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Today, gold and silver mining stocks
offer the best value by far of any sector in any stock market anywhere in the
world. Due to the recent massive volatility that bankers have introduced into
the PM stock sector, and the fact that commercial investment advisers
worldwide have erroneously re-educated millions of people with the concept
that volatility equals risk, the majority of people worldwide will miss a
massive opportunity in gold and silver mining stocks over the next several
years due to their misguided belief that gold and silver mining stocks cannot
escape the throes of banker manipulation.
There has been much acceptance of the
theory that Central Banks and bankers perpetually manipulate gold and silver
spot prices through the gold/silver futures markets due to strong
circumstantial, non free-market evidence such as
gold/silver futures prices being significantly higher in Asian futures
markets versus Western futures markets for long stretches of time as well as
out-and-out flagrant behavior such as the irrational raising of initial and
maintenance margins on silver futures five times in nine working days into
falling prices instead of into rising prices. For those not aware of the
multitude of schemes Central Banks execute to suppress gold and silver
futures prices, please refer to this article, JS Kim Uncovers Four Parallel
Markets for Gold, when during the Wall Street collapse of 2008,
bullion banks (controlled by Central Banks) routinely knocked the gold
futures price down by $10, $20, $30 and sometimes even $40 an ounce usually
right at market open of the NY COMEX at a time when gold was trading at less
than $900 an ounce and such movements reflected 2%+ to 3%+ waterfall
movements downward in price (comparatively speaking today, such percent
movements would consist of $40 to $50 an ounce movements downward.
Since then, bullion banks have
executed this scheme over and over, pulling bids at the market open of the NY
COMEX to cause a waterfall decline in gold futures prices in a matter of a
few minutes. Throw in for good measure that you can check all US holidays
when the COMEX is closed for the past five years and you can find nary a day
when gold is not higher or at least about even, simply for the reason that
the NY Comex is closed and the Western banking
cartel is non-operational in the gold/silver markets on these days. If this circumstantial evidence, literally the tip of the
iceberg in the mountain of circumstantial evidence of banker price
suppression schemes against gold and silver futures, is insufficient to
convince the most stubborn of skeptics, then consider former US Federal
Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s statement in 1966 that:
“An almost
hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites
statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense – perhaps more clearly
and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire – that gold
and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument
of laissez-faire and that each implies and requires the other.”
Would not statists that support the
doctrine of seizing centralized control over economic planning and monetary
policy, not covertly and actively suppress the price of gold, if the most
famous Central Banker himself stated that they possess “an almost
hysterical antagonism” towards gold? Today, nearly half a century
later, banker propaganda and re-education campaigns regarding gold and silver
have been so successful that Greenspan’s accusation that many defenders
of the laissez-faire doctrine fail to recognize that gold and economic
freedom are inseparable still stands true. I’ve read numerous essays by
those that argue for less government interference in business and monetary
affairs and for stronger free markets but yet vehemently deny that bankers
ever interfere in gold and silvers futures markets through active price
suppression schemes.
However, as I’ve written
extensively about this topic for six years at my investment blog theUndergroundInvestor.com and will
address this topic further in two books I will release by year’s end, I
do not want to stray from the main topic of this essay: Gold and silver
mining shares offer tremendous value and tremendous upside right now due to
the fact that bankers have worked very diligently to suppress the price of
gold and silver mining shares for the past 12 months.
I’ve always been surprised over
the years by the lack of accusations from the CEOs of the mining world that
one of the primary reasons, if not the primary reason, for the underperformance
of their share prices in recent years are banker price suppression schemes
enacted against the PM shares. I realize that many industry analysts refrain
from making this accusation due to the fact that they are being afraid of
labeled by their peers or superiors as “loony, conspiracy
theorists” but who cares if someone at the CFTC or some top PM analyst
at Goldman Sachs or Citigroup calls you a “loony”. Due to macro
and micro-economic predictions that have the track record equivalency of Ben
Bernanke, most of these guys have as much credibility as a talking dolphin,
so to be discredited in an ad hominem attack by any of these guys should
truly pose no worry. However, nearly all mainstream gold/silver analysts
appear to still engage themselves in censoring the truth due to concerns of
being ostracized by the mainstream financial industry. As far as I’m
concerned, being ostracized by the criminal mainstream financial industry, in
my opinion, should present one with the mark of credibility.
