It’s Absolutely Shocking
01/08/2020 10:26 AMHuawei is still being considered to build Canada's 5 G network despite warnings from CISIS about China's threat to Canada - despite the fact that by Chinese law it is forced to cooperate with China's intelligence apparatus and so much...
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Can Six Myths Keep The Market Going?
01/08/2020 9:28 AMPiper Jaffray forecasts by year end 2020, the S&P 500 (SPX) will hit 3600, a 12.8 % increase. Of eighteen analysts interviewed by Marketwatch only three forecasters expect a decline for the SPX. Will the SPX reach 3600? The SPX has soared over 400 % from a low of 666...
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The Real Investment Guide For The Next Decade
01/08/2020 9:24 AMAs we head into the next decade, this complete set of articles delves into the fallacies of always owning stocks for the long run (aka “buy and hold” and passive strategies). Given that market’s cycle over time, it is important to understand how markets, and investing...
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The Real Reason The U.S. Is Interested In Iran
01/08/2020 9:17 AMThe American obsession with Iran is about oil and natural gas. If these two resources had been absent, it is hard to imagine such an intense American focus on the country from the time of a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency-backed coup of Iran's elected government in...
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Three Reasons Precious Metals Are On The Rise
01/07/2020 10:26 AMFor what seems like an eternity for the bulls, the gold market has suffered from a strange cognitive dissonance, stubbornly refusing to react to the signs of the times. At a time when interest rates everywhere fell to historical lows, signs of a synchronized slowdown...
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You’re About To Pay More for the Canada Pension Plan
01/07/2020 7:05 AM$150 more than last year - $300 more than in 2018 but the people hit the hardest are the self employed who could do so much better in their own plan...if they were...
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Improving Investor Sentiment Helped Drive the Price Higher in 2019: Interim Silver Market Review
01/06/2020 12:01 PMThe last few months have seen a major improvement in investor sentiment towards silver, according to Philip Newman, Director at Metals Focus, who recently presented the Metals Focus / Silver Institute Interim Silver Market Review. The silver price benefitted in 2019...
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Why Pirates Are Giving Up On Oil
01/06/2020 10:07 AMPiracy in some of the world’s most critical oil chokepoints is on the rise--but now, pirates are resorting back to another method of income generation better suited to times of lower oil prices: taking human captives. Sometimes, black market oil prices just aren’t...
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Timelapse Maps: An Overview of Our Changing Planet
01/06/2020 10:03 AMHumankind’s impact on the world is obvious, but our spatial patterns are sometimes difficult to recognize from the ground. Publicly accessible, high-quality satellite imagery has been a game changer in terms of understanding the scope of forces such as urbanization...
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The 20 Biggest Advances in Tech Over the Last 20 Years
01/06/2020 9:59 AMDespite what you may read in the newspapers or see on TV, humans continue to reach new heights of prosperity. Another decade is over. With the 2020s upon us, now is the perfect time to reflect on the immense technological advancements that humanity has made since the...
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