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Analyst Warns Of Turbulence: "Geopolitical Dislocations Could Result In Key Resource Supplies Disappearing"
Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,
Some of the world’s biggest investors have been taking significant positions in the commodity resource sector as of late, most notably in gold. With geopolitical tension and fear of economic breakdown reaching a near boiling point, it’s not difficult to see why. Instability pervades the entire system, encompassing everything from financial markets to social safety nets. And while it is easy to ignore the seriousness of current events because stock markets remain at record highs and mainstream pundits continue to toe the recovery line, the fact is that an unexpected and seemingly minor event could well send the entire world into a tailspin.
According to analyst John Kaiser, this is exactly what we need to be concerned with. In a candid interview with Future Money Trends Kaiser explains just how political dislocations could result in supply lines to critical commodities like food, copper, zinc and gold being cut – even without a major war – should the United States, Russia and China continue to bump heads.
(Watch at Future Money Trends or Youtube)
Forget about the big, giant macro-economic increases in overall global GDP, but instead let’s look at the turbulence we’re starting to see where China is asserting itself in the South China Sea area… where Putin is eyeing its lost colonies in Europe and Central Asia and thinking maybe we should re-establish the Soviet empire… where we see instability in the middle east.
Then you also realize that a lot of metal comes from China… a lot of metal comes from Russia. And if we end up in a shoving match where, say, the United States pushes back in the South China Sea… and Chinese generals get all up in arms and we end up with an incident… well what happens if China suddenly has sanctions going against it… or something similar, that Russia goes beyond messing in the Ukraine and starts taking out Latvia or Estonia?
All of a sudden we have not so much nickel coming from Russia anymore… and similar in China.. Tungsten, 85% of it comes from China… graphite, 85% of it comes from China… 40% of the world’s zinc comes from China.
These types of geopolitical dislocations… they could result in supply simply disappearing.
And because the rest of the world is still using the same volume of copper and nickel as before, that’s where you can see price spikes.
As we know, much of our critical supply chain is dependent on China. Likewise, Russia supplies necessary industrial metals. One misstep here, whether in the South China Sea, Ukraine or the middle east and we could very well see massive price spikes for commodity resources across the board.
This instability, as John Kaiser notes, could lead to a collective rush of risk capital into safe haven assets, including gold:
Gold is also supposed to respond to geo-political stresses. When you recall in 1980, yes we had inflation. But also part of the problem in 1980 was that the United States appeared to be losing it… we had the Tehran hostage crisis… we had the Soviet Union expanding itself in Afghanistan… the perception was that the United States was losing its dominant role.
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If we ended up in a situation of anxiety about… are China, Russia and the United States about to square off? Is the world going to embark on a war footing?
We could see anxiety about this spike [gold] higher.
The similarities within this context is that the perception of the United States today compared to 1980 is that we are, indeed, losing our dominant role as the world’s leading economic and military superpower.
Couple that with geopolitical tensions and economic upheaval around the world, and it’s not hard to see why resource investments into core commodities like food, gold, and industrial metals could spike significantly in the near future.
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If you are feel world is turn upside down,... only because it is.
north pole or south pole ?
Depend on if live in Krakow or Gdansk.
we are on "flat" earth,
there's no upside...
Here's a video about you Tylers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d-xbnuvr7c
We know, from experience in the post-market world, that if supplies go down the price will go down too.
Depends on whether you live in Gdansk or Danzig.
The way things are going, the dislocation of resources will be the least of our worries...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcW_Ygs6hm0
Obama will sell our strategic reserves to raise money for war.
or scarsdale or aleppo.
i liked the line "One misstep here, whether in the South China Sea, Ukraine or the middle east. . ."
have there been any but missteps?
Depend on if are nazi or partisan?
>The world is round
> Obama is a queer ass clown
This is tough choice because World is obvious round, but Amateur-in-Chief is also so obvious clown... What is Boris to do?!
More likely we are on a concave surface. Not "on a ball." But, "inside" a ball. Look up Operation Fishbowl. Were we trying to break through some kind of barrier? What preceded this? Operation Highjump. Attempting to "high jump" what? And what event happened the same year at the conclusion of Adm. Byrd's mission? And then we form the super secret [Masonic] NASA? Aside the monetary issue, why was JFK assassinated?
Physical gold is such an infinitesimally small market vs. all of the fiat digital debt-money credits in the world that those who have endeavored to buy the metal long ago have done so, and the vast majority have no intention of selling it; therefore, the perception of limited supply is correct but not in the way we are conditioned to think.
