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| RATIOS & INDEXES |
| Gold / Silver | 61.11 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.16 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.29 |
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 | Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
 Give It A Doubt |
| Many, many years ago during a lengthy argument with a friend he told me to ‘give it a doubt’ – he meant I was wrong.
The herd is convinced the commodities boom is over. Doom and gloom, the sky is falling, the bears argument sounds convincing - growth has stopped, economies are slowing. Looking at the TSX.V’s performance (most of the world’s minSaturday, May 18, 2013 |
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 | Gary Dorsch - SirChartsAlot |
| How High can the US$ Fly versus Japan's Yen? |
| The Wise Sages of Ancient days used to say, "The fate of a Liar, is that nobody
believes him, - even when he's speaking the truth!" Such is the predicament
of Japan's propaganda artists, including the Prime Minister, the Finance minister,
and central bank chief, who are all trying to cover-up their boldest scheme
yet, to crush the value of the Japanese yen, against the currencies of its
major trading partners. On May 11th, the finance chiefs of the Group of Seven
(G-7) gave Tokyo theSaturday, May 18, 2013 |
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 | Bob Hoye - Institutional Advisors |
| The Greatest Garbage Market in History |
| Australian PMI plunged 7.7 points to 36.7, which is the lowest in 4 years.
"Automakers are giving subprime buyers the most long-term loans in
at least eight years."
"Asset-backed sales linked to auto-debt are surging".
- Bloomberg, May 1
"The Market CDX North American Investment Grade Index, aSaturday, May 18, 2013 |
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 | John Rubino - Dollar Collapse |
Golden Bullseye  |
| One of the lessons that gold bugs are learning, in the most painful way possible,
is that you can't trade a manipulated market. When big players with regulatory
immunity can move an asset's price -- and can see resistance/support levels
and moving averages just as clearly as anyone else -- smaller traders don't
stand a chance.
In the gold-is-manipulated script, governments and their bullion bank proxies
push the price to levels where they know hedge funds and other traders have
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 | Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Lucky Guy |
| Ralph Klein had a knack for being in the right place at the right time – especially for the oilsands
This article appears in the June issue of Oilsands Review
By
Peter McKenzie-Brown
Former Premier Ralph Klein’s death at the end of
March was greeted quite differently from that of Peter Lougheed, who had also
been premier and had died six months earlier. Lougheed was seen as an elder
statesman, and his passing was mourned across Canada. The mourning that
followed Klein’s death – caWednesday, May 15, 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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 | Jon Matonis - The Monetary Future |
| The Elephant In The Payments Room |
| By Jon Matonis
American Banker
Monday, April 29, 2013
http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/the-elephant-in-the-payments-room-bitcoin-1058703-1.html
The payments industry has been ripe for disruption for as long as I
can remember. Historically conservative and non-experimental, banking
and financial services always appear to be the laggard for any new
technology. But none of that has stopped recent innovators from pursuing
things like Square, Stripe, Dwolla, FaceCash, ZooZ, Affirm, MangTuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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| John Rubino - Dollar Collapse |
| Welcome to the Currency War, Part 9: What's Wrong With These Picture |
| Japan's currency devaluation has worked beautifully. The yen is plunging,
Japanese stocks are soaring, and the current account surplus -- the main measure
of a country's ability to trade effectively -- is way up:
Japan
Current-Account Surplus Climbs as Abenomics Sinks Yen
Japan's current-account surplus rose in March to the highest level in a
year as a depreciating yen boosted repatriated earnings and brightened
the outlook for the nation's exports. The exTuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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| Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Giuseppe Verdi |
| To commemorate his bicentennial, a brief biography of Verdi, the greatest Italian composer
By Peter McKenzie-Brown
A towering figure in his art, Giuseppe Verdi (9th or 10th of October 1813 – 27 January 1901) is often seen as an extraordinary genius whose operatic dominance is inexplicable. To the contrary: he was the greatest composer of a single generation of Italian opera composers who helped inspire each other’s work.
