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| Sprott Money |
| The LBMA Is A Ploy of the Central Bank Community - Nico Simons |
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article is about the way the Central Bank Community manipulates the price of
gold and the role of the LBMA within. We describe some of the signs that the
Central Bank Community manipulate the price of gold and that they are using the
LBMA to reach their goal. Is the manipulation of the gold price a classic case of
Diffusion of responsibility because so many organizations are involved and
avoid taking responsibility?
Manipulation is a joint effort of the Central
Bank Community
The sigWednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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 | Stewart Thomson - Graceland Update |
| Gold Stocks: Good Times Are Near |
| Graceland Updates By Stewart Thomson1.After rallying almost $100 an ounce from the July lows of about $1210 (basis December futures), gold is consolidating its gains.2.Fundamentally, there isn’t much immediate time frame news from either the fear trade or the love trade.That’s the root cause of this sideways price action, and its healthy.3.To get some technical perspective on the consolidation, please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this short term gold chart.4.A small head and shouldersTuesday, August 22, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price makes Small Recovery in Wake of Political/Geopolitical Uncertainty, while the Market Closely Watches Jackson Hole |
| GOLD PRICES edged 0.3 percent higher on Monday lunch time, after falling $15 from $1300 per ounce last Friday, as news broke that President Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon had left his position at the White House. $1300 per ounce was the highest gold price since the U.S. presidential election.
This latest upheaval in the Trump administration followed the resignation of several top CEOs from President Trump's Manufacturing Council, following his weak response to the CharlottesviMonday, August 21, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| Morning Snapshot: Gold firms as geopolitical tensions ratchet higher again |
| USAGOLD/Peter Grant/08-21-17
Gold firmed overseas as North Korea ramped-up the saber rattling in reaction to joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea commenced today. While the yellow metal was not able to sustain the initial probe above $1300 on Friday, further tests may be in the offing.
“The Korean People’s Army is keeping a high alert, fully ready to contain the enemies. It will take resolute steps the moment even a slight sign of the preventive war is spotted,” threatened tMonday, August 21, 2017 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Buffett Sees Market Crash Coming? His Cash Speaks Louder Than Words |
| The Sage of Omaha’s adage is “it’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”
Editor: Mark O’Byrne
But for Warren Buffett the current environment doesn’t appear to be offering up any wonderful companies at fair valuations. The situation is so bad that the cash stockpile of Berkshire Hathaway has more than doubled in the last four years, from under $40 billion to $100bn.
The infamous investor is famed for his investment approach of pouncing Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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 | The Energy Report |
| The Bear Market in Oil Continues |
| Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest moves in the multiyear bear market in oil and gas.
Our proprietary cycle indicator is down.
$OSX is on a major sell signal.
The trend remains down.
SummaryThe energy sector is on a major sell signal. The trend is down; the cycle is down. The multiyear bear market continues. We closed out our long-term positions early this year and that will remain the case until conditions improve.
Jack Chan is thMonday, August 21, 2017 |
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 | The Gold Report |
| Jack Chan?s Weekly Precious Metals Market Update |
| Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest moves in the gold and silver markets.
Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.
The gold sector is on a long-term buy signal. Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term.
The gold sector is on a short-term buy signal. Short-term signals can last for days and weeks, and are more suitable for traders.
Speculation is rising from a multiyear lowMonday, August 21, 2017 |
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 | Steve Saville - Speculative Investor |
| The weakest boom ever |
| [This post is a slightly-modified excerpt from a recent TSI commentary]
The US economic boom that followed the bust of 2007-2009 is still in progress. It has been longer than average, but at the same time it has been unusually weak. The weakness is even obvious in the government’s own heavily-manipulated and positively-skewed data. For example, the following chart shows that during the current boom* the year-over-year growth rate of real GDP peaked at only 3.3% and has averaged only about 2.0%. Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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 | Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| Seeking Confirmations - US Stock Market |
| By Gary TanashianBelow are the opening segment and an excerpt (on the headline indexes and the Healthcare sector) from the first regular segment of this week’s edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 461…Seeking ConfirmationsWe have several inputs forecasting change (market pivots) ranging from seasonal tendencies to an expected US dollar rally, Fed monetary tightening (such as it is), the 30 month S&P 500 cycle, not to mention a presidential administration in utter disarray and not having Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| RISK ON: WAR, ECONOMY, DEBT, DOLLAR – RISK OFF: GOLD |
| Totally irresponsible policies by Governments and Central Banks have created the most dangerous situation that the world has ever experienced. Risk doesn’t arise quickly as the result of a single action or event. No, risk of the magnitude that the world is experiencing today is the result of many years or decades of economic mismanagement.
Cycles are normal in nature and in the world economy. And cycles that are the result of the laws of nature normally play out in an orderly fashion without extSaturday, August 19, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| Gold retakes $1,300 level for first time in 9 months |
| MarketWatch/Mark DeCambre/08-18-17
Gold futures on Friday were trading above $1,300 for the first time in 2017 and were on track for their third straight daily gain, as precious metals drew haven demand, sparked by a selloff in a global equities, a terrorist attack in Barcelona and concerns about President Donald Trump’s pro-business agenda.
