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Gas 3.92 0.01 Market Indices Metal Prices Web Services RSS Free Charts Precious Metals Graph Generator Statistics Statistics by Country Statistics by Metals Mining Companies Advertise on 24hGold Projects on Google Earth Profile and commentaries of Gypsy Gypsy Member since December, 2009 Followed by 0 member Follows 0 member 101 commentaries, with 13 Replies 3 replies to his comments (3%) Average Note : 82 / 100 for 70 rated commentaries  314  67  Last commentary posted on Friday, May 24, 2013     Profile   Commentaries   Followed By   Following     Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster Gold's Pivotal Role - The Yuan Sees Freer Convertibility this Year! (Part 1)  (2) Julian, the commonly accepted definition of Currency War is: Definition: Currency wars is a term coined by Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega to describe the 2010 effort by the United States and China to have the lowest value of their currencies. Low currency values aid exports by making them cheaper in comparison to other currencies. Your article, here, leads me to a much clearer definition. A C... 5/24/2013 at 1:13 AM Permalink   Bron Suchecki - Perth Mint Chill out dudes  (7) This "Article of Diversion" doesn't explain the fundamentals. Fundamentally, all the central banks are buying gold. Fundamentally, Germany can't get "their own" gold back for SEVEN years. Fundamentally, MF Global had to confiscate customer's gold. I could go on and on, but I have a day job that has nothing to do with GOLD nor mis-leading people for money. 4/30/2013 at 11:40 AM   3  1  Rating :  2  Permalink   Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster Gold & Silver Market Morning  (1) Julian, you had me stopped there for a minute ~ with your unfinished sentence: "If the ETF supplies of gold stop, there is nothing to stop the p" . I would guess that the unfinished word there is "price." I question whether the ETF has supplies of gold ! ! 4/26/2013 at 1:13 AM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   Dan Dontrose - The Fundamental View Comex To Make It Easier For Smaller Investors To Take Delivery Of Silver With New 1000 o  (9) Don, I hope I'm getting this right. You say the 1,000 ounce contracts will begin trading in June, 2013 ~ and that over-the-counter clearing of the contracts begins in September, 2013. Yes, I know that Commodities Exchange Delivery means the delivery of THE REAL item: not a paper substitute. Looking at this "new and improved" Silver Market Tool, offered by the CME Group, brings up a LOT of doubt. Fir... 4/20/2013 at 4:13 PM   2  0  Rating :  2  Permalink   Dan Dontrose - The Fundamental View The Soap Opera Surrounding Today’s Gold Sell-Off Has Started  (19) Don, you're such a good story teller that I gave you 5 story-telling stars. I love the way you dance around the issues and put forward the oh-so-plausible explanations. In the end, those who actually KNOW are not questioning nor explaining. The story is as old as time: it's the story of good versus evil. Much like the moment when Julian Glover (playing Walter Donovan) tells Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones) "soo... 4/14/2013 at 2:30 PM   3  0  Rating :  3  Permalink   Charleston Voice The 4th Media » Wikileaks Cables: The US Planned to End Chávez’s Rule  (1) Strangely enough, where ever there is an Internet forum based on issues that affect Banks, Corporations, and Government Interests (like Gold and Silver, for example) ~ that same Doubt Inducing Cancer (that infected Venezuela) also infects those Internet forums. 4/11/2013 at 7:22 AM Permalink   Peter Souleles I Rest My Case  (8) Back in the day, Bankers and Loan-Sharks were just alike. As an example: let's say Loan-Shark Marshall would loan Customer Vinny $100 at 5-for-7. To keep it even, let's say Banker ABC loaned Max $1000 on a car. If Vinny defaulted: he got broken arms. If Max defaulted: ABC got his car. Nowadays, ABC is running BOTH operations: unsecured loaning at USURY (loan-shark) rates AND loaning at standard rates on se... 3/28/2013 at 1:07 PM   2  0  Rating :  2  Permalink   Nathan Lewis - New World Economics The Silver:Gold Ratio, 1687-2011  (8) Very funny Cadaver. You believe: ~ Yes, there were coins that continued to contain silver until 1964, but that was owing to the cheapness of the metal. When it went up in value, they stopped using it. ~ The truth of the matter is: the value of PAPER went down so low that it made SILVER "appear" to become VERY valuable. In reality, relevant to everything else such as a bushel of wheat or a gallon of gasoline,... 3/21/2013 at 4:20 AM   1  0  Rating :  1 1 Answer Permalink   Nathan Lewis - New World Economics The Silver:Gold Ratio, 1687-2011  (8) This article brings up several questions as to the "validity" of the statements made herein. Nathan, you state: ~ Silver was "demonetized" in the 1870s. This was apparently something that humans just did collectively. ~ In reality, silver was NOT demonetized until 1964: but the REAL point I'd like to make is: humans DID NOT - collectively - demonetize Silver. The REMOVAL of silver - demonetizing - from the mo... 3/20/2013 at 10:21 PM 1 Answer Permalink   Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan If the Masses Lose Confidence in the Currency…  (9) The MASSES are constantly hammered just trying make enough money to eat and pay their bills. Worn out, by everyday demands, they spend their free time cooking, raising children, and sleeping. The Masses have no time left over to understand and formulate Monetary Policy. The actors, elected by the Masses, disguise themselves as Good Shepherds to get elected. The MASSES elect Good Shepherds to protect... 