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GIH: Corporate insider activity is always a good indicator of market sentiment; now insiders are most bearish in 24 years. The implication is that they have a pulse on the market, their own internal operations, and high quality information from their partners. Just last week Goldman noted that February was “the busiest month in the buyback desk’s […]
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GIH: The SEC is dealing with a new generation of digital ‘boiler rooms’ – email lists & forums that present misleading information to lure investors. “AwesomePennyStocks” was apparently one of the largest such newsletters, promoting otherwise worthless companies many times dumping their own shares as the price rise. Sadly, many clients don’t bother to do […]
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GIH: We are led to believe that by installing a certificate, or by other common security practices, we are safe. The following shows that this may not be the case, especially considering the vulnerabilities of HTTPS protocol, the commonly accepted ‘safe’ way to browse: In this day and age of well-known NSA spying, everyone keeps […]
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GIH: Shocking information has come forth that government officials responsible for cybersecurity initiatives do not have basic knowledge about the internet, such as what an “ISP” is. How can those who know nothing about a topic regulate or execute it? One of the world’s leading cyberwarfare experts has warned of the damaging lack of government […]
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GIH: China now facing similar problems as the US, with market bubbles in many sectors. Ghost cities, a drop in exports, and a bond bubble, are putting pressure on the previously high growth economy. Americans usually concerned with the possibility of China dumping US Treasuries as some kind of economic warfare. But if China’s economy […]
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GIH: Can income inequality actually be a major factor, if not the primary cause, of complete civilization collapse? It can, according to a NASA funded study. While many see the struggle of haves and have nots as ethical, or somehow sociological, actually it can be about survival for our species. In a similar way how […]
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GIH: As more information comes out about various spy agencies and their cyber divisions, it seems that those such as the NSA pose a larger threat to internet security than the hackers they are supposedly protecting us from. The following information should make any user of the internet, be it a business or individual or […]
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GIH: The ex-Fed chairman Ben Bernanke says that ‘overconfidence’ created the financial crisis. As any Fed Chair, has he become victim of his own Fedspeak training? Isn’t confidence good for markets, and fear is bad? Don’t we worry the investors will have ‘fears’ and depart markets, and spend significant efforts to restore their confidence? From […]
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One of the alarming features of the crisis on Ukraine‘s Crimean peninsula is the staggering confidence with which Vladimir Putin is pursuing his agenda there and in eastern Ukraine. In quick order, Russian troops from the Black Sea fleet – as it has now been acknowledged by the pro-Russian prime minister of Crimea – have seized airports and […]
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From Mike Whitney of Counterpunch [48] The Greatest Propaganda Coup of Our Time? There’s good propaganda and bad propaganda. Bad propaganda is generally crude, amateurish Judy Miller “mobile weapons lab-type” nonsense that figures that people are so stupid they’ll believe anything that appears in “the paper of record.” Good propaganda, on the other hand, uses factual, sometimes […]
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