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Platinoid
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Last commentary posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2014
 
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 Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital
Economic Atonement  (11)
No one here who has invested in metal over the last 4 years wants more bad news, but Peter
is right about the total deception the world's banks have foisted on us.

Silver may be headed for $15, a whopping 25% drop from when it floated around $20.

Using DCA, and still accumulating, I'll see you all in metal hell.

If the dollar begins to tank as the US Fed starts redeeming in its st...
10/1/2014 at 7:09 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Barbarism Versus Stupidism  (33)
As for artists and kunstlers,
both barbarism and stupidism.. an intellectual duet,
of emotional barbarism, balanced by a need
to choose stupidity, to comfort the
fingers placed pretentiously,
on one's balloon-like head.
Those fingers, sensing the pressure differential
between the two extremes....
Perfect harmony,
to balance the twisted narrative,
and pleasingly distort...
9/25/2014 at 5:24 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Fabrice Drouin-Ristori - GoldBroker.com
The Paper Silver Market is 250 Times the Size of the Physical Silver Market  (22)
Zhanglan:
Many thanks for the further research.
I'm not so much a punter as the punted.
I've paid a huge premium on the spread on silver
and again, retail spreads vary and can be brutal.

Years ago, I bought silver bars thinking the ingots
would have lower margins, but it just has not stood the
test of time. Rounds and even coins tend to have the
better bid-offer spread, so I...
7/15/2014 at 8:19 AMPermalink
 Fabrice Drouin-Ristori - GoldBroker.com
The Paper Silver Market is 250 Times the Size of the Physical Silver Market  (22)
Hi zhanglan:

I didn't understand the comparison between total paper and one year's production myself.
You obviously have done your research.

Your comment "Either way, for a retail investor, Silver is a losing bet -......" is interesting,
and I would invite you to explore that a bit more for a retail investor such as myself.

I have always thought that silver is underpriced, pus...
7/4/2014 at 3:13 AMPermalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Like Your Hair’s On Fire  (19)
Hey Jim,

Nice to see you back.
I've been trying to absorb some of the pent up red arrows while you were away.
No doubt Kunst fantasizes about all the dope on Breaking.
I heard a rumour he's buying a green house in Colorado, at least until Cuomo and De Blasio
allow green houses in NY - strip mall rejuvenation projects, going green.

-Plat
1/28/2014 at 6:18 PM  1  5  Rating :  -4 Permalink
 Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd
Global Warming Chickenlittleism  (11)
Yeah Ranbo;

Those numbers I used are 'static' ones I took from an online atlas, they haven't changed much from my 1960's atlas here at home.

You made me laugh when you pointed out that "Haven't done the math but maybe something better left to the experts',
I laughed because it is the experts and their math, their computer models, their data numbers, all that calculation stuff
they find ...
1/15/2014 at 2:39 AM  1  2  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd
Global Warming Chickenlittleism  (11)
Well, no offense intended Ranbo, life is too short.

When the actual quantity of ice needed to generate a 1 meter
rise in sea level is calculated, the size of the ice block is staggeringly huge.

The surface area of water on earth is about 360,000,000 square kilometers, rounded down a bit. Ocean area is about 334,000,000 sq km.
If the oceans were to rise a full meter, you would need to ...
1/14/2014 at 3:55 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 1 AnswerPermalink
 Philippe Herlin - GoldBroker
Virtual Wealth and Real Wealth  (5)
Edgy is right:

So, MERS, the Mortgage Electronic Registration System allegedly registered and
de-registered mortgages in a telescoping fashion, sometimes with time delays,
so a mortgage could be projected and might, and i say allegedly might show
up on a number of different asset accounts, over a number of different countries,
all at the same time, over a period of time, inflating total ...
1/13/2014 at 3:19 AMPermalink
 Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd
Global Warming Chickenlittleism  (11)
Gents:

I can't opine on the anthropomorphic angle of global warming.
I do think Michael Mann faked his data, i.e. the 'hockey stick' was fudged
by cherry-picking tree-ring supported data, and the emails from
the Climactic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia are troubling to those
whom may suspect that voodoo has once again asserted itself into the minds
of humans. IPCC re...
1/13/2014 at 2:45 AM  1  4  Rating :  -3 1 AnswerPermalink
 Mike Maloney - Goldsilver
Race to Debase - Fiat Currency vs Gold - Fiat Currency vs Silver - 2000 - 2014  (3)
Thank you Mike!

I like those numbers!

DCA, All The Way!!!!!!
1/11/2014 at 1:46 AMPermalink
 Jesse - Le Cafe Américain
Ben Bernanke On Money and the Sophistry of Modern Monetary Theory  (3)
Edgy;

Yeah, and these days the peanut butter is killing all of our kids!
I an age where so called scientists spin bones, sing chants, then
call their work science, one has to wonder if the scientists have
all become socialist voodoo shamans.

Well, if economics is just politics masquerading as facts, then so
is today's mainstream science.

How can't you lose your faith ...
1/10/2014 at 6:26 AMPermalink
 Bron Suchecki - Perth Mint
In the land of the goldbugs who choose to be blind, the one-eyed blogger is king  (13)
Well, small invester, what Suchecki is talking about here is the
paper-gold market. Phoney gold. Skanky gold.

1) a skanky outfit either buys, or pretends to have, some gold
2) the skanky outfit tells folks they can buy gold and hold it in their special vault creating pretend gold
3) the skanky outfit could care less about anyone who has bought their gold and sells even more pretend gold
1/9/2014 at 4:55 AM  3  3  Rating :  0 Permalink
 Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital
Too Big to Pop  (9)
GDenenral:

Too funny indeed;
maybe takes a 'fat finger' to pop a really big bubble!..... ;)

Yeah, China is its own house of cards, trashy 3 trillion in non-infrastructure
supported developments, no sewers, no running water,,,,,,,,

But to Schiff's point, USD index is falling, but that is what the fed wants,
and also, interest rates must rise as someone in the US wakes up to ...
1/8/2014 at 7:23 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Forecast 2014 — Burning Down the House  (26)
Wow!

What a tome, schadenkunstler's pinky must be 'a bleeding from the pain of
the long session at the key board, not too mention his lips must be sore and
bleeding from the pain of sucking back all that legal Oklahoma weed!!!!!

Schadenkunstler discussed metal transfers between the west and the east....amazing!
However, his fracking numbers are totally bogus.

During the gus...
1/8/2014 at 6:27 AM1 AnswerPermalink
 Jesse - Le Cafe Américain
Gold and Silver ETF Inventory Changes For 2013 - 942 Tonnes of Western Gold Gone  (12)
Yeah Digger;

What i really get a kick from is that those charts are
so far from a balance sheet.

The Gold Bullion Inventory Changes chart shows -552.6 tonnes,
but adding the rest of the negative outflows: 102.5, 63, 55.9, 54, 41.9, 40.1
28.1, 9.7, 5.4, 8.0....makes
me laugh,,,,,, what, India only got 19 to the positive?

Where did all that inventory end up????? "....in t...
1/4/2014 at 5:17 AMPermalink
 John Browne - Euro Pacific Capital
Bitcoin Takes on Gold  (9)
Hey Kash:

I love the fried chicken idea, flying to me, for free.

Bitcoin isn't even a service, it's more like a TV
channel, and yeh, you just subscribe, sit back,
and before you even have time to pop the popcorn,

the fried chicken just shows up, and the more you eat,
the richer you become!

Everybody rich!

-Plat
1/2/2014 at 7:24 AMPermalink
 James Howard Kunstler
The End of Pretend  (19)
"The dislocations of 2008 when the banking system nearly imploded were Nature’s way of telling us that dishonesty has consequences"

Really?

"Banking System?"

SchadenKunstler is referring to the fact that "asset-backed-securities" were failing.

The products of Freddy Mac-and-Cheese and Fanny-Paddy-Whack-if-you-Mae.