2/26/2013 at 1:46 PM   2  0  Rating :  2  Permalink   Goldmoney No way out for central banks  (5) I am so VERY DAMN TIRED of these elite bas---ds calling my Social Security an entitlement. SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT AN ENTITLEMENT. That money was taken out of my check every week ~ even when I had NO MONEY to live on, no money to get my car fixed, no money to for my kids clothes, no money for even food. EVERY WEEK the Social Security Money was taken from my check. That's MY MONEY ~ FINALLY ~ coming back to me.... 2/25/2013 at 3:04 AM   6  0  Rating :  6  Permalink   Stewart Dougherty The Great Gold Deception and Misdirection  (60) The truth you tell in this article is never stated in the Main Stream Media. Just getting these truth's out in the open is a MAJOR step. Thank you for writing all this. Of course, the bankers, politicians and regulators will DENY them all. I have a couple of insights that might help you see a couple of REAL underlying activities going on around here in my everyday world. When you said: "Fifth, by s... 2/20/2013 at 3:00 PM   6  1  Rating :  5 1 Answer Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Scale Implosion  (22) James, when you stated "another axiom of human affairs at work: people get what they deserve, not what they expect" it reminded me of a moment of consideration while I was at church. Several parishioners were asking, more like longing, and even praying for the Second Coming of Jesus. Later on, I mentioned to a few, that BEFORE the Second Coming, there's a SEVEN YEAR Tribulation that has to be fulfilled in ther... 2/18/2013 at 10:00 PM   3  3  Rating :  0  Permalink   Keith Weiner - keith weiner Gold Leaps Into Backwardation!  (4) Kieth, the last sentence of your statement: "The market is offering a free profit to anyone who will sell a gold bar and buy an April contract. For whatever reason, no one is either able or willing to take the bait. This is proof that the market for physical gold metal is drying up." threw me ~ for a moment. I believe that last sentence should read "This is proof that there is no PHYSICAL gold metal t... 2/17/2013 at 9:53 PM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Cattle Drive  (27) James, after looking up ~ didactic; a : designed or intended to teach b : intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment ~ your article just got better and better. While I was reading along, thinking how f---ed up the Zero Interest Rate Policy is, I laughed as I came across the point where you were thinking the f-word too. You're right about Average Joe not understanding f... 2/5/2013 at 11:49 AM   3  0  Rating :  3  Permalink   Rick Ackerman Why Isn’t Gold Higher?  (19) One of the flaws in your article is that you leave out the fact that some of the world's central banks are buying PHYSICAL Gold. Early on, in this twelve-year Gold Bull Run, the occasional fall-back in prices were explained away by the fact that Central Banks were selling tons of gold into the market and driving the price down. Now that the Central Banks are buying gold; how can you explain the gold prices STI... 1/30/2013 at 11:41 AM   4  0  Rating :  4 1 Answer Permalink   Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster Gold & Silver Market Morning  (1) Julian, there are some tough questions you need to answer. Back in 2004, the price of gold often dropped ~ because the central banks were often selling a few tons of gold into the market. Now, in 2013, the central banks are buying hundreds-of-tons of gold ~ and the gold price drops. It is obvious that the price of gold would drop if tons of gold were being sold into the market; but it isn't obvious why the p... 1/29/2013 at 9:51 PM Permalink   Charleston Voice James Turk: Central Banks are Losing the War to Suppress Gold & Silver Prices *Podcast*  (3) James, there is a Money Market where the traders are buying and selling paper money using PAPER MONEY. The way you explain things (over valued money compared to under valued money) the paper confidence game is based on some people placing a higher value on one paper money over some other paper money. Since they are both paper, and both are based on nothing, I fail to see any "real" basis for the Money Markets.... 1/28/2013 at 3:04 AM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Commitments and Obligations  (17) James, you error in saying: " . . . . . . a living arrangement with no future, a trap every bit as lethal as Medicare and social security." There are several of us, including you and me, who have paid into Social Security EVERY WEEK since we started working 45 years ago. Social Security is like a SAVINGS ACCOUNT that none of us would keep up ~ unless we were FORCED to: by a deduction from our paychecks BEFORE... 1/21/2013 at 9:43 PM   3  6  Rating :  -3  Permalink   Gold Forecaster Gold and Silver Market morning, January 14, 2013  (1) Julian; was the Trillion Dollar PLATINUM Coin a misdirected fiasco-of-idiocy, or a ploy to get investment money into Platinum, or a scare tactic to make Physical Gold buyers think they've bought into the wrong metal ?? 1/15/2013 at 1:51 PM Permalink   Jesse - Jesse's café The ¥100 Trillion Pair of Chopsticks  (2) Thanks for the Saturday morning wake-up-smile Jesse. As far as I know, neither Platinum nor Chop Sticks have ever been used as money: but once this idea gets legs, I'm gonna put my cell phone up for collateral to get myself a New Car ! ! 1/12/2013 at 5:11 PM Permalink   Food for thought Who will destroy the World ?  (8) Does anyone here notice: This article has 30 commentaries ~ BUT ~ ONLY 6 VOTES ! ! ! My take on this is: the comments are on THE COMMENTS and are not comments on the article. 1/2/2013 at 8:08 PM   2  2  Rating :  0  Permalink   Food for thought Who will destroy the World ?  (8) I wrote to Senator Lugar and Congressman Chocola ~ petitioning to PREVENT the First Iraq War. I wrote to Senator Lugar and Congressman Donnelly trying to PREVENT invasion and war with Iraq. I wrote to Senator Lugar and Congressman Donnelly trying to get GMO Foods LABELED. I wrote to Senator Lugar and Congressman Donnelly ~ petitioning them to NEVER BAIL OUT ANY BANKS. You can tell by what happened: my ATTEMP... 12/22/2012 at 9:05 PM   3  4  Rating :  -1 1 Answer Permalink   James Howard Kunstler America the Horror Show  (26) In reality, would any male child be proud of his father if he learns that his father is scared shi*-less ?? Let's say the son goes to his father's office; only to learn that all the men in the building are hiding behind metal detectors, full body scanners and several armed guards. How can the son grow up to be a REAL man when he's confronted by all the men he sees living in Constant Fear ?? Surrounded by gutl... 12/18/2012 at 1:11 AM   3  4  Rating :  -1  Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Christmas Story  (19) James, I read this story on your blog, on Monday, and it brought back memories of the Fezziwig Chapter: when old Fezziwig threw the Christmas Party for Bob Marley, Ebeneezer Scrooge, all his friends and family. There's a story I can tell you of some beautiful, old, magnificent buildings (right around here) that are caving in on themselves. Oh, there are a few of us, poor but getting by, who would put our time... 12/11/2012 at 1:37 PM   3  1  Rating :  2 1 Answer Permalink   Ranting Andy - Andy Hoffman The Most Important Wisdom I Can Impart  (3) You taught me well, Obi Wan Kenobi. 12/7/2012 at 7:42 PM Permalink   Lew Rockwell The Rothbardian Way  (9) I write to comment to the "Jim C Team" of writers who compile working papers stating "almost believable alternatives" (twisted logic) to the brilliantly independent thoughts expressed by writers on this site. Your Doubt-Inducing Psy-Ops are becoming noteworthy. The addition of a few "new contributors" using the same M O impressed me as a nice "cover the bases" dodge. 12/5/2012 at 11:53 PM   2  0  Rating :  2  Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon The Out-of-Touch-With-Reality Crowd  (2) Panzner, The Fed and Wall-Street-Gang are now using Up & Down Quark Math. Up and down quarks have the lowest masses of all quarks. The heavier quarks rapidly change into up and down quarks through a process of particle decay: the transformation from a higher mass state to a lower mass state. This Particle Decay (loss of value) is a Transformation of what - back in the day - was called The Enron Accounting Met... 12/4/2012 at 3:55 PM   1  1  Rating :  0  Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Homeless  (25) James, you've outdone yourself. Your writing inspires me to think, and it came to my thoughts that ~ The Pharaoh would have given half his kingdom to anyone who had offered him an air-conditioned van to travel 70 miles an hour down Interstate 80 in 100 degree heat. The average person in America didn't (and still doesn't) know what they had; and now it's all disappearing. What an INCREDIBLE waste of resources... 12/3/2012 at 11:12 PM   1  3  Rating :  -2  Permalink   Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster A Change is Coming – 2013 & Onwards – Part II  (7) Julian, I think you're right to say "Change is Coming" but I think you're way overly optimistic to believe what you "hear" about the U. S. becoming Oil-Self-Sufficient. I've been doing my own OIL research; but I don't want to get into that. Here, on these pages of 24h Gold, there are two belief's stated ~ one by James Kunstler and one by you. Only one of you can be correct on this "OIL" thing. I believe it w... 11/21/2012 at 8:30 PM   1  2  Rating :  -1  Permalink   Darryl Robert Schoon - Survive the Crisis The Bankers Lost  (9) Darryl, it may be something else, some catastrophe-in-progress (as in: our solar system approaching the center point of the Milky Way Galaxy Gravitational Pull) that is known to The Elites. If they have been certain of Impending Doom all along; then getting ALL the money is just a game they're playing ~ a distraction; something to keep them busy ~ and their minds off The End Game. I know; this is just a Crazy ... 11/21/2012 at 12:20 AM   0  1  Rating :  -1  Permalink   Charleston voice From China with Love : LBMA  (2) 可能会增加至500万吨，今年，世界黄金协会称，8月，在2011年增加超过456万吨。 中国拥有世界上最大的外汇储备，总额32900亿美元的九月，根据彭博追踪的数据 This was difficult, even using Google Translator. 11/13/2012 at 9:37 PM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   Alex Daley - Casey Research Is Genetically Modified Food Killing Us?  (2) These stories, of Genetically Modified Organisms ~ Food, are all over the Internet in a constant flow of GMO news. Here, you present a more well-rounded chronicle of the may things that can be derived from GMO foods ~ the good, the bad, and the ugly. The OPERATIVE POINT of ALL of this Genetically Modified Food Information is: there is NOTHING we can do about it. NONE of the GMO foods are labeled in the stores... 11/4/2012 at 4:29 PM   4  0  Rating :  4  Permalink   Gold Forecaster Gold and Silver Market morning, November 1, 2012  (2) Good Grief Julian; you drag my interest in with your tale of Confiscation Possibilities ~ then leave the mystery hanging ! ! I can tell you're SERIOUS about this; so that DEFINITELY has me concerned. Things must be really bad for the Powers That Be: a situation reaching desperation. You leave any connection to silver hanging out there like an unwanted step-child. The intrigue is building . . . . 