When I first started publicly
speaking about the banker executed price suppression schemes against gold and
silver futures prices six years ago, bankers tried to discredit and call me
crazy back then, but now, six years later, such explanations for inexplicable
movements downward in gold/silver futures markets when physical supply/demand
fundamentals demand upward price movements are at times, even accepted by the
mainstream media, or at a minimum, now reported by them instead of being
ignored by them. These are huge steps forward in dispensing the red pill of
truth to skeptics regarding the true reasons behind volatile price movements
downward in the gold and silver markets. Furthermore, whenever I presented
factual evidence of the manipulation in gold markets, most banking analysts
that disagreed with me countered my arguments with simple ad hominem attacks
that never once provided a solid refutation of, nor a credible argument
against the evidence I presented, circumstantial and factual (in the form of
Central Bank documents that specifically addressed their desire to suppress
gold prices). I believe the same three stages of truth as described by German
philosopher Shopenhauer, will also manifest itself
in regard to PM mining shares just as they have manifested/are about to manifest
with gold/silver prices: (1) First, truth is ridiculed; (2) Second, truth is
violently opposed; and (3) Third, truth is accepted as self-evident. Finally,
if people so widely accept now that bankers are interfering in suppressing
much higher free-market prices from operating in gold and silver futures
markets, is it really that much of a deductive leap to assume that they would
also be interfering in suppressing free-market prices in gold and silver
mining shares?
As is the case with the behavior of
gold/silver futures markets, numerous illogical anomalies that manifest
themselves with regularity in the gold/silver mining shares first made me
suspect that bankers were routinely interfering with the prices of gold and
silver mining shares. To illustrate my point, let’s look at the
performance of a couple of flagship gold and silver mining shares versus the
performance of some flagship retail and financial shares.
From the chart above, you can see
that the mining shares either significantly outperformed or astoundingly
outperformed non-mining industry companies with a similar market cap size in
simple financial metrics except for share price appreciation in the last
year, a category in which they astoundingly underperformed their competitors.
I am not. In the case above, I have only provided a very basic example to
illustrate how drastically undervalued share prices of producing gold and
silver companies are right now. I fully realize that I am not comparing
apples to oranges, but I merely wanted to illustrate how companies’
share prices with healthy earnings and revenues outside of the mining sector
act, since bankers have targeted gold and silver mining shares as a sector
for price suppression schemes. Thus, I had to look outside of the PM sector
to provide examples of what should be happening with the PM mining share
prices. And I only call the other company “competitors” of the
mining stocks because the goal of commercial investment industry analysts is
to prevent you from buying the most undervalued stocks in the entire market
and to keep you invested in overvalued and overpriced stocks. After all, when
gold and silver mining stocks finally get going in their next upleg, which may be very soon, investors will naturally
want to also invest in physical gold and physical silver and thus dump the
broad stock market index portfolios they may currently maintain. So in
essence mining stocks are competitors of the retail and tech stocks though
most would say they are not.
Furthermore, most would argue that
substantially lower prices in the price component of PEG ratios are justified
for the mining sector due to the typical volatility of mining shares, but
this past year, this argument only serves to support my thesis regarding the
fact that mining shares are the most undervalued sector and the most
underappreciated sector in the market right now. Sectors that are viewed as
volatile typically are expected to have lower share prices to compensate for
the added risk of holding shares in that sector. However, this year, given that
the broad stock market index of the S&P 500 has traveled an incredible
1,230+ points up and down since May 1st but has remained relatively unchanged
in value, extra volatility of mining shares over components of broad stock
market indexes does not justify lower share prices of the mining stocks.
