Is The CME's 150% Hike In Gold Collateral Just A Ploy To Increase Amount Of Legally Confiscatable Gold?
Earlier today the CME did something quite contrarian to its nature: it validated gold by a factor of 150%, when it announced that the amount of gold bullion that customers can post as collateral is increasing from $200 million to $500 million. To confused NYU adjunct economics professors this means that the credibility of gold in the global monetary system just increased by more than ever before. Regarding the stated reason for this move "the Chicago-based company said that the change will allow market participants to better manage their risk and to take advantage of lower gold lease rates." As for the real reason for this surprising move we are unsure: whether it is due to an actual shortage of dollar dollar bill margin as collateral or some other reason we don't know. In fact, we are confident the CME will likely hike gold margins once again as soon as gold approaches $1900 shortly. But at least it has finally tipped its hand as to how even the biggest US futures exchange feel about the yellow metal. Of course, the end result is that should gold, just as cash, be used to collateralize stupid transactions which result in margin calls, the collateral will be confiscated. Therefore, one would be forgiven if one assumes that this is merely a ploy to more than double the amount of perfectly legally confiscatable gold in the capital markets. Which of course would mean that someone, somewhere would be interested in procuring far more physical gold than is already in possession. But that's just crazy talk. Why would one want gold, especially at these near record prices, when one can have glorious spam?
From Reuters:
"I think that it really shows that people in the gold market want to use gold more efficiently," Harriet Hunnable, CME Group's managing director of metals products, told Reuters.
"We are very comfortable with the amount of gold that we hold as collateral," Hunnable said.
Placing physical gold as collateral is highly effective for market participants in a low interest-rate environment, she said.
Hunnable said that CME Group has ensured there is enough liquidity in the physical gold market for its customers to provide bullion to the exchange as collateral.
Analysts welcome the move because investors could now use physical gold instead of just cash to meet margin requirements of other market products.
"It gives gold additional credibility as the alternative currency. It might also lessen liquidation of gold, as it is now used as a margin vehicle so participants are not actually liquidating," said Bill O'Neill, partner of commodity investment firm LOGIC Advisors.
Look for the Shanghai Gold Exchange to proceed with an identical action, as Exchanges around the world scramble to put far more physical gold collateral at risk in margin accounts, which then put the fate of said physical gold at the mercy of paper market manipulation, a game which is always won by the casino. Said otherwise: all the makings of a perfectly legitimate, and perfectly legal gold confiscation scheme.
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Educate yourself.
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been digging in there, chumblez
good stuff
common law, magna carta.....
im not too deep into the site though, but its teaching me more....
just like ZH and ZH'ers do, everyday....
Perhaps they mean post GLD as collateral!
How many parties are out there that have $500 million of physical gold and are also stupid enough to then jeopordize it - you would think these two qualities would be mutually exclusive!
no kidding, plads...
i have maybe $80 face in silver...
and i would NEVER let someone hold it as colladeral.
man, who do they think the're foolin'...
What's wrong with just holding the physical metal, 100% - Mike Maloney style? If we would all just buy two ounces that would be hundreds of millions of ounces taken out.
i do, flacon,
maybe 6 or 7# troy.
by ZH standards, not much...
by the 99% standards, alot...
by my standards, enough....
thank you, ZH, for teaching me the way, and showin' me the way.....
confiscate gold + crash fiat currency = perfect recipe to enslave all mankind
No one is going to be confiscating anyone else's gold. Tyler, you asking an inflamtory and unnecessary question that just brings out the crazy conspiracy theoriats. IF that's what you want - you got it.
1. CME knows hard currency when they see it. And they want it. Notice they asked for actual gold, instead of bullshit, gold-demand diluting, bankster crinkly papergold GLD.
2. What the #%&@ is a theoriat?
I'm not sure, but I bet it wields vastly more power than a mere anthroriat.
Oh, since its missing from the thread, I guess I will do the honors ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODshB09FQ8w
Regards,
Cooter
Of course not! I mean hey, it never happened before. . .
$80 face value silver?!! That's nothing. You need way more--quickly. If you can't afford it, just ask Chumbawamba how to use revolving credit to get your own personal bailout . . .
One of the best aspects of taking advantage of your sovereignty is the ability to counter-sue the creditor suing you for money in your sovereign capacity in a court of record. You can bring up issues that a civil court might disallow, like the securitization of your credit card limit, which means the banks have already been compensated for the money they "loaned" you and are trying to double dip. And then of course you can discharge the debt entirely through your strawman.