The others – Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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 | Captain Hook - Treasure Chest |
| Battlefield Earth |
| No, this has nothing to do with the sci-fi movie. It has everything to do with real life however; life closer to home, because we are living in an increasingly hostile environment characterized by both increasingly difficult and dangerous times. The wars - wars on multiple levels - are coming closer and closer to home every day. And slowly but surely - one by one - increasing numbers of people are beginning to see it because it's starting to materially affect their lives. They are coming to theMonday, May 13, 2013 |
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 | Michael Pento - Delta Global Advisors |
| Bubbles Inflating Faster Than GDP |
| Global central banks have clearly demonstrated the ability to re-inflate stock
and real estate bubbles. Global stock markets are roaring ahead of their economies
and real estate prices are quickly rebounding from their recent collapse. However,
rock-bottom interest rates and massive money printing have yet to show an aptitude
for creating sustainable GDP growth.
There has been a lot of talk about a rebound in the equity and real estate
markets helped along by the Fed's free money. ThatMonday, May 13, 2013 |
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 | Ron Paul |
 What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi |
| Congressional hearings, White House damage control, endless op-eds, accusations,
and defensive denials. Controversy over the events in Benghazi last September
took center stage in Washington and elsewhere last week. However, the whole
discussion is again more of a sideshow. Each side seeks to score political
points instead of asking the real questions about the attack on the US facility,
which resulted in the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other
Americans.
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 | Andy Sutton |
| Irrational Exuberance Part II |
| Every so often the mainstream does get it right; they just don't realize it. Or maybe they do. There is an old saying that every lie has 90% truth otherwise nobody would believe it. The hysteria over the Dow's recent punch through the 15,000 level has everyone associated with stocks almost giddy. Or maybe totally giddy. Or maybe totally disconnected from reality. Take your pick. The article I'm going to dissect can be found easily by a quick search, but it really doesn't matter who wMonday, May 13, 2013 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
| No Mo' PoMo? |
| Whenever the Federal Reserve wants to tweak the dials of the economy -- or pretend that it can -- it turns first to its sock puppet at The Wall Street Journal, John Hilsenrath, and "leaks" a rumor of policy change (here). They like to do this late on Fridays when financial markets are about to close, so that market players will have a whole weekend to ponder the Fed's actions like medieval viziers reading goat entrails. Last Friday's puddle of steaming guts was a supposed preview of the Fed'Monday, May 13, 2013 |
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| Bob Hoye - Institutional Advisors |
| Like There is No Tomorrow |
| Signs Of The Times
"Fed Vice Chair, Janet Yellen, doesn't see 'Significant asset bubbles
that would threaten financial instability'."
- Bloomberg, April 16
"Extraordinarily loose monetary policy risks sparking credit bubbles
that threaten to tip the world back into financial crisis."
- IMF Warning, Financial Times, April 18
Financial bubbles are not new and the following quoteMonday, May 13, 2013 |
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 | Gordon Long - Market Analytics |
The Kondratieff 'Winter of Discontent'  |
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John Rubino and Gordon T Long explore what unprecedented Global Debt Levels
and Fiat Currencies have meant to the Kondratieff Long Wave and the "Winter" it
predicts we should now be experiencing.
With the aid of 29 slides it can be seen that distortions are presently hiding
the Kondratieff Winter which is unfolding exactly as predicted. It is actually
quite evident if you look behind the the carefully manipulated statistic,
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| Ron Paul |
| Federal Reserve Blows More Bubbles |
| Last week at its regular policy-setting meeting, the Federal Reserve announced
it would double down on the policies that have failed to produce anything
but a stagnant economy. It was a disappointing, but not surprising, move.
The Fed affirmed that it is prepared to increase its monthly purchases of
Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities if things don't start looking up.
But actually the Fed has already been buying more than the announced $85 billion
per month. Between FebruaryMonday, May 13, 2013 |
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| Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Mining the Ogallala |
| Richard (Rick) Mills
Ahead of the Herd
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
Freshwater aquifers are one of the most important natural resources in the world today but we are pumping the groundwater out so fast nature can’t keep up. Some places we’re literally mining the water - once the water is pumped out its gone forever, it isn’t coming back anymore than the gold in a mined out deposit.
These fast shrinking undergrSunday, May 12, 2013 |
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