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This Moneymaking Mantra Works Through Boom and Bust

By , Liquidity Specialist, Money Morning -

Editor's Note: Lee Adler has more than 44 years of experience trading and investing, as you'll see. You're going to be hearing a lot more from him in the future, because he's taking our newest free research service, Sure Money, "big time" next week. You'll have the chance to join him, but for now, he's going to show you why these four little words just might be the most profitable recommendation you've ever had. Here's Lee...

"Don't fight the Fed" was a refrain I heard often from the old men in the customers' gallery at Walston & Co.'s Philadelphia, Penn., office back in the late 1960s. I was a teenager at the time and sat with them after class. 

I tried to understand what these mysterious wise men meant as I watched the ticker tape crawl along, showing a trade from New York every few seconds...

"IBM...200s... GM...1000s... PRD...100s... XRX...10,000..."

The ticker would pause for a few moments, then more trades would come. 

Some of these old men were known as "tape readers" or "tape traders." They saw patterns in the movements of the ticker and bought and sold stocks based on those patterns.

They made money, too, and plenty of it. 

"Don't fight the tape. Don't fight the Fed. The trend is your friend," they said. I heard it so often, I couldn't stop it from constantly playing in my head.

I still can't, to this day.

Turns out, there's a good reason why: You can make a ton of money if you move when the Fed does, no matter what they do...

Jim Rogers: "Clueless" Fed Will Drive United States to Disaster

By , Associate Editor, Money Morning -

Jim Rogers

Legendary investor Jim Rogers just made a bold claim about the Federal Reserve.

"[The Fed] has no clue what they're doing," he said.

But that's not all he said about the central bank...

How to Protect Yourself from the Fed on June 13

By , America’s #1 Trader, Money Morning • @powerproftrades -

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Yellen was hawkish at the Fed meeting in May. And there's more than a 90% chance of another hike in just over two weeks.

And higher rates will likely affect your money. So Tom shows you how you can protect yourself against the Fed and even make some serious money...

Here's What the Fed Will Likely Do to Interest Rates in 2016

By , Money Morning -

Our central bank is so disconnected from the reality of the economic numbers and its actions are increasingly "politicized."

Here's what Shah Gilani thinks will happen to the markets and interest rates after the election...

What Every Investor Needs to Know Between Now and 2017

By , Executive Editor, Money Morning • @privatebrief -

As expected, the U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers at this week's FOMC meeting voted to keep interest rates unchanged. Central bank rate policies and next week's U.S. presidential election are the two biggest influences on U.S. stock prices right now.

Well, the FOMC held the line on rates this week, but they're widely expected to boost borrowing costs in December - thanks to indications the long-moribund U.S. economy is finally accelerating. Indeed, Fed Chair Janet C. Yellen said back in September that strength in the job ranks and a healthy surge in inflation would give policymakers the confidence to raise rates.

This is a time when investors need nothing so much as a roadmap to where the market's going to actually go in the next weeks and months. Clarity, in other words... and there's precious little of that to be had from the traditional financial media.

But of course, they don't have D.R. Barton, Jr. - a 26-year market veteran and pro trader - on their speed dials like I do...

Here's the Terrifying Endgame of Global Central Banking

By , Capital Wave Strategist, Money Morning • @WallStreet_II -

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Socialist monetarism: (s?SH?l?st mänid?riz?m) the takeover of the free world by an oligarchy of bankers

The unthinkable is happening; in fact, the final chapter is being written as you read this.

Governments around the (presumably) free world have ceded fiscal and economic control of their countries to central bankers, who, drunk with power, are methodically replacing free-market capitalism with a new order of socialist monetarism.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, you're not alone. See, you're not supposed to know.

The fact is, we're supposed to think that central banks are our economic saviors.

But what they're actually doing, right before our very eyes, is radically changing the world we know.

And not at all for the better...

Why the Markets Aren't Moving So Close to a Fed Meeting

By , Technical Trading Specialist, Money Morning • @DRBarton_Stocks -

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The next Fed meeting is in 11 days, and this time the markets are not all that volatile. Stocks are still near all-time highs, and almost nobody expects the Fed to raise rates in November.

Here's what you can do ahead of the meeting to prepare...

Here's a Double-Digit Profit Play on the Only Rate Hike That Counts

By , Resource Specialist, Money Morning -

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For reasons I can't fathom, investors are obsessed with central bankers, hanging on their every word, parsing out every little detail or tone of voice. For the better part of a decade, we've seen this obsession send markets zooming ahead in moments, or selling off steeply just as fast, all totally divorced from economic fundamentals.

