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Risk - It's Not Just A Board Game
"The world is a very risky place right now for an investor," is the cautious manner in which Grant Williams (of Things That Make You Go Hhmm infamy) begins this excellent presentation, even though he notes that "the general perception is that there is very little risk," as all markets from equities to bonds (and even risk itself) are priced as though 2007/8 never happened. It appears, Williams notes, given the market's perceptions that, "all the problems are behind us." He chides, "Nothing could be further from the truth." Williams focuses on the corruption of traditional price signals by Central Banks' ZIRP (and LSAP) policies, financial repression, and the possibility that the gold leasing market is about to fall apart - because one of these days, someone is going to ask for their gold back and be told they can't have it.
"By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out."
Scott Adams - The Dilbert Principle
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39mins... wtf?!
Worth every minute. Watched it earlier today - twice.
Very good presentation, good charts. Very sound logic.
Aussome.
K.I.S.S.
If you don't hold it -
You don't own it! Simple.
7 years to return Germany's part of their gold is an eternity considering High frequency trading. It is actually a way of saying to Germany we will think about it for 7 years and we will let you know if you can have it.
Germany should demand it now. Just like Chavez. Unless the whole request is a rouse that the US does not have a problem handing it over to calm the restless.
Either way. Something is fishy and whoever counts on gold better buy it and hold it in their own hands or in places where they consider safe. there are millions of us and we have millons of ideas where it will be safe.
BTW: 22k gold wire or page size gold sheets for jewlery making do not look anything like gold until they are bathed in acid.
Yes indeed.
It makes you wonder how long a typical gold lease is....
A.D.D.? Yessiree!
ted watched it all and took notes.
Go commit suicide Plath
She just wanted hope and change.....without the time investment.
Sylvia Plath said: "39mins... wtf?!"
What, you think 39 mins of Dancing With the Stars is time well spent? Goes faster than 39 minutes, it's full of fiber.
Sylvia Plath "39 mins...wtf"
ADD????? Wtf!
K@
Gold, it's not just for breakfast anymore.
As far as the gold leasing game goes, it absolutely is a case of first to the exit (wanting their gold back) wins! One of those points that is irrefutable, if you're last, you end up with NOTHING!
I keep trying to tell people ~ You need to pile up all your armies in Irkustk & invade Yakustk...
Everybody knows you start off in Australia, sandbag your cards, amass a formidable army and then sweep through the board. Risk 101.
nah you team up with the dumbest players to take out the smartest one first - like in real life
That's only when the 'SMART' guy puts it all in Australia... Then you team up with the dumb guys to pin him in there...
Sho Bro you send it all over heyer, and wes gonna look after it reeeel gud fo yo, honest injun.....cos you just know ya cin trust us Awstrayians.......
can you provide an example? better yet, what i want to know where the hofjuden fit in. dumb or smart? because they have not been taken out even once in the last 350 years; furthermore, i just looked into my crystal ball and i can see that the money changers are perpetuating their financial fraud since the time of jesus. so, can you kinda explain how this works for the real life we live today?
Oh never mind....
Damn, start in Australia? Brilliant!
aka: the 'Lex Luthor" strategy
have you been smoking those funny cigs tonight? we talk gold, you jump in with irkutsk, then you shift to australia and finish with kryptonite. wtf? ;)
as always ~ watch what the OTHER hand is doing...
Are you talking Wakky Baccy, if so please send it with the other stuff....Ok?
Confusiun say park your armies in Omsk, go invade Tomsk.
the first to panic, panics best.
Well, actually, I think if you're third or so; you'll end up with nothing. But, yes.
The world today is a chimpanzee with a machine gun and a hit of acid.
I thInk we can take him.
Remember the story where the chimp got "trapped"
after he reached in to get the banana through the bars,
but then wouldn't let go?
Wrong story, it was a 2 year old and a gumball machine. They had to take machine apart and pull the gumball up from the top of the machine. It took fire fighters 2 hrs to get the key and dismantle the machine. After the whole episode was over and the boy was comming down off the adventure, he said "that was tramatic, I think I need a few more gumballs".
I think we should all feel safe since the government has faith that Bernank and the Fed minions know what they're doing.
I hope the Easter bunny brings me some gold.
Yes - monkeys and footballs........
Close enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6LWNQqs7TE
LOL.. If any US alphabet taxpayers government agency copies my torture techniques. You’re in big trouble copying my internet patient claim.
How?? By your very own rules.. Bwhahahahahahaha
Copyrights and Internet Piracy (SOPA and PIPA Legislation)
Just remember, if you start interrogating people on my devised plan. The lite attorney case load muppets who need the gay marriage deal to expand business will be all over this.
System breakdown alert. Watching the snake eat its tail will be the grand TV finale. Coming soon…
I would rather sleep with a 'Bangkok Hooker 'without a condom, then trust a 'bankster' with my hard earned cash.
eeeuuuhhh...
if I could chose between my money...
and my dick falling off after some nasty shit happened to it...
