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| RATIOS & INDEXES |
| Gold / Silver | 61.11 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.16 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.29 |
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 | Ranting Andy - Miles Franklin |
| Killer Tax! |
| Read the Tuesday Afternoon Wrap-Up for 5/14/2013 and the Wednesday Morning Commentary for 5/15/2013
In the Bizarro World we live in, the day is ruled – for now – by MONEY PRINTING, MARKET MANIPULATION, and PROPAGANDA. Thus, the gross capital misallocations caused by four decades of central planning are exponentially worsening; care of “record stock prices,” largely ignored by the media and public…
Does a strong market mean a recovering economy?
In other words, the BLARING SIRENS of warning haveWednesday, May 15, 2013 |
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| Ranting Andy - Miles Franklin |
| Debt Ceiling ‘Suspension’ Expires May 19th |
| Read the Monday Afternoon Wrap-Up for 5/13/2013 and the Tuesday Morning Commentary for 5/14/2013
The old saying is that “things don’t matter – until they do”; which is EXACTLY what we’re dealing with in regards to the soaring, parabolic debt growth the ENTIRE WORLD has endured since Nixon closed the “gold window” in August 1971. Think I’m exaggerating? Then feast your eyes on this!
For those that think such a TOWERING EDIFICE is sustainable, think of how much interest is required to service Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
The role of GLD and SLV  |
| In August 2011 I wrote to the Financial Services Authority to seek confirmation that the London-based custodians of SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) and iShares Silver Trust (SLV) were being regulated as custodians, despite the fact that physical bullion is not a regulated investment. After some chasing on my part I finally got a response, kicking my letter firmly into touch. The FSA accepted that the custodians (HSBC Bank USA NA for GLD and JP Morgan Chase Bank NA London Branch for SLV) were regulated, buMonday, May 13, 2013 |
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 | Axel Merk - Merk Fund |
| Currency Wars: Winners and Losers |
| Who is winning the "currency wars"? Our take on the greenback, yen, sterling, euro and gold: The U.S. dollar. All the great things a couple trillion dollars in quantitative easing can buy: The stock market is reaching new highs. Except that investors have a rather difficult time diversifying as stock prices are highly correlated to the perception of more quantitative easing. Or shall we say Bernanke's health? The average yield on US junk-rated debt falls below 5 per cent for the first time. ExceThursday, May 09, 2013 |
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| Ranting Andy - Miles Franklin |
| Reputations and Relationships |
| Read the Monday Afternoon Wrap-Up for 4/29/2013 and the Tuesday Morning Commentary for 4/30/2013
When I made my first PHYSICAL bullion purchase in 2008 – on eBay – I had no idea my life was about to change. Five years later, my lifelong connection with financial markets has been totally – and permanently – severed; and as Marketing Director of one of the nation’s largest bullion dealers, have devoted my life to PROTECTING others from oncoming, inevitable HYPERINFLATION.
Back then, I knew NOTHINWednesday, May 01, 2013 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
Report: Farmers Hoarding Food To Protect Against Currency Collapse  |
| Which asset is more secure than money in the bank?
The answer is simple.
It’s the asset that will still have value when the money or the bank collapse.
All over the world, when people have been faced with the prospect of having their savings wiped out or confiscated they have turned to hard assets – physical goods they could hold in their possession and trade if necessary – as protection.
Argentina, a country that is no stranger to economic hard times and hyperinflation, gives us a prime exampleTuesday, April 30, 2013 |
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 | Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| A Musing on the Market Correction in Gold |
| A Monday Morning Musing from Mickey the Mercenary GeologistContact@MercenaryGeologist.comApril 22, 2013?What, me worry?? - Alfred E. Neuman, 1956One of the influential media products of my rebellious teen-age youth (along with 007 and Playboy Magazine) was the irreverent social commentary provided by Mad magazine. After 57 years, Mad?s figurehead remains a goofy-looking, half-wit, pubescent boy who always maintains a sense of humor while the world collapses around him. His resolute ignorance isThursday, April 25, 2013 |
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 | Clive Maund |
 Gold Market Update |
| Failure of gold’s key support at $1500 - $1550 triggered a stunning plunge as masses of stops were triggered. We can see what happened on the 6-month chart below. The plunge was the most severe since 1980 and was accompanied by colossal record volume, which is strongly bearish. It quickly lead to gold becoming critically oversold and it bounced later in the week as cheerleaders advised their readers to buy this “opportunity of a lifetime”.Tuesday, April 23, 2013 |
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 | Edwin Vieira - GATA |
| Silver and Gold Guarantee Freedom |
| Silver and gold are not merely valuable commodities, investments, and media of exchange. More importantly, they are key "checks and balances" in America's legal and political institutions.
The fight against the use of silver and gold as money that has been waged by bankers and rogue politicians since the 1870s as to silver and the 1930s as to gold -- and will intensify as fiat currencies collapse throughout the world -- is ultimately directed against America's national independence, her constitutional government, and every common American's individual liberty and prosperity.Monday, April 22, 2013 |
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 | Doug Casey - Casey Research |
| The Gold Crash Is Not What Either Bulls or Bears Are Telling You |
| Is there anyone investors can trust for rational commentary on gold's recent price meltdown?
