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| RATIOS & INDEXES |
| Gold / Silver | 64.13 |
| Gold / Oil | 13.07 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 12.28 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
Today's Funny Money Rot Reaches Everywhere, Including Fiscal Discipline  |
| A long story short:
When you know you don’t really have to pay back the money, you tend
to borrow more. When you borrow more, you eventually borrow too
much. Then, you print the money to avoid default.
Not a very surprising outcome, is it. And yet, when you look at the
implications, it shows yet another avenue by which Mercantilist
money (floating currencies) holds within it the seeds of its own
destruction.
For 182 years, until 1971, the United StaSunday, March 02, 2014 |
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 | Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter |
| Trashing Saudi Cutouts: Ransacking their Gold |
| Betrayals occur in high places, even the highest offices of the land. Furthermore, betrayals occur with some of the most important allies for the nation. See the official German gold account thefts, called euphemistically the repatriation demand. See the shredding of the Constitution, by virtue of the Patriot Act which could easily pass for a comprehensive Fascist Manifesto. See the renege on the Chinese gold lease, on the back end of the Most Favored Nation status granted in 1999. See the permiSaturday, March 01, 2014 |
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| Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter |
 Ukraine as the USDollar Waterloo |
| The desperation of the Anglo-American leadership, guided by the steady corrupt banker hands, has never been more acutely high, nor obvious in full view. The entire Ukraine situation is a travesty. It includes Langley agents killing police and street demonstrators from rooftops, the confirmation coming from the Estonian Embassy (translation of scripts). It includes thefts of official Ukrainian Govt funds, again sent to the Swiss hill sanctuary. It includes sanctions delivered by a US Paper Tiger,Friday, March 07, 2014 |
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 | Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
| The Three Phases of a Bull Market |
| Have you ever wondered when to get into an investment and when to get out?
Almost every bull market has 3 distinct phases and if you can learn to recognize them it will help your odds tremendously of getting in while the market still has room to go up, and get out before you ride it back down again.
Three Phases of a Bull Market
Have you ever stood on the sidelines of an investment market (Stocks, Bonds, Precious Metals, or Real Estate) with sweaty palms not sure of what to do?
YouWednesday, March 05, 2014 |
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 | Bron Suchecki - Perth Mint |
US deep storage gold reserves bar list made public  |
| Warren James (the guru of ETF bar list analysis) was tipped off by a reader that the US government had a bar list of its deep storage gold reserves on its website, see Victor's tweets here for details and links. Warren's initial comments are:
"Have already perused the bar numbers - a stack of Rand/Matthey/Rothschild bars there but no match (obviously) for the bar signatures we have in ETF data and happy to say that the sequences are consistent with the data we have. They are (again as you mightWednesday, March 05, 2014 |
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 | Michael S. Rozeff - Lew Rockwell |
| USG Intervention in the Ukraine |
| John Kerry’s mouth is a danger to us plebes and rubes out here in the sticks. He said “Any kind of military intervention that would violate the sovereign territorial integrity of Ukraine would be a huge, a grave mistake. The territorial integrity of Ukraine needs to be respected.”
There is no discernable threat posed by either the Ukraine or Russia to ordinary Americans. Kerry’s capacity to create frictions or confrontations with the Russians is a definite threat to Americans. The game between KSaturday, March 01, 2014 |
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 | Wolf Richter |
The Relentless, Systematic Tear-Down Of The Dollar Hegemony  |
| China’s rapidly aging 1.3 billion folks are all trying to make it in the modern world, and they’ll see to it that their country will have major economic and political heft in the future. So in practically no time, China has become the second largest economy in the world. OK, its credit bubble of strenuously obfuscated magnitude will require a miracle, or else the noise of hot air hissing out of it will be deafening.
One of the long-term goals of consecutive Chinese governments has been to make CThursday, March 06, 2014 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Putin Adviser Warns U.S. On USD As Reserve Currency And “Crash” Of U.S. Financial System |
| Today’s AM fix was USD 1,339.50, EUR 973.90 and GBP 802.87 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,344.25, EUR 975.58 and GBP 803.50 per ounce.
Gold climbed $26.80 or 2.02% yesterday to $1,351.40/oz. Silver rose $0.26 or 1.23% at $21.43/oz.
U.S. Dollar Index, 1968-March 4, 2014 - (Bloomberg)
Gold dropped 0.8% today as equities bounced higher after reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered troops engaged in exercises in an area which borders Ukraine to return to their base.
Tuesday, March 04, 2014 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Bitcoin Incentive for Fraud; Two More Exchanges Hacked: "Flexcoin" Robbed of All Online Coins; "Polo |
| Two more bitcoin exchanges were robbed in the past few days. "Flexcoin" lost all online coins and shut its doors.
Flexcoin admitted it did not have resources to cover 896 stolen bitcoins, worth £365,000 (about $608,200). Bitcoins in Flexcoin's "cold storage" (offline), for which depositors have to pay a fee, were not affected.