11/2/2012 at 1:41 PM Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Apocalyptoween  (18) James, I hope you don't stop writing. As for the Two Creatures of Corporate Capture; I thought to myself: if Romney were telling the truth ~ about ending Obamacare on His First Day in Office ~ even I would vote for him. Yes, I know he might get elected, and then would probably get a paragraph or a few sentences removed from The Bill; but I know the massive bulk of the 1,209 Pages will FOREVER remain intact AND... 10/30/2012 at 9:40 PM   0  1  Rating :  -1  Permalink   Gold Forecaster Gold and Silver Market morning, October 26, 2012  (1) Julian, your final opinion: "Silver continues to be moved by its monetary appeal not industrial demand" in this Market Morning article, makes me feel you're saying something to those of us who can only afford silver; as we are WAY priced out of the Gold Market. Thank You ~ your moderate and reasonable assessment keeps The Hope alive. "The Hope" you ask ?? Yes; the hope that this ounce-or-two-a-month, being t... 10/28/2012 at 2:34 AM Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Snake Garden  (20) With the exception I see ONE Two-Headed-Snake (Mitt-Oba); I think James has pretty much nailed our current predicament. 10/22/2012 at 7:11 PM   6  3  Rating :  3  Permalink   Dan Dontrose - The Fundamental View China’s Days Of Coming To Gold’s Rescue May Be Numbered  (6) With all the Central Banks ~ in EVERY country in the world ~ buying up every ounce of gold they can get their hands on; I fail to see how China's role, in the world gold market, remains very important. I think the people of Marketwatch.com are laying a thin layer of DOUBT DUST over the Gold Bull Market ~ for TPTB. A little propaganda goes a LONG way in the markets. Hahahahaha . . . I think you shouldn't ke... 10/20/2012 at 4:43 PM Permalink   Richard Mills - Aheadoftheherd Whisky Is For Drinking…  (3) There are tens of thousands of OIL pipelines all over the world; pumping millions of barrels of oil DAILY. You'd think, by now, mankind would have had water the world over. But Nooooooooo . . . . gotta run more of those wars and wars and wars. Don't build a pipeline: build a Nuke ! ! Don't try to grow watermelons in the desert: build a drone ! ! 10/20/2012 at 3:41 PM Permalink   John Rubino - Dollar Collapse Fiat Currency and the Emerging Police State  (10) The solutions, to the problems, will not be adopted until the cost of retaining the CURRENT structures exceeds the cost of replacing them. Example: you can move in and take over your neighbor's house ~ until the cost is your life ~ at which point the cost of retaining your current structure exceeds the cost of replacing it. The solution: you move out and find a new place to live; thereby reducing the cost belo... 10/15/2012 at 2:17 PM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   Rick Ackerman Ignore Signs of Distribution at Your Peril  (19) Rick, your snapshot/explanation of what's going on in the markets is priceless ~ but your analysis of the reasons behind those markets doing stranger-than-possible antics is flawed. If you would start from the premise that the markets "WANT" to make a severe correction downward; and have wanted to do that all along, then it's easy to explain why they haven't. There MUST be something going on BEHIND THE SCENES.... 10/14/2012 at 4:39 PM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   Clive Maund Silver Market Update : Bloodbath imminent ?  (5) Awaiting less expensive silver has become my favorite pass-time. Perhaps Christmas comes early this year. 10/11/2012 at 4:03 AM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Empty Pageantry  (22) James, you had me stuck in the on-line dictionary ~ starting with ebullience ~ for a while there. I'm learning a lot from you. I remember the news on the debate: the Dejected-Looking Obama, looking like he doesn't see winning as worth the trouble. He's probably smart enough to figure out that, no matter who wins ~ The Next Prez is the Fall Guy for the whole damn mess. I'm not voting in this Evil vs. Evil ele... 10/9/2012 at 12:45 AM   3  3  Rating :  0 2 Answers Permalink   Keith Weiner - keith weiner Open Letter to Ted Butler  (17) Kieth, your question and answer: "Why would someone buy a bar of silver and then sell a future against it? I reframed the question in this way, to make it clear why someone would do it. To make a profit." ~ makes the HUGE ASSUMPTION that the people shorting Silver actually OWN the amount of Silver they are shorting. One-to-one buy, sell or short SOUNDS like the logic of your question and answer. Good luck th... 10/5/2012 at 2:08 AM   4  0  Rating :  4  Permalink   Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster What Changes in the Gold Market? Who is Buying?  (3) I'm a supply-and-demand type thinker on the PRICE of Gold ~ so I fail to see how "Buyers of any quantity offered to them" can do so without "upsetting the market." The ONLY way I can see the PRICE of Gold remaining steady is if the PAPER Gold (the ETF Gold) is sold off ~ while the PHYSICAL Gold is bought up in an equal quantity. Of course, that would mean the Central Bankers are pushing PAPER into the market ~... 10/4/2012 at 1:54 AM   2  0  Rating :  2  Permalink   Dan Dontrose Metals May Have Topped Short Term  (3) Silver is often mentioned as "the Poor Man's Gold" and, as such, everyone knows ~ us poor get HAMMERED every chance anyone with a little power over us gets an opportunity to "do it to us." Silver, our MONETARY Messiah (not the True Messiah of our souls) offered us a Vision of The Earthly Promised Land (at over $48 an ounce) in the recent past (April 2011) ~ only to get Crucified. As "believers", we patiently a... 10/2/2012 at 11:10 PM   2  0  Rating :  2  Permalink   James Howard Kunstler In Full Flight  (35) Lately, James, it's become a LOT easier to spot a THROWN ELECTION. It's the same as spotting a "thrown" sports game or "thrown" race. When the OBVIOUS winning possibility gets trashed, ridiculed and dumped (Ron Paul) you can easily tell the outcome of any election. Here, in Indiana, it was the Jill Thompson vs. Mitch Daniels circus that put me wise to how the POWERS work. Hell, a chimp could have beat Daniel... 