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Gold & Silver Tumble As USDJPY Hits 120

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Despite stocks ignoring the momentum ignition efforts, USDJPy just briefly broke 120 once again. That appears to have been the flash signal for 'someone' to dump vast quantities of precious metals in the futures markets... "unrigged"

USDJPY insta-smashed to 120 and backed off...

 

But that sparked PM selling in size...

 

But stocks are ignoring it for now...

 

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Mon, 12/22/2014 - 11:53 | 5581053 aleph0
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-5$ Gold is a tumble ?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 11:59 | 5581065 Publicus
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BRICS are selling gold and turning to the yuan. The people's currency backed by manufacturing.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:06 | 5581104 GrowerJohn
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It's a great time to start a career in farming :)

 

http://naturecoastpermaculture.com/2014/12/unemployed-try-wwoofing-work/

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:38 | 5581212 Renfield
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Great find, thanks! I think we'll see a lot more of this in North America.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:07 | 5581310 BaBaBouy
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Im GETTING A Stronger FEELING...

?????? IS JAPAN THE Big SHORT Rigger In The Paper GOLD Market ?????

More Evidence Appears...

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:12 | 5581353 Renfield
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Why not? It's their turn to carry on QE until at least next quarter...

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:17 | 5581371 Alea Iactaest
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The JPY-Au pair was exposed here. That said, what will JPYUSD at 140 do to the POG?

I was going to type something about how the Japanese are so fucked, but I realized that on a long enough timeline we are all Japanese.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:00 | 5581559 GrowerJohn
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You're very welcome. I had originally found out about WWOOFing in Mark Boyle's book "Moneyless Man".

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:44 | 5581229 therover
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Per the article "It’s important to be in relatively good physical shape"

That leaves out 60-70% of Americans.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:41 | 5581469 db51
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What a crock of Total Left Wing Greenie Utopia Bullshit.   Go WWOFING....lmao.   I've got 1,200 acres in row crop production....Can't wait to get my WOOFING operation started.    I'll bet the WWOFERS will be lined up three wide for a mile to apply for the positions....Why WWOOF when you can sit back and let Uncle Obama send you a check every month for housing, food and healthcare.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:01 | 5581563 GrowerJohn
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Have you had a chance to read Gaia's Garden? It's a great book.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:25 | 5581693 cynicalskeptic
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Seems like SOMEBODY is still interested in gold.....

http://rt.com/business/216687-gold-missing-ukraine-bank/

 

I wonder if they'll ever bother to drill test whatever is supposedly in Ft. Knox......   but then Tungsten coated with gold provides a more convincing replacement

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 20:13 | 5583012 lordkoos
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I had to uprate you just for being an independent thinker instead of the usual ZH echo chamber...

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 11:57 | 5581070 Latina Lover
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If the criminal banksters could rig LIBOR, what makes anyone think that gold markets couldn't be rigged?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:04 | 5581096 rccalhoun
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what website is there to replace this one.  the sensationalism, marketing etc have driven all the good conversation away.  where can i read and comment on better material?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:25 | 5581161 Renfield
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If you want some meaty reading today, Vineyard of the Saker has a huge essay on the Russian-Chinese "Double Helix", with a look back at the key events of 2014.

I encourage you to read the (long) paper in its entirety. It is good for the mind, good for the soul, and great for understanding the 'big picture' of the ongoing shift in power, away from the corrupt Hegemon to the 21st-century Double Helix.

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ca/2014/12/vineyard-of-saker-white-paper-c...

(PS: I'm just looking for posts & comments to pimp this informative paper so thanx for the chance here.)

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:28 | 5581185 outamyeffinway
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I've had to disable flash just to tolerate ZH anymore.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:08 | 5581339 Abitdodgie
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i am running an old OS on a Apple and the flash adds stop me from coming here to often , I to am looking for another site.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:14 | 5581357 DavidC
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Firefox with AdBlocking - no ads.

DavidC

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:48 | 5581503 Aaronson.Jones....
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Forking sweet, nice one.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:31 | 5581200 MolotovCockhead
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"where can i read and comment on better material?"

