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Fleckenstein – Central Banks & The Fed Are Close To Panic

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Today Bill Fleckenstein told King World News, “…the central banks of the world, and in particular the Fed, are close to where they are going to panic and do something big.”  Fleckenstein, who is President of Fleckenstein Capital, also said, “What I am salivating over is the chance to really press my gold position.  I think the next leg is going to be really, really powerful.”  Here is what Fleckenstein [...]

JIM GRANT: Today’s Rally Really Was About The Scott Walker Victory In Wisconsin Last Night

Earlier we joked that some people thought today’s rally was the result of the election outcome in Wisconsin last night.

Well, serious people think so too.

James Grant, of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, was just on CNBC, and this is what he told Maria Bartiromo:

“…Today i think part of the source of the levitation was the Scott Walker triumph in Wisconsin.”

He explained:

“People maybe are discounting the prospects of a return to something like freer if [...]

Expect Tremendous Chaos, Europe Deteriorating Rapidly – James Turk

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With major markets around the world continuing to get hit, today King World News interviewed James Turk out of Europe.  Turk told KWN the situation in Europe is deteriorating and the banking system is being severely tested.  Turk also discussed gold and silver, but first, here is what Turk had to say about the crisis in Europe:  “The situation here in Europe is rapidly deteriorating, Eric.  Moody’s downgrade of 26 Italian banks [...]

Why do new investors always take such a short-term view on Gold and Silver

Posted on 08 May 2012

It was curious recently to meet with some old friends who recalled a big argument we had four years ago about the merits of buying gold and silver.

They had to concede defeat. After all a portfolio equally split between those precious metals is up by around 80 per cent since then. In that time even Warren Buffett has underperformed the S&P that has basically gone nowhere [...]

Chinese Business Media Cautions Japanese Bond Bubble Is Ready To Burst, Anticipates 40% Yen Devaluation

by ZH

 

It is a fact that when it comes to the oddly resilient Japanese hyperlevered economic model, the bodies of those screaming for the end of the JGB bubble litter the sides of central planning’s tungsten brick road. Yet in the aftermath of last month’s stunning surge in the country’s trade deficit, this, and much more may soon be finally ending. Because as Caixin’s Andy Xie writes “The day of reckoning for [...]

$200 Oil Coming As Central Banks Go CTRL+P Happy

We have been saying it for weeks, and today even the WSJ jumped on the bandwagon: the sole reason why crude prices are surging (RIP European profit margins: with EUR Brent at a record, we can only assume the ECB will pull a 2011 and hike rates in 3-4 months even as it pumps trillions in PIIGS, banks bailout liquidity) is because global liquidity has risen by $2 trillion in a few short months, on [...]

China Daily: China Insolvency Wave Begins As Nation’s Biggest Provincial Borrowers “Defer” Loan Payments

by ZH

Remember, back in the day, when a bankruptcy was simply called a bankruptcy? Naturally, this was well before ISDA came on the scene and footnoted the living feces out of everything by claiming that a bankruptcy is never a bankruptcy, as long as the creditors agree to 99.999% losses at gunpoint, with electrodes strapped to their testicles, submerged in a tank full of rabid piranhas, it they just sign [...]

Von Greyerz – Currency Collapse, Hyperinflation & Social Unrest

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With the gold price tumbling, along with silver, today King World News interviewed the man who told clients in 2002, when gold was $300, to put up to 50% of their assets into physical gold held outside of the banking system.  Egon von Greyerz is founder and managing partner at Matterhorn Asset Management out of Switzerland.  When asked about the 2002 call, Greyerz responded, “It was very clear to me, Eric, [...]

Sausage The Riot Dog Coming To America?

by Brandon Smith of Alt Market

Sausage The Riot Dog Coming To America?

 

Who would have thought it possible? Greece, a tiny country on the Mediterranean which is, in the grand scheme of things, economically insignificant, has become the centerpiece of the global financial media and the “make or break” sovereign debt battle for the entire European Union. Let’s face it; Greece dominates [...]

Marc Faber: Why I am bullish on gold

LONDON (Commodity Online): Noted global economic analyst and investor Marc Faber says gold is the best investment among commodities and there is no harm in investors amassing the yellow metal even at these high prices.

In his latest June outlook on the global economy, Faber asked investors to stay away from industrial commodities. “Global growth is slowing, which means weaker demand and lower prices for industrial [...]

Faber’s recommendation: “Whether you are very bullish or very bearish you should invest in oil.”

by ZH

Last year’s Russia Forum was one of the must see events of the year, pitting such high powered independent thinkers as Marc Faber, Hugh Hendry, Nassim Taleb in a free for all. While the cliffhanger back then was the suggestion by Hendry that he had recreated the Paulson ABX trade with “1.5% downside and 75% upside” (which has since not been fully revealed aside [...]

Jesus H. Christ, someone who finally gets it. Look, bankers make money only one of two ways: lending & repossession.

by B9K9

(Hyper) inflation to the extent of diluting creditor savings isn’t in the play book. Repossession (deflation) has always been in the cards after the wild securitization (inflation).

Let’s put this aside for a moment and consider sales. How do you get someone to agree with your decision? Why, you get them to first initiate an idea so that you are merely agreeing with them. Now, consider [...]

There’s nothing so useless as a Fed incapable of generating positive inflation – its like a diseased, ruptured appendix.

Hyper-inflation is a mirage. There’s just no way to get money into the hands of people. The Government is going to save the banks – not the people. If they were serious about generating inflation and taking the ankle-weights off of those treading water, they’d be talking about massive debt relief and tax relief programs to get cash back out into the economy.

That is NOT what they’re doing. A controlled [...]

Recovery is based on borrowed money. Nothing has been fixed! We are doing more of the same that brought us the crash!

We are at the early stages of a deflationary collapse!

In 2008 the money supply was in free fall because defaults were destroying debt based money. The reason that defaults were destroying money is because that debt used as money had very little real collateral s when the borrower defaulted the collateral did not cover the loan so banks wrote off money. So alot went broke. Bear Stearns, then Lehmans [...]