10/1/2012 at 2:07 PM   38  7  Rating :  31  Permalink   Mish - Global Economic Analysis By 2015 Hard Commodity Prices Will Collapse; Australia's Mining Boom Dies  (3) Mish, your reasoning is fine ~ for as far as it goes ~ but since you're projecting into 2015 I believe you're leaving out the insanity of the world's current leaders and their desire for a MUCH LARGER war: much sooner than 2015. (I mean a larger war than the BIG one going on now in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Tunisia, Palestine, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt and sometimes Jordan.) The larger wa... 9/23/2012 at 6:13 PM   4  1  Rating :  3  Permalink   Michael S. Rozeff - Mike Rozeff Vote, If…  (17) Step One: Let the ONE-PERCENT do ALL the voting. Let the 99% sit this one out. If the 99% will not take that first step ~ there will be NO step two. 9/20/2012 at 1:54 AM   0  1  Rating :  -1  Permalink   Frank Shostak Is the "Fiscal Cliff" a Threat to the Economy?  (3) Frank, you write a lot and dance around the imminent collapse as if "the present fall in the growth momentum of money supply is likely to undermine the GDP rate of growth from the second half of next year." You suggest; or, as you like to put it: "We suggest" ~ throwing more money, more BAILOUTS, at the problem will solve the problem. I note that YOU are the Chief Economist at M. F. Global. I (as in I... 9/18/2012 at 7:59 PM   7  0  Rating :  7  Permalink   Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault Why Didn't Anyone See It Coming?  (13) The great Mogambo Guru, Richard Daughty (probably retired now) warned us all (the Daily Reckoning site) The Collapse was coming ~ way back BEFORE the crash of 2007. Many of us heeded his warning ~ gathered up whatever resources we could and bought gold. In my opinion, those Gigantic Money-Sucking Squids were/are greedy and they decided they wanted more and more money, Money, MONEY. Upon learning t... 9/13/2012 at 4:08 PM   9  0  Rating :  9  Permalink   Mac Slavo - shtfplan Update On $80 Million in Seized Gold Coins: Judge Rules They “Belong to the U.S. Government”  (17) In my opinion, it's the old ~ All the Eggs in One Basket ~ routine. One should Trust the Government perhaps 10%: Send only ONE coin to the Philadelphia Mint (a government agency) for authentication. Sending ALL the coins put ALL the Langbords eggs on the wall with Humpty-Dumpty. 9/10/2012 at 6:03 AM   5  0  Rating :  5  Permalink   Nelson Hultberg - Afr Clint Eastwood and Disrespect  (49) The entire Clint Eastwood speech, to the Republican National Convention, is posted on YouTube. It's easy to find. I note that Clint is speaking to ALL Americans ~ rather than "just" to Republicans. 9/5/2012 at 1:56 PM   17  3  Rating :  14  Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Join Up!  (36) James, I feel like a voyeur when I read this. It's like I'm watching when Justice drops her skirt to the floor and ~ voilà; there's Wall Street ~ stuffing hundred-dollar bills in her g-string. Justice, and her owners, didn't age well; leaving me feeling cheated by this Dog & Pony Show. Sincerely, The Swindled Body Politic 9/4/2012 at 4:27 AM   1  2  Rating :  -1  Permalink   Mac Slavo - Shtfplan The Crunch: “It’s Going to Happen In the Next Administration; Regardless of Who Wins This Election”  (8) Did you notice ~ when the subject of REDUCING THE DEFICIT was brought up ~ Peter Schiff immediately said "we must reduce the size of Government" which Stewart instantly followed with "yes, reduce Social Security and Medicaid" ?? It's obvious Stewart doesn't realize that REDUCING THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT MEANS: Eliminating the TSA (Transportation Safety "Grope-Me" Administration), eliminating the DRONE program, el... 9/2/2012 at 3:43 AM   7  0  Rating :  7  Permalink   Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter Firestorms & Currency Twisters  (43) Big Jim, so much of what you say (the probable Morgan-Stanley crash, the use of Deutsche Marks returning to Germany, the Chinese using their US dollar reserves to grease a way out of US dollar trade settlements) is THE LATEST news to reach us. Your writings here are priceless. Perhaps a sixth star should be added to the ratings system ~ in YOUR honor. You're as thought-provoking as the remaining of the Top Th... 9/2/2012 at 2:42 AM   4  0  Rating :  4  Permalink   Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault Will the Republicans Be Returning to Gold?  (2) The Corporate Ownership of the entire United States political system means there will be NO return to the Gold Standard under ANY conditions. The suggestion of a return to a gold standard (Sound Money Policy) ~ by the Romney Campaign ~ is a political ploy to garner votes from the Ron Paul Faction of the Independent Voters. You already KNOW that Politics and Truth don't mix. 8/28/2012 at 1:37 PM   2  0  Rating :  2  Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon Maybe It's a Language Problem?  (2) You're SO RIGHT this time Panzner. In the Freedonia (Wall Street Derivative Nation) language, the word RECOVERY is pronounced Wreck-Hovery. The Freedonia definition is: 1. The suspension - as in hovering in the air - of rules governing theft/embezzlement/fraud or 2. Vultures, hyena, mice, banksters and other Scavenger Species amassing and eating what APPEARS to be alive ~ but is, indeed, dead. 8/25/2012 at 7:07 PM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon The Big Bet That Nothing Will Happen in the Weeks Ahead  (5) Panzner, there are bigger bets, at greater odds, that "nothing will happen until after the election." With so many Jokers (wild cards) in the deck ~ there's no winning strategy possible; so ~ I'm sitting on the hand I was dealt. 