On a side note: I cannot even begin to imagine how much your life must suck, when your greatest thrill is having the opportunity to respond to one of my comments. My condolences.
-Chumblez.
Thank you. Your acknowledgement has made my sucky, meaningless life somewhat less sucky and meaningless. Thank you Chumbawamba. Good bye everyone . . .
Excuse me, sucky and meaningless? What the heck is wrong with that?
Most people spend their entire lives wondering who or what they are! Just knowing what you are lets you stop looking and start living.
P.S. I lika sucky sucky
P.S. I always love your ideas and research and am one here who really roots for you Chumblez, but I often end up cringing at a lot of your posts because your tone too often devolves into that of such an . . .
Yep, totally misread that comment. God damn contextless text. Your life has meaning. I was talking about that OTHER Mr. Mandelbrot, that imposterous douchebag.
-Chumblez.
Fail . . .
So he's pissed off. Why aren't you?
I used to be pissed off -- super pissed off (you have no idea!). Over the last decade, I've come to my own conclusions (helped in part by my fellow ZHers) and positioned myself accordingly so that I don't have to worry anymore. Scenario one, my business is soaring. Scenario two, gold to the moon. Who needs Ambien . . .
Forget Ambien.
Xanax is talking. Barring that then vices with or without legal sanction is the last resort of the lost.
No credit cards, no rental loans, no one except the Government can call me out for a student loan which will not ever be paid off until after I die, and if only my assets survive probate. (And it will not.)
I don't care that BOA is on fire I don't care if the markets rise or tank. I don't care about anything except peace, tranquility and mountains of prep for various scenarios which may or may not come true in the future.
Silver? Yes a little. Gold? sure. But I carefully look to the prices and one rule above all.
Buy low, sell high and leave some for uncle sugar who wishes to sodomize you for 30%. Cain's 999 plan should take care of that minor inconvience.
However if one morning Silver and or Gold goes Plaid and hits Ludicrous pricing, a flap of a gentle butterfly
with a glint of a few coins tumbling across the velvet will make the Government whole on the student loan, position me to buy whatever it is I desire in this world. Which is really nothing.
There will be no longer any pain of servitude to your employer, you can actually purchase the company and mold it to your way of thinking and run it as you wish, or hire a bunch of yes men/soft women who will grovel and lick your boots for approval on everything that they do, including getting up early enough to be on time to work.
It would be the Zombies who will come. And when they do, I hope my stair master will fling me half a mile across the street to my death as that old mean lady did in the movie Gremlins.
In the meantime, rent the movie "The Hudsucker Proxy" and enjoy. It's all about that Blue letter, everything else is bullshit.
And those elevators are good to the last drop. Never really cared for those autoboxes that go here and there with a button.
Discharge my debt through ny strawman? Where can I learn more?
Plad, is your new avatar a robot's vagina on it's side? You're becoming a bit more subtle but I like it.
Do you drive?
Plad, I'm a married man, but I miss the titties. Your avatar was . . .
Hey, man. You need to get out more.
"How many parties are out there that have $500 million of physical gold and are also stupid enough to then jeopordize it "
ZERO
My reasoning... Any person clever enough to accumulate 500 million fiatscos of gold would never fall for so obvious a scam... Of course, there is the occasional fool that inherits mega wealth and then fritters it away in short order.
Snidley...
I wouldn't underestimate the stupidity out there. Wasn't it just a month or so ago the SNB dumped a bunch of bars in its desperation?
Also, sometimes what you do is a function of the caliber of the gun to your head. Maybe Mr. Corleone has whispered in some ears that there will be no liquidations of Treasuries...
Just sayin we can't see the whole landscape.
MK... "Wasn't it just a month or so ago the SNB dumped a bunch of bars in its desperation? "
We know that SOMEONE dumped a bunch of gold just before the SNB pegged their currency to the Euro. I'm not sure which central banks/bullion banks did the dumping... but maybe you have better info than me?
" Maybe Mr. Corleone has whispered in some ears that there will be no liquidations of Treasuries..."
Extortion of this sort might work on Japan, England, and some other Western oriented central banks/soverign wealth funds... I doubt it would work on China.
