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| RATIOS & INDEXES |
| Gold / Silver | 61.11 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.16 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.29 |
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 | Gold, Silver and Real Money Issues |  |
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 | Darryl Robert Schoon - Survive the Crisis |
Gold - Who's selling who's buying who's lying  |
| Although the Pharisees of paper money successfully forced down the price of gold, like those who lobbied Pontius Pilate to crucify Jesus, the consequences of their actions will backfire beyond their wildest imagination.The decision of the paper money cabal to force down the price of gold is akin to Japan's decision to attack Pearl Harbor. Although the attack was successful, the eventual consequences were not what Japan had envisioned.Recently, an article, The Gold Correction: What's the Big DealThursday, May 09, 2013 |
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 | Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
 U.S. Congress Seeks to Replace the Base Metal of Most American Coins With Steel |
| A measure introduced in the U.S. Congress seeks to replace the base metal of most American coins with steel. The move would slash the nickel and copper content of U.S. coins to a fraction of today’s already reduced levels. Like past changes in metal content, the bill represents a logical continuation of currency debasement and calls into question the strength of U.S. fiat currency—yet another sign of the decline of the global monetary system.
Congressman Steve Stivers (R-OH) introduced the bilWednesday, May 15, 2013 |
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 | Michael J. Kosares - USAGold |
| The hidden crisis in the gold business |
| Barrick CEO JamieSokalsky has some things to say about the gold mining business that will come as a revelation to many gold owners. In a speech at the London Bullion Market Association’s conference in Hong Kong last November,Sokalsky wades into a largely hidden crisis in the gold business — static mine production that has not responded positively to the rising prices over the last several years, and is unlikely to ramp up even if prices go higher from here.Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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 | Deepcaster |
| Biggest Bubble About to Burst |
| "Nothing is normal: not the economy, not the financial system, not the financial markets and not the political system. The system remains still in the throes and aftershocks of the 2008 panic and the near-systemic collapse, and from the ongoing responses to same by the Federal Reserve and federal government. Further panic is possible and hyperinflation is inevitable. "The economic and systemic solvency crises of the last eight years continue. There never was an actual recovery following tSaturday, May 18, 2013 |
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| Hubert Moolman |
| Silver Price Forecast: Silver and the Dow |
| Silver Price Forecast: Silver and the Dow
The Dow making new highs is likely to be very good news for silver investors, because nominal silver peaks tend to come after significant nominal peaks in the Dow. These stock market rallies are driven by the expansion of the money supply, causing a big increase in value of paper assets (including stocks) relative to real assets.
When the increase in credit or the money supply has run its course, and is unable to drive paper price higher; value then fleThursday, May 16, 2013 |
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| Really Real Rates vs. Gold |
| Quantitative easing and zero rates haven't worked. So let's have much more of 'em, eh...?GOLDattracts investment capital when other asset classes fail to deliver.So now equities have clearly regained their appeal after more than a decade of what finance professionals would rather we called "sub-optimal" returns, gold investing has lost its urgency for money managers. Indeed, it's become a neat little "short" to trade against whilst picking the next winner in the S&P's all-time high dash.More telMonday, May 13, 2013 |
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 | Stewart Thomson - Graceland Update |
| Gold $1400 or $1550? |
| Graceland Updates 1.Gold has stalled in the $1485 area.Is the rally in gold over, or about to accelerate?2.Please click here now.You are looking at the daily chart for gold.Technically, the gold price is moving sideways in a rough congestion pattern, between $1440 and $1480.3.I've highlighted the trading range with blue and red HSR (horizontal support and resistance) lines.These types of patterns have a 2/3 chance of consolidating the existing trend, which means there is a 2/3 chance of an upsidFriday, May 10, 2013 |
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 | Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster |
Foreign Financial Reporting of U.S. Citizens Coming. Will it Include Gold?  |
| Commodity Futures Trading Commission New Regulations Reporting Overseas TransactionsSince the start of the credit crunch in mid-2007 we have seen a steady move forward by government to place greater control over the financial aspects of people's lives. One of the biggest milestones from an investor's point of view has been the establishment of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). This is consistent with the intentions expressed by President Obama that U.S. Citizen's financial successeWednesday, May 08, 2013 |
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 | Jan Skoyles - The Real Asset Co |
 No cheap gold in Vietnam |
| One must wonder how Vietnam, a country where gold investing between 2011-2012 accounted for over 3% of GDP, has handled the global dash for gold in recent weeks.
The country’s central bank and citizens hold more gold per capita than India and China, and they have been unable to benefit as well as their neighbours from the low gold prices. Whilst gold shortages induced premiums to be charged in both India and China, they were not to the extent seen in Vietnam.