When the "strong hands" have the metal and are not going to sell, and there is limited production AND limited liquidity and supply to be transacted, there is the perception that demand exceeds supply, therefore, the price of gold should rise.
However, what is happening is that there is limited supply "to sell", and with collapsing acceleration of money velocity, there is a dearth of excess liquidity with which to speculate in anything, including equities, high-risk bonds, commodities, and, yes, PMs.
As debt/asset and price deflation becomes increasingly entrained hereafter, increasing liquidity preference will coincide with the liquidity trap, and even PMs will decline in price because the "weak hands" will eventually be compelled to sell at lower prices for liquidity.
That is, one can go to the local gas station or grocery store and put down a gold bar or coin, or put gold into the debit card POS device to pay for gas or groceries. The PM has to be taken to a dealer and liquidated at the spot price less a fee.
Therefore, PMs are not "money" in the conventional sense but more like an insurance against banksters and politicos' mischief.
IOW, think in terms of what one needs in terms of living expenses for 6-12 months (even if you're "camping" in your car) and liquidate some PMs at spot and take the FRNs and put them in a safe place. During a period of deflation, bank runs, bank closures, bail-ins, etc., actual cash will become increasingly dear and thus "more valuable than gold".
Cash will again be king . . . until the de facto king outlaws it.
the thing is, gold, silver and related equities perform well during periods of deflation when financial assets, generally, are declining in price. check out the vast outperformance of homestake mines during the '30's: http://www.oilngold.com/analysis/research/gold-a-gold-stocks-during-peri...
also consider that if precious metals stocks genrerally go up in equity bear markets, and they do, how much money long only funds will be trying to put into one of the very few sectors (and currently very tiny) actually increasing in price when this wildly overvalued stock market vs. fundamentals, which is showing signs of unraveling (yield spreads widening, breadth decreasing, etc.) finally turns down for real.
historically the precious metals complex does best when real interest rates are negative and fiat money is being issued profusely. that is the case currently to a degree rarely seen.
add to this the combination of price suppression via paper gold naked shorting frauds and the draining of western official (and other) reserves to accomodate enormous accumulation of physical gold in the east and current events become rarer and more incendiary still.
further we have gold nearing the end of a multi year steep correction (much like the one in the mid-70's in terms of timing and magnitude) in a secular bull market (following a twenty-two year secular bear market from 1980 to 2002).
the last critical point, imo, is the extreme undervaluation of gold stocks versus gold (http://pricedingold.com) seen now.
there has hardly ever been such a risk/reward in favor of buying as are precious metals stocks currently.
While I agree with you in the short term a look at Zimbabwe indicates that gold will be exchanged for bread in the event of a collapse. Ferfal talks about the bartering of bits of gold chain to purchase necessities. So, gold and silver along with a whole host of other commodities will be traded.
I saw my first sugar baby at Olive Garden last night.
The US doesn't care about resources except one: the US Dollar. Hence, all conflicts are geared at propping it. US Dollar Demise & WW3 >> http://bit.ly/1PyMpdw
LC stopped reading at "...re-establishing the Russian Empire."
I think Boris is more interested in making money (business) and not blowing stuff up.
We struggled on a bit further, but yes, it got worse from there.
Hope someone remembers to write down the formula for concrete
the formula for glass will never be forgotten.
Whoever gave him the downvote must have failed history class.
Rome
If only we had done as well as they.
But I wonder if that is even an option. The cycles seem to be getting shorter and shorter. I don't envy the Chinese. What do you think they have? 50 years, tops?
Yep, 50 tops, their next revolution will be horrific.
you are moar generous than ptb,
agenda2030 would render borderless there about (all these "immigrants" flooding)...
Estonia and Latvia are Atlantic ocean-faring states, no?
Nuclear bombs (if existed) wouldnot be permitted, there're benevolent aliens...
Perhaps should look at Economist (i know ptb mouthpiece) Jan-1 cover, mushroom cloud in NE corner above cameron's head (so NE of UK)?
Oh, 11.3, 11.5....
Hell, bring it on.
That was the Sgt. Pepper edition of The Economist. Paul is dead.
speaking of latvia and estonia (oh throw in lithuania too): imo putin is exremely unlikely to try to force them into a closer relationship with russia. ditto other non-russian speaking parts of the ex ussr.
it's going to be hard enough to stay on the roll he's currently on.
but i wish him well. i'm glad he has an air force to fight the cia drones, machine and human. i do not.
