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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Puerto Rico Without Electricity, Wifi, ATMs Shows Importance of Cash, Gold and Silver |
| – Puerto Rico without electricity, wifi, ATMs shows importance of cash, gold and silver
– Most of Puerto Rico remains in the dark and without power three weeks after storm
– With widespread power failures, Puerto Rico remains cash only with retailers only accepting cash and few consumer having cash
– Shortages of food, fuel and medicine with infrastructure repairs delayed
– Power could be ‘out for months’ as 85% of people remain off the grid
– Around 75% of ATMs disconnected
– Electronic forms oMonday, October 16, 2017 |
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 | Steve Saville - Speculative Investor |
| Gold, the stock market and the yield curve |
| The yield curve is a remarkably useful leading indicator of major economic and financial-market events. For example, its long-term trend can be relied on to shift from flattening to steepening ahead of economic recessions and equity bear markets. Also, usually it will remain in a flattening trend while a monetary-inflation-fueled boom is in progress. That’s why I consider the yield curve’s trend to be one of the true fundamental drivers of both the stock market and the gold market. Not surprisinMonday, October 16, 2017 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
 The Silliness of the Bretton Woods Years |
| We’re continuing our look into One Nation Under Gold (2017), by James Ledbetter.
October 2, 2017: One Nation Under Gold (2017), by James Ledbetter
Ledbetter glided quickly over the period from 1914 to 1931, taking up the story again in earnest with the British devaluation of 1931 and, especially, the U.S. devaluation of 1933. This was treated with some interesting detail. However, Ledbetter made almost no mention of the fact that the U.S. returned to gold at the beginning of 1934 at $35/oz., andMonday, October 16, 2017 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Oil for gold – the real story |
| Following an article in the Nikkei Asia Review, which reported China will shortly introduce an oil futures contract priced in yuan, there has been some confusion about what it means. The article pointed out that in combination with existing gold futures priced in yuan, an oil exporter to China contracting to accept yuan could use these two futures contracts to take delivery of physical gold in payment for oil.I was quoted in that article as follows:"It is a mechanism which is likely to appeal toSunday, October 15, 2017 |
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 | John Butler - Goldmoney |
Common commodity misconceptions  |
| Commodities are the most basic economic goods, providing essential inputs into progressively more complex goods at advanced stages of production. Yet the economic mainstream generally fails to understand commodities, treating them as distinct from the processes whereby they are created and the processes they subsequently enable, when in fact they are an integral part of a dynamic, complex, adaptive economic system. A correct understanding of commodities is essential if we are to understand what Saturday, October 14, 2017 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
| A Free Market for Goods, Services, and Money |
| A thesis submitted September 3, 2012 by Keith Weiner to the Graduate Faculty of the New Austrian School of Economics, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Major Subject: Monetary Science.
Abstract
A free market is composed of people who produce and trade the products of their efforts in exchange for the products of others. Each sets the prices at which he is willing to offer his product and at which he is willing to bid on others’ products. The markeSaturday, October 14, 2017 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| “Fade” the little guy for profit! |
| As many of you know, I worked in the brokerage industry as a stockbroker/branch manager for 23 years. During that time and the 10+ years since, I have seen the “herd” move(d) violently in tandem many times. For years, smart investors would discern what retail investors were doing as a group and do the opposite quite profitably. It has been said and I have to agree, “the little guy is almost always wrong, and wrong at the wrong time”. Fade the little guy, it is usually quite profitable!
We are agFriday, October 13, 2017 |
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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Yuan and Gold |
| In the previous editions of the Market Overview, we have already analyzed the relationship between gold and some major world currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, the euro, or the Japanese yen. But what is the link between the Chinese yuan (officially: renminbi) and the yellow metal? Let’s check it out.
Chart 1: The USD/CNY exchange rate (red line, right axis) and the price of gold (yellow line, left axis, London P.M. Fix) from January 1981 to September 2017.
As one can see in the chart above,Friday, October 13, 2017 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Another Swiss bank won't let customer see his gold, von Greyerz tells KWN |
| Swiss gold fund manager Egon von Greyerz today tells King World News that another Swiss bank has refused to let a substantial customer inspect the gold bars the bank claims to be vaulting for him. Von Greyerz reminds investors that they should not trust the banking system with their metal. His comments to KWN are posted here:
https://kingworldnews.com/breaking-another-well-known-swiss-bank-has-jus...Friday, October 13, 2017 |
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 | Stewart Thomson - Graceland Update |
| Gold's Technical Line Of Concern |
| The traditional post jobs report rally for gold is in full swing. This is the daily gold chart. Gold arrived at a key Fibonacci line at about $1268 as the US jobs report was released.
The dollar has stalled against the yen, and that’s also good news for gold.
