Segment 1: 2024 Year in Review SEGMENT BEGINS AT 03:25 In this segment, we’ll take a comprehensive look back at the major financial events that shaped this year. Segment one topics include: 2024 stock market highlights Top performing ETFs, Dividend Aristocrats,...
WHAT’S NEXT FOR GOLD PRICES?
As Funds Get Massively Short, Gold Could Spike
- Hedge funds and money managers are now less bullish on gold than they’ve been since June 2007, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission show. And that could actually be good news for the beaten-down metal.
- The report also reveals that large speculative traders cut their bullish gold futures and options holdings to the smallest ever.
- This is the fifth straight week of these traders trimming bullish exposure to gold.
- Big money managers are cutting back on silver positions too, for the fifth consecutive week. Overall, large speculators have turned short silver.
- If the Fed does not “taper” at its December meeting, gold and silver could spike dramatically higher causing massive short-covering activity.
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“Profiting From the Coming Paper Money Collapse”Detroit Bankruptcy Ruling Opens Door to Pension Cuts Across the Nation
Financially troubled cities in California, Illinois and Pennsylvania will soon face decisions on what to do with chronically underfunded pension funds, and experts say the Detroit ruling has made it easier for cities to argue that pensions must be cut.
ObamaCare Created a Medicaid Time Bomb
CBO: Medicaid spending will more than double over the next 10 years, topping $554 billion by 2023.
Gold Futures Start Week with a Move Higher
“The fact that gold failed to fully penetrate its prior lows from last week is a welcome sign for bullish investors.”
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“World News Headlines That We Are Tracking”President Obama Accused of Lying About Sarin Gas Attacks in Syria
No surprise here…
‘Schizophrenic’ U.S. Foreign Policy Pushing Arab States Toward Russia, Bahrain Warns
Obama administration’s stance on Iran and Syria could see US lose influence in the Middle East, Bahrain’s rulers warn
Japan Press: ‘China-Japan War To Break Out In January’
“China is bent on wrestling the Senkakus away from Japan, and if Japan dispatches its Self-Defense Forces, China will respond with naval and air forces.”
Secrecy Surrounds Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks
The government has refused the Senate access to the secret text of the trade deal it is negotiating in Singapore, saying it will only be made public after it has been signed.
Japan’s Abe Secures Passage of Secrecy Law as Opposition Revolts
With China on the rise, the U.S. is blessing the re-emergence of Japan for the first time since WWII.
“Archiving the Rise of Big Brother and the Fall of the Republic”IRS Using GOOGLE Maps to Spy on Taxpayers
In addition to using freely available aerial and street photographs to survey property, agents are also encouraged to use search engines to research background information on suspected tax cheats.
Local Cops Tap Cellphone Data
The National Security Agency isn’t the only government entity secretly collecting data from people’s cellphones. Local police are increasingly scooping it up, too.
REPORT: FBI Can Secretly Activate Individual’s Webcam
The Washington Post reports that the FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer’s camera “without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording” for years now.
Patriot Act author: Obama’s intel czar should be prosecuted
Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the original author of the Patriot Act, says Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should be prosecuted for lying to Congress.
STANFORD: Method of Recording Brain Activity Could Lead to Mind-Reading Devices
“We’re now able to eavesdrop on the brain in real life…”
Satanists plan statue to stand alongside Ten Commandments in Oklahoma
In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
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Topic: On this week’s show, Jerry Robinson discusses how the Internet revolutionized his businesses and how Internet-currency Bitcoin may lead to an even greater demand for gold and silver.
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