…A flight to assets perceived as safe has been underpinned by Thursday’s selloff in equities, highlighted by the worst downdraft for the Dow Jones IndustriaSaturday, August 19, 2017 |
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 | Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| BullionStar quoted in Wall Street Journal article on New York Fed gold |
| On August 10, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an article about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) custody gold and the NY Fed’s gold vault. This vault is located under the New York Fed’s headquarters at 33 Liberty in Manhattan, New York City.
The article, titled “The Fed Has 6,200 Tons of Gold in a Manhattan Basement – Or Does It?”, can be read on the subscription only WSJ site here, but is also viewable in full on both the Fox News Business and MorningStar websites, here and hSaturday, August 19, 2017 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| The fiscal benefits of free trade |
| Western governments have an overriding problem, and that is they have reached or exceeded the bounds of taxation, at a time when legally mandated welfare costs are accelerating. Treasury departments in all the welfare nations are acutely aware of this problem, to which there’s no apparent solution. The economic recovery, so consistently forecast since the great financial crisis, has hardly materialised and has added to the problem.There is, if treasury economists could only understand it, a soluSaturday, August 19, 2017 |
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 | Jason Hamlin - Gold Stock Bull |
| Bitcoin Hits High of $4,500, Dash in Apple App Store, ICOs Continue Upward Trend |
| Weekly Price Action in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Alt-Coins
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has hit a new all-time high recently going above $4,500. The popular cryptocurrency reached beyond previous records set earlier this week and beyond most people have predicted in a short-time. Ultimately, the price peaked out at $4,510 just after a previous top reading of $4,387.
Today the currency settled in a trading range near $4,000. The gains happened amid continued bullish sentiment throughout the crypto indSaturday, August 19, 2017 |
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 | Adam Hamilton - Zealllc |
| Gold Miners’ Q2’17 Fundamentals |
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gold miners’ stocks have spent months adrift, cast off in the long
shadow of the Trumphoria stock-market rally. This vexing
consolidation has left a wasteland of popular bearishness. But once
a quarter earnings season arrives, bright fundamental sunlight
dispelling the obscuring sentiment fogs. The major gold miners’
just-reported Q2’17 results prove this sector remains strong
fundamentally, and super-undervalued.
Four
times a year publicly-traded companFriday, August 18, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
 Debt, Dollars, DOW, War, Silver, and Shirts |
| Yes, they are
connected.
Dollars are created as debt.
More dollars in circulation = more debt.
More debt means consumption is “pulled forward” from the
future so consumption can occur now.
This usually ends badly.
Commercial banks and central banks have created trillions of
new dollars. Each new dollar devalues every other dollar currently in
circulation, in savings, and in pension accounts. Prices rise!
Wars are costly, kill people and produce little. Governments like wars because tFriday, August 18, 2017 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| It’s Getting Uncomfortable in the Prices, Interest Money Box |
| We’ve been talking about The Midas Paradox (2015), by Scott Sumner.
July 23, 2017: The Midas Paradox (2015), by Scott Sumner
July 31, 2017: The Midas Paradox #2: Blame Gold
August 3, 2017: The Midas Paradox #3: It’s So Because I Say It Is
August 11, 2017: The Midas Paradox #4: Much Ado About Nothing
I’ve mentioned many times the “Prices, Interest, Money Box” that economists got themselves into beginning in the 1870s, and are still in today. The result of this, regarding the Great Depression, is Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| July ECB Minutes and Gold |
| Yesterday, the minutes of the ECB’s July meeting were released. What do they say about the ECB stance and what do they mean for the gold market?
On Wednesday, the FOMC released minutes from its July meeting. Yesterday, the ECB followed and issued its own recent minutes, which are called “Account of the monetary policy meeting”. Similarly to its U.S. counterpart, the ECB minutes were considered by the markets as dovish. This is because they showed that the officials were worried about the continuFriday, August 18, 2017 |
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 | Chris Ciovacco - Ciovacco Capital Management |
| These Charts Paint A Long-Term Bullish Picture |
| Markets Were In Conflict
According to stockcharts.com, trading ranges speak to a fairly even battle between stock market bulls and stock market bears:
Price action depicts a market in conflict. Only until the price breaks above resistance or below support will it be clear which group has won the battle.
As shown via the 1981-2013 S&P 500 chart below, neither the bulls nor the bears made much sustainable progress between 1996 and 2013, which resulted in a long-term trading range.
A Picture Is WFriday, August 18, 2017 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Gold, Silver Consolidate On Last Weeks Gains, Palladium Surges 36 YTD To 16 Year High |
| – Gold and silver rise as stocks fall sharply after Barcelona attack
– Gold, silver 0.6% higher in week after last weeks 2%, 5% rise
– Palladium +36% ytd, breaks out & reaches 16 year high (chart)
– Gold to silver ratio falls to mid 75s after silver gains last week
– Perfect storm of financial and geopolitical tensions is driving safe haven demand and should see higher prices
– Weekly close over $1,300 could see gold quickly test $1,400
– Palladium at 16 year highs today; gold, silver in coming Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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