Due to technology. No doubt. I predict Catalonia will get Independence and become the next Economic Engine after China fades.
Yes Rome ..
Do also check out what flanks Old Glory, on both sides, in the U.S. House Chamber ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces#/media/File:Obama_Health_Care_Speec...
If an ancient Roman were to come via a time portal into our present, and specifically observe D.C. What do you think would be his reaction and response? Probably something like this:
Interesting is that primary elemental composition by mass of both Glass and Concrete is Silicon. In Russia and former Soviet Block, concrete is consider suitable substitute for glass in window placement.
Only temporary. Some of that block housing had walls 2 feet thick to "survive" a pressure wave from nuclear weapons. Pravda reported that the 2 foot thick glass is still on back order.
"Interesting is that primary elemental composition by mass of both Glass and Concrete is Silicon."
Concrete blonde has a new meaning.
Especially if she is pounding sand, so to speak.
sorry. you educated in USA, huh, where the main subjects are "swedish massage" and "website management", eh? primary element that holds concrete together is calcium. think limestone, plaster, etc .....
Good catch, Chistletoe. I had assumed they were referring to the sand component of concrete. But you're probably right; it's American education speaking forth, braying forth.
Calcium is primary ACTIVE element, but by mass, primary element is Silicon. In Russia, maybe is not use so much calcium.
First!
you've learned your first lesson ;)
Every now and then it is good to have a reminder of why I don't go to the turds' site any longer.
Somebody, please make a case why Russia would spend the political and military capital to recapture Estonia and Latvia. I mean...beyond the "Estonian women are the world's hottest" argument. I just don't see it.
I don't either. Of course they want to be hegemon in their region, but an actual invasion? Why?
Invasion seems to be the wet dream of the Baltics, "crying wolf" over and over again. It's the bogieman for diverting the attention of local sheeple off the social and economic downward spiral, combined with the fear of washington-bred elites of becoming a part of Eurasian economic space again.
that certainly seems to be the pattern of rulers through history, draw attention away from current misery by blaming it on an external (or internal) enemy (but not the king).
makes me wonder why sanctions are thought to be such a good idea. one word: cuba (also one of the few four letter nation names with chad, iran, iraq, peru, togo, oman and ?).
And USSA
Sanctions against Russia are doing the job for Russia. Eventually the Baltic States will return of their own free will.
i'm not sure about the latter, but it is possible. look how fast britain joined up with china's development bank. remember when hong kong was british? and the u.s. had a "special relationship"?
the wheel turns.
They won't.
Right now Estonia is being used as a new playground for NATO types who get boarded out at some of the nicer chain hotels in Tallinn, dining out on PDs, swimming in the spa pools and doing stuff that'd not please their wives left at home.
Meanwhile the Estonian economy gets a nice boost from spending on sandwiaches, coffee and prostitutes and in the eastern part of the country the locals build roads to enable the Abrams tanks to venture out without sinking into the ground.
Whilst much of the current silliness is not theatre this aspect of NATO/Western offence most certainly is.
Russians don't need to invade a foreign country to find a large quantity of hot women. Americans on the other hand...
In many ways, the Cold War is still with us and sometimes, the consequences of our actions span generations.
Last summer, one of my neighbors announced that he had finally located the fallout shelter his old man had buried in the back of his property during the Eisenhower administration. His father did all the work himself and was so secretive about the whole thing there were no records of it with the county. He was going to check everything out and show it off to the neighborhood when he was ready. Next thing we knew, the EMTs were swarming his place and he ended up in the hospital for a few days.
Turns out his father was less than honest about some of his projects and his son had lowered himself into a cesspool still fed via terra cotta pipe from the home septic tank that never seemed to work right. I'll spare the readership the details about how they treat people when you almost drown in effluvium.
Holy crap!
Sorry Ralph, I just couldn't resist.
That, sir, is an incrediibly funny story. Thanks!
Now that's funny.
Thanks for sharing.
+1,000 for the use of the word "effluvium"
and a pretty good metaphor for the whole span from mutually assured destruction to jfk to 9-11 to endless war.
orwell.
The fragility of supply lines really is the Achilles heel of the global economy. It was ricoculous to believe that spreading production all over the globe and burning petroleum to shuttle components hither and yon was a good idea.
Somebody give that man a cigar.
ricoculous
adjective- an extremely intricate late baroque form of silliness.
still used to characterize aspects of the bush and obama administrations now collectively referred to as "the little darkness".