8/21/2012 at 1:16 AM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   Andy Sutton We Still Don’t Get It  (9) Your error is saying "we still don't get it." Rest assured: we ALL get it. The ONLY one to DO anything about "it" now sits in The Embassy of Ecuador in London. 8/19/2012 at 3:49 AM   3  0  Rating :  3  Permalink   Jesse The Time of Antichrist  (22) I've known - since Corporations became People - that there are MINIONS working for the Anti-Christ. So many have embraced the Golden Chalice filled with Fabulous Wealth ~ offered to each one by He Who Says JUST LOOK THE OTHER WAY ~ and each drinks deeply from the cup. My curiosity peaks when I wonder: do those who offer the Golden Chalice KNOW who they are working for ?? Do those who drink deeply ev... 8/16/2012 at 5:01 AM   14  0  Rating :  14  Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon Only 211 Million to Go  (3) During the LAST Great Depression (during the 1930's) there were no food stamps and no government-funded housing units. Back then there were tent cities and soup lines. It's difficult to imagine 100 million people walking the streets, hopping freight trains, sleeping in Hobo Camps, eating out of tin cans, and standing in LONG soup lines. This Depression (2008 to Whenever) is well concealed by Governm... 8/10/2012 at 6:09 PM Permalink   James Howard Kunstler That Old Martial Spirit  (25) Kunstler, this time The GOOD Guys are not any of the National Political Figures. The good guys have stood up and told the average Joe-six-pack to Unionize for Strength and Keep YOUR Job in America; but the Joe's voted Corporate and the good guys got shot down ~ then fired. The good guys stood up and told the Joe-six-packs that Trickle-Down Economics was for the rich: but the Joe's kept right on voting Reagan a... 8/8/2012 at 5:42 AM   16  1  Rating :  15 2 Answers Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon 'The Addiction to Credit Just Goes On and On and On...'  (2) Panzner, once in a while you're boring ~ but the truth you bring us THIS time is thrilling. I wish I could find a way to vote 6. 8/8/2012 at 5:25 AM Permalink   Goldmoney Europe’s Mexican standoff  (2) The banks saturated the world with debt; so much so that the debtors could not make enough money to pay back the banks. AT THAT POINT: THE BANKS SHOULD HAVE FAILED and fallen into bankruptcy. That didn't happen. The CENTRAL BANKS wanted the banks to RE-CAPITALIZE ~ but rather than print money, hand it out to the DEBTORS, and allow the payment-of-debt to re-capitalize the banks ~ the Central Banks printed money... 8/6/2012 at 4:18 AM Permalink   Charleston Voice Hoard of Crusader Gold Found in Ruins  (1) This story is really a mystery. Professor Tal states: "It puts Fatimid-period coins, minted by Egyptian Sultans in the 10th and 11th centuries, in a Crusader context. Their use of gold from an earlier period is somewhat surprising, given the importance placed on coin minting. Typically, societies mint their own coins, especially for the completion of large transactions, because it impacts more than ju... 8/6/2012 at 2:59 AM   1  1  Rating :  0  Permalink   Jason Hommel - Silverstockreport Vote for Silver!  (10) When I was a kid, I could take a quarter (which was made of 90% SILVER back then) ~ buy a gallon of gasoline ~ and mow six yards in my neighborhood with my gas mower. TODAY: I can take one of my OLD quarters (90 % SILVER) down to a jewelry store, sell it for almost FIVE dollars, buy a gallon of gas, mow six yards in my neighborhood with my gas mower, and still have a dollar left over on the sale of the quarter.... 8/2/2012 at 3:57 AM   19  0  Rating :  19 1 Answer Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Salutes to the Homeys  (15) With the exception of Gerald Celente (my personal Direct Democracy HERO) I see Kunstler and I follow a lot of the same blogs. Hmmmmm . . . my people come from Upstate New York near Niagara Falls. I wonder if we're related ?? 7/31/2012 at 2:45 AM   11  0  Rating :  11  Permalink   James Howard Kunstler What the Summer Breeze Said  (20) Kunstler's elegance has Made My Monday again. I've learned a lot here. It's rained three GOOD rains since last Monday; so I'm SKYHOOKING some Fall Crops (turnips, carrots, beets, cabbage, maybe snow peas) with a little hope. Who knows ~ come Spring next year (if there IS a next year) I might be pulling myself up by my bootstraps. 7/24/2012 at 1:19 AM   25  0  Rating :  25  Permalink   Marin Katusa - Casey Research Two Sides of the Same Flag: How Israel's Natural Gas Will Change the World  (25) Curiously, this long story leaves me wondering on several fronts. Why would Russia, the third largest energy producer in the world, want in on Israeli natural gas ? In what way did Russia show a poor military performance in Georgia ? Will Israel having natural gas make the world change: will some kind of Good Neighbor Policy break out in all the countries of the Middle East ? 7/20/2012 at 3:15 AM Permalink   James Howard Kunstler The Rising  (19) The best part of James's weekly comments is The Truth he tells becomes psychological warfare. Those on the receiving end of the Kunstler's barbs squirm, sweat and writhe every time they drive past a lamppost ~ or now ~ see a Dodge Ram truck or a cactus. The Master of Thieves Minions, wanting to calm the troops (so to speak) appears to have hired a writer to discredit the messenger. Trying to make Ku... 7/17/2012 at 5:16 AM   14  3  Rating :  11 1 Answer Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon 'We Have Barely Moved the Needle'  (1) Panzner, it's like all the participants in Money Slam Oh Eight were approaching a 4-way stop ~ each one believing the other three would surely stop ~ and each one thinking "the others will stop; so I will go ONE MORE for that Last Hurrah." None of them stopped. There's a reason things look like we have barely moved the needle. In the wreckage you'll find those speedometers with the needles stuck at ... 