I appreciate your comments and I have certainly been wrong many times in the past. All I can do is offer explanations based on what I see...which is a small portion of the pie.
If the US reaches the point where Treasuries can no longer be posted as collateral in financial transactions, even commodities transactions, the game is over.
it's hard to tell what is meant here
but the reason given isn't too bad: "...the change will allow market participants to better manage their risk and to take advantage of lower gold lease rates."
here's the kitco piece: Kitco.crimex the lease rates are negative (as usual? again?) but at any rate, $500,000,000 worth of gold, today, is the same sized stack as was worth $200,000,000 when gold was a ways under $700; the same # of ounces
i think that if i take my gold to crimex and sell it, it is a sale; if i take leased gold to crimex and sell it, it is a short sale. i think. leasing is a kind of fractional reserve bullion banking, a forn of paper gold. i'm not sure why "legal confiscation" is an issue. if you don't want to lose your collateral, don't put it up to invest, gamble, or bet with, ok?
magna what?
All good stuff, Chumbawamba, but the state is composed of no-think drones and operated by sociopaths. They don't care about laws or sovereignty; they love power and they mean to expand it.
Don't stereotype. Lots of people who work within the system love it when guys like us come in and start taking charge. They will help you, but you have to make the effort.
Opposition only matters when you're outnumbered. Yes, you will be opposed, and you might fail, but there will be two guys behind you to try next, and two guys each behind them. You must learn it and pass it along. Soon enough we shall be legion.
I am Chumbawamba.
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By JHK
All last week across the media landscape, in pod, blog, flat-screen, and crunkly old newsprint columns, fatuous professional observers complained that the Occupy Wall Street marchers "have no clear agenda" or "can't articulate their positions." What impertinent horseshit. I saw a statement on one OWSer's sign that said it all: $70,000 College Debt $12,000 Medical Bills I'm 22 Where's My Bailout? What part of that is unclear to interlocutors of what we called "the establishment" back in the day? That would be the day of the Vietnam War and the Aquarian Upsurge. One difference being that in 1968 we at least had some solidarity in the older generation coming from figures of gravity like Senators Robert Kennedy (bumped off), Eugene McCarthy, J. William Fullbright, George McGovern, Rev Martin Luther King (bumped off), and even one US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark. Today, the entire "establishment" is a clueless, hopeless blob of self-interested, craven opportunism. Even the arty fringe - the people who pretend to be an avant-garde - are nothing but narcissistic self-branding operations masquerading as culture leaders. The worst offender this past week was the prating empty vessel Nicholas Kristoff at The New York Times who affected to offer the OWSers his own tidy agenda of nit-picky, arcane tax reforms (e.g "Close the 'carried interest' and 'founders' stock' loopholes") and limp-dick banking regulations (e.g. "[move] ahead with Basel III capital requirements"). David Plotz and his Gen X sidekicks at the Slate Political Podcast were equally mystified. I have some heartier suggestions: bring the full weight of the RICO act and the federal anti-fraud statutes down on Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, Brian Moynihan, Angelo Mozilo, and a host of other impudent schmekels still at large in their world of Escalade limos and Gulfstream vistas. Or, if that's just too difficult, how about a handy lamppost and about 40 feet of stout nylon cord? It is cosmically ironic, of course, that the same generation of Boomer-hippies that ran in the streets and marched through the maze of service roads around the Pentagon has become a new "establishment" more obtuse, feckless, greedy and mendacious than the one they battled with over 40 years ago. I guess they just don't see that their time has come to get right with reality - or get shoved aside and trampled. The essence of the OWSer's argument is pretty simple: they've got a raw deal; somebody dealt them a bad hand; someone ran their society into a ditch and not a goddammed one of the older generation will set in motion the machinery to correct the situation, or even acknowledge it. At the apex of this new establishment is the Baby Boomer's moral trophy president: Barack Obama, whose election made the Boomers feel good about themselves - while they preceded to loot the national treasury's accumulated capital, and then reach forward a few generations to rob their legacy, too. I haven't heard Nicholas Kristoff (or any of his colleagues at The New York Times) complain about Mr. Obama's stupendous inattention to the crimes of Wall Street, or to the dereliction of his proconsuls in the SEC and the Department of Justice. I'd at least send somebody to hold a mirror under Eric Holder's nostrils to see if he is actually alive. For my money, the OWSers have plenty to yell about. Apart from the crimes and turpitudes of their elders, the younger generation hasn't even been prepared for the massive change in reality that these times are heaving them into. If it was me out there, I'd conclude that I'd better make up the future on my own, with no help from my parent's generation. In fact, that future is rushing toward all of us so cold, hard, and fresh even in this autumn season that it might splatter the banking establishment - and the global economy - like a bug on a windshield. The OWSers have a front row seat down there in lower Manhattan. The financial gangrene (thank you Zero Hedge) is not just seeping anymore, it's blowing through the arteries of the money underworld like fracking fluid. The damage can't be contained. Let the Arabs have spring. The OWSers of America own the fall. Rock on OWSers and don't let the "pigs" (as we used to call them) get you down.on October 3, 2011 8:24 AM
The beauty of sovereignty is that, as King, you can take your own action, either by presenting an indictment to a proper Grand Jury, or if you are enjoined to the bankster fraud, by suing them in your court. They would actually have to respond. Imagine 10,000 individual Kings and Queens suing in their sovereign capacity in their home states? Yes, this is all doable, now.
