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| Gold / Silver | 61.99 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.77 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.04 |
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 | Frank Shostak |
 Drowning in a Liquidity Trap?  |
| Bruce Bartlett recently lamented in The New York Times that given the current state of economic affairs we need more Keynesian medicine to fix the
US economy. According to Bartlett, the core insight of Keynesian economics is that there are very special economic circumstances in which the general rules
of economics don’t apply and are in fact counterproductive. This happens when interest rates and inflation rates are so low that monetary policy becomes
impotent; an increase in the money supply haSaturday, May 25, 2013 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
YOU ARE CRAZY: New Psychiatric Guidelines Target Hoarding, Child Temper Tantrums, and a  |
| It’s not a stretch to suggest that Americans are over medicated. In 2011 doctors across the nation wrote an astounding four billion medical prescriptions, amounting to an average of 13 prescriptions for every man, woman and child in the United States.
In the next few weeks the American Psychiatric Associations is releasing their updated fifth version their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5); the so-called ‘bible’ of psychiatric diagnoses. The new manual promises to taFriday, May 24, 2013 |
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 | Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Net Asset Value Premiums of Certain Precious Metal Trusts and Funds - Rehypothecation Ponzi |
| Thin premiums remain the order of the day for the gold and silver holding trusts and funds.
Citi analyst Tom Fitzpatrick sees gold appreciating $2,000+ from here. I think quite a bit of that sort of move could happen more quickly than most might imagine.
I think quite a bit of this recent gold action is taking place on the public stage, but is being driven by private talks amongst the monetary powers that be.
There should be little doubt that a replacement for the US dollar reserve currencyFriday, May 24, 2013 |
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 | Chris Martenson |
Four Signs That We're Back in Dangerous Bubble Territory  |
| As the global equity and bond markets grind ever higher, abundant signs exist that we are once again living through an asset bubble – or rather a whole series of bubbles in a variety of markets. This makes this period quite interesting, but also quite dangerous.
With equity and bond markets at or near all-time record highs, with all financial assets consistently shrugging off bad – or worse – news as the riskiest of assets continue to find consistent upward bids, we find ourselves in familiar anThursday, May 23, 2013 |
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 | Rick Ackerman |
| Shorting the Top of Yesterday’s Wilding Spree |
| Today’s list of trading “touts” includes tracking guidance for three new positions initiated yesterday. First was a short in the Diamonds (DIA) based on a 155.30 rally target that had been posted on May 8, when the DJIA itself was trading 600 points lower. Our ‘Hidden Pivot’ caught yesterday’s high within 16 cents, just in time to enjoy a subsequent 2% plunge to 152.40. The equivalent reversal in the Dow Industrials, which had risen sharply while Bernanke blathered away on Capitol Hill, amountedThursday, May 23, 2013 |
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| Rick Ackerman |
| Shorting into Yesterday’s Wilding Spree |
| Today’s list of trading “touts” includes tracking guidance for three new positions initiated yesterday. First was a short in the Diamonds (DIA) based on a 155.30 rally target that had been posted on May 8, when the DJIA itself was trading 600 points lower. Our ‘Hidden Pivot’ caught yesterday’s high within 16 cents, just in time to enjoy a subsequent 2% plunge to 152.40. The equivalent reversal in the Dow Industrials, which had risen sharply while Bernanke blathered away on Capitol Hill, amountedThursday, May 23, 2013 |
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 | JS Kim - Smart Knowledge U |
| Indisputable Proof Paper Gold Markets are Massively Manipulated |
| What would you think if someone told you the following?"Three times this week, I am going to tell you the low price of gold with near perfect accuracy, and one of those three times, I am going to tell you events that will precede the low and the exact time that gold prices will crash."You would likely conclude that either:(1) I am somehow directly involved in setting the price of gold in paper derivative markets, or(2) that since nearly perfectly predicting gold price movements three times in onTuesday, May 21, 2013 |
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 | Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
| The Federal Reserve Treasure, or Relic? |
| Many would argue that the Federal Reserve is the mainstay of the American economy—that without a Federal Reserve, the nation’s finances would spin out of control and create massive global instability. Supporters of the Federal Reserve system believe prosperity requires prices to be altered by congressionally authorized monopoly—enforced by the Legal Tender law.
U.S. Founding Father Thomas Paine on legal tender:
As to paper money, in any light it can be viewed, it is at best a bubble.