Here, the gold market is heavily regTuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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| Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster |
| Is Mr. Buffet Right about not Holding Gold? |
| Who is Warren Buffett? He's 'Yoda' of the financial world. He is a man brilliantly skilled at making profits with considerable expertise in the U.S. economy and its corporations.Gold is, as he says, a dormant item pulled out of the ground and stored in vaults thereafter. It is not for 'just making profits because it is an entirely different animal to corporations.The big difference is that Buffett has been making money for around 70 years, whereas gold has been preserving wealth for around 5000Thursday, May 09, 2013 |
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 | Steve Saville - Speculative Investor |
| Comparing long-term gold-mining bull markets |
| The last long-term bull market in gold-mining stocks, which ran from the early-1960s through to 1980, occurred in parallel with a major upward trend in interest rates, a steady undercurrent of "inflation" fear, and the occasional dramatic "inflation" scare. However, the current -- we think it's still current, although this won't be proven until the gold-stock indices exceed their 2011 pTuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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| Jan Skoyles - The Real Asset Co |
 5 reasons why US States are keen to return to sound money  |
| For many gold bears the fall in the price of gold against the US dollar was a sure sign that faith in the international reserve currency was back. However as Americans rush to order their coins from the US Mint and others lobby their state government to return precious metals to the monetary system, it seems as though the US Dollar is most certainly not back in favour.
Earlier today Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed a bill that would have made gold and silver legal tender in the state, statingMonday, May 06, 2013 |
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 | Jeffrey Nichols - Nichols on Gold |
| GOLD — Confounded by the Machines and Dark Pools |
| Gold continues to confound, dropping another $25 an ounce this morning as technical and computer-driven program trading triggers selling on U.S. derivative markets, all despite favorable fundamentals and what should be seen as favorable economic and geopolitical developments.
Gold Lower Despite Bullish News
This morning’s dispatches from India and China, the two biggest gold-consuming nations, report that demand in these markets continues unabated . . . and coin dealers report still-strong retaiWednesday, May 08, 2013 |
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| Hubert Moolman |
| Silver Price Forecast: Silver Bull Market Is Following The Structure Of The 70s Bull Mar |
| Silver Price Forecast:
The 70s silver bull took place during a period from a major peak in the Dow/Gold ratio (1966) to a major bottom in Dow/Gold ratio (1980). The silver bull market started in 1971 and ended at the beginning of 1980.
The current silver bull market also started after a major peak in the Dow/Gold ratio (peak was at the end of 1999).The current silver bull market started in 2001, and it is also likely to end when the Dow/Gold ratio makes a major bottom. See the chart below, as ilTuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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| Jan Skoyles - The Real Asset Co |
| Unveiling the gold market’s working parts |
| On the 12th and 15th April gold fell victim to a price smash.
Why this happened is something which is open to much analysis and theorising. For the mainstream media it was down to an improving global economy and the need to hold gold no longer existed, for those in the world of gold investment this was perhaps down to more of the politics behind the gold-market than the economics.
On April 12th 3.4 million ounces (100 tonnes) of gold was sold in the US futures markets. This was just for startersSaturday, May 18, 2013 |
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 | Jeb Handwerger - GoldStockTrades |
| Physical Gold-Silver Shortage Could Benefit Undervalued Miners |
| When it looks as though things couldn't get worse for precious metal mining
equities (GDX), that may be just the time to buy for contrarians. Not only
are the junior miners (GDXJ) sloping to historic decade lows, but gold (GLD)
bullion which has held up considerably well in comparison has been hit hard
recently by short selling, bearish bank reports and margin calls.
Now after this recent decline there is a palpable sense of panic and fear
throughout the resource markets. This is the bMonday, May 13, 2013 |
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 | Theodore Butler - Butler Research |
| The Worst Regulator Possible |
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Sticking with the theme of milestones, we’ve just crossed a few important anniversary dates that relate to silver that taken in proper perspective point to a disturbing conclusion. That conclusion is that the US commodities regulator,Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The "Bail-In" Is Another Bankster Scam |
| (This item originally appeared in Forbes.com on May 3, 2013.)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2013/05/03/the-cyprus-bank-bail-in-is-another-crony-bankster-scam/
A new strategy has been unveiled around the world, with the first
test run in Cyprus. Despite early denials, the “bail-in” strategy
for insolvent banks has already become official policy throughout
Europe and internationally as well.
At first glance, the “bail-in” resembles the normalTuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Further Declines in Gold |
| These past few weeks it seems like paper gold is out and physical gold is in.
