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Global Markets Outlook: 3 Events that Could Shake the Markets During a Quiet Week

The Titile of this Article states says "3 events which could shake the markets during a quiet week", you list the 3 and procede to talk about everything under the sun instead of concentrating on those three.

Your prerogative, so I'll include 2 more. You have had time to include the attempted Airline Bomb attack but have chosen to exclude it entirely.

And your Upcoming events entirely exclude $100 + Billion worth of Treasury Auctions in a Shortened Holiday week. Those didn't go well last week.

Both of these will affect the USD next week.

I suggest that the weakness of the Security Systems protecting the USA and the Auctions will lead to a reversal to the Downside for the week. And if recent history is any guide, this will lead to upside pressure on Oil.

Is Gold Bubble Popping?

If a stock moves up 20% above previous highs would we call it a Bubble? If it corrected by dropping 10% or more, would we call it "a bubble bursting"?

Of course not, but that's what you are doing.

India is selling gold to its citizens not only in the form of Jewelry but it is also making it available through its Postal System in .5 grams and up to make it affordable.

This alone will keep constant physical pressure on Gold the likes of which have never been seen before. Sri Lanka is going the same route although its purchases have only been in the 5 Tonnes at a crack route.

The Genie is out of the Bottle now, could luck in trying to put it back in.

Another Crisis Looms Right Around the Corner

Flour,Yeast, Bread Maker...Put em into a Root Cellar for preservation, storage, Command Post and Fallout shelter.

Solar panels and Portable Generator, Water/Air Purifiers.

2 of Important Items, if stay longer than Anticipated.

But, to tell you the Truth, We aren't going to do any of the Above. Push comes to shove, We will pay Mr. Obama a visit, just to say hello. An Old Man and his Old Lady :) :)

The Trouble with Clean Coal

John: Rational debates are part of the learning process. I view Statements made without any link to the Subject, as suspicious from the Start.

Jerrydd: good comments. The US has abundant Nat. Gas, It shouldn't be building Coal plants. I believe NG plants with a good filtration Process are the route to follow.

China Does Not have the same resource. They are Replacing 100% of their current Coal plants with the New Coal Gasificaton Tech. And as a New Coal Plant is built an Old Coal Plant is shut down. I posted a link to this weeks ago. The only real source of Gas in China is Coal Bed Methane, they consider it as a byproduct.(this is my own opinion because NG plants are Not being built there)

Did you know that Coal Gasification Technologies have been Licensed to the Chinese by None other than Southern Company, the US based Utility, SO? Another link to that is also available.

Global Markets Outlook: 3 Events that Could Shake the Markets During a Quiet Week

"While we suspect that odds favor a quiet week, the very nature of the above surprise events is, after all, surprise."

Can't be a surprise if they are listed in advance. The surprise would be in How the Markets react.

What are the Pro-Dollar "surprise" possibilities?

Gold, Oil Majors Revisited

Why not include Palladium into your mix? I would hazzard that it will appreciate with Platinum as Silver does with Gold.

While Physical purchases are the way to go, aren't they monitored? On a just in case basis, wouldn't high grade Gold Jewelry be safer than Gold itself? (In case the Government steps in to confiscate your Gold.)

I would try to avoid leaving a "paper trail" as much as possible.

Equity Market Bears, Take Careful Note of the Chinese Stock Market

Socrateaz: Beauty is indeed in the Eye of the Beholder.

In the bottom graph, I would have intersected the top line with the September pop. Rising wedge and Breakout. Small correction. My kind of chart.

The Top graph, however, is also a thing of Beauty to me.

A much more pronounced Rising wedge. The Breakout here is in progress. My initial Target would be the Old high.

While interpreting the above charts Negatively, I notice that you do not present any short side Ideas.

I'm not going to wait to see what happens. I'm putting my money where my mouth is, Long EEM, EWX. Loose stops.

I believe in Investing.

Thank you, Tom

The Trouble with Clean Coal

Now this is a discussion. It is not being steered by the Author. I love it.

coalcatalyst: I know you are promoting your company but you are inviting people to visit, read, learn and then, make up their own minds.