It's ricoculous to think Merriam-Webster will accept ricoculous into their dictionary.
and yet...
i've been using re-cock-ulous -silliness that is not history, but rhymes when it happens again
A credit event that would shut down a bank would also play havoc. EVERYTHING runs off credit and it would lock up supply lines if that happened bad enough and stores would empty quick.
The main export of the USA is dollars, which do not need those resources in their fabrication anyhow.
You got that 100% correct. But, the export of dollars requires demand.....and that we have not made since Kissenger snuggled up to Saudi Arabia.
World War III is going to be over so fast
if you blink your eyes you'll miss it.
It will begin with a surprise MASSIVE SLBM
attack on the USA.
In less than a half hour, America will be
a MEMORY.
Every major city on the east and west coasts
and the GOM will lie in ruins, as will ALL
of our gulf oil refining ability, as well as
any military targets within range of the subs.
There will be a continent wide radioactive
firestorm that will burn the US to the ground.
Just as that attack ends, the ICBMs will arrive
which were launched the same time as the SLBMs.
That will finish off the interior and make the
rubble bounce.
All of the Boomers that were identified will be
at the bottom of the ocean, along with the
surface Navy.
The Boomers that survive will have no home to
return to, nor will America's troops around the
world.
They will have no resupply, and no allies, as
NATO will have disbanded when they hear America
has been destroyed and the individual members
will sue for peace.
Some people believe the attack on America will be
"minimal" so all our wealth can be plundered.
NO WAY. This attack is going to be for ALL the
marbles, and Russia and China are NOT going
to risk what happened at Pearl Harbor, where we
rose from the ashes to defeat our attacker.
So don't think you are going to have ANY time
at ALL to consider where you'll go or what you'll
do. Nobody is going to see it coming, it will be
a sucker (knockout) punch, and you probably wont
even hear air-raid sirens go off, unless you
are in the interior of the country.
But YOU lucky folks will KNOW what's going down
from the thunderous booms and blinding flashes
of the SLBM detonations in the distance.
This thursday OK for you? Don't miss Fashington.
Don't get your hopes up on the end of Amerika destroyed by scorched earth theory.
There are much easier ways...
Cut Internet Cables,
Destroy Financial Controls,
Insert Manchurian Candidates,
Dilute Logical Laws,
Etc, etc, etc...
Then there's EMP.
(or an unnoticed asteroid)
Can't be. Some good NFL games on next Sunday. Next week at the earliest.
you watch too many movies, man.....
try reading "War and Peace". You will get a better handle on their strategy. When the time comes, they will knock us off with a feather ....
Nah, it will go out with a whimper.
Dad was in USAF SAC and I lived under MAD for the first 25 years of my life. Unless the Russkies and Chicoms are seriously deluded, they can't win a first strike. Unless you count hitting first as a win. One Boomer in either fleet can cause so much damage to the northern hemisphere that in 3 months time nuclear winter takes over. It was true in the 80's and it is true today. Imagine 2 guys standing inside a tank with gas up to their asses and each has a match.
The enemy would have to knowck out 95% of the deterrent forces to achieve what could arguably be considered success. Just some quick numbers.
At the present time, the U.S. land-based ballistic missile force (ICBMs) consists of 450 Minuteman III ICBMs, each deployed with one warhead.
The U.S. ballistic missile submarine fleet currently consists of 14 Trident submarines; each carries 24 Trident II (D-5) missiles.
The U.S. fleet of heavy bombers includes 20 B-2 bombers and 78 B-52 bombers.
So this is when the oil runs out.
I knew it.
Don't worry. There's plenty of metals in the Americas to supply more than out needs. We just don't have the productive capacity to use it. That is all in China.
Maybe the children should just stop making wars and play nice, nice. I swear, its like all politicians never grow up. Maybe permanent childishness is a prerequisite for wanting power.
Yes. The current brand of psychopath runing the show seems to think that DESTROYING economic viability is a workable model for an economy. The only thing that matters is weapons manufacturing and not even the raw materials to produce them. How unbelievably stupid can they be?
well they thought that 9-11 was a good idea and, even with the internet, so far they're right.
WHEN THE GLASS IS HALF FULL AND GOLD JR'S GO FROM .10 TO $10
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if you are interested in high risk high reward
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there is 300 years of oil at least, the government will protect its access to this asset 0 risk style
40 years as far as I know.
Yeah but how many years of solar panels?
