Archive - 2014 - Blog entry

Concerns about the possibility of the Chinese property bubble bursting affecting economic growth in China and the world is supporting gold.

A special message to financial parasites of the TBTF kind...

We all know that money doesn’t exist and that it’s nothing more than virtual movements from one bank to another, but where is it all going exactly? Is it just fuelling the stock market, going round in circles and coming back to the original place it was in? 

The MSM won't touch this topic, nor will the Fed. But it caused 2008 and it hasn't been fixed.

This is a headwind we shouldn't ignore.

When Arthur Levitt's SEC adopted Rule 2a-7 in 1998, it handed the TBTF banks and GSEs a mortgage monopoly on a silver platter.  

The stages of a Man's/Ponzi Bubble's, life...

The Fed Is Very Political … And Serves the Big Banks and the Powers-That-Be

Global gold prices may have been manipulated on 50% of occasions between January 2010 and December 2013, according to analysis by Fideres, a consultancy. Pension funds, hedge funds, commodity trading advisers, futures traders and ordinary investors are likely to have suffered losses as a result. Many of these groups were "definitely ready" to file lawsuits.

By accusing someone else of being responsible for my emotional outbursts I am in essence avoiding responsibility for my own actions. By blaming others for my ‘State of Mind’ I’m assigning myself to the ‘role’ of victim status.

A dispassionate and analytic of the macro developments for the week ahead. 

A rock and a hard place...

Everybody knows of the light-heartened Big Mac index that the boys at The Economist thought up in 1986 in an idle moment as a yard stick for comparisons between countries around the world.

Faster, Higher, Stronger...

A look at the price action among the major currencies for the week ahead.