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As you can all see, the Cartel/PPT/ESF, and who
knows how many other “official” and “secretive”
manipulative groups, are still running wild propping up the Dow and Treasury
Bonds while doing everything in their power to attack gold and silver. This
is what happens when times turn DESPERATE, to the point that what they are
doing has become so BLATANT, and so IN YOUR FACE, that even a reasonably
intelligent child would no doubt ask questions.
When discussing how the Cartel is losing the
Precious Metals WAR, I constantly cite the difference between PAPER prices
quoted on the COMEX and the REAL price one must pay for ACTUAL, PHYSICAL
metal (currently about 8% above the paper price for gold, and 13% for silver,
including all applicable, and often HIDDEN, fees). As for the DOW JONES
INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE, which I rarely discuss given how little correlation it
has to ACTUAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, I have a perfect corollary to describe how
far manipulation has pushed it into the world of fantasy.
Few people, even in the mainstream world, would
dispute my assertion that the collapsing U.S. economy is one of the main
drivers of the GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS. Many (including myself) would go so
far to cite it as the LEADING CAUSE of the calamity we are witnessing today,
and still more would rank the U.S. economy’s short AND long-term
prospects as among the worst in the ENTIRE WORLD.
Yet, somehow the Dow Jones Industrial Average seems
to massively outperform ALL stock markets on Earth, nearly ALL the time.
Watching the Dow nearly go POSITIVE this afternoon with ALL European stock
markets, and many Asian bourses, down 5%-6% since Monday morning, even my
PPT-jaded jaw is dropping. When one realizes how disparate the Dow has been
driven from reality, it becomes impossible to avoid concluding the U.S.
government is operating the PPT at hyperbolic levels not dreamt of even a few
years back. Just take a look at the table below to show how out of whack the
Dow’s performance has become, when compared to ALL the world’s major
stock indices (the last column lists YTD performance).
In my view, this level of outperformance can ONLY be
explained by the same U.S. government propping mechanisms that infiltrates
essentially ALL financial markets, as well as ALL publicly reported economic
data. There is no conceivable reason on the planet why the Dow should be
flirting with BREAKEVEN for the year while its economy, currency, and
political system is IMPLODING, while its debt, deficits, and military
spending is EXPLODING!
 
The same goes for U.S. Treasury Bonds, clearly the
linchpin of the ENTIRE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM. The largest recycling bin for
ill-gotten “dollar reserves,” and the most important mechanism
for CONTROLLING Investment, Commercial, and Central Banks, U.S. TREASURY
BONDS are THE MOST manipulated market on Earth. Remember, the OVERT QE1 and
QE2 programs focused on BUYING U.S. TREASURIES with PRINTED MONEY, not to
mention the QE2-lite which goes on today as proceeds from maturing Treasuries
are re-invested by the Fed. We all know COVERT QE3 is going on behind the
scenes (not just in Treasuries, but in Mortgages and other credit markets as
well), and of course OVERT QE3 will be announced September 21st
after the next Fed meeting, unless the markets crash first and force this
decision beforehand.
Treasury Bonds represent the single largest bubble
in U.S. history, in my view. Some call the dollar itself the largest bubble,
but essentially they are one and the same because Treasury Bonds are the
largest, most liquid dollar-based asset class. With the economic collapse
accelerating, and the Real Estate bubble FAR from bottoming (I’d guess
5-10 years away), interest rates MUST be kept unnaturally low, irrespective
of the havoc such manipulation reeks on savers and the dollar’s
purchasing power. Moreover, aside from official intervention bond market
intervention, and “sympathy traders” who trade “with the
Fed”, there clearly are thousands of “investors”, from
individuals to hedge funds to corporations, that actually believe U.S.
Treasury Bonds are still “safe havens.” Thus, when I see Treasury
bonds inexorably rise with the collapse of Western (and many Eastern) stock
markets and economies, I truly believe a material percentage of the buying
emanates from misguided souls who should NEVER be allowed to manage money.
And the same goes for the dollar, which albeit at a
more muted rate than in 2008-09, has recently been
rising in unison with the worldwide stock market decline. In the case of
“the dollar”, however, this rise is skewed by the 59% weight of
the Euro in the “dollar index”, which itself is collapsing for
very good reason (I believe it will be disbanded within a year).
The key point of this RANT is as follows:
Although global markets are in a state of disarray,
the U.S.-led “MARKET CARTEL” has still maintained CONTROL,
preventing the Dow from PLUMMETING below 10,000, gold from EXPLODING through
$2,000, the dollar from having any single-day DRAMATIC DECLINES, and of
course not letting the U.S. TREASURY BOND MARKET even PAUSE in its meteoric
“safe haven” rise.
But don’t worry, anxious readers, no matter
how hard they fight the primary trends (particularly in GOLD and SILVER), they will NOT be able to continue to CONTROL the pace of
Western World collapse. A day will come soon when they CANNOT attack gold at
will (as they have done for the past 12 hours), prop up the Dow at -1.5% when
Europe is down 5%, or prevent “bond vigilantes” from racing for
the door. I believe GOLD and SILVER will be the straws that break the
camel’s back, as those markets are tiny to start with, and so much more
leveraged to PHYSICAL market demand (versus COMEX PAPER prices) than EVER.
But perhaps it will be something else that does them in, something out of
left field, for example.
As for tomorrow (Wednesday), I do not expect the
German courts to vote NO on the Euro bailouts, as it is hard to fathom that
such a long-term government effort to control the economy will die at their
own hand. But then again, I am not German so I cannot handicap what is going
on within that proud nation’s political and economic circles, and BTW,
if they do vote NO the whole game ends tomorrow.
However, I do expect the European contagion to
worsen in the weeks leading up to the September 21st Fed decision
(re: QE3), as well as the September 29th German parliamentary
decision (re: the EFSF), and if you think another five Warren Buffett’s
will ride in on white horses to save Bank of America in that time, I’ve
got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. Thus, the pressure for a CONTROL-ENDING
decision will only intensify as we move through September, and per the title
of this RANT, CONTROL can conceivably be lost ANY DAY.
And when it DOES, I HOPE and PRAY you will have already
PROTECTED YOURSELF!
A
P.S. Gotta go, just as the
Dow was about to plunge into the close, it MIRACULOUSLY jumped from -190 to
-140 in MINUTES while GLD, which was about to go positive for the day,
MIRACULOUSLY dropped from -$1.00 to $6.00 in that same period of MINUTES!
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