"The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness
against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the
vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other
vices except this one.
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of
radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."
Hannah Arendt
Gold and silver showed weakness during the London-New York trading hours
today.
I suspect that we *could* see a bit of an overhang on price this week as the
punters go for the sure thing of a decline in the metals for the
upcoming Non-Farm Payrolls report this week.
Gee, I hope they don't get whipsawed. LOL
There was a remarkable amount of gold deliveries on Friday as you can see
below, all things considered for recent history in this metals slump.
As usual we saw JP Morgan, and this time the house at Goldman, snuffling up
those claim tickets on gold.
I was out for a while this afternoon, but this spent most of this morning
working on an update on the amount of free float of gold in the London
vaults. The real work is being done by the same metals mavens
and data wranglers at BullionStar and GoldChartsRUs.
I am proofreading and trying to make the data easier to comprehend, and maybe
a little 'pretty.' I imagine that if I can understand it, then most
others will as well.
I think you all know what I think about this. There seems to be little
doubt that there is a large amount of leverage with paper claims compared to
unencumbered physical bullion, both in gold and silver, but especially with
gold.
We have seen various estimates and data points in the 100:1 area for London
and New York, and I think that there is some merit in those.
And as Kyle Bass was told with regard to gold, the trading system as it is
now relies on only a very small percentage, about 2% of contracts held by
traders, actually cashing in their gold claims in each contract period.
"The exchange is a fractional reserve exchange, and
they think that price will solve everything."
Kyle Bass
If there is another financial
disruption and there is a rush for physical gold for any reason, please be
advised that there will be a very unequal distribution of the metal that
actually exists. And they will solve the imbalances by dictating price
settlements that will likely not involve any physical assets going forward.
We saw this clearly in the case of MF Global. And it is likely to
happen again, and on a much grander scale. It would be like having your
insurance policy cashed in and settled for cash against your will on the day
before the big storm hits and knocks your house down.
'And no one could have seen it coming.'
Could the mainstream corporate media make their biases any more obvious about
their election preferences? The news programs are starting to be more
like infomercials.
Non-Farm Payrolls at the end of the week.
Have a pleasant evening.