How about trying CNBC or Yahoo for a start?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:10 | 5581349 Agstacker
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Here, I believe that this is right up your alley-

 

http://www.federalreserve.gov/

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:26 | 5581409 GotNuttin'todo
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The anti-ZH comments are getting a thumbs down. Means you're on the right track. If you want your ego stroked say you are married to gold and shall never part, that Hades himself created the banking world, and that all would be well if we could just peacefully grow corn in our backyard. Physical gold has its place - you just hope like hell you have the opportunity to pass it along to your grandchildren. You don't want to see a world where gold is $5000 - as the saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it."

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 20:14 | 5583014 lordkoos
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nakedcapitalism.com

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:18 | 5581137 kill switch
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On ZH TUMBLE AND PLUNGE are the watch word,,they need to change it up!!!At this rate these words will have no meaning as the word GAY has been hijacked....As you say aleph0 -5$ is hardly a T or a P!!!!

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 11:57 | 5581059 Soul Glow
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Housing market crashes, DJ up 100....

....right.  That makes sense because since the Fed has the QE thingy with the MBS purchases going....

Right?  They're still doing that, right?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:23 | 5581167 KnuckleDragger-X
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We have to believe in FED magic, otherwise the real world sucks....

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 11:55 | 5581060 buzzsaw99
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wop wop wah

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:01 | 5581081 Hulk
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always wondered how that looney tune sound effect was spelled...

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:05 | 5581106 buzzsaw99
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Don't let me hear you say gold's
taking you nowhere,
angel

Run for the shadows, run for the shadows
Run for the shadows in these golden years

I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years
Nothing's gonna touch you in these golden years, gold
Golden years, gold whop whop whop [/Bowie]

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:27 | 5581187 Hulk
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David Sanborn on Sax !!!

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:07 | 5581330 xtop23
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All that's missing is Earl Klugh on guitar.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 11:58 | 5581067 Armed Resistance
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Sounds like Monday to me. As a stacker, I can remember long ago when it used to annoy me. Not anymore, as I can see the day is coming when all of the manipulation will be over! It's right around the corner, and it will be glorious!

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:25 | 5581175 KnuckleDragger-X
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Paper gold is designed to be manipulated because paper money would be butt wipe otherwise....

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:36 | 5581207 Kaiser Sousa
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as we all now, there is only one purpose behind this kind of phony ass move -

http://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html

that is to drive the price down...aint nobody selling no mother fucking real Gold or Silver...

DEATH TO THE MONEYCHANGERS.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:04 | 5581322 disabledvet
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Just fly on in to Moscow in your G-5 and buy the place.

"You ain't got it if you ain't flaunting it" bitchez.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:19 | 5581642 cynicalskeptic
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Predictable - short week, light volume - RAMP UP THE MANIPULATION!!!

Same old playbook.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 11:59 | 5581076 Dr. Engali
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Just checked the safe, and my PMs are neatly stacked. They haven't tumbled anywhere. 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:02 | 5581087 Winston Churchill
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I'm not getting my shovel out to check.

In the safe Doc ?

That my designated decoy.

$1k in cash and paperwork, with hard work trying to get in it..

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:02 | 5581093 mayhem_korner
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I'm pretty sure mine are still resting at the bottom of the lake where I had that boating accident...

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:26 | 5581179 KnuckleDragger-X
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Shiny....

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:10 | 5581340 buzlightening
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I can't imagine how surprised the gov goon platoon will be when the chaos plug gets pulled on the debt based fiat currency wealth illusion.  How did these citizens know debt based currencies go to zero.  Why did they stack constitutional money; store food and water; guns and ammo?  The better to push you freakin rat bastards into the pit you dug for us!  Some many folks are going to get buried and it won't be those prepared.  We'll have nothing better to do than hunt down the thugs, who deserve no less than what has wickedly been planned to enslave we the people rank'n file citizenry.  

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:00 | 5581083 Fix It Again Timmy
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Yep, $5 down - gold is cratering, people are throwing it out the window, when walking the dog I have to kick the stuff outta the way....