People do have minds, they are able to use them. They do not have to be steered in a specific direction or be constantly told that there is No Other Direction.

Thanks John.

The Trouble with Clean Coal

HTL, We have already suggested that, it wasn't well received.

When Brazil was doing a number on its Rain Forests, the Environmentalists were up in Arms. But try to plant a few million trees!, they laugh at you.

If Johnny Appleseed could do it by his lonesome, we can too.

The Trouble with Clean Coal

These are the Laws of Thermodynamics:

The first law of thermodynamics, which mandates conservation of energy, and states in particular that heat is a form of energy
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The second law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of an isolated macroscopic system never decreases, or (equivalently) that perpetual motion machines are impossible.

The third law of thermodynamics, which concerns the entropy of a perfect crystal at absolute zero temperature, and implies that it is impossible to cool a system all the way to exactly absolute zero.

Which Law is being violated?

When Coal is gasified and then 99% combusted leaving Little or No Residue when it is combusted 100%, which Law Of Thermodynamics is being violated? When you add filters which Capture 100% of the CO2 released, the result is Clean Coal.

The 99% Plants are being built/modified now. The 100% combustion has been done in a Lab. The Filters are available Now.

Prove it? I do not have to. I left a link to this new Tech in a Fitzsimmons Article. They are located on an online Engineering Website. Fitzsimmons Refused to read them. But, Just for Kicks, I'll hunt it down, so you can Refuse also.

After all, generating net energy is not the Issue, "Eliminating CO2 flow into the atmosphere and Coal Residuals". Is.

Gold and Silver - How High Will They Go?

The 2 year Gold Chart's, H&S Bottom suggests a Move above $1,300.

I just didn't expect it to occur in one sustained drive.

And while a Contrarian View would have a Snap Back in the USD, when that will occur is anyone's guess. The Majority can be right for prolonged periods of time.

Worthy of note, Oil is not moving up relative to the USD's decline but the day has just begun and the Mice are about to come out and play.

Are Oil and Natural Gas Cheap or Expensive?

The Devil is in the Details.

I'm more concerned about the Water/Food problem than the Air problem.

I consider the one slope to be slipperier than the other.

CO2 is not a problem now, it may cause the melting of xyz and flood out hundreds of millions...Gore was on Charlie Rose last night...450 Million to be exact.

What happens to them? How about the Millions of acres being shed of Ice. The Relocation would be daunting but it would provide jobs for hundreds of millions for decades.Virgin lands, continents worth. Turn the deserts green, Tow the big slabs of ice to giant manmade lakes.

You can really lell, I'm into Science Fiction.

The Trouble with Clean Coal

terravario: while I may disagree on the methods and disagree again on the the history of climate change. (Greenland was Green a 1,000 years ago and Italian paintings describe a lush Italian tropical setting 500 years ago)

I fully believe that the current Industrial movements are exacerbating the conditions which occurred in the past. But I do not see a respite of those conditions without worldwide cooperation

The Developed World may be able to adjust but half of the planet is in the Industrial Revolution stage. They are cranking up their motors while we seek to forestall those efforts. I just don't see it happening.

India announced that they will have to have GDP grow at an annual pace of 9-10% annually over the next 10 years to lift its people out of poverty levels. I do not begrudge this effort. Unfortunately, this sounds too much like Brazil's Rain forests.

We can do what we can, but I do not believe it will be enough regardless of what we do.

The Larger Energy Implications of Hydrogen Autos

HYGS is already building refueling stations for their Fuel cell Buses in Germany. No elaborate desugn necessary. The Hydrogen Generators are Standalone.

HYGS is an American company but my guess is that its too small to be considered. They have been selling portable Hydrogen generators for years to the Chinese.

Era of Unprecedented Inflation Just Around the Corner

Way to go DG, don't forget to add in Health Care "reform" and an as yet to be determined Infrastructure Build which will pobably exceed its allocation.

The Patriotic thing to do would be to distribute the Stimulus Money among all of the Families Making 250K or less, let them decide what to do with it.