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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| The Hungarian Connection |
| Gold is the most misunderstood metal in human history, because of the economists' failure to distinguish between its dynamic and static aspects in representing values. Economists have blithely assumed all along that the value of gold is the same whether it flows freely from one hand to the next, or whether the movement of gold is obstructed, in the worst case arrested, by the government (soon to be aped by banks and individualsSaturday, September 23, 2017 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Philippine dictator Marcos' gold bars: Fact or fiction? |
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By Gerry Lirio
ABS-CBN News, Quezon City, Philippines
Thursday, September 21, 2017
http://news.abs-cbn.com/focus/09/21/17/marcos-gold-bars-fact-or-fiction
MANILA -- By the late industrialist Enrique Zobel's recollections, former strongman Ferdinand Marcos left behind his widow, Imelda, and three children with a cache of gold bars that in 1989 was worth at least $35 billion.
Zobel disclosed the value of Marcos' gold bars in a 14-page sworn statement issued before the Senate Blue Ribbon CommFriday, September 22, 2017 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| The forthcoming global crisis |
| The global economy is now in an expansionary phase, with bank credit being increasingly available for non-financial borrowers. This is always the prelude to the crisis phase of the credit cycle.Most national economies are directly boosted by China, the important exception being America. This is confirmed by dollar weakness, which is expected to continue. The likely trigger for the crisis will be from the Eurozone, where the shift in monetary policy and the collapse in bond prices will be greatesThursday, September 21, 2017 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - |
| "The conventional wisdom seems to be that the problems of the euro zone are, as economist Martin Feldstein once put it, 'the inevitable consequence of imposing a single currency on a very heterogeneous group of countries.'
What this commentary gets wrong, however, is that single currencies are never the product of debates about optimal economic solutions. Instead, currencies like the U.S. dollar itself are the result of political battles, where motivated actors try to centralize power.
This hTuesday, September 19, 2017 |
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| Food for thought |
How to Get people into wars : Herman Goering  |
| Please recall whatReichsmarschall Hermann WilhelmGöring (his name is also spelled as Hermann Goering) Nazi founder of the Gestapo, Head of the Luftwaffe, said at the Nuremberg Trials.
Here is a clip of theinterview in Goering's cell in prison, after the war.
Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war.Saturday, September 16, 2017 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| UNPREDEDENTED GLOBAL RISK – NO ONE CARES |
| “Risk involves the chance an investment’s actual return will differ from the expected return. Risk includes the possibility of losing some or all of the original investment.” (Investopedia)
So there we have it. Risk means that you can lose part or all of the investment. Normally valuations take risk into account. But is the world really valuing the following risks accurately:
A very risky world
Wars
North Korea – South Korea – USA – Japan – China – Russia incl. nuclear war
Ukraine – USA – RussiSaturday, September 16, 2017 |
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 | Jan Skoyles - GoldCore |
| Gold Up, Markets Fatigued As War Talk Boils Over |
| North Korea threatens to reduce the U.S. to ‘ashes and darkness’
Markets becoming used to ongoing provocations from North Korea
Russia and China continue to support watered down versions of sanctions on Kim’s regime
Both NATO and Russia running war games on one another’s borders
Putin says Russia will “give a suitable response” to NATOs threatening behaviour
Gold set to climb as fears over economy and war will drive safe haven demand
Source: Bloomberg
This year North Korea has launched a dozen Friday, September 15, 2017 |
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 | Phoenix Capital - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Electricity YAY! |
| By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at
Britain to ban sale of all diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040
So says the Guardian.
Which follows on from:
France to ban sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2040
This follows Norway, The Netherlands, Germany and now - the big Daddy...
China plans to ban sales of fossil fuel cars entirely
China is the world’s largest auto market, with 28.03 million vehicles sold last year, a boost in demand of 13.7 percent vs. 2015 sales numbers. The nation has Friday, September 15, 2017 |
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 | Charleston Voice |
| Did Eisenhower Loot the Nazi Gold Treasures for his Bankster Handlers? |
| In early 1945, it became clear that the military situation of the city had become hopeless.