I'll give you my money man....
THAT'S A MANS MOST IMPORTANT HARD ASSET YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!!!
ya gotta point there. I would only wear one condom.
With the hooker or the banker?
fielding mellish? now how many people do you suppose know where that name is from? two out of a million, and one is alan konigsberg?
The same unwashedmass that went to school with Ben?
What do you mean? It's from an old Woody Allen flick. People here are fairly well educated, and most of them are old enough to have watched it when it originally came out...
At least with the Bangkok Hooker you know what price you're going to pay
Depends upon when you pay. The Hooker Principle - "The perceived value of services rendered declines dramatically once the service has been performed."
YC,
Up to the 80's the worst you could get was the sting, but now a death sentence.
+1 YC:-)
Those people who call themselves the 99% ...
and 99% of the 1%...
will figure it out when the music has stopped and when they see there was only 5 chairs for 500 people dancing.
WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY SEE THIS COMMING?!?!?!
For some reason people look at bond yields sub 2% and think "risk off" start buying equities...but that says risk ON in a BIG WAY to me. Sure..."look at how little interest i have to pay when i borrow." At the same time though "look at what passes for an asset these days as well." if the market determines that the price is far too high for "what's called that asset thingy you claim to have"..guess what "here we go again."
DAV did you notice how bond yields were creeping higher a few weeks ago, and the fed jumped all over that one. The markets took it as a buy signal. In a normal world low yields show flight to quality. We live in a POMO fake world.
credit unions, bitchez!
So they are safer? They are a row of dominoes waiting to fall. FDIC will print dollars (may be worthless though) to cover bank deposits ... credit unions will not be covered.
Why is there even discussion of savings accounts and credit unions? Credit LINES, Bitchez! Leave THEM with ALL of the risk. Only deposit enough money to pay off the credit line monthly and use the "savings" more wisely than giving it to a bank or credit union to steal.
Credit unions have there own insurance, all federal credit unions are insured by the NCUSIF.
Same fiat and we will see what happens when TSHTF?
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Greatest Hits "Breakdown"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbG6M28UkFg (2:48)
The list goes on… Don’t forget Chinese marbles
"Chinese marbles" ....
Dats rayciss.
I thought it was called Chinese Checkers. Yeah, there's marbles on the board and you start with all yours in a triangle off to one side. Multiple people can play, not just two. Same game?
If so, that's still raciss. ;)
US citizens have troubles with perceptation. Once brought down to more representatively scale, one can know betterly the game as Chinese Citizenism Checkers with gladness of heart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Historical_Inflation_Ancient.svg
Okay some of that is very probably manipulated but it shows that they... the FED... do.... not.... like .... deflation and will rob the people of the value of 'money'... smoke and mirrors just like the 'market' ... as long as it goes up you are getting wealthier... FAKE FRAUD ROBBERY THEFT
FAKE FRAUD ROBBERY THEFT
Federal Reserve Accounting Unit DollarS - FRAUDS
FAKE FRAUD ROBBERY THEFT
Federal Reserve Accounting Unit DollarS - FRAUDS
Investor: I want my gold
ETF: You can't have it. But you can have it reedemed in cash- refer to page 132 line c with the asterisk. In the event that we get caught pretending to hold a product that we've sold to you, we can give some fiatscos.
During this time the price has gone up 200 dollars an ounce.
Not if, but when.
Then why not just sell GLD and buy GC ... GLD can balk at delivering (or holding gold) before Comex fails delivery ... there can be no safer trade, except; buy Physical and sell GLD. As gold rises, one may have to sell some physical to cover margin calls. If the SHTF and all gold goes crazy up (GLD and GC), you will be liquidated and declare bankruptcy ... keep your house, your car, and your gold.
Opps. i forgot number 11
Bill gates playing dungeons dragons game
When interest rates are low, stocks will grow. Stocks are now a store of value. Granted they may tank, but then again so may the dollar. Diversify was and still is the ticket to ride.
Stocks are a store of value like credits in a 777 slot machine, but good luck to you.
Every country that wanted it gold back was told it could have it, just not right now...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/26/texas-wants-its-gold-back-wait-what/
Also, tried to find a reference online referring to Germany's request/demand? for it's gold back in Jan...last I heard or read, the reply was "sure but it'll take 5-6 yrs".
Has there been any further development to that situation or time-line?
`'The Finite Conterminous of a Anachronistic Timeline: The immature fractional abomination of a FRB's nascent-- 'Artificial Insemination'... gone terribly awry?!'`
Dotcom Bubble: 1999 ~ early 2000 http://timelines.com/2000/3/10/dot-com-bubble-reaches-peak
Subprime Crisis: 2001 ~ Nov/2009 http://zmag.hubpages.com/hub/Subprime-Crisis-A-Timeline
Financial [ Inchoate?] Crisis: ~ Aug/2007 - present? http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/aug/07/credit-crunch-boom-bust-timeline
EU/ EZ Coming to Terms: An, incipient 'Systemic Crisis'-- Present Day - ???
jmpo
thankyou Tyler
That's a long one but a great review. It's magic.