We can literally take this country back legally and lawfully. We can systematically repossess the courthouses, the capitol buildings, the sheriffs departments, the police stations, the city halls, everything. Take it back piece by piece, lien by lien, lawsuit by lawsuit, a million Kings and Queens across the states exercising their sovereign prerogative and dispelling the government cronies that have taken over this land one by one until once again, it is a land of, by and for the People.
This is an achievable dream, but it can only happen if people dedicate themselves to the learning. It is work, and it is a sacrifice, but it is a joy to learn. What can be more joyful than unlocking the door to absolute and total freedom?
This is a whole new paradigm, a whole new way of seeing yourself as a citizen of this nation. You are the owner, you are the sovereign. It is your birth right. You only have to be bold enough to claim it.
Take the red pill!
http://1215.org
I am Chumbawamba.
Good to hear from you, Chumba.
TheKinski
Awww, God, another nitwit sighing with nostalgia for "the '60's, man!" Your ideas of "Figures of Gravity" were clods like RFK, Fulbright, and Mcgovern?? Srsly?? RFK: A spoiled racist (Refresh my memory: How many black folks have married into the Kennedy clan again?)(And who was the Atty Gen who kept MLK under surveillance?) rich kid who had everything handed to him via family connections - just like Bush. Fulbright: A career racist senator who not only opposed but filibustered the Civil Rights Acts of '57 and '64, and also found time to vote against the Voting Rights Act of '65, AND not only voted for but sponsored the (now proven to be absolute bullshit) Gulf of Tonkin resolution, allowing his buddy LBJ to make some serious coin for Brown & Root and, BTW, get 58,000 troops killed for no reason at all except the wars are good for the economy, and LBJ and Fulbright figured a few dead G.I.'s were a small price to pay for re-election. Mcgovern: Hell, let's just go with "LOL", ok?
You might want to do a little research before lionizing dipshits like those in a post complaining of intergenerational theft. Who the fuck do you think led the charge to fuck over the unborn generations to come, hmmm? WTF do you think 'Social Security' and 'Medicare' are? Well-conceived, brilliantly-run, abundantly-funded social programs dedicated to helping people? ? Or vote-buying scams funded with the kiddies (unmade) money? The bankers just took the ideas & tactics of the statists/fascists you've rhapsodized about and ran with the ball. Took it to the next level. But they were essentially just following the playbook written by your gravitas-laden heroes. So who should get the lion's share of the blame here? The criminal scum of the moment? Or the criminal scum who **set the precedent**?
But don't feel too bad. At least the "kids" down on Wall St. "fighting the power" now, right? Of course, there IS a slight problem.....Along with jacking off to impotent fever dreams of hanging or RICOing Dimon, Blankfein, et al, we read they're also squealing to "Re-elect Obama!" Yeah, that'll fix the problem. ("Gulag prisoners riot; demand better conditions and continuation of Stalin's reign") And after awhile, they'll peter out and slink on home, because in the end, nothing beats NFL action, baby!! Or 'American Idol'!! Of course, this leads to an uncomfortable question: Who's stupider? The fuckwits demanding "change!" while simultaneously clamoring for the re-election of the guy with the single most responsibility for saddling them with mountains of unpayable debt.....or the guy who scribbles poorly-written love letters (with no breaks for paragraphs, because paragraphs are, like, bourgeois!) to said fuckwits?
