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| Gold / Silver | 63.98 |
| Gold / Oil | 13.79 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.36 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Gold's strange 'bear market': Deutsche Bank opens gold vault in Singapore |
| By Clementine Wallop
The Wall Street Journal
Sunday, June 9, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732384480457853087228308732...
SINGAPORE -- Deutsche Bank is opening a vault in Singapore that can hold $9 billion of gold, as it hopes to tap rising demand for the precious metal in Asia amid a push by the city-state to burnish its image as a bullion-trading hub.
Singapore last year scrapped a goods-and-services tax on gold in a bid to help boost its share of global gold demand to 10-Monday, June 10, 2013 |
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 | Jesse - Le Café Américain |
 The Longer Term Fundamentals of the Gold Market As They Are Today |
| There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the fundamentals for world gold supply and demand have changed dramatically over the past ten years at least.
The world's central banks, most significantly in the West, had been selling bullion from their central bank reserves since 1989. The first chart below shows the long decline in the official gold reserves of the central banks through the long bear market from 1979 through 2000, and even in the beginning of the bull market.
There was an exMonday, June 03, 2013 |
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 | Bob Hoye - Institutional Advisors |
The General Theory of Authoritarianism  |
| Address to the Spring Dinner of the Committee for Monetary Research and Education
(cmre.org)
There are any number of names that can be used to describe the Administration's
policies. However, in this polite assembly it is best to stay with what is
printable and ask the question about which description fits best?
It is hard to avoid terms that have become derogatory epithets. Liberal is
one, progressive-Democrat is another. And then there is communist, socialist,
fascist and corporatistFriday, May 31, 2013 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Belgian Central Bank Says 25 Tons Or 10% of Gold Reserves on Loan |
| Today’s AM fix was USD 1,379.00, EUR 1,067.42 and GBP 913.43 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,385.25, EUR 1,068.95 and GBP 917.81 per ounce.
Yesterday a national holiday was observed in both the United Kingdom and the USA.
Gold is lower in all major currencies except the yen which is under pressure today due to ‘Abenomics’ concerns and concerns of further yen debasement.
A firmer dollar and buoyant stock markets may be contributing to gold being under pressure.
Gold is being supported by coWednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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 | Jon Matonis - The Monetary Future |
| Bitcoin Comes To SWIFT |
| By Jon Matonis
Forbes
Monday, May 20, 2013
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/05/20/bitcoin-comes-to-swift/
Hosted at the palatial and temple-like SWIFT headquarters, this year’s TransConstellation Alumni conference
featured a mix of panel representatives from both “new” payment
approaches and “established” payment players. I was invited to represent
the new approach in an Oxford-style debate which I gladly accepted.
As the mecca for international payments, SWIFT
is situatedTuesday, May 28, 2013 |
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| Casey Research |
| The Resurgence of the Nuclear Reactor |
| In August 1956, the Calder Hall Power Plant in Seascale, England began generating electricity and earned the distinction of being the world's first commercial nuclear power plant. It was a humble beginning for nuclear power; the plant only had a 50-megawatt (MW) output capacity, whereas the smallest US plant today has a 478 MW capacity. Nonetheless, Calder Hall represented the launch of a new era in energy that promised to bring electricity too cheap to meter.
But early on, the promising powerMonday, May 20, 2013 |
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| Jesse - Le Café Américain |
 Marking the Field: US Stated Gold Reserves and Gold Held at the Fed - World Gold and Gold Swaps |
| The US Treasury says that it holds 261,499,000 fine troy ounces in its international reserves.
The gold is valued on the books at $42.2222 per fine troy ounce. This represents a total value of $11,041,063,078.
Since there are 32,150.7466 troy ounces in a tonne, the US Treasury has 8,133.53 tonnes of fine gold on its books. Note that the number as presented on a copy of the official US Treasury statement shown below includes 'gold swaps.'
A discussion of the procedures and nature of goldMonday, May 20, 2013 |
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 | Charleston Voice |
| The Real Face of the European Union - Traitors Within Your Gates - YouTube |
| Individual liberties and sovereignties can only be reclaimed by driving out your collaborative puppet politicians from your country's leadership. America's day to do the same will come and be too late for the masses here. There is no one left to come to your aid this time. Our enemies could never quell the patriot groups rebelling all at once. This was seen in the Greek resistance of WWII.
The Banking/Political oligarchy's goal is to become a NWO with patient gradualism - the same strategy implThursday, April 25, 2013 |
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| Casey Research |
| How to Prove Benjamin Franklin Wrong About Taxes |
| "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
– Benjamin Franklin
In most cases, Mr. Franklin's statement would be correct. However, as you will see below, there are some countries in the world where you can be certain you won't pay taxes.
With the year 2013 marking the 100th anniversary of the income tax and the Federal Reserve in the US (two of the most powerful tools the government uses to extract wealth), I thought it would be useful to look at when Tax Freedom Day occurs across the world to gain some perspective.Tuesday, April 16, 2013 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Sharp Deterioration in French Manufacturing; Hollande Orders Employers to Pay 75% Tax; T |
| As expected, economic news in France continues to worsen. The Markit France Manufacturing PMI final data French manufacturing sector operating conditions continue to deteriorate at marked pace.
Key points:
PMI remains indicative of sharp downturn despite rising to three-month high
Output, new orders and employment fall further
Prices charged cut at fastest rate since November 2009
Summary:
Operating conditions in the French manufacturing sector continued to worsen in March. Although the hThursday, April 04, 2013 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Helicopter QE will never be reversed |
| By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/997029...
Readers of the Daily Telegraph were right all along. Quantitative easing will never be reversed. It is not liquidity management as claimed so vehemently at the outset. It really is the same as printing money.
Columbia Professor Michael Woodford, the world's most closely followed monetary theorist, says it is time to come clean and state openly thaThursday, April 04, 2013 |
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| Charleston Voice |
| UPDATED: Club Of Rome and The ... |
| Burning down our theater so they can yell "FIRE! FIRE!" panicking the world, so they can be trusted to take total control of our lives...
BREAKING!! Australian Politician Ann Bressington Exposes Agenda 21 and New World Order! [if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 Sunday, March 31, 2013 |
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 | Gustave de Molinari |
| On « Ulcerous government” |
| By the very fact of their anti-economic constitution, governments have become the ulcers of societies (“les ulcères des sociétés”), to use the strong expression coined by J.B. Say. As population and wealth increase, thanks to the progressive development [531] of competitive industries, a growing mass of vital energy is sucked out of society by the suction pump which are taxes and debts, in order to subsidise the costs of production of public services, or to put it in a better way, to subsidise the support and easy enrichment of the particular class which controls the monopoly of the production of these services.Thursday, March 28, 2013 |
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 | Tom DiLorenzo |
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850): Between the French and Marginalist Revolutions  |
| CLAUDE FREDERIC BASTIAT was a French economist, legislator, and writer who championed private property, free markets, and limited government. Perhaps the main underlying theme ofBastiat's writings was that the free market was inherently a source of "economic harmony" among individuals, as long as government was restricted to the function of protecting the lives, liberties, and property of citizens from theft or aggression.Monday, March 18, 2013 |
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