If anMonday, May 20, 2013 |
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 | Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster |
| Gold & Silver Market Morning |
| Gold Today - The gold price closed at $1,425.4 down $6 in New York yesterday.In Asia, gold weakened to $1,413 then in London it Fixed at $1,412.25 down $24.25 on yesterday and in the euro at ?1,094.513 down ?9, while the euro was much weaker at ?1: $1.2903. It then quickly fell to ?1: $1.2883. Ahead of New York's opening it stood at $1,411.55 and in the euro at ?1,095.67.Silver Today - Silver closed at $23.36, in New York yesterday down 24 cents. Ahead of New York's opening silver stood at $23.0Wednesday, May 15, 2013 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
| No Mo' PoMo? |
| Whenever the Federal Reserve wants to tweak the dials of the economy -- or pretend that it can -- it turns first to its sock puppet at The Wall Street Journal, John Hilsenrath, and "leaks" a rumor of policy change (here). They like to do this late on Fridays when financial markets are about to close, so that market players will have a whole weekend to ponder the Fed's actions like medieval viziers reading goat entrails. Last Friday's puddle of steaming guts was a supposed preview of the Fed'Monday, May 13, 2013 |
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| Rick Ackerman |
| Microsoft’s Slow Death |
| I spent three hours online Friday with the Geek Squad’s best and brightest, attempting without success to fix two seemingly minor problems in Microsoft Outlook. The first is that Outlook has been forgetting the password every time it checks my e-mail server. This problem has been intermittent over the more than ten years I’ve used Outlook, a nettlesome glitch that has survived all versions, updates and security patches. Although there are thousands of web pages that purport to deal with the issuMonday, May 13, 2013 |
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| Really Real Rates vs. Gold |
| Quantitative easing and zero rates haven't worked. So let's have much more of 'em, eh...?GOLDattracts investment capital when other asset classes fail to deliver.So now equities have clearly regained their appeal after more than a decade of what finance professionals would rather we called "sub-optimal" returns, gold investing has lost its urgency for money managers. Indeed, it's become a neat little "short" to trade against whilst picking the next winner in the S&P's all-time high dash.More telMonday, May 13, 2013 |
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 | Chris Ciovacco - Ciovacco Capital Management |
| Stocks Could Continue Surprising Ascent |
| Stocks Break Above Twelve Year Base
The market's recent shift back into economically sensitive assets tells us
stocks could continue their surprising march higher despite the ongoing calls
for "sell in May". As shown in the chart below, the S&P 500 made no progress
during the last twelve years. The "no progress" pattern was recently broken,
which could lead to head-scratching gains in the months ahead.
Market Has Responded To Economic Data
The financial markets were pleased with the Monday, May 13, 2013 |
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 | Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital |
| Symptoms Don't Lie |
| A good doctor will not simply make a diagnosis based on measurements. The symptoms and complaints expressed by the patient are at least as important in making a determination as the data provided by diagnostic tools. When the data says one thing and the symptoms continuously say another, it makes sense to question the reliability of the instruments. This would be particularly true if the instruments are furnished by a party with a stake in a favorable diagnosis, say an insurance company on the hFriday, May 10, 2013 |
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 | Toby Connor - Gold Scents |
| Euphoria Phase Turns into the Parabolic Phase |
| The euphoria phase of the bull market that I warned about months ago is now beginning its final parabolic phase. I'm guessing we still have another month to month and a half before this runaway move finally ends. Depending on how far above the 200 day moving average it ends up stretching, I think there's a pretty good chance we will see the entire intermediate rally wiped out in a matter of days or even hours when this house of cards finally comes tumbling down. That is how these runaway moves tThursday, May 09, 2013 |
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 | Darryl Robert Schoon - Survive the Crisis |
| Gold - Who's selling who's buying who's lying |
| Although the Pharisees of paper money successfully forced down the price of gold, like those who lobbied Pontius Pilate to crucify Jesus, the consequences of their actions will backfire beyond their wildest imagination.The decision of the paper money cabal to force down the price of gold is akin to Japan's decision to attack Pearl Harbor. Although the attack was successful, the eventual consequences were not what Japan had envisioned.Recently, an article, The Gold Correction: What's the Big DealThursday, May 09, 2013 |
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 | Graham Summers - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Could We Be Heading For Another 2008 Type Collapse |
| The media is jumping for joy over last week's US jobs numbers. But beneath the veneer of headline numbers lies a truly horrible economic reality.Let's have a look at the two key economies for the world: China and the US.For starters, China's recent economic data, as massaged as it is to the upside, is downright awful. China's PMI numbers were the worst in two years. Staffing levels in the Chinese service sector decreased for the first time since January 2009 (remember that year).China's LEI alsoWednesday, May 08, 2013 |
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