Dammit I got like thangz I need to do
This is what you get when you bow down to the Talmud.
Fight Club? Pretty boys whining, beating up other pretty boys, and wanting everone else to pay for you.
All wars are banker wars, and all traders grift off that.
Fight club? No. Pretty boys fighting their own shadow while better men keep them safe in their beds for the AshkeNAZI, privately owned banks, your masters who you bow down to.
" (...) well what happens if China suddenly has sanctions going against it… or something similar, that Russia goes beyond messing in the Ukraine and starts taking out Latvia or Estonia?"
No need for a military takeover of the Baltics. If the the low fertility rate and emigration trends continue, the remaining Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians will have a choice to join Russian Federation or stay with the E.U. and be replaced with MENA muslims and black Africans.
In the meantime:
Fancy that! "Latvians" are figuring out having your own jabber doesn't make you a viable country and they're not actually better than the Russians!
Does anyone else feel like ithe clock is'five minutes to midnight' or am I just paranoid...
You're not paranoid, you are EXTREMELY optimistic. I would say the second hand is rounding the 6 and heading for the 12 myself.
Spring ahead. FALL back.
The old Soviet empire was set up so that it would be difficult to break up.
When it did nations found they had the factories to make right shoes while the left shoes were manufactured in a different nation.
Globalisation has left us in a similar position with manufacturing now concentrated in the East, natural resources being spread around the globe and the most useless functions being concentrated in the West.
If things split, the West will have its armies of bankers, financiers, lawyers, managers, accountants, marketing and advertising people.
The West has concentrated on the parasitic economic functions, while outsourcing the important economic functions elsewhere.
We have been here before and it doesn’t end well.
1920s/2000s - high inequality, high banker pay, low regulation, low taxes for the wealthy, robber barons (CEOs), reckless bankers, globalisation phase
1929/2008 - Wall Street crash
1930s/2010s - Global recession, currency wars, rising nationalism and extremism.
1940s/? - Global war
We are nearly there with the Middle East on fire and the two nuclear super-powers at each other’s throats.
Nuclear weapons kept the Cold War “cold” for decades and so we may be able to miss out on the global war phase as the nuclear super powers guarantee only MAD (mutually assured destruction).
Batman11,
Like your style. And the comparisons.
I realized the word financialization is more accurate describing our reality than globalization. Globalization is a byproduct of financialization.
Wonder why:
You left out 1940s/2020s? – Holocaust. After all, inequality/class war was the essence of the Holocaust. So, as inequality, by overpaying one class or people (banking, healthcare, government as examples) can and will only gets worse from here, because, as the economy deteriorates, and the elites/academia/educated-members-of-our-society starts losing their job security and retirement that they believed they would be immune to that.
Fortunately in my business, electric power, very little comes from the eastern countries.
A gold (or silver) stock is simply another form of fiat. In your hand, or you don't own it. THAT is the golden rule regarding precious metals.
The golden rule regarding precious metals is that they don't need to settle in precious metals.
BitGold is gaining new subscribers at a rate of 3,000 per day. Nothing more needs to be said. It's REAL gold and not some crap like BitCoin. The more people realize this the higher their stock price goes as we are now witnessing but more importantly that are proving that gold can be used in daily exchanges even issuing a debit card this month
www.bitgold.com
Despite all the gold bull support, I believe bitgold to be another gold rehypothecation scheme. Spend it with a debit card? LOL So gold just comes into your account when you deposit FRNs in it and then POOF, it disappears when you buy something with your debit card? Yeah but who will ask for their gold? Does that story sound familiar to anyone?
Hmmmm.. I'm sure there were thousands lining up for Dutch Tulips in the 1600's as well.
Investor beware. NGE is highly speculative until they actually find something and not until then. I prefer less speculative mining ventures such as PLG with PROVEN reserves, millions invested in production startup due to start this quarter and priced lower in PPS than NGE.
More jobs at home!
Complete collapse of world trade
NeoCon WetDream aka Hyperinflation
Jeb bush looks like a big dumb goofy moron, Fiorina looks like a rat with big long teeth, and looks like she'd chew your balls off if you go against her.
And in these instances at least life is as it seems.
http://www.icenews.is/2015/10/30/foreign-workers-needed-in-iceland/
According to a forecast from the Analysis Department of Arion Bank in Iceland, there will be a demand for foreign workers to fill around 5,000 jobs over the next four years. Economic growth has been steadily on the rise, with a predicted increase of 5.4 percent in 2015, the largest increase since 2007. However, in spite of this increase currently, the growth rate is expected to fall to 2.5 percent by 2018.
