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| Gold / Silver | 61.99 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.77 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.04 |
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 | Jesse - Le Café Américain |
 Marking the Field: US Stated Gold Reserves and Gold Held at the Fed - World Gold and Gold Swaps |
| The US Treasury says that it holds 261,499,000 fine troy ounces in its international reserves.
The gold is valued on the books at $42.2222 per fine troy ounce. This represents a total value of $11,041,063,078.
Since there are 32,150.7466 troy ounces in a tonne, the US Treasury has 8,133.53 tonnes of fine gold on its books. Note that the number as presented on a copy of the official US Treasury statement shown below includes 'gold swaps.'
A discussion of the procedures and nature of goldMonday, May 20, 2013 |
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| Jesse - Le Café Américain |
Paper Gold, Metal Gold - When Worlds Diverge  |
| "Price discovery is not a sexy function of markets, but it is critical to the efficient allocation of scarce capital and resources, and to the preservation of the long term wealth of investors and the economy as a whole. If price discovery is compromised by manipulation, then we will all be gradually impoverished and the economy will be imbalanced and unstable."
London Banker, Lies, Damn Lies, and Libor
There are a number of ways to account for it, but this divergence between 'market prices' aSaturday, May 18, 2013 |
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 | Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Moving Parts |
| Keystone XL may be the flashpoint for pipeline protests, but a complex web of projects is needed to ensure western Canadian producers access to global markets Since Samuel van Syckle constructed his legendary oil pipeline in 1863, the pipeline industry has reflected the economics, geography and the state of technological development. In some cases, it also led to social tension. In van Syckle’s case, the 8-kilometre lineWednesday, April 24, 2013 |
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 | Jan Skoyles - The Real Asset Co |
| The whole world is talking about gold |
| Here we take a look at how, despite calls that the gold bubble is finished, the whole world is still talking about buying gold.
Read any financial paper or website and they’ll tell you that the ‘gold-bubble’ is over. This opinion appears to be based solely on price and not much else.
When you look at short-term price action on its own then perhaps you can understand how they’ve reached this conclusion. Gold, across many countries, is down sinTuesday, April 23, 2013 |
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 | The Gold Report |
| These Three Triggers Will Produce a Resurgence in Natural Resources Prices: Greg Dorsey |
| The Gold Report: Greg, at the MoneyShow Las Vegas on May 16, you will present the report "Three Tipping Point Triggers to a Massive Surge in Natural Resource Stocks." Can you give our readers a preview?
Greg Dorsey: We are in a secular bull market in commodities that started in 2001. These tend to run 15 to 20 years, so we are in an interim period now. Three factors will make the next leg of this bull market spectacular: resource shortages, resource nationalization and resource inflation.
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 | Charleston Voice |
| The 4th Media » Wikileaks Cables: The US Planned to End Chávez’s Rule |
| Latinamerica Press | Monday, April 8, 2013, 4:18 Beijing
After the failed coup against President Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) in 2002, in the best tradition of the Cold War, the US Embassy in Venezuela launched a plan to put an end to Chavismo (the name given to Hugo Chávez’s left-wing political ideology), as revealed in secret documents released by WikiLeaks.
An investigation carried out and published on March 18 by Pública — the independent Brazilian Agency of Investigative RepThursday, April 11, 2013 |
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 | Philip Judge - Anglo Far East |
| The New Economy |
| In this interview, Frank Veneroso talks about the valuations of todays stock market and compares it with Japan in the late 1980's, the Persian Gulf in the early 80's, and the beginning of the high-tech revolution in the US in the late 1960's.Saturday, April 06, 2013 |
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| Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Opening The Gates |
| Ottawa hopes to fill the labour vacuum with a new foreign-worker program targeting skilled trades workers. This article appears in the April issue of Oilweek; photo from here
By Peter McKenzie-Brown
As 2013 began, the federal government
loosened up regulations allowing temporary foreign workers to come to Canada.
At first this seems odd, since both Canada and the United States have
unemployment rates north of 7%. But when you look a bit deeper, the changes
were necessary and even late.