0000, and why bother any more.
Interesting site. Will need to look more. Thanks for sharing.
Hey folks and gold bucks read the FT, page 13, comment from Mark Williams
the gold bubble is finally bursting, expects Gold to fall down to USD 700 due to ETF leverage, forced sales.
Of Course, this is, not my opinion, ladies.
Since, it was not by chance, hehe, as the impeccable conquestor not longtime ago said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jelCDnwpsxo
Yeah, I really believe that the price of gold is going to fall back to its average cost of production, if not below it --- and that ignores the likelihood of rising energy costs, and thus a further rise in the average per-ounce cost of production for that one reason alone in the years ahead.
Such stellar analysis and insightful commentary is worthy of The Jon Nadler Award for Best Disinformation Disseminated in the Service of the Power Elite.
I get it, bt Pt is 191 USD below Au at this moment so I suggest converting to Pt before glod goes to 300
I take this to mean that a bear raid across the commodities market is about to commence. Increase the effectiveness of gold, encourage deposits of physical, squeeze the markets harder than they've ever been squeezed before. Not only let prices collapse, but make it worse by increasing margins across the board. Margin call the shit out of every single leveraged long. Take gold collateral and empty long bank accounts.
Fed has unlimited fiat to play with, I'm sure they'll be a factor in it all... probably through their favorite puppet: JPM
That's a fair guess, but who can tell what the sociopaths will do?
Buy and hold physical - sleep well at night.
Fed > JPM puppet. I think you may have that backwards.
lather , rinse, squeeze, repeat.
works every time, till you've cleaned your dishes to the point where you can't eat on them anymore.
CaptBenny, CH1... Buying physical and holding is the only way to beat the bastards and their continuous printing.
Demand for physical is still waaay beyond what can be filled in Asia, India, and the Mid East...
All the physical coming on the market is being purchased.
Central banks are under great stress... If they lease forward more gold to bullion banks to depress the market it is being snapped up. If they stop leasing the price of gold rises and makes their paper look like the crap it is.
We have SE Asia, India, the Mid East and many more individuals/soverigns on our side. We will prevail.
Keep the faith, keep up the pressure, forget paper PM games.
GREEN!
Everyone should be listening to Uncle Snidley! Be your own central and buy gold.
Buying and holding physical has numerous benefits, Snidley points out a great one: that it puts the central banks (the real ones) under a lot of stress. The more they try to keep the price forced down, the greater the blow-off will be.
Yes, we the holders of gold will win. Have no fear, we will win!
I have a suspicion big money is playing a sovereign cds / hedge with GLD trade, in case Euros are printed. So if Germany or Greece exits, and no Euros are printed, I expect GLD to collapse. It may also explain the decoupling between GLD and gold mining stocks, since GLD, a proxy for gold, is not an 'alternative currency', but one side of lucrative either/or trade.
Yes, GLD will collapse --- as actual physical GOLD soars.
But that result was already long ago baked into the cake.
Yes. Physical gold only.
And no, no way anyone gets my gold. Until I give it away, real nice and quite like.
Its stupid to think Germany would exit the Euro. There are too many incentives to stay. You have to understand that they do not want a strong local currency, it would devastate their already weakening export economy.
Greece on the other hand has every interest in exiting... if only their idiot politicians would stop shoving their faces with baklava and do something right for their citizens (and world) by defaulting.
Germany would exit the Euro to put a firewall around its banks, possibly nationalizing the weak ones, reprint Deutsche marks, and protect Germans, and their assets, from contagion, and hyperinflaiton.
You really think they'd try to isolate Deutche Bank with its TBTF attitude, holdings, and off balance sheet leverage of who knows what ratio? I venture to say that there will be a lot swept under the rug during this collapse, but there is no run big enough to hide a "TBTF" ...
That is not true. Germany has always had a strong currency with a strong export sector. Japan has too. Japan and Germany have higher wages then the US, yet they both have trade surpluses with China.
The dollar has fallen from 120 to 76 and exports have fallen. The trade deficit in the US has widened even though the dollar is falling. That puts to rest the keynesian nonsense idea that a weak currency is good for exports.
http://freegoldobserver.blogspot.com/
my bet is that impossibly indebted nations like greece would be kicked out of the euro before germany leaves the euro.
germany maintains too many trade benefits from it. imho the main reason why they haven't opted out already...
phyzical metalz bitchez!