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:05 | 5581101 quasimodo
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What is your locale? I will gladly sweep the streets and stand under some windows donning a hard hat.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:03 | 5581091 Caveman93
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Silver always tied to oil prices. I dr00l waiting for $5.00/oz silver when oil hits $25/barrel. 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:50 | 5581512 homiegot
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Yup, load up. Until then, watch.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 17:15 | 5582304 Slomotrainwreck
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Damn! Looks like I'll have to double down again.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:09 | 5581118 homiegot
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That's a 90 degree angle there people. Bwa!

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:11 | 5581125 Meat Hammer
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Christmas sale on PM's!!!  Let me go rent a truck to back up to the LCS.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:22 | 5581393 Alea Iactaest
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Just a few more days for GS to push it <$1100.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:11 | 5581127 Al Huxley
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I see the miners are admirably resolute in their refusal to accept this breakdown as real - GDX is only down 4%!  All those buyers end of last week don't want to admit they fucked up (yet).

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:15 | 5581136 Meat Hammer
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Just think of the savings the miners are seeing on fuel costs for the bulldozers, excavators, dump trucks, and rigs.  They're probably saving thousands of FRNs per day.  I wonder how much that lowers their cost-per-ounce.  

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:21 | 5581160 Al Huxley
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Eventually...

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:07 | 5581331 disabledvet
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Sale on dynomite too!

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:13 | 5581131 buzzsaw99
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$VIX -4.24% = party on garth

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:17 | 5581135 Son of Captain Nemo
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Well what were you expecting from the "Zio-Yule Lads" at Goldman and JP Suck(s) before the holidays?...

Can't wait for the gifts they will be serving up come New Year's!!

God I hope Blankfein and Dimon have the bravado to be strutting around in public when they start the next World War or collapse all the market(s) -whichever comes first!!!

 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:17 | 5581143 Weisbrot
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how can silver get that low when production costs are much higher than that?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:22 | 5581169 p00k1e
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Producers must know production costs will be lower in the future. 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:24 | 5581690 db51
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Corn now $ 3.43/bu.  Production costs $ 4.85/bu.   Do you think the Fed, Dimon or Blankfein care about COP on any commodity?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:27 | 5581694 db51
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 As long as it can be purchased ON PAPER. without having to possess the actual thing....price and COP is irrelevant.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:18 | 5581146 Panic Mode
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I am still young. I can wait. Bring it on, Mr. Central Wanker.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:20 | 5581149 Ignatius
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"Merry Christmas!"  --  the Banksters

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:24 | 5581168 rayban
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Don't make it too difficult: Jan option expiration tomorrow affecting performance.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:24 | 5581627 gswifty
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Exactly. My fat finger hit call by accident. Argh...

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:25 | 5581176 GFORCE
Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:24 | 5581685 jomama
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Wow, you guessed it would be manipulated downward? That's impressive.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:34 | 5581203 GotNuttin'todo
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This site has become the conspiracy-theorist ZHeeple people. Come on guys. It's the economy stupid! Commodities peaked in 2011. First it was gold, recently oil, nat gas collapses as I write. Next shoe to drop will be copper. The global economy sucks and we are in deflation. ZHeesh! Did the banksters cause it? Probably. But you better get with the trend regardless of the cause, if you want to survive.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:07 | 5581333 Winston Churchill
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Of course it is.

And whose is sitting there with trillions in reserves waiting to scoop up everything for

pennies on the dollar.

They did learn how to position themselves  from the 1930's.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:18 | 5581374 Jano
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why do you like to read conspiracy theories?

And if you do not like, then you r a maso.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 16:52 | 5581674 jomama
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Oh yeah, this is pure supply and demand, especially when the world's production of gold is traded every day on global exchanges.

You truly don't believe the shit you're spewing, do you...?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:37 | 5581214 Number 156
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The only traders moving the numbers are the big firms, and most of the regular human traders have left the building.
It gets interesting when the remaining muppets have been flushed from the system and the so called %1 will have no one else to consume but each other.

By then, the trades will  be in political capital ( Presidents, Prime ministers, senators,  congressmen..), as there will be little value in anything left.