Let's just give everyone a free mortgage. That's hones...
1/2/2014 at 7:17 AM  0  8  Rating :  -8 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
The End of Pretend  (19)
Late to the party Donny boy?

Hangover, maybe?

Buy any metal lately, pal?

Got any more red arrows in your quiver, Mr. Fountain Pen?

Nothing intelligent to say due to lack of education?

You and "nuthin" are obviously well acquainted.

-Plat





1/2/2014 at 6:18 AM  0  8  Rating :  -8 Permalink
 Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco.
Precious Metals in 2014  (11)
Maybe it is our generation's turn to see how a parabolic increase
in fiat money turns out.

Most parabolic indicators for trading patterns portend a crash.

Look what happened to silver and gold recently.

The dot com bubble, the US housing bubble, the bundled asset-backed
securities bubble.

has anyone here ever seen a parabolic spike end at a plateau, like
some kind ...
1/2/2014 at 1:11 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
The End of Pretend  (19)
Darn;

Even the Kunst admits Obama has failed; but not the way the average person would;
Obama failed to make America a truly socialist state.

Yes, you can derive much diagnostic truth from the marxist analysis of Western countires,
but beware, their prognostics are nothing less than the death of the individual.

How hard is it to predict the end of the Western economic ideal, wi...
12/31/2013 at 3:20 AM  2  9  Rating :  -7 Permalink
 Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter
Deceptions, Dupes Dots  (8)
Ran:

You are right about so many of those things;

But is socialism the answer? Bigger monopolistic power-hungry government?

Stalin and Mao never missed a meal.

You sound more like a Libertarian than a socialist.

Best,

-Plat
12/31/2013 at 1:24 AMPermalink
 John Browne - Euro Pacific Capital
Bitcoin Takes on Gold  (9)
Well, the oecd had a conference earlier thsi year, and discussed BEPS;
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, the reality that corporations and individuals
can re-allocate profits and capital to tax-advantageous jurisdictions to avoid
taxes.

it's all tied into the growing international cooperation between governments
to ensure that "everyone pays their fair share of taxes"

if I were ...
12/31/2013 at 12:32 AM  3  0  Rating :  3 Permalink
 Mish - Global Economic Analysis
Obamacare Showdown: Missouri Bill to Gut Obamacare, Ban Penalties, Ban Healthcare Exchange; How Woul  (5)
But Ran:

Over 50% of Americans are net beneficiaries of taxes, and don't contribute.
The top 10% of wage earners pay about 90% or so of all taxes.

60's Welfare Legislation has sunk trillions into poverty in America, with no real change
in the poverty levels.

Social Policy and Entitlements have destroyed Detroit.

Schools in America re run by unions and socialist and lib...
12/30/2013 at 12:07 AM  1  5  Rating :  -4 Permalink
 Mish - Global Economic Analysis
European Monetary Union Misnamed; I Propose GEU (German Economic Union) or USG (United States of Ger  (3)
Well Mish;

We can't expect France and Germany to be very rational about their own self interests right now.
Sometimes i think the Soviets and Americans understood each other more clearly and cooperatively than
the politicians of France and Germany.

French intellectuals have been accusing Germany of an almost neo-nazi economic policy
against France and an economically ravaged Europe....
12/29/2013 at 11:48 PMPermalink
 Mish - Global Economic Analysis
Lawyer Advises Me "Don't Go to France"; French Pub Fined €9,000 for Using "Undeclared Labor" after C  (3)
The French are deeply suspicious of the Germans, going as far as having
their great cultural intellectuals branding German resistance to float
'Euro-bonds' as 'economic genocide' that is akin to nazi-era genocide.

Not my opinion folks, it's been chronicled in Der Speigel:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/french-intellectuals-put-the-franco-german-axis-on-the-couch-a-850197.htm...
12/29/2013 at 11:40 PM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Jive Talkin’  (20)
Well Cam;

Without the aid of google, all I can say is that I've never heard of an existing element that is anti-gravitational.
Did previous cultures have this almost magical element at their disposal? - I can't say.

Gold may one day displace silver as an industrial metal as silver becomes rarer, and gold is rather noble, so it outlasts silver
on the corrosion scale if not the durability...
12/29/2013 at 11:29 PM  2  3  Rating :  -1 1 AnswerPermalink
 Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan
The Perfect Storm is Coming For Gold: “Economics Will Crush the Very People Who are Behi  (7)
Wow, 3 red arrows for suggesting Austraiian miners took a day off.
Who are you MO FO's?

12/23/2013 at 6:21 AM  1  6  Rating :  -5 1 AnswerPermalink
 Philippe Herlin - GoldBroker
Warning: European Guidelines for Looting Your Bank Accounts Are Now Official  (2)
Don't you just hate it when the concept of wealth distribution is
applied to local banks, national banks, and central banks
and not just individuals?

Ah, good ole' fascism, the cooperation of socialists and the elite.

Will happen here, in America; Dodd-Franks already provides
for the confiscation of private accounts to "bail-in" banks
considered "too big-to fail'.

How m...
12/20/2013 at 5:46 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Mish - Global Economic Analysis
Cancer Free: I Beat Prostate Cancer; Mish the Guinea Pig  (14)
Mish:

All the best man, you are a great talent, and hope to have you around for decades.
Really appreciate all of your input here, and clear opinions.

Best to you, and your family!
12/19/2013 at 9:01 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco.
FOMC, taper talk and the gold price  (10)
Yes Alasdair:
Low interest rates driven by continued bond buying;
yes, should be targeted at the yield curve out to 30 years
Fed would be wise to purchase interest-rate usury targets
such as hi-yield personal loans...unless they could still
target those yield curves inflections.

So, you are saying those cheep lying bastiges in Europe have been
hoarding enough gold to lease it o...
12/18/2013 at 7:09 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Michael Kilbach - Investment Score
A Massive Trade Opportunity In Silver!  (7)
Yeah:

I am boring: both my liberal and right-wing friends; to the death.

I can only say this to the small investor. You don't have a few thousand to burn
on a crystal ball future advisement. Do not become a day trader or top-and-bottom
predictor of market trends.

The pros will whip-saw you into saw dust.

You cannot beat them.

DON'T!!!! don't even try.
12/14/2013 at 7:11 AMPermalink
 Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco.
The relevance of Say’s Law  (8)
I appreciate the distinction drawn between those that see money as
merely a transitory commodity channel, and those that see it as the primary tool
of governments to use it as an exchange interface that governments own
and control.

Gold and silver have always acted as an intermediary commodity between the
exchanges of real commodities, and that is Say's point.

Governments, ho...
12/13/2013 at 6:11 AMPermalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Between a Rock and a Squishy Place  (14)
"The trouble reached escape velocity in the fall of 2008 when a particular brand of racket among the Wall Street kit-bag of rackets got badly out-of-hand, namely the business of selling securitized bundled mortgages and their “innovative” derivative “products” to dupes unaware that they were booby-trapped for failure which would, perversely, hugely reward the seller of such trash paper."

Yeah Kunstler, ...
12/7/2013 at 7:11 AM  0  1  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Gordon Long - Market Analytics
Flows: Liquidity, Credit and Debt  (2)
Oh man, great article!

If he had had more time, I wish Gordon would
also have broken out 'credit' into 'reserves' and 'fractional reserve'
banking.

Credit is based on banks lending against a reserve, and they used to
hold T-bills, now they hold pallets of US treasury debt notes otherwise
known as dollars, that have replaced those T-bills due to QE purchases by
the 'Big-Bul...
12/6/2013 at 5:41 AMPermalink
 Jan Skoyles Real Asset Co - The Real Asset Co
Should I invest in more than one precious metal  (3)
It's a fair analysis, especially if you believe the economic numbers.

I am still on the side of an economic plateauing at best, especially
in the manufacturing sectors.

Sure, if one has some hedge dollars floating around, why not
place a small bet on recovery, and invest in the P metals.

