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| Sprott Money |
| Death Valley Snowballs and Fiat Currencies - Gary Christenson |
| Keep it simple!
Snowballs have a short life expectancy in Death Valley.
Fiat currencies, backed by credit and debt, survive longer than
snowballs in Death Valley, but history shows all fiat currencies are
inflated into worthlessness and eventually die.
“U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply.”
Ben Bernanke on November 21, 2002. But we know the supply of dollars
has grown rapidly since 1971, and especially after the 2008 crisis while
BernaThursday, February 18, 2021 |
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 | Nick Barisheff - BMSINC |
 August 15, 1971: Inflation Unleashed  |
| The general public, the media and most financial observers were largely unaware of the momentous event that took place on August 15, 1971. However, the implications of that event have had an enormous impact on global financial conditions ever since. On that date, US President Richard Nixon “closed the gold window”. In essence, this meant the US would no longer honour the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944, whichSaturday, August 15, 2020 |
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 | Tim Iacono - Iacono Research |
Inside the New York Fed’s Gold Vault  |
| National Geographic goes to 33 Liberty Street in New York City to visit the Federal Reserve’s gold vault, home to about one-quarter of the world’s gold. Beginning at about the 3 minute mark, you get to see what one tonne of gold looks like, another reminder of just how dense the metal is.
About half-way through this segment, they visit the New York gold district and then they begin a discussion of the current monetary system with this:
All that money used to be backed by gold, but not any moreSunday, June 7, 2020 |
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 | FoFOA |
| All Paper is STILL a short position on gold |
| The gold derivatives pyramid is a vigorous free market creature. It cannot be put down with a simple declaration that the paper is no longer redeemable in gold, as governments did with currency. It is a short selling scheme that has become a trap from which few short sellers will escapeFriday, April 17, 2020 |
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| Inflation and human nature |
| "...Scrabbling in the earth for a fresh source of cash, the gold & silver miners of 13th century Europe proved that the money supply never simply increases as if by magic..."Thursday, March 19, 2020 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| 2019: The Beginning Of The End (Free Premium Report) |
| Now that it’s 2019, we’re going to start the new year here at Peak Prosperity by responding to the wishes of our premium subscribers and making our most recent premium report free to everyone.
For those unfamiliar with our work, it’s based on the idea that humanity is hurtling towards a disaster of our own making. Several powerful and unsustainable trends Monday, January 14, 2019 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| How Will Gold Prices Behave During The Next Economic Crisis |
| This report was originally published by Brandon Smith at Alt-Market.com
It is generally well known in economic circles and in the general public that precious metals, including gold, tend to be the go-to investment during times of fiscal uncertainty. There is a good reason for this. Precious metals have foundation qualities that provide trade stability; these include inherent rarity (rather than artificially engineered rarity such as that associated with cryptocurrencies), tangibility (you can Tuesday, March 13, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Is Gold Worth More Or Less Than Its $1900 High In 2011 |
| One of the challenges with investing in precious metals is that there is so much distortion in the market that figuring out a true fair value is not always the easiest thing to do. Yet there are clues investors can look at that indicate that when the price starts to move, it won’t be by a small amount.
Back in 2011 I was still working as an equity options trader on the New York Stock Exchange, and was about two years into my studies of the precious metals market. Following the collapse of the suFriday, March 9, 2018 |
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 | Stewart Thomson - Graceland Update |
| Gold's Golden Week |
| I’ve noted that when China’s markets go quiet during the “Golden Week” holiday, the gold price tends to soften.
This is the key gold chart. Price softness is expected during this holiday, and the good news is that it is occurring on very light volume.
The bears would argue there’s a small double top in play, while the bulls have an inverse head and shoulders bottom pattern on their team. A bull flag pattern may also have formed.
I’ve told investors to expect a substantial battle between theTuesday, February 20, 2018 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Trouble In The Stock Market |
| In the past two weeks the tone of the stock market has changed considerably. Quickly gone are the days where the stock market is only expected to go up, as many have become concerned after several days of sizable declines.
Whether this is the beginning of a bigger crash that so many in the Austrian community have forecast for years, or just another alarm to which Wall Street hits the snooze button remains to be seen. Yet it certainly is interesting to see just how quickly sentiment has changed.
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| When will the next credit crisis occur |
| The timing of any credit crisis is set by the rate at which the credit cycle progresses. People don’t think in terms of the credit cycle, wrongly believing it is a business cycle. The distinction is important, because a business cycle by its name suggests it emanates from business. In other words, the cycle of growth and recessions is due to instability in the private sector and this is generally believed by state planners and central bankers.This is untrue, because cycles of business activity hSunday, February 11, 2018 |
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 | Chris Martenson |
| It's Looking A Lot Like 2008 Now... |
| Economic and market conditions are eerily like they were in late 2007/early 2008.
Remember back then? Everything was going great.
