In this excellent market update, Tekoa da Silva discusses where to from here in gold and silver, and whether the metals will be taken further down with the general equities in the event of a fall 2013 market crash.
Tekoa points out the massively bearish sentiment currently permeating the precious metals market, and the fact that the bearish calls and forecasts always grow the loudest and largest near the ultimate bottom. [Read more...]
The Bearish “Calls” Always Grow Loudest Near The Bottom
Comparing Today’s Gold Market to the 1970′s: Is the Gold Rush Over?
Lots of people are comparing today’s gold market to the 1970’s. Gold shot up to nearly $200 per ounce and crashed 9 months later to near $100 an ounce. Of course, gold had an historic rise to $85 per ounce after that wicked pull-back. Some, such as economist Nouriel Roubini, say “the gold rush is over,” and the seventies are not going to repeat. The debt of today is greater by orders of magnitude from the 1970’s, and there is no end in sight. That means gold has only one way to go (in the long term) and that’s up.
We had a national debt of less than $1 trillion when Jimmy Carter left office. Today, it is nearly $17 trillion, and the so-called debt ceiling is going to need to be raised–again. Debt in the U.S government is exploding. So is debt in the rest of the Western World, just look at Europe and Japan.
Derivatives were virtually nonexistent back the 1970’s. Today, the official total of these debt bets is around $700 trillion, and some say it’s more than twice that much. Pensions didn’t have funding problems back then. Today, they are at least $1 trillion dollars in the red. You can say the same thing for student debt—also $1 trillion in the hole. [Read more...]
Jim Willie: Raging Gold Bull & Disputed Propaganda
By Jim Willie, GoldenJackass.com
The propaganda has turned openly laughable. On the popular major financial news networks, the recent decline in the so-called Gold price has prompted quite the parade of clowns on the ship of fools to trumpet nonsense. The widely published and posted Gold price is dominated by futures contracts, and thus as corrupted as meaningless.
The entire global financial structure is crumbling before our eyes. The gang of central bankers has applied their monetary policy for four and a half years since the implosion of Lehman, Fannie Mae, and AIG. The first is dead, while the second has transformed into a sanctioned subprime lender again, and the latter is a sinkhole. The deceptive messages are shrill, acute, and motivated from desperation. The West cannot solve its problems, hardly properly described as a financial crisis anymore, under the current framework bound to the fiat paper currencies.
The global monetary war is heating up notably. The heavy liquidity has caused unfixable distortions in every conceivable bond market niche. The new and better debt devices have been exposed for their shams. The leading central bankers lost their credibility long ago. The weakness is as broad as it is deep, a reliance upon paper wealth and paper structures and paper contracts, during a time of zero bound interest rates and unfettered hyper monetary inflation to cover the debts. Almost no foreign USTreasury Bond buyers exist anymore.
The US has become Weimar Amerika, a fascist enclave. [Read more...]
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