"Poloniex", the other hacked bitcoin site, admitted that it is missing 12.3% of its assets because of a flaw in its transaction system. Its owner apologized and willWednesday, March 05, 2014 |
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 | Gordon Long - Market Analytics |
| China? A Wealth Confiscation Shock Wave? |
| China - A Wealth Confiscation Shock Wave ? In Part II of this two part series John & Gord continue on their around
the globe review in assessing what is most likely to blow up first. The problems
in China dominates the discussion as does what can only be described as a Wealth
Confiscation Shock Wave.
China?
The Shadow Banking which was central to the 2008 Financial Crisis is now orders
of magnitude larger in China with even less regulatory oversight.
As a consequTuesday, March 04, 2014 |
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 | John Rubino - Dollar Collapse |
| What Will Blow Up First? Part II |
| China? A Wealth Confiscation Shock Wave?
17 Minutes, 20 Slides
In Part II of this two part series John & Gord continue on their around
the globe review in assessing what is most likely to blow up first. The problems
in China dominates the discussion as does what can only be described as a Wealth
Confiscation Shock Wave.
China?
The Shadow Banking which was central to the 2008 Financial Crisis is now orders
of magnitude larger in China with even less regulatory oversight.
As a consequSaturday, March 01, 2014 |
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| John Rubino - Dollar Collapse |
| Welcome to the Currency War, Part 12: Bankrupt Rome and Soaring Euro |
| Only in a world totally corrupted by easy money could the following two things
be announced on the same day. First:
European
Bonds Surge as ECB Stimulus Confines Crisis to Memory
Yields on the euro area's government bonds have never been lower as the potential
for extended European Central Bank stimulus helps exorcise memories of the
region's sovereign debt crisis.
The bond-market rally is broad based, encompassing both core economies such
asFrance and also peripheral maSaturday, March 01, 2014 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
 The National Debt Cannot Be Paid Off  |
| Government spending is out of control and, while most say they want spending cuts, people oppose cuts that impact them. Among those who get government money, there’s practically an unspoken, unbreakable pact to keep the money coming. But when I say that the national debt cannot be paid off, it’s not a political forecast; it’s a statement on the flawed nature of the dollar.
Astute observers call the dollar a fiat currency. Fiat means force. It’s true that we’re forced to use the dollar (e.g. by tTuesday, March 04, 2014 |
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 | Stewart Thomson - Graceland Update |
| Gold: T-Bonds & Jewellery Are Key |
| The Ukraine crisis may or may not be over.Regardless, the crisis has only resulted in a tiny increase in the holdings of GLD-NYSE, the largest gold ETF.To view the latest tonnage holdings, please click here now.(The holdings are in the lower right hand corner).As gold has rallied, the gold held by GLD-NYSE hasn?t changed much at all.On that note, I?ve suggested that the West is still a mover of the gold price, but no longer the prime mover.While interest ratesWednesday, March 05, 2014 |
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 | investing in precious metals - Run to Gold |
 How to detect a Fake Tungsten Gold Bar |
| When one goes to buy gold they want real gold, not some cheap substitute like a fake tungsten gold bar. There has been a lot of rumor, neither credible nor verifiable sources, about bars containing both gold, the Ancient Metal of Kings and tungsten, the ‘heavy stone’.Tuesday, March 04, 2014 |
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 | Ron Paul |
| Hagel's 'Defense Cuts' Are Smoke And Mirrors |
| Last week Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel proposed an additional 40,000 reduction
in active duty US Army personnel, down to 450,000 soldiers. As US troops are
being withdrawn from the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it might make
sense to reduce not only the active duty military but the entire military budget.
However, from the interventionists' reaction to Hagel's announcement you might
think President Obama announced he was shutting down the Pentagon!
Rep. Michael McCaul, ChairmanMonday, March 03, 2014 |
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 | Rick Ackerman |
| Would You Choose Putin Over Obama? |
| Whom would you prefer as U.S. president: Vladimir Putin or Barack Obama? That’s the topic of the week, and I want you to have fun with it. And lest you judge Mr. Putin too harshly in the light of current events, consider how President Obama might react if half the population of California were threatening to jettison ties with Washington and unite with Mexico. That’s roughly the problem that Mr. Putin faces in Ukraine, which is verging on civil war over the question of whether the country shouMonday, March 03, 2014 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Two More Bitcoin Exchanges Hacked: "Flexcoin" Bankrupt, Robbed of All Online Coins; "Poloniex" Robbe |
| Two more bitcoin exchanges were robbed in the past few days. "Flexcoin" lost all online coins and shut its doors.
Flexcoin admitted it did not have resources to cover 896 stolen bitcoins, worth £365,000 (about $608,200). Bitcoins in Flexcoin's "cold storage" (offline), for which depositors have to pay a fee, were not affected.