So they can bring gains or losses in short order, but I submit that, in fact, nearly seven years of near-zero, zero, and sub-zero interest rates have made it clear that central bankers have lost control, with very little in the way of real influence beyond short-term rates.

Long-term rates, which have a much broader impact, remain subject to market forces. And today I want to share with you a chart that shows those rates are on the cusp of a secular trend that's going to make early investors a ton of money, once they know how to bet...

Capitalism Might Not Survive the Fed's Next "Big Idea"

By , Global Credit Strategist, Money Morning • @MichaelELewitt -

how higher interest rates can cause a stock market crash

At the Fed's Jackson Hole symposium last month, there were strong hints from Fed Chair Janet Yellen and Vice Chair Stanley Fischer that they want to raise rates in the near future, but they have broken such promises before.

Those broken promises are likely what lead investors to continue their staggering complacency, and they missed some very disturbing noises about the Fed's plans to deal with the next recession.

These plans are unconstitutional and dangerous, but they're only the next step in a quiet revolution that's already being waged by central banks worldwide.

Credulous, complacent investors put themselves at risk of catastrophic losses as this "revolution" moves further along toward its only logical conclusion...

The wholesale destruction of free markets - and the wealth that people have parked there...

But it's the Fed's most recent move that could destroy everything. Here's the best move you can make in this environment to protect your money...

How a Single Word from the Fed Can Wipe Out Markets

By , Global Credit Strategist, Money Morning • @MichaelELewitt -

FEYE

The Committee to Destroy the World opened is hydra-headed mouth one too many times last week.

The result was the biggest drop in stocks since Brexit.

The Dow Jones Industrial average fell nearly 400 points or 2.1% on Friday while the S&P 500 dropped nearly 54 points or 2.5% and the Nasdaq Composite Index also shed 2.5% and nearly 134 points.

Read more...

Central Banks Are Willfully Destroying This Critical Market Function

By , Global Credit Strategist, Money Morning • @MichaelELewitt -

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With central banks owning $25 trillion of financial assets and sovereign wealth funds owning countless trillions more, it is time to ask whether capitalism as we know it is a thing of the past.

These non-economic actors have different motivations than traditional investors who buy assets in order to earn a profit over a reasonable period of time.

Read more...

This Job Is More Important Than the Presidency – Here's Who Has My Vote

By , Capital Wave Strategist, Money Morning • @WallStreet_II -

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Perhaps more important than who wins the presidency is who will be the next chair of the Federal Reserve.

Here's Shah Gilani's candidate for the job...

Why the Brexit Could Be the End of Central Banks

By , Capital Wave Strategist, Money Morning • @WallStreet_II -

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The markets' worry over the possibility of a Brexit - that the United Kingdom may actually pull the trigger and leave the world's biggest economic bloc - has been driving volatility for weeks.

Here's the thing... For all the coverage and attention the Brexit is getting, no one's talking about the most frightening prospect - by far - that's going to happen if Britain exits the European Union.

I addressed it on FOX Business' "Making Money with Charles Payne" last Wednesday and got Charles to admit he hadn't heard anyone ever discuss it.

Well, that's because no one's thought about it. Make no mistake - this possibility is out there, and it's the ultimate black swan.

That's a move the ECB can't afford, and it could ultimately lead to the collapse of the ECB and all central banks, including the Fed.

Here's Your Federal Reserve Cheat Sheet – and What's Coming Next

By , Capital Wave Strategist, Money Morning • @WallStreet_II -

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With the markets hanging on to every word coming out of the Federal Reserve, it's important for investors to pay close attention, too.

So here's a breakdown of everything the Fed's currently saying - and a roadmap for how to play the markets when it all comes to fruition...

End the Fed… and Move the Country Forward

By , Capital Wave Strategist, Money Morning • @WallStreet_II -

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The name "Federal Reserve System" is supposed to conjure up nice, comforting images of a safety net, of a system to safeguard the economy of the United States. In fact, its creators were adamant about not calling it a bank... because banks and bankers were feared and loathed then - as they mostly are now.

But the truth is, the Federal Reserve System (remember, it's not a bank, it's a "system") is killing this country.

And the damage control we heard from Janet Yellen yesterday just proves how screwed over everyone who lives, works, pays taxes, has a bank account, or invests in this country really is, all thanks to the Fed.

They're false prophets with a god complex - the most dangerous kind...

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