"Why would one want gold, especially at these near record prices, when one can have glorious spam?"
Lookie here. A buyer of size plans to go on a spam-free diet. Maybe more sovereigns will do the same since the market riggers at the CRIMEX/CME handed them a big 30% off sale.
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Qatari wealth fund plans $10bn gold buying spree
The Qatari Royal family plans to spend up to $10bn (£6.4bn) buying stakes in gold producers through their sovereign wealth fund, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/gold/8802793/Qatari-wealth-fund-plans-10bn-gold-buying-spree.html
There's no way that Spam can be collateral because you can't eat it. Wait...you actually eat Spam? Explains a helluva lot...
I don't always eat gold, but when I do, it's chocolate-covered gold bars! Stay hungry, my friends.
Nice move by the Qatari Royal Family. Let's announce our plans to buy gold therefore driving up the price of that which we wish to purchase. Brilliant people, but at least they had enough sense to poke a hole in the sand.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the QRF poking the holes. It was the West. The only poking the QRF was doing was camels and young boys.
Gold @ 2100 by january?
http://printbuttonmoney.blogspot.com
Not based on this little ploy. Crimex now has both up and down levers. Lever up the paper, deliver the physical on the downside. I'd look for highly contrived and wild swings between 1600 and 1850 for the next few months whilst CME stacks "other people's collateral."
Why would you print a Butt on Money?
So if you use gold as collateral and they drive the paper price down they can confiscate your physical to meet your margin call. I wonder how many genius "money managers" will jump on this once in a lifetime opportunity?
I do believe I detect the smell of growing desperation in the continually evolving moves against gold and silver by the bullion banking "industry" and the controllers of the PM futures markets.
Go buy some gold and some silver and stick it under your mattress. If you want to screw hem, buy and hold the real metals.
Two thumbs up with the idea of opting out of the system with physical metals but definitely do not stick them under your mattress. Think long and hard about how you store/hide them.
This is a pretty topical concern for me because I came home from work today and found our house torn up and burglarized, with our PMs among the missing. No kidding. We had them in a smallish fireproof safe, which was very well-hidden; unfortunately the keys to the safe were not well-hidden, and it appears that once the asshat found those keys he tore the house apart looking for the safe. The cops said it looked like he had been in the house for a good, long time and in any event, there was not a single inch of it that was not completely torn apart -- our pantry, boxes of Christmas decorations, you name it.
My husband and I had opted for the safe out of concern for fire, since we also kept some documents with our rounds. (Yep, the documents are gone too.) You can bet that in the future we'll be approaching PM storage a different way (and hiding our keys better for lagniappe).
For what it's worth, we live in an older and slightly run-down house in a middle-class neighborhood, drive 10+ year old vehicles, and don't display any outward signs of prosperity, nor had we mentioned our PMs to anyone outside of my parents and one close friend who is also a PM owner. It appears this was a completely random break-in.
Let those with ears hear; I hope others can learn from our misfortune. If a properly-motivated thief has the time and the motivation, your PM hiding strategy needs to be very good indeed.
(Apologies to agent default, who probably wasn't being literal with the mattress thing -- I wanted to make this point, though, for those who might be new to PMs and apt to take a comment at face value.)
Sorry for you loss, man. And thanks for the reminder.
And Im sure you've thought of this, but given that "don't display any outward signs of prosperity," why would a thief take such a long time looking? Given his determination, sounds like he (and it's most likely a "he") had inside information. Overheard a whispered conversation, was working in your house, someone got a little mouthy at a bar..who knows. But the other add-on to your sad tale is, two can keep a secret....so long as one party is dead.
We suspect that he (we're pretty sure it's a "he" too) knew that we have a metric crapton of firearms in the house -- we're both avid shooters and when you shoot at local matches, there's no way to keep your gun-owning status private. The bad guys beat up the safe pretty good with a crowbar but weren't able to get into it (it's a combination and keyed combo safe), but in searching for the gunsafe key it appears they found the PM safe key and decided to pursue the contents of that safe as their consolation prize.
Lessons learned: 1) good gun safes are totally worth what you pay for them and 2) hide the keys better anyway.
I don't think it needs to be said. The last year has been full of evidence and actions that make the case for the PMs. The only thing against PMs has been the big shakeouts like we've seen in silver. Volatility has scared and burned the little leveraged guys.
