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Financial Markets: Pinocchio’s Enchanted Island
Financial Markets: Pinocchio’s Enchanted Island The control of the commercials and the COMEX manipulators have is very depressing for the gold market investor. As soon as gold and the miners are about to get on another bullish leg, that the moving averages are positively aligned and re-crossing the 200-day MA, that the traders are standing […]
Head Of Largest Swiss Cantonal Bank Says Swiss Capital Controls Are “Certainly Possible”
Head Of Largest Swiss Cantonal Bank Says Swiss Capital Controls Are “Certainly Possible” Yesterday, when we reported that the SNB had hinted at that most dreaded of possibilities for central planners, one which always implies full loss of central bank credibility, namely capital control, for some inexplicable reason various readers and even contributors (“Another misleading headline by the Tylers. What […]
Russell Napier: “The Most Dangerous Thing In Finance Is The Thing That Never Ever Moves – Until It Moves”
Russell Napier: “The Most Dangerous Thing In Finance Is The Thing That Never Ever Moves – Until It Moves” The PBOC – How to fail in business without really flying “Terrain seems a bit unstable…and there seems to be no sign of intelegent life anywhere” – Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story) “That wasn’t flying…that was falling […]
Debt In The Time Of Wall Street
Debt In The Time Of Wall Street With all the media focus aimed at Greece, we might be inclined to overlook – deliberately or not – that it is merely one case study, and a very small one at that, of what ails the entire world. The whole globe, and just about all of its […]
Hounded by Evil Dollar & Collapsed Commodity Prices, Corporate America Clamors for Total Currency War
Hounded by Evil Dollar & Collapsed Commodity Prices, Corporate America Clamors for Total Currency War Consumers are feeling practically euphoric. The Conference Board index jumped almost ten points to 102.9, the highest since August 2007, just before the whole construct came apart. Not that reality has suddenly improved that much. But hey, we’re born survivors. […]
“This Is A Race To The Bottom Where No Fiat Currency Wins”
“This Is A Race To The Bottom Where No Fiat Currency Wins” Following another frustrating year in the previous metals markets, 2015 is showing signs that change is afoot. As Santiago Capital’s Brent Johnson notes in this brief presentation, while being ‘wrong’ for the last 2 years on gold has been painful, is it any less crazy […]
Low Oil Prices And Money Worries For 2015
Low Oil Prices And Money Worries For 2015. In response to the Ruble’s recent fall (over 50% against the U.S. Dollar), Swiss banks have begun taking extreme and extraordinary measures in what appear to be early signs of a currency war. There is now a negative interest rate of 0.25% on deposits made in Swiss Francs. […]
New York Times on Benefits of Gold in Currency Wars | www.goldcore.com
New York Times on Benefits of Gold in Currency Wars | www.goldcore.com. The New York Times published an important article this week in which the benefits of gold to nation states during a period of currency wars was highlighted. The article was noteworthy as the New York Times has rarely covered gold in a positive manner. The […]
The Return of Currency Wars by Nouriel Roubini – Project Syndicate
The Return of Currency Wars by Nouriel Roubini – Project Syndicate. NEW YORK – The recent decision by the Bank of Japan to increase the scope of its quantitative easing is a signal that another round of currency wars may be under way. The BOJ’s effort to weaken the yen is a beggar-thy-neighbor approach that is inducing […]
charles hugh smith-Why the Rising U.S. Dollar Could Destabilize the Global Financial System
charles hugh smith-Why the Rising U.S. Dollar Could Destabilize the Global Financial System. I have been suggesting for several years that the U.S. Dollar would confound those anticipating its demise by starting a long secular uptrend. In early September I made the case for a rising U.S. dollar, based on the basic supply and demand for […]