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| RATIOS & INDEXES |
| Gold / Silver | 61.99 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.77 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.04 |
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 | Adam Hamilton - Zealllc |
| SLV Bullish Divergence |
| Silver has suffered horrendously in 2013’s opening months, plunging dramatically to miserable lows. This exceptional weakness has naturally kindled extreme bearishness. Predictions abound for silver to continue selling off indefinitely. But amidst this severe carnage, the silver bullion held by the flagship silver ETF has remained flat. This is an extraordinary bullish divergence in the face of rotten sentiment.Silver is almost certainly the most volatile of the world’s more-popular markets.Saturday, May 25, 2013 |
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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 RecThursday, May 23, 2013 |
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| Adam Hamilton - Zealllc |
| SPX Topping Extremes |
| The levitating stock markets continue to seductively entrance traders, powering to new nominal record highs day after day after day. No one believes a meaningful selloff is even possible anymore, thanks to the vast deluge of central-bank monetary inflation. Sheer euphoria has set in as all perception of risk has vanished. This makes these stock markets extraordinarily dangerous, they are truly at topping extremes. As of Wednesday, the flagship S&P 500 stock indSaturday, May 18, 2013 |
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 | Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Let's File This Email About Greenspan and Replicating the Gold Standard Under 'Irony' |
| I found this little gem, and added it to my collection of reminders that Greenspan said that fiat money 'worked' because central bankers had learned to 'replicate' the gold standard through their policy actions. I had said 'emulate' but perhaps that was a quirk of memory.
This is from a publicly published note by Jude Wanniski titled Savings Glut.
From: Jude Wanniski < jwanniski@polyconomics.com
To: Ben.S.Bernanke@ * * * * *.GOV
Subject: Fwd: Re: Savings glut
5:44 pm, 7/21/2005
"GThursday, May 16, 2013 |
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 | John Rubino - Dollar Collapse |
 Preparing For Deflation  |
| Signs of a slowdown are spreading. Here in the US, despite all the happy talk
about rising stock prices and falling deficits and the imminent unwinding of
the Fed's debt-monetization program, today's numbers were ominous:
Producer
prices post big drop, factory activity weak
(Reuters) - U.S. producer prices recorded their largest drop in three years
in April as gasoline and food costs tumbled, pointing to weak inflation pressures
that should give the Federal Reserve latitWednesday, May 15, 2013 |
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 | Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| Macro Sleight of Hand is Working, for Now |
| Right in plain site, the Federal Reserve is doing this to the US money supply. It is a hockey stick with the blade pointing up, but will one day turn into a big, bloated chicken and come home to roost. The Fed's global counterparts continue apace with inflation as well.Meanwhile, economic data like M2's velocity would give out of control monetarists free license to provide more of what they say is good for us, because newly printed money is not getting out into the economy to a sufficient degreeMonday, May 06, 2013 |
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 | Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital |
 The Great Gold Redemption |
| The most puzzling part of the investment business is seeing how the vast and largely economically illiterate masses interpret any given piece of news. Take the recent gold selloff: many large players were motivated to sell by news that Cyprus will have to liquidate its gold stockpiles to pay off acute debt obligations. But just a moment's reflection shows this reaction to be knee-jerk.The real story behind Cyprus' deal has much more profound ramifications - and they are positive for gold.The RigFriday, May 03, 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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 | 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 |
| Fekete: Who Said the Hydra Would Take It Lying Down |
| "Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
of an immeasurable length: they spread
Everywhere; and the dew that drops from thence
Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority."
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune
By way of introduction, Professor Fekete defines the gold basis as the difference between the price of gold in the nearest futures contract and the price of gold for immediate delivery.
In commodity trading contango is the situation where the difference is positiveTuesday, April 23, 2013 |
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 | Andy Sutton |
| When Gold Has No Friends |
| My Two CentsThere are likely, at minimum, half a dozen reasons for the swift correction in precious metals over the past week. The real reason might be one, two, or even all of what I?m going to lay out below. I?m going to go way out on a limb here. Right now gold has no friends. Even some of its biggest proponents are declaring the bull market to be over. The deflationists are loving this as it gives them ammo. I have gone on the record several times as stating there is no way we can have hyperFriday, April 19, 2013 |
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| Ben Traynor - Bullion Vault |
| Gold Traders "Still in Shock" After "Excessive Selloff" |
| WHOLESALE MARKET gold prices hovered around $1380 an ounce Wednesday morning in London, little changed from a day earlier, as European stocks continues to fall along with most commodities and US Treasuries gained.Silver hovered around $23.50 an ounce for most of the morning, also little changed from the previous day."In truth the gold market is still in shock," one London-based trader said this morning."A lot of damage has been done," agrees Dominic Schnider, head of comWednesday, April 17, 2013 |
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| John Rubino - Dollar Collapse |
The Long Wave Versus the Printing Press: Another 2008?  |
| Marc Faber of the Gloom
Boom Doom Report was interviewed
by Bloomberg on Friday, and of course topic number one was the brutal
takedown of gold. Not all that surprisingly, he likes the resulting buying
opportunity and expects "a major low in gold within the next two weeks."
More interesting from a theoretical/historical point of view was his segue
from gold to the state of the global economy:
"Today we have commodities breaking down including gold and we have bonds
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 | Justice Litle - Taipan Publishing |
| This Tsunami of Cash Will Send US Real Estate Prices Into a "Hyper-bubble" |
| In the movie Havana, Robert Redford tells Lena Olin, "A butterfly can flutter its wings over a flower in China and cause a hurricane in the Caribbean."
The butterfly effect describes a finding of chaos theory known as "sensitive dependence on initial conditions." Even a minute change in inputs (the butterfly's wings in China) can trigger massive effects on the other side of the globe (a hurricane in the Caribbean).
It is as true in the world of finance as it is in the world of weather... especiaMonday, April 15, 2013 |
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| Adam Hamilton - Zealllc |
| GLD Holdings Plunge |
| Gold has faced stiff headwinds lately as investors abandon alternative investments to chase record-high stock markets. Probably the most significant has been the major selling hammering the flagship GLD gold ETF. It has suffered such intense differential selling pressure that its custodians have been forced to dump enormous quantities of physical gold.Saturday, April 13, 2013 |
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| Michael Pento - Delta Global Advisors |
| What Drives the Gold Price? |
| There is still an incredible amount of misunderstanding on Wall Street about
the relationship between the price of gold and the true value of the U.S. dollar.
Most pundits simply claim that a rising dollar, as measured by the Dollar Index
(DXY), causes gold prices to fall...and that is the end of their analysis.
In truth, the dollar's intrinsic value carries the most weight in determining
the price of gold and not simply how the dollar is faring vis a vis a basket
of other fiat currencWednesday, April 10, 2013 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Unprecedented debt monetization means hyperinflation, Sinclair tells King |
| Mining entrepreneur and gold trader Jim Sinclair tells King World News tonight that unprecedented debt monetization is underway, likely because of the crash of trillions in derivatives, and it means hyperinflation. An excerpt from the interview is posted at the King World News blog here:
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/9_Sin...Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
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