Harbinger of a crisis: the US market for luxury property crashes The US housing market has slumped dramatically in the luxury areas: In the Hamptons, in Miami or in Aspen many top properties found no buyers. This phenomenon is considered a harbinger of a profound economic crisis.

Thanks for the hints.

Be very careful on what you click on. Always think about the scammers that are out there. The biggest threat today is probably cryptolocker. Once these guys get you, well it’s over unless you want to pay a bitcoin ransom to get your information back (sometimes people pay the ransom and still can’t decrypt). The cryptolocker virus encrypts your hard drive information, there’s no work around for it. Always do system backups! Burn information to disks make a back up disk too.

Store information in several places. Get a subscription to Dropbox, where you can move information to the cloud. Use removable hard drives. If it’s not stored in 3 places it does not exist.

If you see you have popups, Control+Alt+Delete and go into the task manger processes list and close it there. Never click on pop up windows. If you don’t believe me, well click away.

Lastly wireless keyboards ARE NOT SAFE! If you have one, throw it away!! Want someone taking every keystroke you type? Then use a wireless keyboard.

Never use free internet ANYWHERE! It’s free for a reason. Don’t trust the black hatters!!!

I’ve been using CCleaner by Piriform recently to scrub. Don’t bother buying it, use the free version. Disable the “system monitoring” feature check box under monitoring once installed.

Lastly use superantispyware to scrub your machine often.

I think that they are, in general, as emotionally stable as the general population. They simply go in the direction where they feel their bread is buttered best.

Apple has released an urgent update to its desktop operating systems and the Safari web browser to block a hack that could have turned the machines into spying tools.

The security flaw affects the El Capitan and Yosemite Mac operating systems, and is the same that could have let hackers take complete control of iPhone devices, which Apple fixed with the iOS 9.3.5 update last week.

The Silicon Valley giant quietly released the update to the Mac software and Safari a week after its iPhone patch without addressing the delay.

Apple has urged customers with devices that are not running iOS 9.3.5, OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan and 10.10.5 Yosemite to update their software immediately to protect potential malicious actors from spying on them.

cont. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/09/02/apple-issues-urgent-security-update-after-hack-turns-mac-compute/

are the result of electing EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE PEOPLE . They rule by emotional OUTBURSTS,inflamatory rehetoric name calling like “RACIST””HATER” . They use FEAR to rule,while that can be a usefull tool it should only be used when reason fails  .Stop electing those that rule by emotional Outbursts and we all be better off.

STABILITY at the TOP should be the rule !

You’ll know things are getting tough in the Hamptons when the coke dealers start cutting their prices.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/apocalyptic-scenes-fleeing-isis-fighters-8755738

A bucket shop in a brothel! Sounds like a match made in Heaven.

I agree … anyone who is still invested in a gold or silver ETF (Sprott excepted) has their head up their ###!

I think prison’s a great remedy for arrogance!

things in the Hamptons are falling apart ..Real Estate dropping like a ROCK Half Price SALES with NO BID are commonplace ! ART prices Falling !   The Rich are being given a dose of their own tactics .

DOG eat DOG in the Hamptons its not going to be pretty !

re update 4

When in a hole yr supposed to stop digging…..anyone following this and still in a normal ETF is insane…..u can’t leave customers hanging like this.

That said Germany has a bad habit of cowboy operations….most of the worst bucketshops in Europe are invariably in Germany….I heard of one that operated in the basement of a brothel !!!!!!!

After the punters had finished upstairs, they could go downstairs to really get screwed !!!!!!!

Thats even worse than”We got caught short ”  What that means is we intentionally set out to SCREW you rather than we miscalculated !   They dont deserve any good will after saying that ! CRUSH them until they get some Humility ! SHRINK their assets,force the Sale of ASSETS FIRE the CEO and FILE CRIMINAL charges against him until the management gets a dose of HUMILITY instead of arrogance !

http://www.marketslant.com/articles/update-4-deutsche-bank-gold-no-delivered-reasons-business-policy

Looks like we’ve made it through the first half hour in decent shape.

Why are yields on the 10 yr bonds rising with a Sept. rate hike now off the table?

Very little makes sense anymore

VAXXED Director Dr. Andrew Wakefield, A Discussion With Dane Wigington

https://youtu.be/UFPoer4Gu_E?list=PLwfFtDFZDpwu9LYkcx4H1QuuLLu9SvcZm

I’m sure that most of those ETF investors didn’t realize they were investing in bits of paper …

By Susan Taylor

TORONTO, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Barrick Gold Corp, the world’s largest gold miner, said Thursday it has brought back a former executive to advance a scaled-back development plan for its suspended Pascua-Lama project that will first focus on Argentina.

The gold and silver project, which straddles the border of Argentina and Chile in the Andes Mountains, was put on hold in 2013 due to environmental issues, political opposition, labor unrest and development costs that ballooned to $8.5 billion.

George Bee, who has 16 years experience at Barrick and was most recently Chief Executive at Jaguar Mining, will work on a modest ‘starter’ option for a phased development plan, the company said.

Gold miners are increasingly doing “bite-sized” developments that carry less risk of budget disasters and fewer of the political and environmental disputes that have derailed mega-mines in recent years.

Recent evaluation work indicates that a scalable underground mine plan at Lama may be the best option for a phased approach, Barrick said.

cont. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/barrick-focus-scaled-back-pascua-165149190.html

Looks like the writing may be on the wall. I expect them to either drip sell pm’s all day or try to create a waterfall right before the SM opens.

PM’s cannot be seen as a viable alternative on economic weakness

USD ripping higher now. As long as the SM is up it’s all good.

I lie….Scum just rammed it 100 pts plus…new hi for day and now slamming PM’s…

I dunno? We get a straight up lift off, but then seem to have trouble igniting those second stage booster rockets. You have been around awhile, remember those 30,40, even 50 dollar up days?

We just might have to have patience until the Equisetum Spring ?

Nice. Berry pizza. Who would have thought?

Not sure I trust this little pre-market pm bounce, I guess we’ll see.

She called this Pizza. I didnt have the heart to tell her any different. 🙂 Resembles dessert more than pizza. Maybe if you put a dab of ice cream on top ?

Those folks eat some strange stuff out there in California. I still aint got up the nerve to try something called Tofu. Maybe if they called it Pizza…?