For the smaller investor, the problem is the overall big ask for
small quantities of me...
12/6/2013 at 4:53 AMPermalink
 Franklin Sanders - The Money Changer
Why Silver will outperform gold 400 how you can join the party  (8)
Maybe we are in an artificial 1893 silver "Panic".
Back then countries like Argentina, for those who don't know 'argent'
means silver, and the US were producing massive amounts of silver from huge
discoveries, some so rich, the metal was in a 'natural' state.

That drove the price of silver south, and 'bi-metalism' was stressed as
gold demanded a price higher than the 16:1 ratio stated ...
12/4/2013 at 7:04 AMPermalink
 James West - Midas Letter
Quantitative Easing: Fantasy is Now Reality  (7)
Well, 'watch the money' as the old saying goes, and
who can blame you for shorting structural commodities, and
use sophisticated analysis to put a cup under that fire-hose
spigot of QE?????

I like seeing this kind of problem scratched back, and it is
illuminating to understand the reasons why rational people
must buy into the irrationality in order to make a profit.

Kripes...
12/4/2013 at 5:25 AMPermalink
 Mish - Global Economic Analysis
What Will Your Bank Look Like 5 Years From Now How Will Pizzas Be Delivered Do You Tip a Drone  (1)
Yeah, one day an Amazon drone dropping off a discounted
self-help book to an unemployed Solyndra worker will snag
a balloon from a kid's birthday party and will crash down
in the middle of 20 kids whacking a pinata.

Those eight lawn mower blades will cause mayhem, and
that will be the end of that.

Or what about the as-yet-as-undocumented phenomenon
of "DRONE-RAGE!!!!"
12/4/2013 at 4:23 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Jeff Clark - Casey Research
Time for Goldbugs to Admit Defeat  (14)
Ah, the charts....

yeah, the manipulators don't give you the charts of their plans,
only the charts of the past manipulations....

Wondering if gold will hit $1,600.

Maybe if the Euro's ECB starts a centralized/legalized QE
of their own, to Hail Mary save the Euro, and then US QE
goes structural as a very long-term program, and the bank
cash-reserves become permanently ...
12/4/2013 at 3:40 AM  4  6  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Axel Merk - Merk Fund
Is the Fed increasingly monetizing government debt  (2)
I sure wish I could buy bonds, and pay the bank with some
paper notes I ran off on my color printer.

Heck, then all those bonds become an asset, and I can leverage them
about 10:1, because, hey, I'm a bank too.

Nice scheme, but when guys like Madoff try to run it,
they get arrested.

Remember Miliken and his junk bonds?
What about the empty shell of freshly printed dolla...
12/4/2013 at 3:01 AMPermalink
 Jan Skoyles Real Asset Co - The Real Asset Co
What are gold, silver and bitcoin doing to each other  (5)
Exactly how is Bitcoin not a fiat currency?
Because bitcoins don't come in a paper format?

What is the real difference between "fiat" and "virtual"?

Sophisticated equities investors should be able to profit
on bitcoin trades, but even tulips could grow from bulbs,
and when you lose all your cash in a bitcoin market, you won't
even be able to get those stupid worthless tokens in...
12/3/2013 at 7:06 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco.
Chinese gold demand and the World Gold Council’s estimates  (9)
Anybody buying Renminbi, Yuan?

May be the new gold ETF.....

If it is true about 2,500 metric tons are mined per year,
it is obvious from Macleod's article that China has become
a black-hole for gold....

It doesn't all have to go to China,

keep up that DCA......
12/3/2013 at 5:05 AMPermalink
 Warren Bevan - Precious Metals Stock Review
Gold Bulls Struggle To Give Thanks  (2)
Yeah, that July bottom was both scary and exciting, a great time to buy,
not a great time to be forced out.

The charts do reflect the spot prices day-to-day, and yeah, there is always a higher
manipulation at work, those ETF's and other paper-metal instruments.

But even bigger a manipulation is the bond market, and it looks like the heroin of
QE is spreading throughout the global v...
12/3/2013 at 3:44 AM  0  4  Rating :  -4 Permalink
 Chris Ciovacco - Ciovacco Capital Management
3 Ominous Bear Market Signals  (5)
Perhaps the reason the credit market sees the risk of government
default as very low is a symptom of the "To Big To Fail" mentality.

You may think that after all the bond failures in Europe over the
last 7 years, institutional investors would think twice about having
governments dump into QE schemes. But it isn't as if they haven't
been in a default position before,
the Euro's just ...
12/2/2013 at 6:08 AMPermalink
 Chris Ciovacco - Ciovacco Capital Management
3 Ominous Bear Market Signals  (5)
Perhaps the reason the credit market sees the risk of government
default as very low is a symptom of the "To Big To Fail" mentality.

You may think that after all the bond failures in Europe over the
last 7 years, institutional investors would think twice about having
governments dump into QE schemes. But it isn't as if they haven't
been the Euro's just use different names for their gove...
12/2/2013 at 5:08 AMPermalink
 Adam Hamilton - Zealllc
Gold Tapering Hysteria  (4)
Perhaps the markets have already priced in the QE hysteria,
who knows, maybe this is the floor for metals, but I always
wonder if the Fed and FOMC can whip up a bit more hysteria
and pull the bull down another 22% with gold priced around
$1,000, and silver $16.

Yeah, a lot who got in around the top have left blood in the
streets. Does it make sense to buy metal now even if another ...
11/28/2013 at 10:53 PMPermalink
 Alasdair Macleod - FinanceandEconomics
Why gold is better than cash  (13)
The article is as salient today as back in 2010, and the conversation it generated is also
worth noting, as Gold has fallen about $400 since then, but the general principle holds true:
Metal is real money.
Will Gold fall to $1,000 as many predict, I don't know, wish I did,
I encourage metal investors to control their outlays through disciplined DCA,
so as not to get get shaken out if the 'B...
11/28/2013 at 5:46 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco.
Gold and commodities  (3)
Macleod once again gives useful investigation.
Oil, because of the Petro-Dollar, is price sensitive to fluctuations
in the USD Index.

Gold, as priced in the USD, is also a reflection of the printing and
devaluations of the USD. Sure, QE always favors investing in Gold,
and a lot of that trade is ETF's and short term.

Ultimately, when gold is acting as a commodity, it is because ...
11/28/2013 at 5:19 AMPermalink
 Michael Pento - Delta Global Advisors
Money Supply Soars as Fed Eyes Taper  (5)
The 'nugget' here for those buying metal is Pento's point:

"After all, the gold market has been busy pricing in the end of QE for multiple quarters. There is a good chance that the beginning of tapering would lead to a reversal of the trade to sell gold ahead of the news. "

I wish I knew just how 'priced into the metals market' the threats of tapering really are.

If Gold drops to $1,00...
11/28/2013 at 5:08 AMPermalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Schilling Shilling  (21)
Crickets:

All I hear is crickets!!!

Awe, lost your $60 in food stamp reduction;
Awe, couldn't pay your rent;
Awe, someone repo-ed your computer;
Awe...had to get a low paying job, where are you?????
Awe, President can't float your dream life, leftard?
Awe, some socialist Sugar Daddy forgot to pay your tab to blog?

After all these years,

I am still a "troll"...
11/25/2013 at 6:16 AMPermalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Schilling Shilling  (21)
Crickets:

All I hear is crickets!!!

Awe, lost your $60 in food stamp reduction;
Awe, couldn't pay your rent;
Awe, someone repo-ed your computer;
Awe...had to get a low paying job, where are you?????
Awe, President can't float your dream life, leftard?

After all these years,

I am still a "troll",
and all I here, dear leftards, is;

Crickets....chirp...
11/25/2013 at 5:35 AMPermalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Schilling Shilling  (21)
Labor Participation rate: 91.5 million are not working.

How does that rate as a "recovery" and not a full-blown depression?
People aren't spending on retail this year, for the holidays, they way they did
last year, gosh, a glitch in consumer confidence?

How about millions of house-holds finally and completely out of cash?