Gold tends to stage great rallies in the days following the jobs report, and this rally is a particularly interesting one. Here’s why:
First, Trump has ratcheted up his “hawk talk” in regards to North Korea and Iran. He’s scheduled toThursday, October 12, 2017 |
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 | Phoenix Capital - Gains Pains & Capital |
| The Best Predictor of Future Inflation is Flashing "WARNING!" |
| The Fed is dramatically understating real inflation.
As you know, I’ve been very critical of the Fed’s inflation measures for years. The official inflation measure (Consumer Price Index or CPI) does a horrible job of measuring the actual cost of living for Americans.
I have long stated that this is intentional as the purpose of CPI is to hide the true rate of inflation so the Fed can paper over the decline in living standards that has plagued the US for the last few decades.
The Fed isn’t doingThursday, October 12, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Print till it Dies |
| The US Dollar has had a wonderful run in its life time. Not too many fiat currencies have had the ability to sustain its usage for as long as this mighty experiment has and all who have reported on this instrument of trade are pretty much pointing to the same outcome that it can’t last much longer.
Today, the US Dollar trade sits at 93.55 down 8.6 points in the early morning on this Columbus Day. Not too long ago the dollar broke thru a multiyear downside target of 91.88 which originally happeneWednesday, October 11, 2017 |
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| ¡Viva Gold! LBMA 2017 Goes to Barcelona |
| Independence a big issue as LBMA conference hits the Catalan capital...
THIS WEEKEND kicks off the precious metals chit-chat and all-round fun-fest of the bullion market's key industry event,
writes Adrian Ash at BullionVault – the annual LBMA conference...
...cleverly timed this year to take place in Barcelona.
You'll fTuesday, October 10, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Digging Up An Old Story |
| Last night instead of watching the No Fans Left political program, I decided to watch a 1931 movie starring Bela Lugosi. Being in the Halloween Season and all, I watched the original “Dracula” where the main character was charismatic, kind, considerate, wealthy, and a little off. This movie was epic and the digitally remastered film really showed the viewers a good time.
Bela Lugosi was claimed to have stayed in character for 6 months past the making of the movie and I found out later that he waMonday, October 9, 2017 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| 10 FACTORS TO PROPEL GOLD 10 FOLD |
| Inflation is coming and it will have a major effect on the world economy and financial markets. This is one of the factors that will drive gold to levels which few can imagine today. Later in this piece, I am discussing 10 Factors which will make gold surge.
No fear
Markets are expressing no fear and seem very comfortable at or near all-time tops. There is no concern that stocks are massively overvalued or that bond rates are at historical lows and only have one way to go. Nor is anyone worriedMonday, October 9, 2017 |
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| Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| The upcoming increase in interest rates |
| Last week, both Janet Yellen of the Fed and Mark Carney of the Bank of England prepared financial markets for interest rate increases. The working assumption should be that this was coordinated, and that both the ECB and the Bank of Japan must be considering similar moves.Central banks coordinate their monetary policies as much as possible, which is why we can take the view we are about to embark on a new policy phase of higher interest rates. The intention of this new phase must be to normaliseFriday, October 6, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Catalan Independence: Why The Collective Hates It When People Walk Away |
| This report was originally published by Brandon Smith at Alt-Market.com
I have written many times in the past about the singular conflict at the core of most human crises and disasters, a conflict that sabotages human endeavor and retards critical thought. This conflict not only stems from social interaction, it also exists within the psyche of the average individual. It is an inherent contradiction of the human experience that at times can fuel great accomplishment, but usually leads to great Friday, October 6, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| WARNING: There Is Going to be an Attempted Communist Revolution on Nov. 4 |
| This article was originally published by Daisy Luther at The Organic Prepper
There could be more trouble than we ever imagined headed our way on November 4th when a bunch of folks who aren’t happy about Trump and Pence attempt to overthrow the government in a Communist revolution.
Groups like Antifa, Resist Fascism, and the Revolutionary Communist Party have been meeting for months to openly plan sedition and organize what they promise will be massive protests all over the country. Don’t be surThursday, October 5, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Getting Schooled in Freedom |
| Hello Silver and Gold holders. I truly appreciate the chance to write for Miles Franklin and hope that you read, learn, and enjoy, the viewpoints from the new writers in our tribe. No one individual has it all down but as a team, we’re able to work thru the articles and news (so called) being pummeled out there by media groups failing at every turn to report anything factual within the financial arenas as well as the Middle American view.
This truly is the topic of freedom in all its aspects andThursday, October 5, 2017 |
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| Phoenix Capital - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Tax The Rich |
| Even though I have said this before apparently no one was listening so I have to say it again* because every time a new tax reform bill is proposed, the same clichés are trotted out and most of them are wrong. The purveyors of these clichés know they are wrong but they don’t care because they are trying to manipulate you to their ends. And, people fall for them.
Here is what the polls say about what Americans think about taxes (Gallup, Pew Research):
51% think they arepaying too muchin taxes, eThursday, October 5, 2017 |
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