East of the Red Army was approaching rapidly, and from the air let the constant series of Allied bombing raids after no more. At 31 January 1945 suggested that the Minister of Finance, Ernst-Thursday, September 14, 2017 |
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 | John Butler - Goldmoney |
| The Golden Revolution, Revisited: Chapter 10 |
| This Insight continues the serial publication of the new, Revisited edition of my book, The Golden Revolution (John Wiley and Sons, 2012). (The first instalment can be found here.) The book is being published by Goldmoney and will also appear as a special series of Goldmoney Insights over the coming months. This instalment comprises the fifth chapter of Section II.View the Entire Research Piece as a PDF here.An Unstable Equilibrium“A Nash equilibrium is defined as a strategy combination with theWednesday, September 13, 2017 |
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| Charleston Voice |
| FOMC Minutes from 1967 Illuminating Central Bank Gold Price Suppression, Market Manipulations |
| The issue before us here is not so much the mechanics of deception, but the tenacity and conviction of the banking cartel to use any means to protect themselves.Sunday, September 10, 2017 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Jan Skoyles: Suspicion endures about Bundesbank's gold repatriation |
| GoldCore's Jan Skoyles today reviews the continuing suspicions around the German Bundesbank's repatriation of some of its gold from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She credits GATA and Germany's "Repatriate Our Gold" movement for causing the Bundesbank to feel a need to "build trust and confidence domestically." Skoyles' commentary is headlined "The Truth about Bundesbank Repatriation of Gold from U.S." and it's posted at GoldCore here:
http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/truth-bundesbankSaturday, September 9, 2017 |
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 | Jason Hamlin - Gold Stock Bull |
| Gold Distributes Wealth, Central Bank Fiat Concentrates It |
| The fruits of increased productivity used to be distributed across society. Everyone benefited as the economy became more productive, new technologies emerged and new industries were born. Prosperity spread across society as jobs were created, poverty was reduced and a robust and thriving middle class emerged in America.
Then came the 1970’s and something suddenly changed. Wages decoupled from productivity and workers no longer benefited from improvements in the economy. This trend has continuedThursday, September 7, 2017 |
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 | Michael J. Kosares - USA Gold |
| When the United States Owned Most of the Gold on Earth |
| Few Americans know that, just after World War II, the United States owned most of the gold bullion on earth – about 22,000 metric tonnes. In fact by 1945, it owned over 80% of the gold held by nation-states and central banks – an impressive display of economic power. Now it owns just over 8000 metric tonnes, which reprThursday, September 7, 2017 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
| The Forking Paradise |
| A month ago, we wrote about the bitcoin fork. We described the fork:
Picture a bank, the old-fashioned kind. Call it Acme (sorry, we watched too much Coyote and Road Runner growing up). A group of disgruntled employees leave. They take a copy of the book of accounts. They set up a new bank across the street, Wile E Bank. To win customers, they say if you had an account at Acme Bank, you now have an account at Wile, with the same balance!
This fork came about from a disagreement among the bitcoinThursday, September 7, 2017 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Trade Deficit Widens Slightly: China, EU, Japan Up, Mexico Down |
| The Census Bureau International Trade report shows that the goods and services deficit was $43.7 billion in July, up $0.1 billion from $43.5 billion in June, revised. July exports were $194.4 billion, $0.6 billion less than June exports. July imports were $238.1 billion, $0.4 billion less than June imports.
The country-specific details may have Trump howling. The Deficit widened with China, the EU, and Japan.
Trade Balance North America and Europe
Trade Balance Rest of World
Largest DeficitsWednesday, September 6, 2017 |
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| Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
 THERE JUST ISN’T ENOUGH GOLD |
| There are lies damned lies and Central Bank Gold statistics. Total official global gold holdings are reported to be 33,000 tonnes. That is 19% of all the gold ever produced in the world. But how can anyone ever believe any of these figures. Because no central bank ever has a public audit of all its gold holdings. Since the gold belongs to the people, they have the right to know if the gold actually exists, especially since the gold reserves are backing the currency.
Why is the US gold not auditeMonday, September 4, 2017 |
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 | Jeff Clark - Casey Research |
Does Gold Keep up in Hyperinflation ?  |
| Inflation is anatural consequence of loose government monetary policy. If those policies get too loose, hyperinflation can occur. As gold investors,we'd like to know if the precious metals would keep pace in this extreme scenario.
Hyperinflation is an extremely rapid period of inflation, but when does inflation (which can be manageable) cross the line and become out-of-control hyperinflation? PhilipCagan, one of the very first researchers of this phenomenon, defines hyperinflation as "an inflation rate of 50% or more in a single month, "something largely inconceivable to the average investor.Saturday, September 2, 2017 |
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| Jan Skoyles - |
| Gold Reset To $10,000/oz Coming “By January 1, 2018” – Rickards |
| – Trump could be planning a radical “reboot” of the U.S. dollar
– Currency reboot will see leading nations devalue their currencies against gold
– New gold price would be nearly 8 times higher at $10,000/oz
– Price based on mass exit of foreign governments and investors from the US Dollar
– US total debt now over $80 Trillion – $20T national debt and $60T consumer debt
– Monetary reboot or currency devaluation seen frequently – even modern history
– Buy gold eagles, silver eagles including monstFriday, September 1, 2017 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Huge World War II bomb being defused near German gold reserves |
| FRANKFURT, Germany -- Frankfurt's city center, an area including police headquarters, two hospitals, transport systems, and Germany's central bank storing $70 billion in gold reserves, will be evacuated on Sunday to allow the defusing of a 1.8-ton World War II bomb.
A spokesman for the German Bundesbank said "the usual security arrangements" will remain in place while experts work to disarm the bomb, dropped by the British air force and uncovered during excavation of a building site.
The BundesbFriday, September 1, 2017 |
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