"Poloniex", the other hacked bitcoin site, admitted that it is missing 12.3% of its assets because of a flaw in its transaction system. Its owner apologized and willThursday, March 06, 2014 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Third World America - The Big Fix: The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Coverup |
| As we approach the fourth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Disaster, perhaps it is a good time to remember the great success it represents, the success in shifting the thoughts of attention deficient Americans from the things that really matter, like honest and accountable government.
Is anything really different, or have we just been prompted to move on and think about something else? Will the US be better prepared to deal with the next financial or environmental crisis?
Are porSunday, March 02, 2014 |
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| Michael S. Rozeff - Lew Rockwell |
| The “Nation” as a Device To Create a Psychological Crowd |
| One device of leadership is to control individual behavior by psychological means. Gustave Le Bon’s 1895 book “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind” outlines this phenomenon. The leader uses events to short-circuit rational thought and regress people to their unconscious and ancient fears, drives and instincts. I don’t believe, as he did, that there is a crowd “mind” but he did identify a real process by which the leader’s suggestions create a primitive, unreasoning and emotional response amonSunday, March 02, 2014 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Ross Norman: Is the London fix fixed? |
| Ross Norman, CEO of London bullion dealer Sharps Pixley, today defends the daily London gold price fixing against yesterday's Bloomberg News report of another study that has concluded that the fixing likely manipulates the gold price:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-28/gold-fix-study-shows-signs-of-d...
That study was the second one this week, following the one described by the Financial Times here:
http://www.gata.org/node/13681
There are perfectly good explanations for some of the questiSunday, March 02, 2014 |
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 | Captain Hook - Treasure Chest |
| One Trick Phony |
| Weve all heard the term one trick pony, which was spun into a classic pop (and movie) hit for Paul Simon back in 1980. Quite a catchy tune for sure. But for our purposes, which is to take a satirical look at the Fed (yes my life insurance is all paid up), we are interested in its classic meaning, that being someone or something that is skilled in only one area; or, someone or something that has success in one area. It is from this we coin the term one trick phony to describe the Fed, boWednesday, March 05, 2014 |
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 | Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Dawn of the Dead Watershed |
| There's a lot of water on the planet we inhabit – an estimated 326 million trillion gallons or 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 liters.
That makes it hard to believe that there are somewhere between 780 million to one billion people without basic and reliable water supplies and that more than two billion people lack the requirements for basic sanitation.
Harder still to believe are reports water is going to get much dearer in our near term future yet global demand for fresh water may outstrSunday, March 02, 2014 |
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 | Bill Downey - Commodity Trader |
| Gold and Silver on the verge of breaking higher at key resistance on Hourly and daily chart |
| INTRA-DAY Update ~ 3 Mar 2014
News at ZeroHedge;
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The last two weeks have seen events escalating at a rapid pace in Ukraine with the center of attention quickly shifting from Kiev's deadly protests to Crimea's "invasion." With Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warning that Ukraine's new leaders seized power illegally and predicting their rule would end with "a new revolution" and more bloodshed.
By now it was only a formality, as the likelihood of the G-8 meeting taking placTuesday, March 04, 2014 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Gold in 2013: the foundation for 2014 |
| The chronological events of 2013 set the background for gold in 2014. It was a momentous year which should ensure a rise in the gold price in 2014.
Before 2013 demand for physical ETFs was high. At the same time Asian demand, from China, India, Turkey and elsewhere, was accelerating leaving Western bullion markets increasingly short of physical liquidity. Hong Kong and China between them in 2012 had absorbed on official figures 1,458 tonnes, and India a further 988 tonnes, ensuring 2013 kicked oSunday, March 02, 2014 |
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 | Toby Connor - Gold Scents |
| Another Big Move Up Coming in Mining Shares |
| By Toby Connor, GoldScentsNow that the first leg off the bear market bottom has been completed the mining shares have been consolidating for the last three weeks in preparation for another leg up, and I expect the second leg will be almost as powerful as the first.As gold is now late in its daily cycle I'm looking for one more dip down into Friday's employment report to complete the short-term correction. Then I look for gold's third daily cycle to test the $1425 resistance zone over the next moWednesday, March 05, 2014 |
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 | David Morgan - Silver Investor |
| Chapter 3: Physical Silver – To Buy or Not? |
| Many believe gold is the only asset that isn't someone else's liability, but in our latest installation of the "Guide to Silver Investing," David Morgan argues that not only does physical silver serve the same purpose, it is more liquid. Read on. . .Wednesday, March 05, 2014 |
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 | Food for thought |
| Charles de Gaulle on Gold |
| Indeed, there can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold.
Yes, gold, which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, barsMonday, March 03, 2014 |
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 | Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster |
| Renewed Indian Demand Driving Gold Prices Higher? |
| Current SituationSince last August, the Indian government placed a stranglehold on gold imports into the country by requiring that 20% of all gold imported be exported as jewellery. This forced the amount of gold imported to drop to 30% of former levels until October of last year. Then the amount imported rose to 38 tonnes a month and has been at that level since then. The amount of gold that was expected to be imported for the year was north of 1,200 tonnes. It only achieved an imported total oThursday, March 06, 2014 |
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