(Interviewed by Louis James, Editor,International Speculator)
L: Doug, the news of the week is the big meltdown in the gold market. Some people are saying the bear is here to stay, and it's time to sell everything gold-related and look for greener pastures elsewhere.Friday, April 19, 2013 |
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 | Gary Dorsch - SirChartsAlot |
| Shale Oil is a Big Game Changer for Dow-to-Gold Ratio |
| Financial history is marked with times when populations took collective leave
of their senses and succumbed to delusions of ever-expanding wealth. Times
of rampant speculation have been enthralled by the introduction of new technologies,
that are used to justify pumping-up market valuations, - not just for the
present, but also for the near future, and far over the horizon as well. Quite
often, the new found wealth is nothing more than a mirage. The wild enthusiasm
for the stocFriday, April 19, 2013 |
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 | Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| William K. Black On the US Financial System |
| “The U.S. banking system is absolutely primed for the next meltdown.
There is pervasive fraud at the most reputable banks.
The U.S. financial system is sick, and we still have the fundamental dynamic of a regulatory race to the bottom.”
This is from Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.Thursday, April 18, 2013 |
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 | Rick Ackerman |
| A Deflationist’s Perfect Storm? |
| Bullion prices adjusted violently to a new reality yesterday. Now, if we can only figure out what that reality is. From a deflationist’s point of view, it could have been landfall for the perfect storm we’d all been expecting. To wit, some important news stories roiling the waters in recent days: 1) China’s economy is weakening, putting enormous pressure on commodities and resource-based currencies; 2) U.S. output, employment and income appear to be falling as well; 3) Draghi evidently thinks tWednesday, April 17, 2013 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Crash Indicator: Mom and Pop Take the Plunge Back Into Stocks For Fear of “Being ... |
| Americans are scared.
Their concerns aren’t centered around the possibility of an economic collapse, another down leg in the real estate market, continued deterioration of the labor market, or a US dollar currency meltdown.
With markets at all time highs and financial experts around the world predicting a turn-around in the global economy, a lot of “Mom and Pop” investors who experienced major losses in personal investment funds and home prices during the crash of 2008 are starting to worry, butSaturday, April 13, 2013 |
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| Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Are All G20 Bank Depositors Exposed to a Cyprus Style Seizure of Deposits for a 'Bail-in |
| Dave from Golden Truth has let me know of an interesting quote from an article by Eric Sprott titled Caveat Depositor which *could* explain why countries like New Zealand and Canada are quietly tilting towards seizing bank deposits to recapitalize failed banks.
"If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be: ‘Ok, what are you the bank going to do about that? What can you do to recapitalise yourself?’ If the bank can’t do it, then we’ll talk to the shareholders and the bondholders.Saturday, April 13, 2013 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| BitCoin Down 50% In Massive Sell Off: Over $1 Billion Vaporized In a Few Hours |
| Just a few months ago the total net worth of all Bitcoins, a popular encrypted digital currency, was worth about $140 million. The non-tangible exchange mechanism is used by people all over the world to purchase everything from traditional goods and services, to illicit trade that may include drugs and stolen credit card numbers. The coins became a go-to digital store of wealth around the world after the meltdown of the Cypriot financial system, and was pushed as a ‘safe’ way to preserve wealthFriday, April 12, 2013 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
 BitCrash: Down 50% In Massive Sell Off: Over $1 Billion Vaporized In a Few Hours |
| Just a few months ago the total net worth of all Bitcoins, a popular encrypted digital currency, was worth about $140 million. The non-tangible exchange mechanism is used by people all over the world to purchase everything from traditional goods and services, to illicit trade that may include drugs and stolen credit card numbers. The coins became a go-to digital store of wealth around the world after the meltdown of the Cypriot financial system, and was pushed as a ‘safe’ way to preserve wealthThursday, April 11, 2013 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| BitCoin Down 50% In Massive Sell Off: Over $1 Billion Vaporized In a Few Hours |
| Just a few months ago the total net worth of all Bitcoins, a popular encrypted digital currency, was worth about $140 million. The non-tangible exchange mechanism is used by people all over the world to purchase everything from traditional goods and services, to illicit trade that may include drugs and stolen credit card numbers. The coins became a go-to digital store of wealth around the world after the meltdown of the Cypriot financial system, and was pushed as a ‘safe’ way to preserve wealthWednesday, April 10, 2013 |
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 | John Browne - Euro Pacific Capital |
| Cypriot Chaos Assists EU Centralization |
| Remarks by members of the European Union's elite suggesting that banking deposit seizures may become standard practice appear to have heightened the risk of a European bank run and perhaps even a catastrophic collapse of the euro. Any threat to the euro is a threat to the European public's conception of the Union's manifest destiny. As such, I believe members of the EU elite may be purposefully leveraging the crisis to push for a centralized European banking system to cement the political framewTuesday, April 09, 2013 |
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