Let’sTuesday, April 02, 2013 |
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 | Ranting Andy - Andy Hoffman |
Repatriation Mania  |
| Read the Monday Morning Commentary for 4/1/2013
Last week, “direct democracy” struck a MAJOR blow to TPTB (particularly, its Gold Cartel division) when a public petition reached the necessary 100,000 votes to yield a mandatory vote on the future of Switzerland’s gold reserves…
Swiss to vote on central bank gold reserves
Few realize the “conservative” and “brilliant” Swiss have been among the world’s WORST financial stewards of the past 15 years; first, selling 60% of the nation’s gold at roughlyTuesday, April 02, 2013 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| In Daily Reckoning interview, Sprott notes central banks' deceptive accounting of gold |
| Interviewed by Alex Cowie of The Daily Reckoning's Australian edition last week during the Mines and Money conference in Hong Kong, Sprott Asset Management Chairman Eric Sprott stressed the deceptiveness of central bank gold accounting, particularly the failure to distinguish gold in the vault from gold that has been swapped or leased into the market. This misleading accounting, Sprott says, is masking high demand for real metal around the world.
Sprott adds: "When Venezuela devalued by 40 perceMonday, April 01, 2013 |
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| Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Opening The Gates |
| Ottawa hopes to fill the labour vacuum with a new foreign-worker program targeting skilled trades workers. This article appears in the April issue of Oilweek; photo from here
By Peter McKenzie-Brown
As 2013 began, the federal government
loosened up regulations allowing temporary foreign workers to come to Canada.
At first this seems odd, since both Canada and the United States have
unemployment rates north of 7%. But when you look a bit deeper, the changes
were necessary and even late.
Let’sTuesday, March 26, 2013 |
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| Philip Judge - Anglo Far East |
10,000 Ton Short  |
| In this interview, gold market veteran, Frank Veneroso looks at the various forms of gold borrowings that have helped subdue the price of gold in a period of increasing demand and shrinking supply. In this summary of the last four years gold price action, Mr. Veneroso, exposes the various classes of market participants that have contributed to the extreme levels of gold shorts, and he explains the reasons why prices will go much higher in the future.Monday, March 25, 2013 |
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 | The Energy Report |
| Marin Katusa: Fortune Favors the Bold Energy Investor |
| The Energy Report: Marin, in your recent 2013 Energy Forecast, you wrote that the earth is running out of accessible supplies of oil, uranium, coal, metals and virtually every other resource?with the emphasis on "accessible." What does the loss of accessible energy resources mean for the margins of companies pulling the oil, gas and uranium out of the ground?Marin Katusa: Let's start with oil and gas in North America. Unconventional production is becoming the new norm. This is a paradigm shift iSaturday, March 23, 2013 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Venezuela threatens to jail anyone who would prefer not to be ripped off |
| Now THAT'S "financial repression" for you. This could give Bernanke ideas.
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Venezuela Threatens Dollar 'Speculators' With Jail Time
By Nathan Crooks and Jose Orozco
Bloomberg News
Thursday, March 21, 2013
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-21/venezuela-threatens-dollar-spec...
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Acting President Nicolas Maduro said today that the South American country is investigating cases of foreign exchange corruption and threatened "speculators" with jail time.
"We're investigatFriday, March 22, 2013 |
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| Jan Skoyles - The Real Asset Co |
| Over here! This is where the gold bull market’s gone! |
| Not long ago we produced a graph which was really just the gold price graph turned upside down. It was a graph which showed currencies priced in gold as opposed to the usual – gold priced in currencies.
As several banks and the media seem to relish the thought of a recovery taking place and death to the bull market, I thought it might be worth bringing those graphs back out to remind ourselves just how far we’ve had to come to get here.
At the moment the gold dollar price is down by over 5.8% fSaturday, March 16, 2013 |
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 | Marin Katusa - Casey Research |
| How Rockefeller Parlayed Pipelines into Billions |
| For at least two thousand years, the Chinese of Sichuan, in south-central China, have dug or drilled holes to tap a briny aquifer, the trapped remains of an ancient inland sea. They boiled down the brine to make crystals of sodium chloride – salt – a food preservative and seasoning so critical in the days before refrigeration that whole civilizations flourished or waned based on its commerce.Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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 | Michael J. Kosares - USA Gold |
| March Madness |
| "As 2013 begins, the downside risks to the global economy are gathering force." - Noriel Roubini"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule." - Friedrich NietzschePre-GameThere is a kind of madness in the air, and not the harmless sort that inhabits the annual college basketball fest. Europe is closer to dissolution than tighter union. The United States has consigned itself to a self-imposed paralysis that originates in the nation's politics and terMonday, March 11, 2013 |
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