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Where Is All The Gold Going?
Where Is All The Gold Going? Changing Attitudes With the help of a set of excellent charts on gold imports vs exports by Nick Laird (www.sharelynx.com), I would like to give you a brief overview of where gold is going. We have heard for some time that gold is moving to the Far East but […]
Neither Bull nor Bear
Neither Bull nor Bear “Good Economic Management” vs. Larceny “Will you shut up?!” That is what we wanted to say this morning, here in Zurich, Switzerland. At the table next to us, a hedge fund promoter is working hard… “The value proposition… outside of the box… we’re only talking two points… we can dialogue about […]
Waiting to be SKEWered?
Waiting to be SKEWered? SKEW Goes Pear-Shaped Back in 1998, at the height of the Russian crisis, the CBOE SKEW Index reached its all time high of 146.88. Previously very high values were seen on the eve of the 1990 recession, and in March 2006 it spiked again when sudden worries about the housing bubble […]
Reflections on Modern Democracy
Reflections on Modern Democracy Democracy – but only when it goes your way! Over the years of watching the democratic process I’ve noticed something important. People tend to reject democracy, indeed, fight it tooth and nail, when it doesn’t go their way. But when it does, well, it is the tops. Consider the case of California’s Proposition 187. Then […]
How Big an Oil Glut is There Really?
How Big an Oil Glut is There Really? Revisiting Crude Oil Beginning in late August we have frequently discussed the possibility that a significant low in crude oil prices could be imminent in spite of the “obvious” lousy fundamentals. As blind luck would have it, the first of these articles (entitled “Is Crude Oil Close to a Low?”) was […]
The Lowest Interest Rates in 5,000 Years…
The Lowest Interest Rates in 5,000 Years… A Dangerous Spot SANTORINI, Greece – “Gods were gods. Men were men,” explained our tour guide, Spiros. “The ancient Greeks thought there was a difference. Men had to realize they weren’t gods. They couldn’t do the things gods could do. If they tried, it provoked a disaster. The […]
Legal Fictions and new Battlegrounds in the War on Cash
Legal Fictions and new Battlegrounds in the War on Cash Greece – Ground Zero in the War on Cash? We believe it was our friend Claudio Grass of Global Gold in Switzerland who first mentioned that the eurocracy may possibly have plans to use the Greek crisis as an opportunity to expand the ongoing war […]
Faith in Central Banks Dwindles
Faith in Central Banks Dwindles Even Bloomberg Notices that Something is Amiss As anyone who hasn’t been in a coma knows, assorted central bank interventions have failed to achieve their stated goals over the past several years. A recent article at Bloomberg focuses on their failure to reach their “inflation” targets. Of course, this particular failure is […]
The Phrase that Initiates Recessions
The Phrase that Initiates Recessions It Can’t Get Any Worse? On Friday, shortly after the release of the payrolls report, we asked half in jest whether the time had finally come for the market to interpret bad news as bad news, and not as an opportunity to speculate on more central bank largesse. As someone remarked to […]
EU Moloch in a Fresh Bid to Inflate
EU Moloch in a Fresh Bid to Inflate Brussels Alters Capital Requirements to “Spur Lending” Saints preserve us, the central planners in Brussels are giving birth to new inflationist ideas. Apparently the 2008 crisis wasn’t enough of a wake-up call. It should be clear by now even to the densest observers that a fractionally reserved […]
Here Come the Money Helicopters!
Here Come the Money Helicopters! $10 Trillion Goes to Money Heaven We interrupt our series on what to do if you have no money to bring you an update on those who are losing it. (You can catch up on Parts I and II of that series here and here.) What was the best place for your money […]
The Baby Boomer Survival Guide (Part II)
The Baby Boomer Survival Guide (Part II) A Lehman Moment for Commodities? LONDON – Today, we continue our philosophical look at what you should do if you are running out of time and money. (You can catch up on Part I here.) Where do we begin? With how to add wealth? Or how to lose it? The […]
The Baby Boomer Survival Guide (Part I)
The Baby Boomer Survival Guide (Part I) The Yellow Machines Go Silent PARIS – What should you do if you are running out of time and money? This is the question we get from readers over 50… over 60… and sometimes over 70. We baby boomers were famously “na… na… na… live for today.” Now, […]
Abe Reaches his Militarist Goal
Abe Reaches his Militarist Goal Japan’s House of Councilors Briefly Transforms into Rada Outpost Pictures such as those below used to primarily reach us from Ukraine’s Rada, back before Poroshenko’s “lustration law” banned about four million Ukrainian citizens from the political process forever. In Ukraine, brawls regularly broke out between Western Ukrainian nationalists and representatives […]
