Archive - 2014 - Blog entry

Precious metals investors (and even precious metals commentators) have a tendency to put the cart before the horse. We familiarize ourselves with the dramatic economic fundamentals which have an enormous impact on the value of precious metals (and the prices for all hard assets). We study the parameters of supply and demand for gold and silver. But we frequently omit learning about the intrinsic properties of these amazing metals.

"My Helicopters Are Ready. You Will All Be Trillionaires." Must see chart of gold in German marks from 1918 to 1923. The Fed - "Silently robbing your purchasing power since 1913 ... "

Congress Desperately Tries to Stir Up War ... Even Though Public Doesn't Want It

All it takes is a few public beatings to dissuade others from openly considering other factors when researching or discussing climate change.

And ringing in the Swinder's Bonus Season...

A dispassionate look at the week ahead.

The cards in this deck are not aligned the way they were a half-year ago. An Obama veto of Keystone is no longer a sure thing. Proving once again that crude prices have strange bedfellows.

A different view on a tough market...

The Federal Reserve and its owners print and party, while the rest of us work and weep..................

Those who are thoroughly convinced they are righteously correct have little need to question themselves and even less desire to do so. Ignorance is bliss, and for many quite empowering.

Deny it.  Engage in all kinds of mental gymnastics to dismiss it if you must,  but the fact is the US dollar is rising, and not just because of negative developments abroad, but positive economic developments in the US.  

A story has been echoing around the financial news for a few weeks: the Chinese economy is now larger than the economy in the US. Not so fast...

“I know the police cause you trouble;
They cause trouble everywhere.
But when you die and go to heaven;
You find no policeman there” 
--Woody Guthrie

 THE bubble, the biggest bubble in financial history: an incredible $100 trillion monster that is now growing by trillions of dollars every few months.

It is no secret to properly informed readers that the U.S. economy is mired in a Greater Depression. All claims of economic growth and a “U.S. recovery” are nothing more than a flimsy fraud. This fiction requires nothing more than lying about the rate of inflation, as all estimates of GDP are directly derived from the official rate of inflation.