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 | Deepcaster |
| Profit, Protection, Despite Cartel Interventions—November 2017 Update |
| Governments love [the war on cash]. Then they can control you...we are not going to have as many freedoms as we have now ...get prepared because we're going to have the worst economic problems we've had in your lifetime or my lifetime and when that happens a lot of people are going to disappear.“…the next time aroWednesday, November 1, 2017 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Hillary’s Failing Health and The Powers That Be’s Failing Market Control |
| The life of a financial market truth-teller is lonely; as most of the world’s 7.5 billion people no longer have – or never had – funds to invest; whilst the rest, particularly in the Western world, have little concept – or interest – in reality. Working – and being in invested in – Precious Metals is particularly frustrating, because decades of Keynesian brainwashing; and market and economic data manipulation; have rendered the average investor clueless. Sadly, in world where mind-numbing “creTuesday, September 13, 2016 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| A Quote We're About to Hear A Lot More |
| As widely expected, the IMF “allowed” the Chinese Yuan into its basket of fiat garbage currency yesterday. Thus, an organization where the U.S. has by far the largest vote, officially recognizes the (dollar-pegged) Yuan “elite” enough to be given an 11% weighting in a basket of trash currencies no one wants – compared to the 40% weight afforded the dollar. In other words, completely meaningless – just as I espoused when many were claiming it would be an event that would change the world, and dWednesday, December 2, 2015 |
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 | Andy Sutton |
| 'Triggers and Trepidations' with Graham Mehl |
| t has been 7 years now since that fateful weekend when the story leaked out in bits and pieces about what was called a 'problem' at Lehman Brothers. It started on a Friday night and by the time Sunday night rolled around and I embarked on my weekly Blog Talk Radio podcast, it was very obvious there was something terribly wrong.I was getting calls from concerned clients about what the next day might bring - a rare oddity for a Sunday. In typical fashion there was littleThursday, October 1, 2015 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| YEMEN, THE NEWEST BLACK SWAN |
| By my estimation, the “official starting point” of the government’s commandeering of financial markets was September 17, 2001, when stocks were blatantly supported upon re-opening after the 9/11 attacks. Since then, the level of manipulation has gradually expanded – often, via PPT “trial balloons” following dramatic events like the Enron and Worldcom bankruptcies a year later. All along, the gold Cartel was doing its regular, day-to-day thing (albeit, less maniacally than today); but regarding sSaturday, March 28, 2015 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| Dr Pippa Malmgren – Governments impose price on markets |
| “Governments impose price on markets; there is no price discovery anymore”
PODCAST INTERVIEW: In this 38 minute interview Lars Schall, for Matterhorn Asset Management, speaks with Dr Pippa Malmgren, a US financial advisor and policy expert based in London. Dr Malmgren has been a member of the U.S. President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (a.k.a. the “Plunge Protection Team”). They address, inter alia:
Malmgren’s recent book “Signals”; the “inflation vs deflation” debate
the closer ties beMonday, February 23, 2015 |
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| Rick Ackerman |
| Why the Plunge Protection Team Loves Fridays |
| The Plunge Protection Team has been hard at work lately, although not in the way some traders might imagine. The very name evokes the shadowy activities of a group of Svengalis believed to control the stock market through timely interventions in such key trading vehicles as the S&P 500 futures. In fact, the PPT, more blandly known as the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, was commissioned under President Reagan after the 1987 Crash to prevent meltdowns. These day, however, nearly siMonday, November 24, 2014 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| The Ultimate Gold Manipulation Primer |
| We have something very important to say today, but before doing so, want to keep the expanding worldwide economic collapse front and center. In our view, the universal “realization of reality” is the most likely cause of the inevitable systemic financial crash – and conversely, the “reclaiming” of gold and silver’s rightful roles as the world’s only real money. Let’s start with China, where it’s “miraculous” 10% equity surge this month is due to one thing and one thing only; i.e., the initiatiWednesday, August 6, 2014 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| 4 World |
| For economic truth-tellers like the Miles Franklin Blog, we are living through Dark Ages – which commenced when the global economy peaked in 2000, and expanded when it permanently broke in 2008. Its cancerous impact has become ubiquitous starting with the no-holds-barred corruption of economic data – as exemplified by this damning article published this morning. Moreover, financial markets have been temporarily commandeered by overt and covert money printing, funding “manipulation teams” such Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| The Most Damning Proof Yet Of QE Failure |
| Despite the myriad fallacies of such narrow-minded beliefs, the reason “tapering” is touted as “PM negative” is the assumption it will coincide with a rapidly improving economy and with it, higher interest rates. Better yet, propagandists like Janet Yellen, Mario Draghi, Mark Carney, and Shinzo Abe create fraudulent expectations of “deflation”; i.e., the first hint of disingenuousness as there is simply no way a recovering economy featuring higher interest rates could coexist with deflation. IThursday, May 8, 2014 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
