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| Gold / Silver | 61.99 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.77 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.04 |
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 | Ranting Andy - Miles Franklin |
| Defaults Defaults Everywhere |
| Read the Wednesday Afternoon Wrap-Up for 5/22/2013 and the Thursday Morning Commentary for 5/23/2013
There’s no surer sign of FRAUD than prices falling whilst supply is falling FASTER; and when it comes to PHYSICAL PMs, it should be painfully clear by now that the supply/demand balance is “tight as a drum” – for both silver…
“PEAK SILVER?”
…and gold; per last week’s RANT, “PHYSICAL VS. PAPER PMs – CASE CLOSED”…
However, even a term as ugly as “fraud” doesn’t do justice to what we have seen siThursday, May 23, 2013 |
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 | The Energy Report |
| Investors versus Traders: A Battle for Oil & Gas Profits |
| The Energy Report: Looking back to your last interview with The Energy Report in November, you seem to have called the bottom in gas prices correctly. What's your view of where things are headed now?Robert Cooper: We expect a reasonably robust pricing scenario ahead. Here's why: In 2013, we will likely see flat natural gas supply growth; this will be the first year in the last several that this will be the case. The natural gas rig count is at 350, the lowest since 1995. The declining rig count Tuesday, May 21, 2013 |
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 | Ron Paul |
 The IRS's Job Is To Violate Our Liberties  |
| "What do you expect when you target the President?" This is what an Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) agent allegedly said to the head of a conservative organization
that was being audited after calling for the impeachment of then-President
Clinton. Recent revelations that IRS agents gave "special scrutiny" to organizations
opposed to the current administration's policies suggest that many in the
IRS still believe harassing the President's opponents is part of their job.
As troublingSunday, May 19, 2013 |
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 | Bob Hoye - Institutional Advisors |
| The Greatest Garbage Market in History |
| Australian PMI plunged 7.7 points to 36.7, which is the lowest in 4 years.
"Automakers are giving subprime buyers the most long-term loans in
at least eight years."
"Asset-backed sales linked to auto-debt are surging".
- Bloomberg, May 1
"The Market CDX North American Investment Grade Index, aSaturday, May 18, 2013 |
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 | Ted Butler - Butler Research |
| The Worst Regulator Possible |
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Sticking with the theme of milestones, we’ve just crossed a few important anniversary dates that relate to silver that taken in proper perspective point to a disturbing conclusion. That conclusion is that the US commodities regulator,Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Self-Serving Recommendation of the Day: Visa Asks Spain to Lower Limit on Cash Transactions |
| Spain's underground economy is reportedly 19% of GDP. Is it? Who knows? Whatever it is, Visa has its eyes on transaction fees while holding a carrot in front of the Spanish government regarding more taxable income.
Via Mish-modified translation from Libre Mercado, please consider Visa recommends Spain further limit the use of cash transactions.
The black market economic activity is beyond the control of the Treasury, and is one of the major objectives of the government during the current crisWednesday, May 08, 2013 |
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 | Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - 'They Make a Desert, and Call It Peace' |
| "When in any country the small-farmer class is being squeezed off the land; when its labourers are slaves or serfs; when huge tracts are kept waste to minister to pleasure; when the shibboleth of art is on every man's lips, but ideas of true beauty in very few men's souls; when the business-sharper is the greatest man in the city, and lords it even in the law courts; when class-magistrates, bidding for high office, deal out justice according to the rank of the criminal; when exchanges are turnedTuesday, May 07, 2013 |
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| Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Holding the Line |
| Universal degeneracy of the Government, and decay of the nation
Everywhere Rome was failing in her duties as mistress of the civilised world. Her own internal degeneracy was faithfully reflected in the abnegation of her imperial duties.
When in any country the small-farmer class is being squeezed off the land; when its labourers are slaves or serfs; when huge tracts are kept waste to minister to pleasure; when the shibboleth of art is on every man's lips, but ideas of true beauty in very fTuesday, May 07, 2013 |
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 | John Rubino - Dollar Collapse |
 As Trust Evaporates... |
| Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi has once again put the world's major hard news
organizations to shame by describing, in comprehensible terms, the pervasive
corruption at the heart of the financial system. Below are his concluding
paragraphs from a much larger article that everyone with money at risk in
a bank, brokerage account or business should read in its entirety.
