Archive - Jul 2013 - Blog entry

Today average Brazilians are having trouble making ends meet paying for everyday products or household goods. Riots erupted in Brazil against the Pope’s visit to Rio de Janeiro.

“We welcome the ruling party’s victory,” said one of the faces of Japan Inc. Others chimed in. They’d been handed a huge gift.

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My eye!--Stevie SAC-lops

"One thing he apparently for sure doesn’t talk about is retirement."

The corrupt edifice that has propped up the US big banks and financial system is beginning to crumble before our very eyes.

This was easy to see coming. The big question is, What's next?

A new Nielson survey on global consumer confidence for the 2nd quarter this year reveals that confidence is improving around the world. It works out to 55% of people around the world that believe that we are currently going through a recession, which means that this is the lowest figure surveyed for over two years.

July 23 - Gold $1335.10 down $1.30 - Silver $20.25 down 25 cents "GET AFTER THEIR ASS!" … A Texas Football Coach GO GATA!

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Over 99% of “analysts” are missing this, but it is a fact. If you ignore the ridiculous GDP numbers (which even China’s Premiere has admitted are a joke in the past) and look at more accurate metrics, it’s clear China is collapsing at an alarming rate. Case in point, Electrical consumption rose by just 2.9% in the first quarter of this year.

Gold surged over 3% yesterday due to what appears to be have been significant short covering due to concerns about gold backwardation and the continual haemorrhaging of gold inventories from the COMEX.

Concerns about a default on the COMEX, once the preserve of a few observant market watchers, are becoming more widespread  as we appear to be witnessing a run on the highly leveraged bullion banking system.

Very robust physical demand from the Middle East, Asia and particularly China and a decline in the dollar also helped prices log their biggest one-day gain in over a year and their first close above $1,300 an ounce in nearly five weeks.

Gains in silver futures, meanwhile, outpaced gold’s rise, with silver surging 5%.

A report just out by Coutts (the private wealth-management bank) has pointed the wagging finger at British rich and famous, the millionaire’s club for not protecting their wealth enough.

Surplus capital used to be the understood as the primary challenge, but this fell out of favor.  This essay seeks to return it to the center of the narrative.