Government faked the employment statistics before the la...
11/21/2013 at 5:28 AMPermalink
 Frank Shostak
Are Bubbles Caused by Psychological Problems  (3)
Gosh:
Does a human psychological problem cause "Bubble Brain?"

-you bet, here's an example:

"you owe me your wages"
"you owe me a living"
"you worked harder than me, but you owe me what you earned"
"top up my pension with your hard earned retirement savings"
"pay for my birth control"
"pay my rent"
"pay for my education"
"pay for my ________"

"However, t...
11/20/2013 at 6:26 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco.
Fiat Money Quantity hits new record  (4)
Gosh, that fiat paper cash curve looks like a wave
from an Gore Suzuki block-buster!

Who knows, that paper tsunami may be headed for your coastal retirement home!

I hear noises/rumors about Silver falling, once again, to the $18USD range.

Well, it did happen, but DCA helped me deal with the opportunity.

Of course, it may happen again. Who knows?

Right now, silver ...
11/20/2013 at 5:41 AMPermalink
 Mish - Global Economic Analysis
Free Money Idiocy: Switzerland Referendum Proposes "Free Money" Annually to Everyone Alive; US Progr  (6)
Ouch!

SW.:

This is a metal trading site, right?
Not everyone here trades metal, a lot of folk here just trade
political opinions, some are probably unemployed and struggling.
Could you imagine the arrows on this site if the arrows were were monetized and not anonymous?

Heck, those "popularity" red arrows aren't yet incorporated into
our credit ratings....but soon enou...
11/20/2013 at 2:56 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Jan Skoyles Real Asset Co - The Real Asset Co
Where are you on Bitcoin  (2)
I still prefer Gold 1.0, or silver 1.0

If I need to do an international cash transfer, there's PayPal.

Bit Coin is kind of like the TwitterTweeter of fiat money.

Sure, people will view bitcoin as the new gold, heck, they also
view paper ETF's leveraged 100-1 as the new gold.

I'm old fashioned; "if you can't touch it, you don't own it."
I think gold metal is the foreve...
11/19/2013 at 5:10 AM  1  0  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Ty Andros - traderview
Witches Brew Part VI - The Policies of Insolvency  (6)
Metal trading site.
Obamacare is a Federally sanctioned Ponzi scheme.
Pay the fine, invest in metal.




11/16/2013 at 8:20 AMPermalink
 Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter
The Yellen Dilemma Kowtow  (5)
Aaaaaaahhhhhh.....Yellen managed to get on a roller-coaster........
as a passenger??? no power to alter the course???

Hmmmm......I was hoping she would be the ride operator......

We're all funny looking on that first big roller coaster dive.......yellen'...screamin'...

The Fed has an interesting strategy:

it increases liquidity with QE/Twist
and simultaneously printin...
11/16/2013 at 4:56 AM  2  0  Rating :  2 Permalink
 Toby Connor - Gold Scents
Gold: Will It Drop to $1,000 or Was the Bottom Formed this Summer  (1)
For those of you buying metal, all I can say
is that with a disciplined Dollar Cost Average plan,
a price of $1,000 or so would be a great opportunity
to buy gold.

I view the premiums paid on gold and silver over the last
5 years as a form of insurance cost. DCA really helps the
accumulation evolution going, without massive fear or
pressure to sell when prices drop.

DCA...
11/16/2013 at 3:41 AMPermalink
 Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco.
There’s a liquidity crunch developing  (10)
Lack of solvency in both national and commercial banks was one
of the causes of the 'crash.' At some point there had to be some
kind of regulation to de-leverage the banks.

The Euro-Zone member countries witnessed a massive re-nationalization of their balance
sheets, i.e. foreign debts and credits, and a subsequent 'balkanization' of their Euro quotas.
This was viewed by some as a firs...
11/15/2013 at 3:31 AMPermalink
 Jan Skoyles Real Asset Co - The Real Asset Co
The Silver Market in 2013  (12)
Hey Glyn G:

I can't explain the grammar, but on the rarity issue I may be able to help.
According to this article, in terms of existing physical metal, there a 3 oz of silver for every 1 oz of gold, so nominally,
the simple answer is that silver is only one third as rare as gold, in physical quantity terms.

But there's a snag: according to the article, the silver to gold ratio as measu...
11/14/2013 at 5:27 PM1 AnswerPermalink
 Michael Pento
Is the U.S. Becoming a Banana Republic  (6)
Obanana Republic.
3/8/2013 at 2:14 AM  0  1  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco.
The final countdown  (20)
Well, bubble-heads abound, dancing around the fire, unable to chop the wood
to keep it burning, right, Guy Fuwkes' lads?

Any of you buy metal, or just sit around waiting for the chance to 'comment'?

Bubbles, out of the Bubble Generation.

I won't see you in Hades, lads, I won't be there burning among you.

You will be putting on those foolish Guy Fuwkes
masks and screa...
2/20/2013 at 4:59 AMPermalink
 Richard Benson - SfGroup
The Incredible Shrinking Postal Service  (19)
Lance was on drugs,

and all the unions have been on drugs,
all pumped up with the big lie,
all the big benefits they were going to
suck out of us working class, NO, not union
class, the rest of us, non-union real workers
who pay the union 'yoke-elite' with our blood.

lance is the ultimate Union guy, pumped up
with the big lie, slamming the real grunts of the world.
...
1/24/2013 at 7:37 AM  0  5  Rating :  -5 Permalink
 Jeff Clark - Casey Research
"Wrong Way Corrigan" Analysts  (2)
Let's hope the miners recover, remember an ounce of gold deprives
our diaper-wearing associates a 20 metric tonnes of much needed
cranial oxygen.

So sad they have been deprived of intelligence-giving oxygen,
by metal investors, they shall remain stupid for the rest of
their natural lives.

Oh....the humanity......

1/24/2013 at 7:00 AM  0  4  Rating :  -4 Permalink
 Charleston Voice
God, The Devil, and Legal Tender
Dufuss, don't own any metal, right?
Own a car?
Own,,,,a house?
How's mommy?
1/23/2013 at 5:37 AM  1  6  Rating :  -5 1 AnswerPermalink
 Charleston Voice
God, The Devil, and Legal Tender
Any of you dudes actually invest in gold or silver,
or you just hang out to slap Jim C?
1/23/2013 at 5:22 AM  2  5  Rating :  -3 1 AnswerPermalink
 Jan Skoyles Real Asset Co - The Real Asset Co
2013's Silver lining  (3)
Great to see metal investing advice, not movie reviews.
1/18/2013 at 3:09 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter
The Coming Isolation of USDollar  (10)
Hey Jim,
You are the True Red, White, and Blue.
Happy New Year man!
-D
1/9/2013 at 5:16 AM  2  4  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Jesse - Jesse's Cafe
Simon Johnson On the Quiet Coup d'Etat in the Anglo-American Financial System  (13)
It was arrogant of the Clinton administration to hand out mortgages to subprime lenders, those in his constituency whom never had the means or intent to repay. Fascism was the ink and paper that wrote the Community Re-investment Act.

He set up Freddie and Fannie to bundle the trash, and take it to the curb: Wall Street, the big banks of Europe, and investors all around the world.

Obama made the...
9/9/2012 at 7:43 PM  6  5  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Warren Bevan - Precious Metals Stock Review
Bottoms Are Nearing  (5)
Nice to read Warren Bevan's comments rather than about them.
I hope he is a regular.
So much more useful for trading than the silly politics of Kuntsler.

-I realized the author was way too positive on physical metal......
3/27/2012 at 3:25 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Tom DiLorenzo
Ayatollah Santorum the Sanctimonious (ASS)  (21)
Indeed, religious nutters, slavers, totalitarians whom strike their medals and pin them on their chests;
they are the enemy.

Reasonable people seem to be corrupted by absolute power.

Santorum appeals to me, dear readers fully support me in that- -

Ayn Rand had a message; How does humanity escape madness?

Faith can become that, and partisanship, and greed.

