‘PANIC IS EVERYWHERE’: Gold Market Crashes, Chinese Growth Slows, ECB Put Pressure On Insolvent European Country To Sell Gold To Fund The Bailout, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, Citi Results Suggest Housing Market Slowing And Consumer Is Still Deleveraging. Will Investors Start Dumping Stocks?

A Complete Look At China’s Latest Disappointing Data In One Chart

China just released its latest batch of economic data which showed that economic growth missed analyst expectations.

First here’s a look at the latest data from China, including trade and inflation data that were released last week:

 

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Gartman on Gold: We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It

Gold prices continued to plummet Monday on concern that Cyprus will have to sell excess reserves of the precious metal to raise [...]

The Population Control Agenda Of The Radical Humanists Who Would Love For You And I To Die

By Michael

Billions of dollars is being poured into an effort to reduce population growth all over the world, and most people do not even know that it is happening.  These efforts are often promoted under such labels as “family planning”, “abortion rights” and “public health programs”, but the primary goal is always to get women to have less children.  This population control agenda has millions upon millions of supporters all [...]

The government, the “War Usury Exchange”, it is they who are the “consumers”.

It doesn’t always take violence. It sometimes only requires a tipping pointbe reached. Think about it. The “beast” exists because “we” feed it. They’ve been trying to force  the commons to accept the the label as being a “consumer”, The commons produces everything. The government, the “War Usury Exchange”, it is they who are the “consumers”.

The beast atrophies as we speak . It has been for a while.

If you’ve ever known a petty thief [...]

Suddenly, a Sharp Deterioration in the Job Market

Wolf Richter   www.testosteronepit.com

A hullabaloo broke out on February 3 after the BLS released its jobs report that indicated that a surprisingly robust 243,000 jobs were created in January, and that the unemployment rate had dropped to an even more surprising 8.3%. Cynics, academics, BLS heretics, BLS true believers, hype mongers, and politicians of all stripes waged a veritable media battle over these numbers that President Obama had serenely trotted out as [...]

John Embry – Gold & Silver Close to Taking Off

kingworldnews.com

With gold holding near the $1,650 area and silver turning positive, today King World News interviewed John Embry, Chief Investment Strategist of the $10 billion strong Sprott Asset Management.  When asked where he sees things headed from here, Embry responded, “I think the comparison between silver and (shares of) Apple is excellent in the sense that silver volatility has been horrific.  All but the true believers have been knocked out [...]

‘Pass This Jobs Bill!’ (it won’t create jobs, and it will be paid for with money we don’t have)

The president has taken to the campaign trail to promote his “American Jobs Act.” That’s a good name for it: an act. “Pass this bill now!” he declared 24 times at a stop in Raleigh, N.C., and another 18 in Columbus, Ohio, and the act is sufficiently effective that, three years into the Vapidity of Hope, the president can still find crowds of true believers [...]

Until recently, we had been seeing some fairly classic public negotiation strategies in debt ceiling play

1. The Tea Party true believers were digging in and promising to make life difficult for any (whether within or outside the Republican Party) who break ranks with their vision.

2. The Republican Party leadership in the House and Senate were rhetorically siding with several of the core Tea Party demands while indication that, provided they significantly achieved these stated aims, they were prepared to [...]

Is Gold About To Go Vertical?

12:16a ET Thursday, May 5, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

MarketWatch and Wall Street Journal columnist Brett Arends lately has eased off his disparagement of gold, and with his commentary at MarketWatch yesterday he joined those who have been asking how there can be a bubble in gold when there’s no retail public buying of it. But Arends predicts that gold will become a bubble, which may [...]

Hamas condemns killing of ‘holy warrior’

GAZA (Reuters) – The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Monday condemned the killing by U.S. forces of Osama bin Laden and mourned him as an “Arab holy warrior.”

“We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood,” Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip, told reporters.

Though he noted doctrinal differences between bin Laden’s al Qaeda [...]

Beware Of Extrapolating Trends

by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds

Beware Of Extrapolating Trends

Extrapolating trends is exciting but misleading.

Manias, bubbles and “momentum investing” all rely on observing a trend and extrapolating it into the future. This is how we get “housing never goes down” and other trends which eventually run out of oxygen.

Consider this example of extrapolation. If you follow basketball at all, either your local high school or college teams [...]

When a corrupt, cruel and collectivist Regime engages in sustained and fantastic propaganda who is the audience?

First, foreigners whose money or goodwill or complicity or other forms of support or non-opposition is important to the Regime ….in this case holders of that fake currency known as the dollar and that fraudulent debt known as public bonds and notes at every level of government

Second, Regime toadies, sycophants, loyalists and hirelings who either need the lies for repackaging and repetition in the form of “news” , political, economic [...]