7/13/2012 at 3:59 AM Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon A Big Joke…  (3) Too bad the stars stop at 5. This Panzner Lesson is AT LEAST 8 Stars. 7/3/2012 at 1:46 AM Permalink   Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital The Power To Tax Is the Power To Destroy  (13) I've known ~ since the government confiscated TAXPAYER ASSETS (toll roads, parks, prisons, trash service, etc . . . . ) and began selling them ~ that The Government ALREADY DOES anything they want. Hell; I'm expecting a DHS Team to pull up any moment now ~ ask me if I'm a TAXPAYER ~ and then demand the keys to my truck and house so they can sell my (taxpayer) assets. 7/1/2012 at 10:31 PM   1  1  Rating :  0  Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Hazardous Games  (20) After looking up DETRITUS (it means waste materials or debris of any kind) I read these commentaries. I see James remains as controversial as ever. I've done some research on the World Made by Hand and I find that it's NOT a Utopian Dream that Kunstler made up. It's the circumstances arriving and forcing themselves on us as the world's resources run out. To me, this edition, Hazardous Games, is jus... 6/20/2012 at 2:24 AM   0  2  Rating :  -2  Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon A Bloody Taste  (2) Panzner, you stir my imagination. I hope you'll do a list of countries where Americans ARE welcome. I'll bet that's gonna be a short list ~ and getting shorter by the Bush-Obama-War-Starting minute. 6/19/2012 at 12:29 PM Permalink   Doug Casey. - Casey Research How to Save Your Money And Your Life  (11) Doug, your article is very depressing to me: a guy who got lucky enough to buy a house and some land and save a few (very few) bucks here at home. There's nothing I can off-shore, no place I could purchase in a Comfortable Country to sit this one out. My surroundings are deteriorating by unemployment, foreclosures and a general increase in theft. On one side I'm facing a Predatory Government while o... 6/19/2012 at 10:52 AM   11  0  Rating :  11  Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon Thieves Expand Their Horizons, Yet Again  (4) Back in March, a thief or thieves, stole my old rusty snow plow. Panzner is onto something here. 2012 isn't the Year of the Dragon ~ it's the Year of the Thief. 6/10/2012 at 12:15 AM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon Now I've Got It  (4) Panzner's sarcasm is priceless. He again proves; you're better at spotting Hard Times if you DON'T have a degree in economics. 6/2/2012 at 4:15 AM Permalink   James Turk - Goldmoney Preparing for the “Grexit”  (4) So they PAY me in Drachmas and TAX me in Euros ~ while my dollars are becoming Lira as gasoline and bread are sold for gold. Welcome to the reality of the Working Man in America. Nico and I have a lot in common. 5/27/2012 at 11:36 PM   2  0  Rating :  2  Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon The Real Reason  (1) Panzner, you forgot to mention the Aces & Eights dealt to us Working Stiffs. 5/10/2012 at 3:39 AM Permalink   James Howard Kunstler 1, 2, 3, Puke  (19) While out here on "the arid Buzzard Flats ~ beside the deep blue sea where modernity is shortly to drown itself in a fugue of suicidal bad faith"~ I found myself searching for the definition of "fugue." I got a visual of Bankers-Gone-Wild when I learned fugue means: A state or period of loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment, associated with certain forms of... 5/8/2012 at 4:44 AM   4  1  Rating :  3  Permalink   Ranting Andy - Andy Hoffman Ah, the intrigue – what could I possibly mean by “820??  (3) Reading Andy is a lot like stepping into a research lab at college; or maybe like watching Bill Nye the Science Guy on TV when the Great Discovery is made. 5/3/2012 at 3:52 AM Permalink   Peter Souleles Too Stupid To Think… Too Paralyzed To Act  (10) Peter, your original image ~ of someone holding gold and looking at this in the mirror ~ is an error. A more accurate image would be someone holding up a Quantum Physics Theory: a world monetary system backed only by the mirror-image of "faith" in that theory. While you're hammering out a solution, trying to repair the monetary system, you should take a moment to realize that some of the smartest peo... 5/1/2012 at 5:42 AM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Elegy  (14) I see a lot of faces "longing for the end of something enormous that hasn't turned out well" around here. The reign of the Mitch Daniels Regime is finally coming to an end. Having to "build the world by hand" isn't the desired outcome; it's the default outcome at the end of this enormous thing that hasn't turned out well. 5/1/2012 at 5:09 AM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   Reuters.co.uk Will a gold bar buy a case of beer?  (1) Bring me that gram of gold and I'll trade you 5 twenty-seven-ounce cans of Columbian Coffee, or a great little portable drill, or a set of 3/8 inch drive sockets with ratchet, or even 8 gallons of gas. Wait 'till you can see the stuff you can get for that gram at the Pawn Shop. You're gonna be amazed !! 