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South Africa In Economic Breakdown: Zuma’s Grim Legacy In Charts – But His Friends Are Having Fun

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Jacob Zuma South Africans have become accustomed to heaving a collective sigh of relief as ratings agencies continue to stave off a ratings downgrade. But, South Africa’s ratings have moved close to sub-investment grade with President Jacob Zuma at the helm, as the graphs below indicate. The rand’s value has declined steadily, too, with a few..
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The Truth And Lies Of Zuma’s SONA 2017

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Amidst unprecedented security measures, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma delivered his tenth State of the Nation Address on 9 February 2017. We fact-checked his speech. Claim: “To date, nearly 7 million households have been connected to the grid and now have electricity.” Verdict: Correct South Africa’s development indicators showed that 6,340,321 households had been connected..
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Gold Market Update – 1st Feb 2017

LONG TERM TREND                           BEARISHINTERMEDIATE TERM TREND             BEARISHSHORT TERM TREND                         BULLISHVERY SHORT TERM TREND                BULLISH Gold found support last week at 1180 and has..
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A MUST READ: Zuma’s Secret Blueprint For Total Power – Lily Gosam

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An ambitious plan to redraw provincial boundaries, control the treasury and conclude mega-deals to keep the ANC under Zuma control was hatched  * Lily Gosam is a pseudonym  INTRODUCTION In 2009 [president] Jacob Zuma secured the highest office in the land, in large part due to the composition of South Africa’s 1994 provincial map. And..
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Gold Market Update – 26 January 2017

LONG TERM TREND                            BEARISHINTERMEDIATE TERM TREND              BEARISHSHORT TERM TREND                          NEUTRAL/BULLISHVERY SHORT TERM TREND                  BEARISH After plunging over $200 following the election of President Trump (yes that’s a real thing!), gold has rebounded powerfully in 2017 in a very similar way to January..
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Cape Tours

CITY OF CAPE TOWN [HALF DAY] Let me show you this oldest city of South Africa at its most exciting. Discover its many peoples, their traditions and cultures. The origins of this beautiful place will unfold to you. As you explore with me in this short tour I will try to show you such places..
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Study Confirms What We Already Knew

The Performance of Options-Based Investment Strategies: Evidence for Individual Stocks During 2003–2013 Link to full paper Abstract Using data from January, 2003, through August, 2013, we examine the relative performance of options-based investment strategies versus a buy-and-hold strategy in the underlying stock. Specifically, using ten stocks widely held in 401(k) plans, we examine monthly returns..
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Introduction to Options: The Video

The video embedded below is several years old and the video quality could be better. However, it remains an excellent introduction to options and I’m offering the lesson to everyone (at no cost). I trust you will enjoy it. http://www.mdwoptions.com/Premium/freevideos/Beginners.mp4 The video is also on You-Tube The post Introduction to Options: The Video appeared first..
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Adjusting in Stages. The Reality.

Question (black font) and answer (blue font): Dear Mark, Hello Antonio Firstly hope everything is OK as you don’t write too frequently in the blog. I am writing much less these days, and most of that appears in my about.com column. Maybe you remember me Sure I remember you because throughout the years I have..
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Three Questions from a Reader

1. What’s your strategy on buying LEAPs options? In order to avoid time decay, when do you roll out if you have a long term view and would like to hold on the securities as long term investment? I guest the pros probably do it within at least 6 months of remaining time value? I..
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