When I ...
2/10/2012 at 5:14 AM  3  5  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Mac Slavo - Shtfplan
Proponents of Gold Standard May Be Violent Extremists; Report ALL Suspicious Activity To the FBI  (5)
The so called 'occupy' folks get a pass: they'll never own metal, they are violent but very, very "good" people, and they hate guns. Mind you, they'ld club you over the head with Khmer shovel in a second.

They let obscene things be written by those whom they support, and report any nastiness that might show up in response.

Having been edited, well at least I wasn't actually kicked off this site...
2/9/2012 at 3:19 AM  1  2  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Tim Wood - Cyclesman.com
Counter-Trend Moves Continue to Spark False Hopes  (2)
Well, it's an election year.

2 weeks ago employment reports talked about a million people who stopped looking for work.
Last week suddenly there is optimism and things are looking up for the economy.
Maybe those who profit from the current regime's schedule of finishing Woodrow Wilson's and Franklin Roosevelt's vision are ginning up a positive economic story to help snare the public as Wood sugg...
2/9/2012 at 3:10 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Jesse - Jesse's Cafe
Another Look at What 'Worked' in the Great Depression  (3)
PS:

The editors didn't like my historical description of life under Stalin, which happens to be factual, and 'edited' the section out.

Mind you, they publish pure grotesque profanity from Kunstler, and we get to read it.

Maybe a leftist didn't like reading the truth and reported it, so the boss reacted.

Might account for the red arrow......

Really.......I'll start hit...
2/9/2012 at 2:13 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Jesse - Jesse's Cafe
Another Look at What 'Worked' in the Great Depression  (3)
SW., well not intentionally, thanks for pointing it out.
I usually enjoy reading Jesse, although he's as left as Howard Kacsynski.
The reason the Supreme Court overturned Roosevelt's New Deal was because they saw the structural socialism it would cause.
I got a bit ticked.

2/9/2012 at 2:00 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Jesse - Jesse's Cafe
Another Look at What 'Worked' in the Great Depression  (3)
How about the great 'fuck-over' of the tax-payer that American progressives imposed upon the tax-payer.
What about the sweet deals cut by the 'representatives' of Germany and 'American bankers' for war reparations.

"monied interests", are you fluffing kidding? The Rothschilds? Nut jobs? Statistical and logical fallacies?

What about the economic implosion in Europe because of the repayment s...
2/8/2012 at 8:44 AM  0  6  Rating :  -6 1 AnswerPermalink
 Jesse - Jesse's Cafe
The War is Lost - The Future of Europe  (10)
Nazi thugs?

"Hatred?"

You want to go old time Jesse?

What about the thousands of families literally bent over a plank and then actually bayoneted up the anus, and dragged onto trucks to disposition sites by Stalin?

Who are you kidding?

You fluff-your-pillow leftists think your horrors are somehow justifiable?

Jesse, you are just another apologist for left-wi...
2/8/2012 at 8:22 AM  1  5  Rating :  -4 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
All Screaming Id, No Brains, No Honor  (14)
Una-Kunstler

If you are making decisions to trade gold or silver on Ebay based on Una-kunstler's rant, I hope you go broke, putz.

Ted's little protege.

7 year old crotches don't make for metal trading; why is this even on the air?

Ebay, get real and cut this crap.

2/8/2012 at 7:35 AM  1  5  Rating :  -4 Permalink
 Ron Paul
Trust Us; We're the Government  (20)
Well, if you fail to perform your own due diligence,
you will never be a Libertarian.

Slavery frees men from thinking for themselves.

That is a price many Americans are willing to be bought for; in food stamps.

Freedom from financial worry?

The election isn't just going to be a referendum on Obama,
it will a referendum on the Constitution itself.

EPA, FDA, TS...
2/7/2012 at 6:35 AM  2  5  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 James Turk - Goldmoney
Is gold in a bubble  (4)
"As an example, today this rationalisation explains why US government debt cannot possibly be overvalued because [....]. Go ahead. Fill in the blank."

[US government debt is 'quality.' That's why whenever there is uncertainty and fear elsewhere in world markets, there is always a "flight to quality." -EVERYONE knows that!]

"Try to find out what EVERYONE else is thinking, then do the opposite."<...
2/7/2012 at 12:40 AM  2  3  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Rob Kirby - Kirby Analytics
Manifest Destiny Derailed: Treason from Within  (17)
The gold swap formula was well worth its weight in wisdom, Mr. Kirby.
Many thanks for yet another important mechanism by which gold prices are controlled.
2/5/2012 at 1:54 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Alf Field
What about Silver   (11)
Wouldn't mind seeing silver go back to $26 for a bit myself for the same reasons.
Oh well, I've been tied to DCA all my life.
I can only say I'm happy I started dumping paper a long time ago.
I ask myself if the reason I enjoy articles like this is because they simply reinforce my commitment to metal, or if they really are helping me prepare mentally for the default that looms.

Ben Stein, no...
2/3/2012 at 4:15 AM  2  3  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Ron Hera - Hera Research
The Unholy Alliance of John Maynard Keynes  (9)
Excellent article, Mr. Hera.
Again, another expose on how our political and economic worlds have defacto converged to fascism.
The effect of Keynes to propel governments towards Facism is an important theme.

Once again, the outcome of the destruction of a paper currency system is arm one's self with metal.
2/3/2012 at 4:09 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter
Corruption in Fascist Business Model  (10)
It's more horrifying than anything.
Dr. Willie's explanation of the Mortgage MERS system, the undeliverd bonds, the Credit Swap derivatives insurance fraud perpetuated by redefinitions of default had me in shivers.

Great read, indeed.
2/3/2012 at 12:11 AM  2  3  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Jive Talkin  (25)
Why does this guy always end up sounding like Ted Kaczynski, only with more profanity?

Why does he post here? An Ebay metals trading site gig? -Completely irrelevant to trading gold and silver.

Stop insulting the New York Times, you may get a better job there, or keep working on your job at the Puffington Host, or the BurningNatalCleft.

Hey, unions killed the Twinkie store, Little Deb...
2/1/2012 at 3:20 AM  2  4  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter
Inflation: The Only Tool Left  (28)
GDP?
What about the phoney CPI?

Great article Dr. Willie;
I hope you are wrong. But Housing stats and intermodal are freaky - yeah 'plateau' would be a nice resting place in the best of worlds right now.
I can't believe anything I see or read anymore concerning the actually experienced economic environment, but much of what you say is backed up by simply looking around.

SLV? Still w...
1/23/2012 at 5:49 AM  2  3  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Antal E. Fekete - Gold University
Gold : How High is High
SW:

Yes, I like that Dr. Fekete is keeping this theme for a while.....great reading.

I see your conundrum.

I have the same fears; so what if metal goes parabolic and inflation becomes even moderate? i.e. mind you we haven't seen real inflation yet, upper double digit and so on - but gas up 100% in 3 years, and milk up 35% in 2011. Do I really want all that paper around, what, to thro...
1/22/2012 at 11:27 PM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Antal E. FEKETE
Premature Obituaries  (8)
This is a great article to read back-to-back with Ron Kirby's:

The $U.S. Dollar Centric Derivatives Complex: Progenitor of Parasitic, Ponzi Price-Fixing

Thanks Dr. Fekete
1/20/2012 at 5:07 AM  1  2  Rating :  -1 1 AnswerPermalink
 Rob Kirby - Kirby Analytics
The $U.S. Dollar Centric Derivatives Complex: Progenitor of Parasitic, Ponzi Price-Fixing  (4)
I agree, great article!

Cover Your Assets With Metal.
1/17/2012 at 6:43 PM  2  3  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Antal E. Fekete - Gold University
The Gold Standard Manifesto  (2)
Yes,

Many thanks Dr. Fekete!
1/16/2012 at 6:17 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Ron Paul
Don’t Protect the Banks, Protect the People!  (38)
Vox:

Remember the Battle of Tours?

Dante?

The Khazar repulse of the eastern Caliphate?