Furthermore, because banker attacks on gold and silver mining shares, whether
achieved by indirect take downs of gold/silver futures prices and/or direct
sell-offs of the shares during times of low volume trading, are responsible
for the added volatility of PM shares, arguing that the volatility of the
sector justifies lower PM share prices also loses credibility.
Even if we disregard this admittedly
circumstantial argument, if we compare the trading ranges at which these four
stocks traded at during most of the past 12 months, the volatility
comparisons do not justify the huge differences in the PEG ratios of the past
12 months between the PM stocks and the stocks that trade on the broader
stock market index. Chipotle traded between a range of $270 and $340, or a
25.93% spread for most of the year while Silver Wheaton traded in a range
between $30 and $40 a share, or a spread of 33% most of the year, though both
stocks traded both higher and lower than these ranges for short periods of
time. Though this is but a comparison of two stocks out of hundreds of mining
stocks and a couple thousand NYSE stocks, and though some may argue that
Chipotle is overvalued at its current share price and PEG, many PM mining
stocks across the board are flush with huge cash reserves, soaring revenues,
double digit earnings growth for several consecutive quarters, but yet have
experienced stagnant or even negative share price growth over the past 12
months. Again I am only comparing Chipotle to Silver Wheaton to highlight the
massively manipulated state of flagship gold and silver mining companies over
the past 12 months and not because I think a direct comparison is the most
apropos one.
Besides the totally illogical
performance of Barrick Gold and Silver Wheaton
above when considering their PEG ratios and their massively positive earnings
growth over the last year, I have witnessed numerous anomalies over the past
decade that convince me beyond a shadow of doubt that bankers manipulate the
prices of gold and silver mining stocks downward on a persistent and
consistent basis to prevent the masses from understanding that ownership of
physical gold and physical silver will liberate them from our current morally
bankrupt, illegitimate and unconstitutional monetary and banking system. For
example, during dozens of options expiration days over the past five years in
particular, I have witnessed uptrends in the price of numerous mining stocks
stall and shed 3% to 4% from the previous day’s market close on
literally no negative news other than the fact that it was OpEx day. And usually the prices of mining stocks, on
days when this happens, gap down significantly on market open. Then, the
following Monday after OpEx day is finished, the
uptrend in mining shares will resume. Yes, one can call this behavior
coincidental but anyone that does so would be dismissing the laws of
probabilities and calling for a new mathematical paradigm to apply only on OpEx days. The percent chance that attributes such regular
and repeated price action behavior that occurs only on OpEx
days to the probabilities of “random noise” would likely come in
at less than a fraction of 1%.
For the first time I can recall in
recent times, the CEO of a major PM mining company finally spoke out about
the ridiculous and likely intervention of the banking cartel in suppressing
the price of not only PM futures but PM share prices. Keith Neumeyer, the CEO of First Majestic mining, recently
voiced his opinions behind the downward price volatility not only of
gold/silver futures but of gold/silver mining shares: “I don’t think supply and
demand has anything to do with the price [of silver], unfortunately. The
world we live in today is a paper environment where silver is priced by
financial circumstances. Banks, traders and investors around the world move
markets to where they want them to be. Governments and commercials—big
banks like HSBC and JP Morgan—all have a piece of the action. They
alternately work together or sometimes against each other. All these forces
price the metal. That’s one reason we’re seeing the volatility
that we’re seeing today.” Dramatic silver volatility “has to do with the financial
instruments that we trade in and with the fact that silver trades a billion
ounces per day on the COMEX alone when there are 26 to 30 million ounces of
silver available for delivery. With that kind of leverage, you just
don’t have a proper market… The governments, regulators and
bullion banks have let the silver market get more and more leveraged.
We’ve seen a lot of wealth destruction as a result of this leverage and
we’re going to see a lot more until, finally, the governments decide to
change the system.” With these scathing comments about the
casino like nature of banker-rigged gold and silver markets, Neumeyer hit the nail squarely on its head.
Unfortunately, governments, because
they are partners with the bankers in this system of cronyism, will never
voluntarily change the system. Thus, here is the billion dollar question if
one understands the tremendous illicit activity of bankers in rigging
gold/silver PM shares much lower than their free market prices: Why would you
want to buy into these shares even if they are remarkably undervalued right
now given massive banker desire to control and suppress their share prices?