Home prices were soaring. Jobs were plentiful.
The great cultural marketing machine was busy proclaiming that a new era of permanent prosperity had dawned, thanks to the steady leadership of Alan Greenspan and later Ben Bernanke.
And only a small cadre of cranks, like me, was singing a different tune; warning instead that a painful reckoning in our financial system wTuesday, February 6, 2018 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Stock Ownership Rate Plunges as Credit Card Debt Soars |
| The savings rate is at a 12-year low. Revolving credit is at a record high and the stock ownership rate has plunged.
Stock Ownership Rate Collapses
One way to support consumption is to sell your stocks. Many did just that.
A May 2017 Gallup survey shows U.S. Stock Ownership Down Among All but Older, Higher-Income.
Here's the Gallup question: Do you, personally, or jointly with a spouse, have any money invested in the stock market right now -- either in an individual stock, a stock market fund, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 |
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 | Deepcaster |
| Profiting in 2018 (Part 2) |
| DEEPCASTER LLCFORTRESS ASSETS PORTFOLIO | LETTERS, ALERTS & ARTICLESHIGH POTENTIAL SPECULATOR | HIGH YIELD PORTFOLIOPreserve & Enhance WealthInvestment & Geopolitical IntelligenceUnfortunately, as we demonstrated in Part 1 and further demonstrate below, the underlying Economic Reality was and still is that the Economy is not healthy and not recovering which is obvious when one looks at the Real Numbers per Shadowstats.com (Note 1) rather than the Bogus Official Ones.So, our focus in this Part2 iThursday, January 25, 2018 |
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 | Michael Ballanger |
| Never Underestimate the Replacement Power of Equities Within a (HYPER) Inflationary Spiral |
| Before I launch into one of my classic, bitter, vitriolic diatribes against all forms of modern-day interventionalist-type, fraudulent excuses for what use to be "free markets," have a gander at the chart below. Pay particular attention to the smiles on all of those beaming faces. . .
Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, sidekick Hank Paulson, "Rescue Queen" Janet Yellen, and finally Donald "the Swamp Filler" Trump have all conspired and colluded to ensure that the world has perennially rising stockFriday, January 19, 2018 |
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 | Lew Rockwell |
| The Fed Friends A transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show episode 001 with Lew Rockwell |
| by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Listen to the podcast
ANNOUNCER: This is the Lew Rockwell Show.
ROCKWELL: Welcome to the first LRC podcast. I want to thank producer, Chris Brunner, and announcer, Harvey Gold, for helping get this enterprise on the road.
Today, I’m not going to talk about Bush’s and Cheney’s rotten wars of aggression already going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, covertly going on against Iran. And they, of course, want to start a full-fledged open war against Iran. I’m not going to talMonday, January 8, 2018 |
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| Michael Ballanger |
| Melt-up, Up, and Away |
| While the moniker for this missive is "Gold and Gold Miners," I just sit back in absolute AWE as the global equity investors (otherwise known as "Stock jockeys") have decided that "cash is TRASH!" and despite a massive "miss" in the employment numbers this morning, within seconds of the release, the spin doctors manning the equity trading desks deemed that number "bullish" because it is less inflationary and may cause the Fed to "pause." So dollar-yen rallies, the USD index has a minor pop, goldSunday, January 7, 2018 |
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 | Rory Hall - The Daily coin |
| A Golden Anchor for the Dollar |
| Dr Warren Coats, former Chief of the SDR with the title Assistant Director of the Monetary and Financial Systems Department at the IMF penned an article on a return to the gold standard in 2013 – A Hard Anchor for the Dollar. Not a classic gold standard, but an “updated version” of a gold standard that would allow for entities like the IMF, World Bank and BIS to stay involved and be part of the global banking system. This would allow these global banks to continue dictating monetary policy and cTuesday, January 2, 2018 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Bubble Watch: The Fed KNOWS We're in a 1999-Type Mania... |
| The Fed raised rates another 0.25% the week before last.
This marks the 5th rate hike since the Fed embarked on its policy tightening in December 2015 and the fourth rate hike in the last 12 months. The Fed’s latest statement also indicates it plans on raising rates three more times in 2018.
It is easy to gloss over the significance of this, but the Fed’s actions are indeed unusual; other major Central Banks (the Swiss National Bank, Bank of Japan, European Central Bank and Bank of England) are Wednesday, December 27, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| If Stock Market Investors Panic, What Could Happen To The Price Of Silver |
| While it’s becoming more well known by the day that gold and silver are being manipulated lower due to paper short-selling, many still wonder what will be the spark to change current market dynamics. Today let’s consider the stock market, and how even a small reallocation into silver could send the price soaring.
Recently thestreet.com reported that, “Bloomberg’s World Exchange Market Capitalization index pegs global equity values at a record $76.3 trillion, a tally that tops the $75.3 trillion Friday, December 22, 2017 |
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