Modern extremist Islam needs no modern reason to be defined in our set of western definitions or philosophical models to hate us, it hates us for its own theological and historical reasons,
and apparantly, we will never have the intellect or connection to God to understand those.
1/16/2012 at 12:36 AM  0  4  Rating :  -4 Permalink
 Mac Slavo - Shtfplan
Warning From Europe: “Consequences of Failure Would Be Catastrophic”  (7)
Well said.

Distorting the truth is what fiat currency is all about.
Maybe we do need to get rid of the huge 'reserve'/leverage banking system.

We need to get rid of the indentured slavery cast upon future generations by
profligate depletionist governments and extortionist union pensions.

Governments in debt, corporations in debt, individuals in debt,
banks in debt, union p...
1/16/2012 at 12:17 AM  5  3  Rating :  2 Permalink
 Mac Slavo - Shtfplan
Warning From Europe: “Consequences of Failure Would Be Catastrophic”  (7)
The Euro is no longer a real currency,

but the largest distribution of low-payout lottery tickets in history.

The prize, when the balls drop, is that you only lose a fraction

of the Euros you hold in your hand. -Everyone loses

If you want to upgrade this week to a premium lottery,

try USD......that's the next big 'sure thing':

"Flight to Quality" - "The Qual...
1/15/2012 at 6:03 AM  1  4  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Antal E. Fekete - Gold University
Open The Mint To Gold!  (1)
Yes, gold should be the currency of larger denominations, and silver coin should return for folks buying groceries, paying for household expenses, and saving without fear of confiscatory government policy.

When I was a kid, silver currency was common, and paper said 'shall pay to the bearer on demand...'

As fiat currencies bleed daily, and bonds turn into vapor,

it is time to take up ...
1/15/2012 at 5:49 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster
People Don’t Buy Gold to Make Money; They Buy It Because They Have Money  (7)
I agree, gold is a way to try and hide some wealth from the mob.

Like a pathogenically induced mass extinction,
the world is experiencing a 'wealth pandemic.'

Wealth is dying, being killed off by depletionist parasitic thinking.
Trillions are being evaporated. People are in slow-motion panic.

In full denial, but trying desperately to protect their wealth.

Currencies ar...
1/15/2012 at 2:42 AM  0  5  Rating :  -5 Permalink
 Mish - Global Economic Analysis
Population: The Elephant in the Room; What Level of Human Population is Sustainable  (22)
Does deliberately slaughtering 100's of millions of folks count in the sustainability equation?
Margaret Sanger knew how to slaughter silently, without all the prison guards.

2 million years these days is a pretty good run.....lol
Gosh, Rex was around for a few tens of millions.....

Hostess has declared bankruptcy after just a few decades....
Unions and socialists might kill us all ...
1/13/2012 at 3:36 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 1 AnswerPermalink
 Tom DiLorenzo
Will Ron Paul Destroy the 'Party of Lincoln'  (40)
Jim C. thank you, again.
Oh yeah, Lincoln started the Republican Party to Re-Instate slavery!
Nothing like Democra-socialist hind-site.
Orwell always knew he would have his true fans.
1/11/2012 at 3:36 AM  5  4  Rating :  1 Permalink
 Nick Barisheff - Bullion Management Services
Why Rising Debt Will Lead to $10,000 Gold  (11)
So then we turn to barter-for-gold, or barter-for-silver, as in the days before fiat.
Bring it on.
1/11/2012 at 2:58 AM  0  4  Rating :  -4 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
This Ripe Moment  (32)
Unionarcolepsy, pal.
As ripe as an Apatosaurus with constipation.
Your brain has always been ripe, what have your controllers been feeding you, pet?
1/11/2012 at 2:54 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital
Was 2011 The End of The Gold Rush  (10)
U.S. banknotes are actually printed on Kryptonite.
Explains the "flight to quality," and resultant withering weakness.
1/6/2012 at 10:40 PM  1  2  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Richard Mills - Ahead of the herd
Admit nothing. Explain nothing  (23)
"Fed-Rex" ©2012 O G S

-Platinoid
1/1/2012 at 8:05 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Richard Mills - Ahead of the herd
Admit nothing. Explain nothing  (23)
"Fed-Rex"

-Platinoid
1/1/2012 at 8:04 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Richard Mills - Ahead of the herd
Admit nothing. Explain nothing  (23)
"Fed-Rex"

-Platinoid
1/1/2012 at 7:55 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Mac Slavo - shtfplan
Celente Warns of 2012: Economy Will Crash, Banks Will Close, Chaos Will Ensue  (5)
It is all so surreal that it is hard to grasp, but it is going to happen. Like a roller coaster, tugging you to panic, but you really do crash after saying "WEEEE...." Even if the metals crash do to selling panic I will hold on to the rails, The paper will not come out of this unburned, and you can't burn gold, well, at least not from here abouts. Yeah, they used to drill these big holes in the carrier plate wh...
12/21/2011 at 5:24 AM  5  3  Rating :  2 Permalink
 Alasdair MacLeod - Goldmoney
Money supply explosion will lead to accelerating inflation  (3)
Well, paper burns well in the fireplace.
Thanks Alasdair.
12/19/2011 at 3:06 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Jesse - Jesse's Cafe
The European Union Is No Different Than Russia and China  (8)
The Romans knew it Jesse: Tyranny isn't partisan.
12/18/2011 at 7:40 AM  2  3  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Alasdair MacLeod - Goldmoney
Eurozone government defaults looking certain  (3)
Thanks Alasdair.
12/18/2011 at 7:29 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter
Pathogenesis of Central Bank Ruin  (11)
Thanks Jim.
12/18/2011 at 7:25 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital
Obama Gets Real  (13)
Well, I'm not following you around town pal, speaking of wingnuts.
Yeah, go over to Stormfront and Redstate, maybe they need you there, after all, you are so smart.
Oh, and check out an anger management site as well, before all that hate burns you out.

Just read Obama, or check out his speeches. His agenda was written by Alinsky.

You do not have motives or goals as big as Barry, you are...
12/11/2011 at 4:10 AM  1  6  Rating :  -5 Permalink
 Ron Hera - Hera Research
Hugo Salinas-Price: What Every Politician Needs to Know About Silver  (4)
Given this is an Ebay silver trading site,,,,I'm all for a nominal silver based currency,
Given this is an Ebay outlet for cancerous socialist opinion.......I'll trade my silver elsewhere......
12/10/2011 at 6:40 AM  0  4  Rating :  -4 Permalink
 Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital
Obama Gets Real  (13)
Obama is full of hatred for Western Civilization.
His mission is to destroy the foundation of the country he is President of.
He is using the race-card and the politics of class-envy and racial-hatred on an unprecedented scale.
His whole regime is based on hatred and divisiveness.
It makes me laugh, just mentioning the truth sets his minions alight.....
Funny thing is, they hate me a lot more...
12/10/2011 at 2:13 AM  5  9  Rating :  -4 Permalink
 Ron Paul
No Bailouts for Europe!  (21)
Dear Congressman Paul:

That is a very compelling case you have provided. Yes, as desperados, they grasp at air, print it as money, and hope the dream continues. It really is as if they were in a dream state.

Cold water and ammonia await, tick, tick, tick,,,,,,,,,,,,
12/8/2011 at 11:37 PM  4  4  Rating :  0 Permalink
 Ron Paul
Economic Freedom and Diplomacy Lead to Peace Prosperity  (8)
Well, Iran is a bully.
But I think it is better to deal with known threats directly. Real Politik has suggested boxing in Iran to deal with the potential threat.
Bomb'em or work with them. Embargo is just military seige under a "New York Times" sanitized banner.
If the US really thinks Iran is a hostile nuclear threat on the threshold of unleashing holocaust, then send in the B-52's.
If not, I a...
12/8/2011 at 3:01 AM  0  5  Rating :  -5 Permalink
 Jesse - Jesse's Café
Gold, Eurodollars, and the Black Swan That Will Devour the US Futures and Derivatives Markets  (3)
Good point, yeah, and end up killing millions of people.
Oh, nice crystal ball, pal.
Intellectual rigor, notwithstanding.