Socialist Economics 101  |
| It’s another eerie day of market “management,” 24 hours before yet another “all-important” FOMC policy statement. No chart sums the “pre-FOMC smokescreen” better than the one below, which unfortunately I haven’t found an update of since it was initially published two years ago. However, I did the math myself, calculating that an additional 68 S&P 500 points – averaging 0.3% per trading day – have been added in the days prior to the 18 FOMC meeting announcements in 2012, 2013 and 2014. In otheWednesday, April 30, 2014 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| The “New York Gold Pool” – Revisited |
| I have to admit, I was already in a somber mood when I awoke; as every imaginable Cartel stratagem had been used over the past three days to cap gold and silver’s advances, setting up the “no doubter” overnight attack that was first “signaled” by last night’s “mysterious” gold weakness at the 8:00 PM EST open of the “Globex” trading platform; i.e., the thinnest period of the global trading day, which the Cartel traditionally utilizes to launch paper raids. At 8:00 PM EST, Americans are eating dWednesday, April 16, 2014 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Gold and Lemonade |
| Long-time readers know I got my start in the Precious Metals blogosphere on the great GATA website – and Bill Holter as well. I started writing free missives for Bill Murphy and Chris Powell circa 2004, and have since dedicated myself to becoming a global expert in the topic of Precious Metals manipulation. As I wrote last week, a major part of my interest was to understand why my net worth was periodically plunging, so as to determine if there were any flaws in my investment strategy (from 20Thursday, April 3, 2014 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| “Is The Market Rigged” |
| Holding more than 90% of my liquid net worth in physical gold and silver – of which, barring an extreme, unforeseen emergency, I anticipate holding “to maturity”; daily, and even annual, price changes have little impact on my standard of living. No doubt, there is an ongoing “wealth effect” that causes me to spend more when prices rise; as aside from higher net worth, my business – and thus, earnings prospects – improves simultaneously. However, for the most part, the financial “fear of failurTuesday, April 1, 2014 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| No Bubbles Here |
| For anyone that still believes TPTB are actually “geniuses in disguise,” I present exhibit #1; the financial “Maestro” himself, Alan Greenspan. His business career would make a great comic book; of how he started as an avid Ayn Rand disciple, penning Gold and Economic Freedomin 1966, before “turning to the dark side” upon becoming Fed Chairman in 1987. Clearly, the stars were aligned to create a true classic tragic hero – as just months after his appointment, a major stock crash occurred.
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Just A Few Overnight Stories |
| As “goldbugs” – i.e., those that believe 5,000 years of natural economic law have not been repealed by government computers – sting from yet another paper raid; the main “tool” of said computers, the New York COMEX, runs dangerously low on actual physical metal. We’re told the economy is “recovering,” yet construction spending was so low, even Goldman Sachs lowered its 4Q GDP growth estimate to barely above 1%. And did I mention the nearly all-time high channel stuffing among still government-Tuesday, December 3, 2013 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| The Only Chart That Matters |
| The Winklevoss twins believe Bitcoin should be worth $400 billion, going so far as to call it “gold 2.0.” Conversely, Peter Schiff deems it “Tulip mania II,” referring to the rank speculation occurring under the guise of a structural change in monetary perception. After watching it rise fivefold in two weeks, then crash 45% last night in three hours, debate on this topic will continue into the foreseeable future. As for me, I two weeks ago said that no matter what Bitcoin trades at, it will nWednesday, November 20, 2013 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Cassandra! |
| In college, I majored in Finance, and minored in economics; and several years later, achieved the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, or CFA. In other words, I’m one of the handfuls of Americans whose career path actually followed his university studies. And thanks to the pure luck of my grandfather being a pharmacist at Walgreen’s – and subsequently, gifting me $1,000 of stock upon my birth in 1970 – I wasn’t forced to take out student loans. Again, putting me at the end of the bell curWednesday, November 20, 2013 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
 1976, As Relevant as the Buggy Whip |
| It’s rare that I react to articles by newsletter writers that utilize sensationalistic “memes” to drive sales; such as, to name the worst of the lot, “$950 gold” Harry Dent. Yes, the same Harry Dent that forecast Dow 41,000 and NASDAQ 20,000 in 1999 – to be reached in, gets this, by 2008; topped only by his April 2011 prediction that the Dow would fall to 3,000 by 2014.
Dent’s track record is as bad as any I’ve come across. However, he is clearly a fantastic marketer and charismatic speaker –Wednesday, November 13, 2013 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Inflation and ‘Arab Spring’ |
| Read the Tuesday Afternoon Wrap-Up for 7/9/2013 and the Wednesday Morning Commentary for 7/10/2013
The reason people read the Miles Franklin newsletters – for FREE, no less – is because unlike the MSM, we tell the unvarnished TRUTH. And no place is the PROPAGANDA as thick as when TPTB attempted to hide the root causes of civil unrest; as we are seeing in Egypt, Turkey, Argentina, Brazil, and Portugal – let alone, the seething boil in places like India, Japan, Greece, and Cyprus.
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