4/28/2012 at 5:14 PM Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon No Punches Pulled  (1) Panzner, sometimes the brutal truth shocks me; like that picture. I visualized the Strong Arm of the Ownership Class vs. the Weak Hands of the Working Class more metaphorically ~ until today. You've added something three-dimensional to: ‘Hey, listen, I am letting go of workers. I’m hiring them back at a fraction of what I used to pay them.’ 4/28/2012 at 5:52 AM Permalink   James Howard Kunstler As If Nothing Matters  (22) You'd think the Predatory lending institutions ~ followed by the Predatory justice system, followed by the Predatory tax system, followed by the Predatory shipping of jobs overseas ~ would have been the events to cause those "tea-partiers, swindled youth, professional lefties (or what's left of them), or the fugitive thinking centrists" to burst into astounding efflorescence. Well James, a truly Predatory Situa... 4/25/2012 at 3:28 AM   1  3  Rating :  -2  Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon Business Is Booming…  (3) Panzner only gave us the beginning of the story. So many hands on so many triggers ~ Yet ~ all is quiet. Hmmm . . . . 4/24/2012 at 6:09 AM 1 Answer Permalink   Andy Sutton Still on the Fence?  (5) Andrew, the BIGGIE of the Government Handouts is to the banksters. I wish you had shown a graph of the trillions that has been handed to the banks as compared to the peanuts being handed to the common people. We're missing a graph or two here. 4/22/2012 at 2:39 AM   3  0  Rating :  3  Permalink   Adam Brochert - Gold Versus Paper And Yet Another One Bites the Dust  (3) Your common-sense-explanation of our economic variables reads very logical to me; except the words "the weak hands" in gold. I don't think weak hands get into gold. I think there are some wildly speculative buyers of gold who expected their "I want it NOW" worth to appreciate by using the gold market. I think a lot of those ineptly vacillating hands and are in the drug markets now. No, not the pharmaceutical... 4/22/2012 at 1:58 AM Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon The New Normal of the Non-Recovery  (2) Looks like Panzner has discovered ANOTHER Depression Menu Indicator: McWaste is down. 4/13/2012 at 4:29 AM Permalink   Dan Dontrose Something To Watch For In Gold  (2) Doctor Dan goes in, checks the patient's vitals and charts, then comes out in the hallway to confront the relatives. He informs us that the patient will make it in the long run, but to those counting on a near-death-experience; go ahead and list some of the patient's household goods on ebay. Doctor Dan is a five star analyst; but I think all the relatives should Butch Up ~ give the patient moral support to enc... 4/12/2012 at 1:28 PM   1  0  Rating :  1  Permalink   Mish US Offers to "Negotiate" if Iran Surrenders; Thoughts on Negotiation Tactics; Obama Threatens War  (3) It is common around here, Indiana, that when someone threatens the life of another person, the person who threatens is arrested for making a Death Threat. Charges should be filed. Since the Death Threat is to an entire nation and it's Head of State: it is a Class D Felony under United States Code Title 18, Section 871. Are FELONIES "On the Table" along with everything else ? 4/10/2012 at 3:05 AM   2  0  Rating :  2  Permalink   Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital Obama's Pretzel Logic  (7) Peter, perhaps you should ask yourself: would a Middle Class making VERY high wages create an economic boom? Back when Henry Ford was paying very high wages, the economy was booming while the CEO of the company was making 20 times the average pay of the line workers. Now industries are paying much lower wages while the CEO of the company is making 255 times the average pay of the line workers. Maybe taxes nev... 4/9/2012 at 3:24 AM   2  2  Rating :  0  Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon A Different Take on the Economy  (1) Panzner is out there playing Truth or Dare with The Powers again. 4/7/2012 at 4:29 PM Permalink   Ranting Andy - Andy Hoffman The Protection Continuum  (11) The One Percent (1%) ripped off the world and bankrupted America ~ while fifty percent (50%) of the ninety-nine percent (99%) CHEERED THAT 1% ON. That HUGE group ~ the 1% plus their Cheer Leaders ~ is not, and never will be, worth saving. On the UP side; that 51% doesn't read Ranting Andy: so they won't be doing any kind of Self Protection when the SHTF. Mathematics is my Strong Suit. 4/6/2012 at 4:14 AM Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon An Altogether Different Reality  (2) Term Sheet plays the Confused-First-Time-Caller while Panzner explains that water flows down hill. Sometimes economic news is like the Bob & Tom "Mr. Obvious" radio show. 4/5/2012 at 1:11 PM Permalink   Michael J. Panzner - Financial Armageddon Wrong Polish on the Economy  (1) There are the Starbucks Indicator, the five-dollar-foot-long Indicator, the McDonald's Depression Menu Indicator, the First-of-the-Month-Food-Rush Indicator, and now the Nail Polish Indicator. Just like The X Files: the Truth is out there. 4/1/2012 at 7:48 PM Permalink   Ty Andros - traderview TedBits: The Economic and Financial NO SPIN Zone  (5) With the exception of Ty's enthusiasm in favor of Reaganomics, which (during the Reagan Years) was called Trickle-Down Economics and Voo-Doo Economics for many reasons, I see this piece is brilliantly written and very worthy of reading. Ty brings our current economic situation to life as he gives us a visualization of what's to come. I'm going with five stars. 4/1/2012 at 7:19 PM Permalink   James Howard Kunstler Jive Talkin  (24) I remember reading a news story on Drudge ~ Obama saying his administration would be investigating the banks and mortgage fraud ~ and thinking to myself: if this were going to happen, it would have begun years ago. We'd already be hearing of arrests, prosecutions and prison sentences. It makes me smile, and impressed with my own insight ~ when I read my thoughts were parallel to Big Jim's. James; you've been ... 1/31/2012 at 2:06 PM   3  3  Rating :  0  Permalink Advertising

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