12/7/2011 at 11:21 PM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Jesse - Jesse's Café
Gold, Eurodollars, and the Black Swan That Will Devour the US Futures and Derivatives Markets  (3)
Tell us something we don't know, Jesse,
like why it is socialists end up killing millions in pograms....er...social programs.
Nice Cafe Pal, "Slaves Welcome" over your door step?
12/5/2011 at 1:55 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Jesse - Jesse's Cafe
The Other One Percent: Corporate Psychopaths and the Global Financial Crisis  (14)
Jesse:

Let's just forget the Socialist Psychopaths, whom have 'religiously' killed, tortured, and slaughtered, 100 million so far. Greed is a virus that is contagious amongst the left. The so called 99%'rs are vicious, and know where they came from.
12/5/2011 at 1:37 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Your New American Dream  (128)
I gotta tell ya, if it were'nt for Jim C.'s comments, JHK would be a complete scroll thorough.

Jim C. did not pay for this endorsement......lol.....
12/1/2011 at 12:07 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Your New American Dream  (128)
Hey Jim C., I still laugh at Punsler....he's the best as they've got...
11/30/2011 at 3:45 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Ron Hera - Hera Research
How the U.S. Will Become a 3rd World Country (Part 1)  (10)
Banana Stamp Participation Chart?
11/14/2011 at 1:32 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 David Galland - Casey Research
The Problem with Seeing Government as God  (4)
....ahem, that's 0.0000000099%, stupid.
11/5/2011 at 11:43 PM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Seeing Stars  (9)
Gosh, we wouldn't want to hurt our enemies, especially not the fundamentalist types akin to Stalin, Osama, or Kunstler's hero; Pol Pot - "World Buried By Shovel" or was that "Built By Hand-Shovel".

Funny, I realize that 'Howy babes' is jealous of the hick mentality he so publicly reviles, damn Nascar.
Some one go get Howy babes a golf cart to visit his, uh, children?

He wants the US to be a...
9/13/2011 at 5:04 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Doug Hornig - Casey Research
A Raging Case of Bailout Fatigue  (1)
Mr Hornig:
You are an optimist!
9/8/2011 at 2:15 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Katrina in Vermont  (25)
Will....rebuild....Vermont....by....hand....shovel ready.....khmer rouge style.......
8/31/2011 at 4:57 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
High Corn  (27)
Yeah, an alien invasion of super intelligent apes.....

LOL...you guys kill me.....

More alien apes.....

on welfare.......

Please stop, the wife just called an ambulance.....LOL

Liberals......they'll come to your door one day......to help pay JHK's rent....lol
8/18/2011 at 5:41 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
High Corn  (27)
C'mon!

Rich People?

How about George Soros, the Rothschilds, and Buffet - all liberals.

Goldman Sachs....populated by liberals....

"World Bankers?" Guys like DSK?....liberals....

Sure, bankers are just dreaming for a world with everyone else on the state dole......

JHK wonders about the destruction of America? Well, it was people just like him, with bankers' ...
8/17/2011 at 2:05 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Theodore Butler - Butler Research
A Nervous New World  (7)
I was attracted to silver because of it's rarity, in real terms as you've mentioned, and it's more readily available circulation for day to day expenses.
I'm always a bit concerned about what said is the 'distortion' in pricing.
I live in Canada, and I am being fleeced on silver premiums, mind you the gold premiums are worse.
Will the ratio between G/S come down?
7/26/2011 at 2:50 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Darryl Robert Schoon - Survive the Crisis
The Collapse of Paper Money and the Vertical Move of Gold  (9)
Darryl:

I see 53 years of paper, burn before my eyes.
Tree bark and ink, come to nought.
I use its fervent heat, to melt gold and silver.
7/15/2011 at 4:37 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Ron Paul
The TSA Is Not Above The Law!  (4)
Dear Congressman Paul:

I too hope your legislation passes. We live in strange times indeed when every air traveler is subject to state perpetrated sexual assault. It's not the government's role to replace occasional horrific crimes with tens of thousands of sexual crimes on a daily basis.
7/7/2011 at 8:37 PM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Dan Dontrose - The Fundamental View
Greece is now for sale
The government shouldn't have been in the business of buying businesses in the first place.
It's like a crack addict, but if the patient is ever going to recover, there is going to be a period of withdrawal. Hanging on to the broken socialist model is a guarantee for future failure, and only taps into yet another layer in the Ponzi scheme.
7/4/2011 at 2:38 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Lew Rockwell
What Does "Class Action" Mean  (2)
Dear Mr. Rockwell:

Just posted by 24hgold.com, "Food for thought" panel:

"The most potent weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed"

Marx, as an oppressor, understood the person whom laboured. That person, whom laboured, would never understand the mind of Marx.

Marx, as an oppressor, never understood the mind of the capitalist. Marx never earned anything...
6/30/2011 at 6:57 AM  0  1  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Lew Rockwell
What Does "Class Action" Mean  (2)
Dear Mr. Rockwell:

When Marx talked about labour, that is exactly what he meant, grunt muscle labour. As you mentioned, and it is ironic, ..."The guy built an entire system of thought based on this idea...", he never considered ideas or thoughts to be labour, and so the ostensible battle was between muscle and capital, never between ideas and capital, or between thought and capital, although that is pre...
6/30/2011 at 4:07 AM  0  1  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Michael S. Rozeff - Mike Rozeff
Western-Islamic Rapprochement  (3)
Professor Rozeff:

I think Iran is going to nuke Israel. I don't think the next President will have much say in that, unless they threaten Iran, but the way Jihadists think, they really wouldn't care about the cost of retaliation, as long as they fulfill the requirements for a world-wide Sharia-based caliphate.

Enjoyed your article, much more uplifting than the outcome I see unfolding.

...
6/30/2011 at 3:10 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Ron Paul
Energy Independence: Government Should Neither Inhibit Nor Subsidize Any Type of Energy  (4)
Dear Congressman Paul:

What I find so self-destructive about current policy, is that in effect, US based energy companies are being forced to subsidize foreign energy interests, ones that will turn around and compete for market share in the US. This from a regime that boasts about energy independence. The formula works if by 'energy independence' you mean energy development independent of US interests.<...
6/29/2011 at 2:28 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Deepcaster
Fortress Assets for The Coming Anarchy – The Opportunity  (2)
Al Gore's clock is ticking....we're all going to be incinerated....thanks for the advice.....I'm putting huge capital back into asbestos futures......and BBQ sauce......
6/26/2011 at 2:15 AM  2  2  Rating :  0 Permalink
 Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter
Black Swans From New Normal  (3)
Jim:
Interested in ostensible, yes fake, QE3 alternatives, forced bond holdings? Force cash-rich companies to hold government debt? Force Black swans to buy government debt?
-Regards



