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Smoke and mirrors: Quantitative Easing

What Is Quantitative Easing (QE)? Quantitative easing (QE) is a form of unconventional monetary policy in which a central bank purchases longer-term securities from the open market in order to increase the money supply and encourage lending and investment. Buying these securities adds new money to the economy, and also serves to lower interest rates … Read more

More Vets losing their Minds; compensation for mental disorders soars

More Vets losing their Minds Let’s get things warmed up by looking at the article of the month, before getting into the “more vets losing their minds” article. Investors are panicking again; they withdrew a whopping $20.7 billion from hedge funds in the month of June. This is one of the largest outflows from the … Read more

What’s making this Current Stock Market Bull So Resilient

Is Current Stock Market Bull Ready To Trend Higher? The market has resisted all attempts to correct. We know why it’s not crashing; this has to do with mass psychology, but what’s preventing it from letting out a meaningful dose of steam.  The table below might hold the answer.   We looked at all 30 components … Read more

Negative interest rates: Australian & Germany Join The Foray

Negative interest rates Wars? Australia’s central bank cut interest rates to a fresh record low as it moves to counter disinflation and support a labour market hampered by high levels of part-time work and underemployment. Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens and his board lowered the cash rate by 25 basis points to 1.5 … Read more

Researchers Close to Finding Treatment For Peanut Allergies

Editor: Vladimir Bajic | Tactical Investor Top Read of the Week So let’s look at this article before we move onto a possible Treatment For Peanut Allergies. In the June 12, 2019  issue, we have provided subscribers who don’t want to follow the new stop methodology that is triggered after a position is showing gains of … Read more

Crude oil bottom likely to Propel Dow Industrials higher

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen Dowd The chart below clearly illustrates that a relationship exists between crude oil and the Dow.  For most of the 1st half of 2015, oil traded sideways, and the Dow followed suit.  Then, around July of 2015, … Read more

How To Prevent Eye Strain in a Digital World

Editor: Vladimir Bajic | Tactical Investor Random Thoughts Before The Main Article From a contrarian angle (and not a political point of view) a Trump win could be construed as a positive development; non-contrarians will demand to know why? Mass Psychology clearly states that the masses are always on the wrong side of the equation.  A … Read more

FHA Implements Mortgage Forgiveness Program

Editor: Vladimir Bajic | Tactical Investor FHA Implements Mortgage Forgiveness Program As a result of the massive surge in unemployment due to the Coronavirus pandemic, HUD is coming out with a new mortgage forgiveness program. Effective immediately for borrowers with a financial hardship that makes them unable to pay their mortgage due to the COVID-19 … Read more

The Secret War On Cash; Germany Joins negative Interest Rate Club 

The Secret War On Cash Central bankers are declaring war on cash for one reason only; they want to punish savers and reward speculators and in the process destroy the middle class. The only way to maintain the illusion that all is well is to get the average Joe to embrace this illusory economic recovery … Read more

Clint Eastwood blasts Todays Pussy Generation

Clint Eastwood blasts Todays Pussy Generation Clint Eastwood wasted no time with mincing word when talking about today’s generation and their PC nature. In a way he is right, everyone has to tiptoe around issues because they don’t know when they will be taken down for expressing themselves. In other words, today when you talk … Read more