After all, all of this banker rigging convinced a few gold/silver technical
analysts just two weeks ago to predict imminent collapses in the silver price
to $20 an ounce in light of how bankers were “painting the charts”
in gold and silver to keep investors fearful of these sectors. In fact, a
look at the BPGDM (Gold Miners Bullish Percent Index) right now shows that
bullish sentiment towards gold/silver stocks is practically non-existent
though we are at a crossroads when people should be buying PM shares because
of their current tremendous upside. So other than the fact that gold and
silver mining shares offer great value right now, is there a reason to
realistically believe that gold and silver mining shares will win their battle
against banker initiated share price take downs any time soon? To answer this
question, let me tell recall a couple of stories that will frame our current
situation of negative sentiment about gold/silver mining shares in the proper
perspective.
A couple of years ago, in April of
2009, I spoke in Asia to a group of investors at a time when bankers had
knocked gold back down from the psychologically important $1,000 an ounce
level for the fourth time in the about a period of 18 months. Back then, gold
was trading at about $870 an ounce. The investors that attended my conference
asked me back then why in the world they should buy gold at $870 if banker
manipulation was one of the primary reasons responsible for the failure of
gold to breach $1,000 an oz four consecutive times.
Furthermore, they inquired, why couldn’t the bankers manipulate gold
back down to $500 an oz if they could successfully
prevent gold from breaching $1,000 on four consecutive occasions? I remember
informing the investors that the banker manipulation schemes could only
succeed short-term and that the bankers would fail long-term. Just as Central
Banks’ endless rounds of QE will spectacularly fail long-term and only
serve to kick the can of global economic failure down the road, the Central
Banks’ price suppression schemes against gold and silver only kick the
inevitable rises in gold and silver prices down the road as well. In
addition, I informed my highly skeptical audience that the law of diminishing
returns would apply to banker manipulation schemes that work against free
market forces, and that each subsequent application of manipulation against
free market forces would last a shorter time, as is evident in the chart
above. Though there was a large gap of time between the second and third
times that gold approached $1,000 an ounce after getting knocked backwards,
the time in between the third and fourth time and the fourth and fifth time
gold approached $1,000 an ounce was much more condensed. So those that
remained skeptical and had more faith in banker amorality than in the belief
they could defeat these banker manipulation schemes lost out on a 100% gain
in the price of gold that has occurred between then and today.
If we look at the chart of the mining
shares I presented above, the same pattern with the mining stocks that afflicted
gold prices a couple of years ago is evident. The HUI Gold Bugs Amex has been
turned back from the 600-610 level four consecutive times (with one false
breakout in early September 2011) and each time bankers have rebuffed the
index from this level, it has taken less and less time for the index to
rebound to this level again as with the bankers’ attempt to defend the
$1,000 an oz price level with gold. Though you may
not recall, I remember many people being incredibly frustrated with the price
action in gold from 2008 and 2009 and with some people selling all their gold
as a result of the bankers’ intervention to control the price of gold,
an action that ironically was the exact end goal of the bankers’
manipulation game. Today, despite the fact that we have history as a guide
and the cliché that history always repeats itself, for some reason, I
have seen many people become incredibly frustrated with the bankers’
rebuke of the attempts of gold and silver mining shares to climb higher and as
I witnessed in 2009, I have seen people make the big mistake of dumping all
of their gold and silver mining shares in the past couple of months due to
frustration. In fact, after I scripted this article, Don’t Miss Out on One of
the Best Investments of a Lifetime…Yet Again, on August 8,
2011 in which I advocated the HUI at 531.78 as a good low-risk, high-reward
entry point to purchase some gold mining stocks, I received some comments
that literally called me an “idiot” for writing this article
after the HUI hit a low at market close of 502.92 in early October, even
though this represented less than a 5.5% drop from the level I advocated
buying mining stocks that past August.