6/24/2011 at 12:01 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic
Austrians Remove the Burden of Fear
History has never actually uncoupled socialism and fascism in practice, both collectivist, and ultimately elitist....
6/23/2011 at 1:47 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Arnold Bock - MunKnee
Get Ready to be Financially Conscripted  (7)
We won't see the unions lining up to buy a share in the Federal Bond Ponzi Scheme......they'll cut a side deal where-in they are the only group in America allowed to own metals.
6/21/2011 at 11:20 PM  2  3  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Arnold Bock - MunKnee
Get Ready to be Financially Conscripted  (7)
Can the Federal Reserve buy back even more inQE3?
Might as well get the sheep to buy back the wool, then re-fleece them with inflation.
6/21/2011 at 4:14 PM  2  3  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Antal E. Fekete - Gold University
The Marginal Utility of Silver  (4)
Oh yeah, China, space exploration, no less, "poor China, 'sick man of Assia,' I'm not buying it.
China is posed as a new Super Power.
The silver holdings their valiant citizens held, notwithstanding, maybe they will lead the world to a 'real' monetary standard.
6/17/2011 at 12:32 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler - Kunstler
A Distant Sound of Churning  (10)
The Khmer Rouge seems to have inspired our author.
His bio reads: "...Kunstler foresees the PROGRESSIVE dilapidation of subdivisions and strip malls, the depopulation of the American Southwest...."
Yes, can't disagree with him on any of that.
Pol Pot really believed in locally grown food, aggressive depopulation, and found a million uses for the humble shovel.
6/15/2011 at 3:26 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter
U.S. Hurtles Toward System Failure  (16)
That USD index is the story, and Jim tells it like it is. Ever get that 'sinking' feeling?
I wonder if they have a chart like that indexing the 'normalcy bias.'
Just a few items from his checklist are enough to make most people's eye's glaze over with normalcy.
6/10/2011 at 10:40 PM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Michael S. Rozeff - Mike Rozeff
Personal Secession – The Way to Freedom  (1)
PS:
I enjoyed the fact you explored the idea that monopolist access to resources, is a the final goal of all statists, private or public.
6/9/2011 at 12:29 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Michael S. Rozeff - Mike Rozeff
Personal Secession – The Way to Freedom  (1)
Once again Proff...you ROCK.....
Never had you marking my papers pal....erh...Proff...lol....
"Democracy is not freedom. It is the suppression of freedom."
Yes, once a schlub is allowed to vote......they vote 'schluvery'....

Please, let us destroy individualism....it will solve more problems than "freedom entails".....
6/9/2011 at 12:24 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 John Rubino - Dollar Collapse
Too Sad To Be Funny
Are those who are awake get it...yet?
Do you want to pay for that....the puss and guilt from an arrogant wound others cut?

Really....it is too sad....
6/9/2011 at 12:15 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Ron Paul
Holding the President Accountable on Libya  (3)
Soon it is going to be about keeping our fellow citizens accountable.
If there comes a time when there are more socialists and schlubs to perpetuate the inevitable slavery, I for one won't be going to war with a foreign nation. My hands will full de-revolutionizing the schlubs at home. I refuse to be a slave to a schlub. Funny that, 'slave' and 'schlub' probably came fro the same root word. Difference is, on...
6/8/2011 at 1:27 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
The Creeping Nausea of American Exceptionalism  (6)
I forgot to mention, without America, guys like that would be no-bodies.....no point paying them too much attention.....no point pointing out their exceptionalism.....nauseating.....
6/7/2011 at 2:04 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
The Creeping Nausea of American Exceptionalism  (6)
Tired of the constant sexual contextualizations.....running out groupies must hurt....

The country is going to hell precisely because of his reasons.....

Spent do much time proselytizing about the post-nuke world, now it's gong to happen whether or not the nuclear holocaust does....

Time to scroll through to more interesting material.....

Good luck with the Victory Garden........
6/7/2011 at 2:00 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault
Pricing Gold in Deflation
So why can't governments always lie about the real value of metal, and then arrest you for it?
That's the whole lesson of this site, right?

Many thanks for that.

What a Kabuki dance, please, open the Kimono, or maybe, please, please, keep it closed.......I can't afford the soap futures to pay for that........
6/4/2011 at 4:10 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Michael S. Rozeff - Mike Rozeff
Could Private Defense Be Any Worse  (4)
Mr. Rozeff, your articles might become habit forming.
I recall seeing an article or program, quite a while ago, and I believe that an attachment to the Old Guard still casts howitzer actions. It made me wonder if that is a leftover from private armies.....
6/1/2011 at 11:32 PM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Michael S. Rozeff - Mike Rozeff
Is Greece the future of America   (5)
The news contained is painful, but reading about it a pleasure. I like the term "parasitic activity." It sums up so much in a dispassionate way.

Thanks for the article, Mr. Rozeff.
5/31/2011 at 4:48 PM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Memorial Day: Enter Hitler, Release 2.0  (16)
Robert Crumb is right.

Kustler didn't make this **** up, people like Whoopi Goldberg were saying this years ago, maybe she made it up.

Kunstler doesn't seem to do a good job of making stuff up, he seems to be good at 'borrowing' other people's ideas. Not a very original guy, and becoming a bore, even for a liberal.

If he really wanted to write about something no one else made up and t...
5/31/2011 at 12:53 PM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Get Real  (8)
You have to wonder if environmentalists by carbon offsets with their dime bags...
5/24/2011 at 12:47 AM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Douglas French - Mises.org
Is Sin City turning into the Motor City  (1)
Unions.....the cold, withering wind of socialism. Hmmm...do they still make jackets in New York?
5/23/2011 at 12:15 AM  0  1  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Eric de Carbonnel - Market Skeptics
Rigging French Elections: The “DEATH BY MEDIA” of Dominique Strauss Kahn  (2)
The "Honey Pot" vs. "Force of habit, you know".
You can't make this stuff up.
5/20/2011 at 5:14 PM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Eric de Carbonnel - Market Skeptics
America Becoming a Third World Country  (9)
Hey, pcanon, fascism is socialism. They fight to distinguish themselves from each other, but history has shown that the argument is all talk. In practice they behave identically and have lost all meaningful philosophical contrast.

Socialists have rounded up, tortured, starved, and slaughtered the most people of any brand of collectivism.

It is the socialists destroying America from the inside. ...
5/19/2011 at 1:20 PM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Eric de Carbonnel - Market Skeptics
America Becoming a Third World Country  (9)
.....it continues to satisfy their failure fetish.....
5/18/2011 at 5:36 PM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Eric de Carbonnel - Market Skeptics
America Becoming a Third World Country  (9)
Socialists like it just the way it is.....
5/18/2011 at 5:32 PM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 Ron Paul
How Much Freedom Do We Have If We Can’t Even Drink Unpasteurized Milk  (11)
We were certainly not allowed to drink from the Libertarian cup in University.
Who knows, soon we may not be able to legally read 'unpasteurized' books.
5/18/2011 at 3:40 PM  0  1  Rating :  -1 Permalink
 Theodore Butler - Butler Research
First Fear, then Anger  (2)
Mr. Butler;

Thank you for the insights. Luckily I bought in the 20's and had no intention of being creamed, or is that whip-sawed, trying to get out and back in.

Between the phoney paper silver and the electronic trading, it's a wonder many of us can hang on in the face of these liberal practices. If the puppet masters do drive silver back to the 20's, I won't sell, I'll just double my holdings...
5/10/2011 at 2:21 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Lying is the new Normal  (11)
Lying was always the norm in the news rooms, and is the foundation of the liberal mind.
People have abandoned traditional media because they have come to understand the complete misrepresentations, half-truths, and complete burying of truth that liberals have used as a medium to reconstruct an artificial world for the consumption of the 'stupid' people.

Isn't that the message here, that people are t...
5/3/2011 at 2:28 AM  0  3  Rating :  -3 Permalink
 Doug Casey - Casey Research
Debunking Anti-Gold Propaganda  (2)
Thanks for that Doug,

Given the 'normalcy bias', we sometimes forget that we, as others in an extraordinary past, too are living in extraordinary times. No-one around seems aware, it's almost like that vegetable-gone-mad idea, except, everyone's bank account, home, and Savings is about to be consumed, not by a space alien, but by the very thing they trust the most...the government.
Excellent summar...
4/26/2011 at 3:21 AM  0  2  Rating :  -2 Permalink
 James Howard Kunstler
Gaming Our Own Asses  (11)
The wicked vibe that rattles men's brains is the repercussion of the rock-n-roll taker-mentality that has consistently sought to find the big teat at everyone else's expense. There's a hangover due, so why hold up a few rich wives as straw men when unions and the left have been sucking the system dry for decades.

Obama is the idiot, a man incapable of speaking the truth. There's no big teat around the c...
4/20/2011 at 1:48 PM  1  3  Rating :  -2 Permalink

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