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The 8 Trillion Black Swan: Is China’s Shadow Banking System About To Collapse?
The 8 Trillion Black Swan: Is China’s Shadow Banking System About To Collapse? “Wealth management products in China have come under the spotlight after a series of missed payments raised concerns over the shadow banking sector that often directs credit to firms shut out from bank lending or capital markets,” Reuters said in February, after reporting […]
Lawrence Wilkerson: Travails of Empire – Oil, Debt, Gold and the Imperial Dollar
Lawrence Wilkerson: Travails of Empire – Oil, Debt, Gold and the Imperial Dollar “We are imperial, and we are in decline… People are losing confidence in the Empire.” This is the key theme of Larry Wilkerson’s presentation. He never really questions whether empire is good or bad, sustainable or not, and at what costs. At […]
Why Is Gold Becoming Scarcer
Why Is Gold Becoming Scarcer A Tight Market For quite a while, we have been talking about scarcity in gold. The cobasis for both October and December is positive. These contracts are backwardated. The cobasis for the February 2016 contract is not far from backwardation. The gold market is tight. Why? Let’s explore. Part of the matter is […]
US-NATO Military Deployments, Economic Warfare, Goldman Sachs and the Next Financial Meltdown
US-NATO Military Deployments, Economic Warfare, Goldman Sachs and the Next Financial Meltdown Is There a Relationship? What is the relationship between war in a military theater and “economic warfare”? An act of war is invariably an economic undertaking which supports dominant corporate interests. The conduct of US-NATO military operations is carried out on behalf of powerful financial […]
Will China Play The ‘Gold Card’?
Will China Play The ‘Gold Card’? Alasdair Macleod has posted an article at www.goldmoney.com which I think is important. (See “Credit deflation and gold”.www.goldmoney.com/research/analysis.) The thrust of the article is that China, at some point, will have to revalue gold in China; which means, in other words, that China will decide to devalue the Yuan […]
Gold Prices Disprove Krugman
Gold Prices Disprove Krugman Recently Krugman wrote an op ed ridiculing Ron Paul titled, “The Old Man and the CPI.”(In case you don’t get the reference, he’s alluding to Hemingway.) Ron Paul has responded in this video, but I want to focus on Krugman’s complains about gold bugs: Ron Paul has been making the same prediction year after year — […]
Comex On The Edge? Paper Gold “Dilution” Hits A Record 124 For Every Ounce Of Physical
Comex On The Edge? Paper Gold “Dilution” Hits A Record 124 For Every Ounce Of Physical Over the weekend, we got what was merely the latest confirmation that when it comes to sliding gold prices, consumer of physical gold just can’t get enough. As the Times of India reported over the weekend, India’s gold imports shot up […]
Gold and the Grave Dancers
Gold and the Grave Dancers The Asset They Love to Hate … Back in the 1960s, Alan Greenspan wrote a well-known essay that to this day is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the present-day monetary and economic system (which is a kind of “fascism lite” type of statism, masquerading as capitalism) […]
Blame the Fed for the Commodities Slump
Blame the Fed for the Commodities Slump When we left you at the end of last week the world was falling apart. As you know, the economy functions on electronic credit… not cold, hard cash. Without the banks pumping more credit into the system – by way of loans – it sags. The Dow fell […]