As one can hardly legitimately call
anyone an idiot for making a call that leads to a temporary 5% drop, I can
easily guess the novice investor mistake that this irate person committed.
Just as is the case today, as was the case on August 8, 2011, hardly any
investors ever make a move when gold/silver assets are dirt-cheap. Instead
they fall victim to the game of banker manipulation, and refuse to buy gold
and silver assets when they present solid value as they fear a gold/silver
crash. Consequently, they wait for significant rebounds before ever investing
in gold/silver despite golden fundamentals at much lower prices that point to
the strong possibility of much higher prices in the future. Even if much
higher prices are followed by another round of manipulation and lower prices,
interim volatility is irrelevant, as long as your decisions to enter
gold/silver markets at the right time and prices are solid. I can only fathom
that this person finally made the move to buy mining stocks after the HUI hit
a short-term top of 635.04 one month after I advocated the buying of gold
mining stocks. Thus, one month later, instead of being able to sit through a
very manageable 5% drop, this investor likely panic-sold out of gold mining
stocks after taking a 26% hit to his gold mining stock portfolio in little
over a month. Though my call that PM stocks would be the best in class from
that point forward to the end of this year has not yet come to fruition, I
strongly believe that my end prediction will still prove correct, and that
only the time frame of my prediction will be pushed out by several months.
That is why I always provide timely guidance to my clients
that distinguishes between the times we need to move into, or remain
in cash, and the times we need to remain patient and fully committed. As I
illustrated in my example above, timing can easily be the difference between
easily waiting through a minor 5% correction or
being stuck with a 26% loss after one month.
The short-term corrections of the HUI
Gold Bugs index from the 600-610 level on four consecutive occasions has led
to bullish sentiment being nearly non-existent for gold mining shares right
now (and you could easily make the point that bullish sentiment in silver
mining shares is even worse right now). Just as most investors committed the
huge mistake of judging gold’s upside in 2009 as non-existent due to
banker price suppression schemes, people are making the very same mistake in
judging the upside of mining shares right now as non-existent. The banker
price suppression scheme against gold and silver mining shares will fail, and
I believe that the fifth approach of the HUI to the 600-610 level will be the
time that the HUI breaks above this level for good and heads much higher.
Last time I saw an opportunity better
than our current one in the mining shares, I informed my clients to double
down on their positions in Silver Wheaton at $3.45 a share in November of
2008. Today with Silver Wheaton trading at $33.52 a share, those that acted
during a time when sentiment regarding PM shares was at an all-time low, have
been rewarded with a 872% gain in little more than
three years. Though I don’t expect mining shares to gain 872% in 3
years again, no doubt there may be more than a handful that return several
hundred percent in gains in the next three years.
We must not let our fear of
bankers’ amorality and their desire to suppress our freedom scare us
away from buying assets that will free us from their illegitimate and
unconstitutional monetary system. If one remains too fearful to buy gold and
silver mining shares due to banker introduced volatility into this sector,
consider at a minimum, purchases of physical gold and physical silver to
replace your fiat paper currencies and to replace your paper silver SLV and
paper gold GLD ETFs. Also consider that the global broad stock market indexes
have been no less volatile than mining shares this year with MUCH greater risk
as banks have manipulated broad stock market indexes higher and mining share
indexes lower. And what if I’m wrong about mining shares heading much
higher from this point forward? The aforementioned Keith Neumeyer,
CEO of First Majestic Silver, provides perhaps the best answer to have faith
that history will repeat itself with the mining stocks share prices
eventually moving higher into their free market, non
downward-manipulated prices:
“If
I’m wrong (about free market forces winning the battle in gold/silver
markets in the future), the banks will run the world, even more so than they
do today, 10 or 20 years from now. God forbid that we ever get there because
that’s a one currency, one government world that would absolutely be a
disaster for the human race. There would be no freedoms at all to move or to
invest. It would be like having shackles on our ankles. There is a movement
to go in that direction, unfortunately. There are a number of very wealthy
people that want to see that. I hope that we can find the politicians to
prevent that type of world from coming to pass.”
Justice
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