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| RATIOS & INDEXES |
| Gold / Silver | 61.67 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.26 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.18 |
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 | Michael Pento - Delta Global Advisors |
| Why Tepper Should Fear the Taper |
| Billionaire hedge fund manager, David Tepper, made news this week when he
emphatically stated that investors have nothing at all to fear regarding the
eventual tapering off of Fed's $85 billion worth of monthly debt monetization.
His assertions were based on the fact that our annual deficit is shrinking
and would thus require less of Bernanke's money printing.
Besides the fact that the deficit for fiscal 2013 will still be about $500
billion higher than it was before the Great RecWednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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 | Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster |
| Gold & Silver Market Morning |
| Gold Today - The gold price continues to consolidate below $1,400 in New York around $1,376. In Asia and early London the gold price was lifted above $1,385 to Fix in London's morning at $1,385.25 up $6.50 and in the euro at ?1,071.429 up ?1.2, while the euro was slightly changed at ?1: $1.2929 slightly stronger.Ahead of New York's opening it stood at $1,386.40 and in the euro at ?1,072.40. Silver Today - Silver closed at $22.43, in New York yesterday. Ahead of New York's opening silver stood atWednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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 | Goldmoney |
| Fed exit strategy: the mother of all head fakes |
| “Exit strategy” is the current buzz phrase among market watchers, with the dollar rallying in recent days and weeks on expectations that all is well with the US economy again, and that the Fed can now start thinking about ways of selling assets and “exiting” from its current commitment to perpetual quantitative easing.
Given this growing narrative and the fact that US stocks continue to race higher, gold and silver remain under pressure – with a “sell the rallies” mentality continuing to predWednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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 | Axel Merk - Merk Fund |
| Crash Proof Your Portfolio |
| With the stock market seemingly reaching new highs every day, should we worry about a crash that puts an end to the party? If so, how should investors prepare? Let us explain. Golden canaries in the coalmine?In the 1980s, portfolio insurance was all the rage. The idea was that one could always buy stocks, as derivatives could protect one's portfolio on the downside. However, things turned from bad to worse in 1987 when the linkage between stocks and commoditiesWednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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 | Clive Maund |
 Gold Market Update  |
| For those of you who are short of time and are accustomed to scrolling down to the bottom of an article to read its conclusions I'm going to save you the trouble by putting the conclusions at the start: the broad US stock markets are approaching a parabolic blow off top and should be sold, and gold and silver are bottoming and should be bought. If you have fallen to the floor laughing at this suggestion it is a sign that you have been brainwashed by The Ministry of Disinformation and you are warWednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
 Hyperinflation or Hyperdeflation?  |
| The reason why QTM fails is that money is not one-dimensional. It is in fact two-dimensional. Quantity is one, and the velocity of circulation is the other dimension. Central banks control the former, and the market firmly controls the latter. As long as fair weather lasts, velocity may be ignored. But as soon as the weather grows foul, velocity returns with a vengeance. If it increases, we talk about inflation. If it decreases, we talk about deflation. In the extremeWednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
 Who paid for the Civil War ? |
| When war broke out in 1861, the federal government was without its own money machine, though that would soon change. As expenses from the war mounted, the U.S. government once again issued Treasury Notes to help finance it. The Act of July 17, 1861 authorized Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase to issue notes at 7.Wednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Abenomics in Review: Yen, Inflation, Exports, Imports |
| With the Yen collapsing vs. all other currencies, inquiring minds may be wondering how prime minister Shinzo Abe's inflation policy is working out in practice. Let's start with a look at the Yen.
Yen Daily Chart for One Year
In the last year, the Yen has fallen from 124.79 to 97.56. That is a decline of 21.82%. Recall that Abe's policy is an attempt to raise inflation and spur exports.
Japan Still in Deflation
On May 19, Reuters reported Japan's Amari: core core CPI showing signs of turnWednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Keth Weiner |
| The Dollar is Going Up |
| Let's take a look at a few graphs of the dollar, from Feb 1, 2013 through
Friday May 17, 2013. Yes, I said graphs of the dollar. I've priced the dollar
in gold first (of course), then silver, the euro, and even the yen. The pattern
is obvious. The dollar is going up.
I did not show copper, lumber, or wheat though they show the same trend. These
commodities are not money, of course.
My point is simple. It's not gold that is going anywhere. In past articles,
I've used the analoWednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Silver Recoups Sharp Loss And Rises 2% On Record Volume |
| Today’s AM fix was USD 1,378.75, EUR 1,070.21 and GBP 908.39 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,353.75, EUR 1,051.95 and GBP 890.86 per ounce.
Gold climbed $19.40 or 1.43% yesterday to $1,384.30/oz and silver finished 2% higher.
Silver’s recovery yesterday from being 10% lower at one stage to recouping these losses and then rising over 2% was very positive technically. The key reversal is leading some to postulate that we may have seen the bottom or are close to a bottom.
Spot Silver Tuesday, May 21, 2013 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| What Is California Attempting to Hide? |
| An interesting article on a recently passed law in California came my way today regarding Obamacare secrecy in California.
Please consider California exchange granted secrecy.
A California law that created an agency to oversee national health care reforms granted it broad authority to conceal spending on the contractors that will perform most of its functions, potentially shielding the public from seeing how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent.
The degree of secrecy afforded Covered CaTuesday, May 21, 2013 |
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 | Dan Dontrose - The Fundamental View |
 My Challenge To “Whistleblower” Andrew Maguire  |
| Readers of my blog have known for quite some time now that I grew increasingly agitated with the charlatans pumping the gold and silver price suppression memes over two years ago and have been quite vocal about it on many occasions. I want to be clear about this point before I continue. My beef isn’t with people who buy gold and silver or who feel that a portion of their portfolio should be devoted to gold or silver ownership. My beef isn’t with people that make well thought out arguments forTuesday, May 21, 2013 |
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 | Martin Masse - Le Quebecois libre |
| Phone-y competition in Canada's wireless sector |
| Nobody should be surprised to have learned in recent days that three
of Canada’s small wireless companies – Wind Mobile, Mobilicity and
Public Mobile – are now for sale and may soon disappear as
independent players. The federal government’s attempts at
artificially creating more competition in this market were never
based on a realistic assessment of the Canadian market, or on sound
economic theory.
It all started in 2008, when Ottawa set aside for new wireless
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Fresh Plunge in Precious Metals "Natural" as Bearish Money Managers Hold "Upper Hand" Ov |
| WHOLESALE PRICESforgold and silver rallied from a fresh plunge in early London dealing on Monday,rising to stand unchanged and 2.3% lower respectively from the end of lastweek's trade by lunchtime.Asian stock markets closed sharply higher, even as the Japanese Yen reversedFriday's drop to new 4-year lows against the US Dollar.Commodities ticked lower as did major government bonds. Silver prices todaytouched the lowest level in 44 months, dropping within 25¢ of $20 per ounce.This morning London'sMonday, May 20, 2013 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Obamacare Premiums 47% Higher But Deductibles 27% Lower Than Grandfathered Health Plans; Obamacare L |
| Here's the question of the day: If you have a choice (and you many not for long because companies are abandoning grandfathered plans) Should you skip Obamacare and keep your old plan?
Any policy in place on March 23, 2010, the day health reform was enacted, falls under the grandfather exemption. As the Obama administration put it, if you like your plan, your doctor or both, you can keep them. Last year some 60 percent of employers, large and small, offered at least one grandfathered plan duriMonday, May 20, 2013 |
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