One sector of the Icelandic economy that is experiencing higher growth than other sectors is the tourism industry, due to the ever-increasing influx of tourists into Iceland each year. Other areas of economic expansion in 2015 include private consumption and investment–such as that into hotels and silicon smelters– as well as the importation of aircraft and ships from abroad.
Hrafn Steinarsson, a specialist at the Analysis Department of Arion Bank, stated that the need for foreign workers to fill the labor demand due to increasing economic growth in Iceland is already evident. This was corroborated by another specialist in the same department, Anna Hrefna Ingimundardóttir. She pointed to a poll showing that employers found that the call for workers in September was higher than it had been in May of this year. And where will these workers come from? All signs point to outside Iceland.
No, no, no. Icelanders have earned, and should get, higher wages if their skills are in demand in the tourism industry.
They are under no obligation to let Muslim "refugees" willing to live twelve to a room come to Iceland to work for nearly nothing so some rich thief can send his spoiled bitch of a wife on a shopping spree in continental Europe every month, leaving other Icelandic women afraid to leave the house at night for fear of being gangraped by sandniggers.
So why should Iceland be any different than everywhere else in Europe? Just because they are not dropping bombs on people doesn't mean they get a free pass. If for no other reason, a penance is due for being so darn white. Ireland is doing its bit.
http://www.irishrefugeecouncil.ie/
That's because Ireland is a bankster colony.
So-called Irish independence was a joke---we just exchanged direct rule from Westminster/the City for direct rule from Berlin/Frankfurt. We never even issued our own money, not really. We were in the sterling area until 1979 (every Irish pound was backed pound for pound by a BOE note) and in the ERM after that till we joined the euro, giving up even the pretense of controlling our own money supply, and, by implication, making our own laws.
The only winners were a few parish-pump politicians and pedophile priests allowed to operate above the law in their own little ghetto (Home Rule is Rome Rule) and pretend to run a real country, leaving all the real decisions to Westminster and/or Brussels.
God save Ireland, if she'll let Him.
The Irish have imbibed the Cultural Marxist (I won't be more specific or I'll get banished) poison as badly as any other White country. And the complexion of the populace gets darker by the day as the Third World pours in and native Irish leave in droves. All in line with the globalist/NWO strategy.
Whenever a wave of invaders threatens the West we see a plethora of "independent" reports claiming the need for more workers. I.e. we need lots of dialect-speaking Somalis to make us wealthy. In America there's a constant stream of reports lamenting the shortage of 'skilled American technology workers' yet high numbers of this species can't get a job.
So what's the joke? Russia and China start demanding fair prices for their commodities and the price of an iTurd doubles overnight?
Bring it on. America's resource wealth is underrated. If it brings back good jobs at good pay for working-class whites not afraid of heavy physical labour, I'm all for it.
The FSA will be unhappy about the loss of Obamaphones and make-work desk jobs, but who cares? Maybe they'lll rediscover the joys of hard work and marriage (and staying faithful) to a good man.
"Russia goes beyond messing in the Ukraine"
Sounds like this clown is the typical sheep that buys into the Obongo/Brennan horse shit. The ELECTION in the Crimea was far more legit than the ones we hold here in Amerika.
I really don't see the fascination in accumulating physical gold. Basically all it does short-term is make you a target for thieves (including supposedly loving wives).
Long-term...well. Nothing worth eating will grow in a nuclear winter, and your gold coins won't have much nutritional value. Our masters won't give up their monopoly over the means of exchange short of nuclear war.
You want to hedge against hyperinflation, do what the big boys did in Weimar Germany and Zimbabwe---buy stocks. They'll hold their value against Fed-confetti while the real assets of the compnies issuing them still have value at all, which they should short of nuclear war.
Kaiser is a fucking idiot. This guy has made so many bad calls that his credibility is below zero. His scenarios are so far fetched as to defy reason. Best described in one word: FLAKE.
Why does the author think the TPP was rammed down our throats? The TPP is a desperate supply agreement that bypasses China. That was its main purpose and likely why it was kept so secretive. We will slowly have less and less reliance on China as a supplier for everything except rare earth metals.
Gold has very little if any industrial use.
Now, Oil, Copper, Zinc, Rare Earth materials? These will always have value.
If you have food, energy and shelter, then you'll be kings if TSHTF. Nobody will care about your little yellow metal.