At that point, they can confiscate everything of value from everyone and anything left. That's the true endgame and what the world is progressing to.

Think its bad now?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:48 | 5581251 Consuelo
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"Where's the Kaboom!!!???   There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!!!???..."

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:15 | 5581362 Number 156
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Im missing my P38 Space Modulator.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:41 | 5581221 Latitude25
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OK great so there's a loss in faith in paper PMs.  Does ANYONE beleieve there is a loss in faith in physical?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:43 | 5581230 Renfield
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COMEX paper to zero. People will have to find their price signals somewhere else.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:46 | 5581248 RealityCheque
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theyre gunning for the end of year. They'd love it to finish lower for 2014.

Depending on which butt-wipe currency you're looking at.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:46 | 5581496 Conax
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That splains gold, but silver is already 4 bucks below it's 'price' on Jan 1st of '14.

4 bucks.

sick.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:54 | 5581283 sandiegoman
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you people waiting for the "manipultion to end" are going to be waiting a very very long time. It aint gonna happen.

 

The Ruble is in crisis mode there is hyperinflation is some countries and gold can't find a bid?? It should be $200 higher. Looks like the path of least resistance in down for a while...

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:13 | 5581359 Conax
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All breaking financial news, any change in USD/JPY, any riot or rumor of war, any public financial referendum will produce a drop in gold prices.  There must be millions of paper gold investors watching intently for anything (at all) to happen so they can sell their 'gold'.  They sell it all the time, every day and never seem to run low on the stuff.  Amazing, isn't it?

No, the manipulators do this every day while assigning motives to cover their scam.  They can do what they want here, but the rest of the world isn't fooled.  They are buying.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:22 | 5581662 lasvegaspersona
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Conax

let me finish that last sentence...they are buying physical gold.

Buying paper gold supports the fiat system, buying physical gold causes stress in the system as the fractional reserve gold system cannot survive a 'run' on the physical gold bank.

My advice is get some of the real...

Sell the paper short...

That way you'll have physical for when the currencies crash and will be protected as the price of 'gold' falls as the banks print paper gold like crazy as things come to an end.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:24 | 5581687 Conax
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I'm a po' boy that holds silver coins, or at least I did til that avalanche took the cabin..

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:27 | 5581415 Ewtman
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The dollar needs to pull back for a while. But it will make another huge run in early 2015...

http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/u-s-dollar-indexelliott-wave-update-f...

 

As for gold...

http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/gold-elliott-wave-update-for-week-end...

 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 13:51 | 5581521 Conax
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Say, silver maples make excellent Christmas presents. They are "God's Money" after all.

At these prices--

Merry Christmas!

 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:19 | 5581632 Latitude25
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As of right now the AU price is down by about $20.  If it doesn't recover to around $1200 in a big spike in a couple of days then expect similar smack downs until year end.  Buy your phys then.  Buying right now is just fine too.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:23 | 5581679 sudzee
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Physical printing of a $100 cost about 16cents. Profit margin is 99.84%. Digital dollars cost 0 so margin is 100%. All physical currency will be recalled. Cost is just too high. 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:26 | 5581696 Fix It Again Timmy
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Someday, precious metals' prices are going to stop acting like a starving woodpecker's head - it's Up...It's Down....

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:47 | 5581793 Longshot
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It's the first day of the CME PM circuit breakers, you didn't expect PM prices to go anywhere but DOWN did you?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:42 | 5581979 JPMorgan
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The end of the year draws closer and they want to be able make statements about what's hot and what's not.

It all falls into the grand plan to draw everyone into stocks (harms way) and out of PMs for when the next crash and purge occurs.

Ignore the hype, buy the lows and hold you ground.

 

 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 16:02 | 5582051 FieldingMellish
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PMs set to waterfall... again. Single digit silver and triple digit gold by New Year. Think April 2013.

Tue, 12/23/2014 - 13:20 | 5585424 Prober
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shiny lead = dead money

PM fanatics: keep buying with all the fiat you can get, maybe the price in fiat will go up !

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