The fall in the price of gold has triggered a new run on physical gold that shows no sign of abating. Record amounts of money have exited ‘paper,’ i.e. futures and ETFs, and headed straight to the bank or the mint to be exchanged for coins and bullion bars, that is if one can get them. The strength of physical retail buying has taken dealers and mints around the world by surprise, leaving them scrambling to keep up wTuesday, May 07, 2013 |
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 | Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter |
| Financial Treachery & Harsh Consequences |
| The most powerful element of the shift has been the movement of gold wealth from Western locations (New York, London, Switzerland) to Eastern locations (China, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong). Most residents of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Western Europe are in shock, constantly distracted by the sweeping disruptive events led by a) unstoppable government deficits, b) the powerful crumble of sovereign bonds, c) the ruinous insolvency of the banking systems, d) the relentless reign of tax terror, and e) the tragic decline of the underlying economiesWednesday, May 01, 2013 |
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 | Bron Suchecki - Perth Mint |
| Why the price smash affected GLD and SLV stocks differently |
| A number of bloggers have observed the difference between GLD's gold stocks and SLV silver stocks in response to the April price smash. Sharelynx is reporting the following changes over the past four weeks:
GLD down 3,031,042oz (-8.23%), current stocks 33,811,468oz
SLV down 341,111oz (-0.10%), current stocks 335,666,675oz
Sharelynx also tracks all the other major ETFs, COMEX, TOCOM, Sprott, BMG, Central Fund, Bullion Vault and GoldMoney reported stocks. The change in the total of all thosWednesday, May 15, 2013 |
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 | Gordon Long - Market Analytics |
| What's Happening With Gold? |
| The April 12th sell off in Gold was a 7 Sigma event. The probability of this
occurring is equivalent to meeting a 7'-7"
person . Has that ever occurred to you? I have been to many Boston Celtics
games and I can tell you personally, I have yet to have it ever occur to me!
Rare indeed?
Special Guest John Rubino and I discuss the details of the 400 Tonnes of 'paper'
gold dumped on the thinly traded markets in 2 hours onFriday, May 03, 2013 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Keth Weiner |
| Theory of Interest and Prices in Paper Currency Part II (Mechanics) |
| In Part I (http://keithweinereconomics.com/2013/04/22/theory-of-interest-and-prices-in-paper-currency-part-i-linearity/),
we looked at the concepts of nonlinearity, dynamics, multivariate, state,
and contiguity. We showed that whatever the relationship may be between prices
and the money supply in irredeemable paper currency, it is not a simple matter
of rising money supply → rising prices.
Here is a fitting footnote for Part I. I just bought a pair of Levis jeans
at Macy's for $4Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
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| Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Gold Stocks Are Leading Gold Lower |
| T.S. Eliot called April "the cruelest month" in his famous poem, and without a doubt April was cruel to many gold investors. Sunshine Profits subscribers who followed our suggestions in April avoided a share of the pain. Probably no one suffered more than hedge fund manager John Paulson. He is joined byhedge fund manager David Einhorn whose Greenlight fund took a big hit on its gold miners ETFholdings. Einhorn said recently what we would consider an understatement: "We were somewhat surprisFriday, May 10, 2013 |
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| Deepcaster |
| Profiting from Coming Crises |
| (The Fed is) "creating massive fraud.in the short term it's great for assets.at some point there's a levitational problem."Nouriel Roubini,CNN Money, April 29, 2013Like it or not, several crises are impending in the next few months. And it is highly likely certain of these are unavoidable.Fortunately, it is possible to prepare to avoid significant damage from most of these and indeed to profit, as we indicate here.Unfortunately, if one fails to prepare for certain of these very soon, it will be Friday, May 03, 2013 |
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| Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Is Crude Oil Ready For A Breakout And Would It Help Gold? |
| Jim Rogers recently said in an interview to Morningstar, that he is not disturbed by the recent tumble in gold prices.
“Gold had gone up 12 years in a row, without a down year, which is extremely unusual in any asset. Equally important, gold has only had one 30% correction in 12 years. Again, that is extremely unusual. Most things correct 30-40% every year or two. So the action in gold has been very unique and gold needed a correction. The main thing that caused it, as far as I am concerned, waTuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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| Deepcaster |
| Market Forecasts Nuggets |
| "After watching the effects of the mediocre payrolls number yesterday (Friday, 5/3/13) which culminated in a push over 1600 in the S&P 500 and a print in the Dow over 15,000, I thought it might be useful to note a few things about this most recent example of a hysteria. "I am on record here as stating that the entire stock market rally is nothing but a Federal Reserve induced bubble brought about by artificially low interest rates starving investors for yield elsewhere. The Fed, along with the BFriday, May 10, 2013 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold "Still Bearish" as Western Buying "Cools", But Indian Festival Demand Seen Matching |
| London Gold Market ReportSPOT GOLD PRICESslipped back below $1470 per ounce Thursday morning in London, drifting as world stock markets failed to follow Wall Street higher, where equities yesterday hit new all-time highs.Silver held above $24.00 per ounce, just shy of last week's finish, as commodities slipped overall.A rise in Sterling after the Bank of England held its monetary policy unchanged drovegold pricesdown to £942 per ounce for UK investors. Government bond prices meantime rose everywThursday, May 09, 2013 |
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| Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
| Could Cuba?s Past Be Your Future? |
| Could Cubas Past Be Your Future? By Jeff Thomas, International Man An article was published in Uruguay that has received little notice outside of Latin America. This article refers to Cuban dissident Yoani Sánchez, also little known in the First World. Ms. Sánchez has recently been allowed to travel outside of Cuba for the first time, as a result of the elimination of "exit visas." The requirement for exit visas was imposed in 1961 to stop Cubans who opposed the then-new Castro regime from beiThursday, May 16, 2013 |
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