequality, Retirement Income Inequality will drive a Paradigm Shift to the Left in American Politics, Tax Those Rich Boomers, Why Class Warfare will break Out among Senior Citizens, Why Politicians will Tax IRAs

Income inequality will lead to deep political divisions among senior citizens that will profoundly change voting patterns. These divisions will unfold along racial, regional and class lines and bring about a paradigm shift to the left in American politics.

A result of that will be high confiscatory taxes directed at affluent seniors and their retirement accounts. Expect to see many wealthy older people flee the United States to escape those taxes in the decades ahead.

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Goldman Sachs is making a Lot of Money

May 1, 2017May 4, 2017 daniel $121.71 billion in cash and short-term investments, $13.43 billion in cash from financing, $5.57 billion in cash from operations, $9.27 billion in cash from investing, assets of $860.16 billion, Donald J. Trump and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS), Goldman Sachs is a good investment, Goldman Sachs is making a Lot of Money, GS has the ability to pay a far higher dividend if its management feels like it, Income inequality is getting a lot worse in America, new Glass-Steagall, The Good Times are Back at Goldman Sachs, What can we learn from Goldman Sachs’ financial numbers?

Yet it shows us that the anti-bank political climate in Washington might be good for Wall Street’s biggest investment bank. A great stock, Goldman Sachs might get better because of the new status quo in the nation’s capitol.

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Has Kansas City Southern Turned Around?

April 28, 2017 daniel Has Kansas City Southern Turned Around?, Is Kansas City Southern a Good Investment?, Is the Kansas City Southern Making Money?, Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU), Kansas City Southern makes some money, KSC, KSC stock, railroad is definitely overpriced at the $89.5 a share

The railroad is definitely overpriced at the $89.5 a share it was trading at on April 28, 2017. There’s nothing in the earnings report to justify that number.

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Collapse of U.S. Real Estate Prices Predicted

April 24, 2017April 25, 2017 daniel Andrew Schiller, Average home prices in Denver, Beckley, Bismarck, Casper, Catastrophe for the Middle Class, Collapse of U.S. Real Estate Prices Predicted, Income Inequality is about to Burst the Real Estate Bubbles, Laredo, Location Inc., Median home prices in some parts of the United States will fall by more than 30%, Monroe, Scout Vision, Some Homes will Lose 68.5% of their Value by 2022, Some Properties will lose a Third of their Value in Five Years, Stay Away from Real Estate, underwater homes, Watertown/Fort Drum, Wyoming, Yuma

The price drops in North Central Colorado will be nothing compared to the carnage in some other areas of the country. The Scout Vision Top 5 for 5 Quarter Report predicted that some homes will lose 68.5% of their value by first quarter 2022.

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Several Really Scary Economic Trends in the United States

April 9, 2017 daniel Loss of Manufacturing Jobs, President Trump will not be able to deliver upon his promises to restore manufacturing jobs, Several Really Scary Economic Trends in the United States, the economic trends that worry me the most, The Pension Crisis, The Retail Apocalypse, The Retirement Crisis, Used Car Prices, Worry about Used Car Prices Not the Stock Market

Disturbingly some of these developments indicate that we might soon face a drop off in economic activity rivaling that of the Great Depression.

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Technological Unemployment Makes the Jobs Apocalypse Worse

February 14, 2017April 24, 2018 daniel Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence Poker Tournament, counterfactual regret minimization, Jobs Apocalypse, Libratus, Marcus, mployment apocalypse, Noam Brown, poker bots, Poker-Playing AI, poker-playing artificial intelligence, Risk Management through Technological Unemployment, Technological Unemployment, The Jobless Future of Banking, Watch Out Machines have figured out how to Learn, Why Humans don’t stand a Chance against the Learning Machine

The jobs apocalypse is about to get far worse because the machines have figured out how to learn. We had better get ready because AIs like Libratus will soon destroy hundreds of not thousands of highly paying jobs.

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Can the Monster Banks Survive the Age of Trump?

February 9, 2017 daniel Are Monster Banks still a Good Investment?, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Can the Monster Banks Survive the Age of Trump?, Citigroup (NYSE: C), Glass Steagall Act of 1932, Glass Stegall, JPMorgan CHASE NYSE: JPM), Limited Growth, Reince Priebus, Revenue is growing at the Monster Banks, The Monster Banks still have a Lot of Cash, Wells Fargo’s (NYSE: WFC)

A major problem is that revenues at JPMorgan and Bank of America are well below their historic highs. JPMorgan reported revenues of $99.13 billion back in June 2013; Citi reported revenues of $77.40 billion as recently as September 2014, and BOA’s revenues hit a high of $97.59 billion in June 2012.

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