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| Gold / Silver | 61.56 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.83 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.00 |
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 | Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
| The Federal Reserve Treasure, or Relic? |
| Many would argue that the Federal Reserve is the mainstay of the American economy—that without a Federal Reserve, the nation’s finances would spin out of control and create massive global instability. Supporters of the Federal Reserve system believe prosperity requires prices to be altered by congressionally authorized monopoly—enforced by the Legal Tender law.
U.S. Founding Father Thomas Paine on legal tender:
As to paper money, in any light it can be viewed, it is at best a bubble.
If anMonday, May 20, 2013 |
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 | Rick Ackerman |
 Microsoft’s Slow Death  |
| I spent three hours online Friday with the Geek Squad’s best and brightest, attempting without success to fix two seemingly minor problems in Microsoft Outlook. The first is that Outlook has been forgetting the password every time it checks my e-mail server. This problem has been intermittent over the more than ten years I’ve used Outlook, a nettlesome glitch that has survived all versions, updates and security patches. Although there are thousands of web pages that purport to deal with the issuMonday, May 13, 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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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Is Capitalism Killing Our Morals and Economy? |
| In one of the most hopelessly incorrect collections of drivel that I have ever seen, Paul Farrell of MarketWatch writes Capitalism is killing our morals, our future.
Yes, capitalism is working ... for the Forbes 1,000 Global Billionaires whose ranks swelled from 322 in 2000 to 1,426 recently. Billionaires control the vast majority of the world’s wealth, while the income of American workers stagnated.
Over the years we’ve explored the reasons capitalism blindly continues on its self-destructiMonday, April 29, 2013 |
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 | Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Matt Taibbi: Everything Is Rigged |
| There are more scandals to come.
Rolling Stone
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
By Matt Taibbi
April 25, 2013
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled ouFriday, April 26, 2013 |
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 | Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
4-12 PSYOPS  |
| On the website wikipedia.org, under PSYOPS,the abbreviation used for “Psychological Operations” in government circles, we find:
“PSYOPS
“[….]Various techniques are used, by any set of groups, and aimed to influence a target audience's value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior.”
This definition of PSYOPS – “psychological operations” - applies to the events of Friday, April 12 and Monday, April 15, 2013, which were preceded by years of preparation before the knock-Wednesday, April 24, 2013 |
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 | Jeb Handwerger - GoldStockTrades |
| Short Covering Squeeze In Precious Metals and Miners? |
| A week ago I wrote about a potential
rebound after capitulation and panic selling in precious metals and the
miners. It now appears Goldman Sachs (GS) is covering its short on gold as
it rebounds above $1400.
Meanwhile, many banks have helped confuse and misdirect the investment community
out of gold (GLD) and silver (SLV). This was a classic shakeout and bear trap
which may start a major short covering rally.
Be ready to see increased short covering combined with record physicalWednesday, April 24, 2013 |
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| Aubie Baltin |
 Crack In Dam |
| "One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you
will be governed by your inferiors."
Plato
“We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper,
representing neither, gold, nor silver; representing nothing but
broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditorsTuesday, April 23, 2013 |
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 | Chris Martenson |
| Unintended Consequences Are Increasing World Demand for Gold |
| With the financial experts claiming, some gleefully, that gold has "lost its
safe haven status" in the aftermath of its biggest tumble in 30 years, many
commentators thought (hoped?) that the dramatic price drop would steer people
away from gold ownership. To my eyes, the past week has all the earmarks of
a high-gloss propaganda campaign complete with well-placed anti-gold stories
in the media and the careful use of language aimed at sowing doubt about gold's
ability to be a store ofFriday, April 19, 2013 |
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| Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Shock and Awe in the Currency Wars - Silver Shenan |
| “This is an orchestration (the smash in gold). It’s been going on now from the beginning of April. Brokerage houses told their individual clients the word was out that hedge funds and institutional investors were going to be dumping gold and that they should get out in advance.
Then, a couple of days ago, Goldman Sachs announced there would be further departures from gold. So what they are trying to do is scare the individual investor out of bullion. Clearly there is something desperate goiMonday, April 15, 2013 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Fed smashing metals to guard dollar against hyperinflation, Roberts tells KWN |
| Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts tells King World News today that the smashing of gold and silver prices is a Federal Reserve campaign to defend the U.S. dollar against a hyperinflationary scenario.