Everything
Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
After scandals involving libor and, perMonday, May 06, 2013 |
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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
Would you watch a movie about a counterfeiting cartel?  |
| One of the biggest strangleholds on our freedom is the money and banking system we’re forced to endure. I wrote a novel about it in 2008. It’s good, especially for a first novel, but good isn’t good enough. It doesn’t have the broad appeal I wanted. It steps hard on some cherished postulates such as the legitimacy of U.S. entry into World War I. It was supposed to be the war to end all wars, not an expedient to save Morgan’s investments.
World War I was a classic example of the wealth traSaturday, May 04, 2013 |
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 | Jon Matonis - The Monetary Future |
| Bitcoin and the Rebirth of Financial Safe Havens |
| Like never before, financial privacy and safe havens are under attack the world over.
Banks and even entire jurisdictions are feverishly responding to
increased government scrutiny from the world's monetary power centers in
the name of exposing political corruption, combating terrorism, and
preventing tax evasion.
Full financial tWednesday, May 01, 2013 |
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 | Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
 America's Ruling Troika |
| Who rules America today? Not the people; they have been vanquished. America is ruled today by a collectivist Troika - an Executive-Congressional Combine, Judicial Oligarchs, and a Corporatist Banking Cartel - who have as much concern for the resplendent principles that formed our country as street pimps have for romance and love. How has this Troika come to possess its power over our lives? It has accrued its power by conveying endless privileges (handouts, subsidies, loans, quotas, monopolies,Wednesday, May 01, 2013 |
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 | Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter |
| Financial Treachery & Harsh Consequences |
| The most powerful element of the shift has been the movement of gold wealth from Western locations (New York, London, Switzerland) to Eastern locations (China, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong). Most residents of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Western Europe are in shock, constantly distracted by the sweeping disruptive events led by a) unstoppable government deficits, b) the powerful crumble of sovereign bonds, c) the ruinous insolvency of the banking systems, d) the relentless reign of tax terror, and e) the tragic decline of the underlying economiesWednesday, May 01, 2013 |
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| Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Is the Fed Setting Up the Mother of All Shorts? |
| The timing may be tricky, but such severe distortions in valuation as shown in the chart below can often set up special opportunities for investment profits when the eventual reversion to the mean, or norm, occurs.
I think it may be more difficult to trade on these sorts of sweeping macro changes now because of the pervasive corruption and insider operations in the markets which prey on the mispricing of risk and the calculated asymmetry of information. I am comparing this to my own investmentWednesday, May 01, 2013 |
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 | Captain Hook - Treasure Chest |
| Speculator Optimism Finally In Flush Mode |
| Lies, lies, lies - and propaganda - anything to get the stock market higher and keep the canaries contained. The powerful and plugged-in bankers and bureaucrats are having their way right now, but this will end abruptly at some point when building pressures in the system blow. These characters have us on a collision course with an increasingly unpalatable future the longer they continue jamming the status quo (think financial repression) down our throats. Increasingly desperate measures are requTuesday, April 30, 2013 |
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| Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
| Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America |
| "The United States has undergone a cultural, moral and religious revolution. A militant secularism has arisen in this country. It has always had a hold on the intellectual and academic elites, but in the 1960s it captured the young in the universities and the colleges.
"This is the basis of the great cultural war we're undergoing.... We are two countries now. We are two countries morally, culturally, socially, and theologically. Cultural wars do not lend themselves to peaceful co-eSunday, April 28, 2013 |
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| Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Post-Expiration Gut Check - Taibbi: Everything Is Rigged |
| From last night's gold and silver commentary:
Today was option expiration on the Comex and it was quiet. After the recent bloodbath I cannot imagine it would be otherwise. If I were of a manipulative mind I would hit the metals again hard tomorrow."
So what next? There will not be any halt to QE for the forseeable future.
Gold and silver are lightly owned. When they break out and the common person becomes more aware of what is going on, there will be a huge shift in buying to the upsSaturday, April 27, 2013 |
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 | Deepcaster |
| Profit, Protection, Despite Cartel Intervention ? April, 2013 Update |
| ?Then, when the Fed?s fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Street and that the threat of a Great Depression 2.0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree ofSaturday, April 27, 2013 |
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| Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Matt Taibbi: Everything Is Rigged |
| There are more scandals to come.
Rolling Stone
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
By Matt Taibbi
April 25, 2013
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled ouFriday, April 26, 2013 |
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| Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Big Commodity Trading Firms Took $250 Billion in Profit Since 2003 |
| This sort of outsized profit obtained from gaming the system is a tax on the real economy.
The price distortions they create disrupt legitimate business, and harm the ability of the economy to produce and distribute key resources.Thursday, April 25, 2013 |
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