Lots of hairspray can fix it though I bet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Kv6vxZwL8
Gold leasing will not fall apart for a long time given that its controllers can use dollars to buy off any threat of physical delivery bing demanded.
Until other banks/countries get wind of the free money and go to grab more gold.
This means the CBs have a choice of printing even faster to pay off those going for physical delivery, or pull back on leasing to stop making false promises.
My guess is they'll print faster -- but the outcome is the same -- asking for the gold back triggers a massive unwind and a price spike, or a price spike gets generated from the dollar settlements. Think COMEX is going to keep "selling" leased gold when there's a line around the block demanding delivery and settling for a cash prize instead? It's a game of poker where you know the other guy is bluffing 100% of the time.
Where are Hunts when we need them?
Who needs the Hunt Brothers when we have the Chinese and Russians? They are still stacking, and have no interest in the price going up while they still have lots of paper to unload.
Wish you were wrong about that but I'm afraid you're right at least for now. I wish I had a buck for every time I heard that the phyzz market was going to overwhelm the paper market, the lease rates were gonna blow, the Comex was going to collapse. Been hearing this stuff for at least six years now and it never happens.
The banksters can still buy off whoever they want with fiat dollars and that doesn't change until it does. Think about it, if you demanded delivery of gold and they offered you twice the amount in fiat for you NOT ot take delivery, would you do it? Apparently 98% of the players do. In fact they take alot less.
Unfortuantely fiat dollars still buy real goods - until they don't. Nobody has a clue when that will change.
I appreciate your post allworkedup. Yeah, a bit difficult. It is all about time/reality/patience. Nothing is over. Nothing at all. It will not end well for the banksters.
"if you demanded delivery of gold and they offered you twice the amount in fiat for you NOT ot take delivery, would you do it? Apparently 98% of the players do. In fact they take alot less."
Of couse your argument is fudamentally flawed because most people that have a clue aren't going to just stop buying contracts+physical again, they will buy more than the original amount with the proceeds and hold for delivery again. This means that the demand for physical is increasing in multiples but the supply of money to pay for the bribes is not. The physical doesn't have to be purchased via comex or LBMA it is heading to places that actually deliver so the physical supply is dwindling somewhere even if the flood of paper is rising.
Incidentally six years is not a very long time.
Until the real tangible asset is demanded.
You know, that "put up or shut up" moment.
It comes to every relationship in time; just a matter of time.
Comment from the Youtube thread of this video:
"Dutch bank ABN Amro? has refused to deliver physical gold to its clients in recent days."
I do know where my bullion is becasue I have it in my possession and I am not as stupid as the Germans or French, or all the other countries that left it with the Fed in NYC. I also know where my gold price girl is! http://www.gold-price-girls.com.
I can't wait for tomorrow's girl....
if you can not
deliver my gold
you may pay me
in adrenial gland extract..
Excellent presentation.
Clear and to the point, full of common sense talk - just like your articles.
Thank You!
(glad I bought more gold at the last dip)
END THE FED.
Serenity Now!
Thanks for the vid Tyler...this link deserves to be widespread
The easy way around this is to simply refuse delivery and advise that the owners sell their bars and repurchase them locally. Call it security or whatever you feel like. Thus maintaining the fraud and placing pressure on other people who are not you.
Great presentation.logical and succinct
Yep, great presentation. Nothing new to ZH regulars, but an interesting watch.
I was just about to say the same thing. Nothing new to regulars, but quite reassuring nontheless.
Brilliant presentation. Worth the time spent, and more.
Thank you Tyler
Tyler-they already have. Remember Germany asked for it's gold and was told it would take SEVEN YEARS?
Also, the state of Texas has asked to take possesion on it's gold. Gotta love TX.
One of the best presentations I have seen in a while. Must see!
If you have to watch something this week, watch this! Absolutely first rate.
Frau Merkel, we have found an old unpaid invoice from back in the 40's. It is for the bombs dropped on Berlin, Dresden, and other assorted ciities in Germany.
We have decided to hang onto that gold of yours until we get this old invoice taken care of. Any problem with that? Oh we have been digging around in that some box of invoices and we also have a few other unpaid discreptancies that you may have to address before you get your gold back.
Oh yes, Frau Merkel they are very legitimate, oh we also have this Berlin airlift thing that needs to be taken care of, its not that much.
Buy gold bitchez! Don't forget to buy some guns and ammo to protect your gold as well. We live in interesting times. Stay well.
I just bought junk silver. Gold might be a little pricey for everyday transactions. Nor do I want my neighbors to see me making purchases with gold while they are suffering the pain of America on the decline. Gold is an excellent investment, but silver will have its role to play.
transcript (if you prefer reading to watching) :
http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/mineweb-gold-analysis?oid=1825...
Carmina Burana. How appropriate.