"The exchange value of the dollar is threatened," Roberts says, "and if that collapses the Fed loses control over interest rates. Then the bond market blows up, the stock market blows up, and the banks that are too big to fail, fail. So it's an act of desperation because they'veSaturday, April 13, 2013 |
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 | Deepcaster |
| Riding the Big Profits Kahuna ? How Much Longer? |
| ?Artificial.?Comment re. the recent Equities Market RallyMohammed El-ArianCEO & Co-CIO PIMCOIndeed, the Equities and Bond Markets have been riding The Big Kahuna of Fed, ECB, Bank of England (and now the Bank of Japan?s) Q.E. et al. for several Years Now.But for how much longer can Investors expect to ride these Market Boosting Central Bank Injections and other Interventions before Disaster strikes and the use of QE reveals itself to be clearly Counter Productive.Increasingly, these InterventionSaturday, April 06, 2013 |
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| Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter |
| ZIRP (0%) is Not Stimulus, Rather a Death Knell |
| The propaganda has been thick over the last few years, especially since the US banking system suffered a fatal heart attack in September 2008. It has not recovered since, still insolvent, still wrecked, having returned a zombie center with a USTBond carry trade core and continued money laundering basement lifeline. The Jackass is tired beyond words, beyond description, of hearing that the Zero Percent Interest Policy is being kept as a stimulus measure to encourage continued economic recovery. IFriday, April 05, 2013 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Can We Fix What's Wrong With Banking? |
| I was asked a few days ago by Zócalo Public Square, a not-for-profit daily Ideas Exchange, to contribute a brief comment to coincide with their upcoming event "Can We Fix What's Wrong With Banking?"
I was specifically asked to address the question "should we have bailed out the banks?" Here is my response:
No, we should not have bailed them out. That’s the easy question.
Now that we have bailed them out, however, here’s the important question: "Will we fix what’s wrong with banking before theSaturday, March 16, 2013 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Alasdair Macleod: Why they might want to rig the gold market |
| Reflecting on today's report in The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is considering investigating possible manipulation of the gold and silver markets, particularly at the London price "fixings" --
http://www.gata.org/node/12326
-- GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod writes that the CFTC likely has been pressured by years of such allegations.
"In gold and silver futures," Macleod writes, "the commercials (basically those participants that have physFriday, March 15, 2013 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| CTFC consider London fix investigation |
| It seems that America's Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is discussing internally the possibility that gold and silver is being manipulated at the London fixings, according to The Wall Street Journal. It seems that CTFC officials have concluded that if Libor can be rigged, so can gold and silver at the London fixes. Whether or not they get anywhere with this line of enquiry, only time will tell.
It is certainly possible for bullion banks to rig fixings, simply by submitting a buy oFriday, March 15, 2013 |
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 | Gordon Long - Market Analytics |
| Currency Wars: Belligerent Bullies |
| MACRO INSIGHTS - March 2013
The Currency War being heralded by the media is not what it appears. Remember:
"Strategy is something that happens TO YOU while YOU ARE LOOKING the other
way!"
As in the game of chess, which taught warriors of yesteryear about strategy
and how the elements of cunning and positioning delivered 'check mate', this
game is about understanding the strategy being slyly carried out. Currency
Wars may be an old game, but it is a very different battlefieldSunday, March 10, 2013 |
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| Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Gold market report: the yellow metal is still oversold |
| On Comex, last week’s Commitment of Traders Report for gold showed Managed Funds (mostly hedge funds) with record shorts, as foreshadowed in last Friday’s Market Report. But they became very skittish – some changing their minds on a mini-bear squeeze in both gold and silver, triggered during Ben Bernanke’s testimony to the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday. This saw prices spike upwards and open interest in gold futures fall sharply between Tuesday and Wednesday as some of these posiSunday, March 03, 2013 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Is Inflation the Legacy of the Federal Reserve? |
| In testimony to Congress on February 27, Bernanke bragged that inflation under his and Greenspan's watch was a mere 2% a year.
Of course Bernanke ignored a housing boom and bust. He also ignored a a dotcom boon and bust, a global financial crisis, numerous bank bailouts, and a policy of "too big to fail" that is now "even bigger".
Fed Inflation
A Bloomberg video exposes Bernanke as nothing but a charlatan. Please consider Hockey Stick Inflation.
Inflation Targeting at 2% Per Year
BernanSaturday, March 02, 2013 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Elizabeth Warren Grills Bernanke on "Too Big to Fail" Policy |
| Inquiring minds are watching Bernanke squirm under pressure from Senator Elizabeth Warren who complains "Too Big To Fail" is now bigger than ever before.
Partial Transcript
Warren: These big financial institutions are getting cheaper borrowing to the tune of $83 billion in a single year, simply because people believe government would step in and bail them out. And, I'm just saying, if they're getting it, why aren't they paying for it?
Bernanke: I think we should get rid of it.
WarrenFriday, March 01, 2013 |
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