I haven't sold a single 90% dime. The cartel can fuck off. They're desperate and we're squeezing their balls blue right now. Provident Metals is out of 100oz bars. APMEX has almost all of their 100 oz bars on backorder... they've been that way for a week now. APMEX has 90% silver coins on backorder till at least Oct 7th! Listen to Bill Haynes on KWN's weekly metals wrap and he even says 90% has premiums increasing.
Physical metal market is being raided right now. Its harder to find a large supply of physical today than yesterday. Imagine how hard it'll be when the big dealers stop taking orders due to supply constraints and increasing demand at the start of secretive QE3 (or whatever the fuck they call it).
The idiotically transparent (and patently criminal) moves by the anti-gold cartel, and by the central banks and their TBTF lackies, are of danger only to those with a terminally short-term outlook, a historically ignorant mindset, and/or a hopelessly gullible and dangerously naive faith in governments and the power elite. Let such people burn in their own stupidity and cowardice.
Physical gold confistication is coming, and only gold that they will allow you to own will be paper gold.
There is no "confiscation" of gold coming, soon or ever; all such talk is either pure ignorance, or else just more fearmongering by minions of TPTB to scare the average Joe away from gold.
Sure, the sociopathic power elite can try to make gold illegal --- but that is all that they can do. And maybe they will be almost as successful in their statist attempts at controlling gold as they have been with marijuana and other illegal drugs!
Whatever anyone holds in regard to physical metal is and always will be safe held in their own hands, as we wait out the death throes of the current financial, monetary and political paradigms, and the rebirth of economic and monetary sanity.
Don't tell that to Gerald Celente.
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2011/9/23_KWN_Exclusive_-_Gerald_Celente_Announces_Hes_Buying_Silver.html
"They have regulated the price of gold before, not that they will be able to do it, but I am concerned they will try something to regulate the supply (to the people) and the price of gold as the price eventually keeps going higher. Silver to me is not going to have that kind of regulation imposed upon it.
So I’m buying a position in silver against any future actions taken by the world governments to restrict the supply and the price of gold. They did it before in the US, they will do it again.”"
reader2010... If you are so faint of heart you don't need to be buying physical PMs. This is a war to determine what is going to be 'money'. If the azz hats knock on your door and demand your PMs are you going to hand them over?
PMs are wonderful... but they don't think for you. You have to do the thinking for your financial assets, whatever they may be.
If you want the fucking bankers to continue to enslave you with fiat, by all means support central banks and their manipulations of the world financial system and all main st economies.
If you want a higher degree of economic freedom, buy physical PMs and hold them.
Thanks for your advice. But, I have been in accumulation mode for physical gold and silver since 1998.
1983 for me.
Akak, the average Joe cannot afford gold at these prices.
Sure he can --- it's just a question of how much.
Coins with less than 1/10 oz. of gold are readily available in the marketplace.
And then, of course, there is always silver.
akak is completely right (as usual). $200 is enough to buy a 1/0th oz gold coin. When you see how insanely small that 1/10 th oz coin is vs. its worth, it is a mental experience that is hard to match. And I used to think that paying $500 for an oz of gold was whole lot!
Last I looked, TULVING did not have kilo bars of gold...
My coin shops (where I have bought ALL of my gold) have NO 2011 or 2010 Gold Eagles.
Time's a wastin...
Thanks DoChen!
And have you seen the current premiums for even one ounce gold coins on APMEX? Ay caramba! Even Tulving's premiums on gold (as a percentage of the spot price) have risen significantly over the last few months.
Don't anyone try to tell me that this is not indicative of a (physical) market in growing distress.
I just looked at the imperfect widget at 24hgold / eBay joint venture and found:
21% + premium of AGEs to spot
80% + premium of ASEs to spot
NO ONE at eBay wants to let their Eagles go for under $2003...
24hgold.com (the widget is at the bottom of that page).
DCRB... Thanks for the info. Wow! some premiums to spot!
If this is not evidence of divergence of physical from paper, what would be?
Quoting EBAY for Gold prices is BS. it is always over priced. Try tulving or local dealer. eagles also over priced.
Maples best - 2.8% premium only. Pamp bars 1.5%.
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http://thethoughtfultrader.blogspot.com/
I'll keep my "collateral" right where it is, in a safe in my basement snuggled comfortaby next to two hand guns and plenty of ammo. But thanks just the same...
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