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Gold Follows Stocks Vertically

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Because if stocks like the prospect of imminent printing, or at least the latest daily rumor thereof, until Germany once again opens its mouth and refutes everything, gold should love it. Sure enough, the yellow metal has opened $20 higher and is back over $1700 again.

Incidentally for anyone still clamoring about a bubble in gold, the following often recycled chart by Don Coxe should put things into perspective.




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Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:15 | Link to Comment fonzanoon
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Every freakin person in America should have seen that first segment on 60 minutes tonight. What a mess we are in.

 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:18 | Link to Comment CrockettAlmanac.com
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Summary?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:20 | Link to Comment fonzanoon
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Tough to summarize. Too many people are homeless. Too many kids growing up with nothing. The irony is their next segment will be on Angelina Jolie who focuses on foreign aid.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:24 | Link to Comment High Plains Drifter
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the children are functionally illiterate and the college grads are getting out of college loaded with student loan debt and they can't find jobs........its all insane...........

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:34 | Link to Comment Carlyle Groupie
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Or more aptly put. Children in 'merica are being raised with a different perspective.

Time to learn them about their slave masters the lizards. The lizards have taken your future and exported it to israel.

Shit no! You cannot have it back.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:34 | Link to Comment High Plains Drifter
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when i see this. i think. america is dying.  do they understand this?  does anyone understand this? they are the first wave.   the culture is dying. the culture we have known as america. it is dying. it is not long now. one can see this so clearly...........they are close to starvation.  so close really.... they are almost there. what happens when are there?  i have talked about tribes on this blog before.  i believe as time goes by, the races will seperate as the resources get scarce and they will act together in order to survive........what choices do they have at this point?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:38 | Link to Comment fonzanoon
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What transfixed me about that segment was the parents were broken. The kids still had hope because kids are resiliant. But the parents were broken. They were not tea party angry, they were not OWS angry. They were just broken. Hoping the system would throw them a bone.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:53 | Link to Comment High Plains Drifter
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perhaps it is indicative of the kind of people we are now.  we are all broken. we were destroyed as a people when they killed our president in 1963 and camelot died and we did not do anything about it then and allowed someone to tell us lies about it and explain the unexplainable. and we called it good enough.....just like 911.................there were many reasons that operation was carried out. one of them was to mind fuck the amerikans. i do not remember many things from that time in my life, but i remember it like was yesterday, the feelings i felt, the despair , the grief. i was a young teenager, but i remember the feelings i felt about it, till this very day........ i knew someone had done something bad to my president and therefore they had done it to me.........so now fast forward to today. if anything we have become slaves and are easily bought and sold.......we have many enemies within our gates......and nobody dares to speak about them nor do anything about them.  it sickens me to no end to see reports like this and as usual we always look at symptoms and traces were the enemy has been but is long gone........i am sick of it all really. like i said before.  i shall not spend whatever time i have left in this world living on my fucking knees......nope, ain't going to happen. this i know. this i promise....

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:38 | Link to Comment LasVegasDave
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you mean that movie with Kevin Costner?

 

 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:47 | Link to Comment High Plains Drifter
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hey dave. what do you think about this video?   he makes some very disparaging remarks about zerohedge ......oh my.....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06-t6xQNyVU

 

 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:57 | Link to Comment LasVegasDave
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I kinda feel sorry for you, blaming all your failures and deficiencies on the Yids.

Heres another zionist conspiracy for you to chew on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 01:21 | Link to Comment tiger7905
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Eric Sprott update out.

 

http://goldandsilverlinings.com/?p=1756

 

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 02:27 | Link to Comment Deo vindice
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Very interesting. Thanks.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 01:52 | Link to Comment thunderchief
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Once you slip into poverty, you, your kids and family never get out.  This idea of escaping poverty, pulling oneself up by their bootstraps is a dream.  A progaganda dream. 

Once you have arrived there its like jail.  You never leave.  Look at any country with lots of poverty, now the USA.  It is a life sentence.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 20:20 | Link to Comment StychoKiller
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Sorry, but poor is a state of mind.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:03 | Link to Comment Temporalist
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That brother and sister in the truck are the future of America.  People like that will make it; they don't blame others for what they don't have.

 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:11 | Link to Comment HellFish
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It's not dying it was killed. We actively stopped teaching children about American values and culture 40 years ago.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:59 | Link to Comment disabledvet
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don't tell i'm the only person that finds this funny.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:16 | Link to Comment Eeyores Enigma
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Is this what it is coming to?

New definition of smartest guy in the room?

First guy to pull out a gun and shoot the other guy in the face.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 01:40 | Link to Comment dalkrin
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I've been to Israel.  Guess what, they have problems of their own, and not just security threats.

You must have missed the protests they held over the summer regarding cost-of-living difficulties.  Housing, food staples.

They even have a top 1% in Israel, just like they do in every country.

Please stop polluting this board with your anti-semitic discourse.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:34 | Link to Comment RafterManFMJ
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Not it's not insane, it's according to plan.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 00:48 | Link to Comment Oh regional Indian
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It is, and the plan goes far back and so deeply complex that most will say... too much credit to fools, no one could have planned all this etc...

Not so, 2000 years is a good long time to make sure you get it right. And where America is today is purely by design.... fattened, entitled, disesed and lost. Perfect, like human gun-powder. It's not going to be pretty there and soon nowhere in the world. 

ORI

/the-plan/

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 01:00 | Link to Comment fonzanoon
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I don't know I make a lot of plans but generally I don't give a fuck how they end up 2,000 years from now. I imagine it would not help me much then.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:42 | Link to Comment fonzanoon
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I agree it's insane. I guess this is what the view is like from inside the fishbowl. This is what it feels like to know you are living in a depression. The insane part is watching the idiots running clueless.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:33 | Link to Comment RafterManFMJ
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Ah ha ha who cares? As long as a banker can buy a multi-million dollar estate in the Hamptons, the system is working as intended.  Hey, don't know how our system works? Read this:

http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/11.11/mandrake.html

If you really want to know who your master is, little serf, read 

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:01 | Link to Comment disabledvet
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Hamptons? PA-SHAAAA. I want a country now. "I'm movin' up" as they say.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:10 | Link to Comment Freddie
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Hope & Change from the Muslim.  "We are all Detroiters!"

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:19 | Link to Comment JohnG
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And to think: Nasa spent $2.5B sending a 6 wheeled robot critter to Mars.  Trying to find Krugman's aliens?

 

What a sick, sick, disgusting world of shit we live in. 

I'm about ready to just give up on humanity.  It's a lost cause.

And I'm usually a pretty happy guy, try to have some fun every day.  Just get's harder to find.

 

2.5B feeds a whole lot of starving kids.....

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:43 | Link to Comment chindit13
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"Somebody ought to do something!"

Why not you? Do have have anything that you do not absolutely need, or do you believe charity is the sole purview of government?

Every piece of cheesecake you eat, or every gadget you buy, could have fed a starving family, in the US or Somalia or.....

I'm not picking on you, but this is a complex issue hardly solved by not sending knowledge-seeking (and job creating) spacecraft to Mars.  First, we must define what we want to be as human beings.  Do we seek merely survival or something more than that, like knowledge?  Regarding survival, who is responsible for his brother, and all the kids his brother can produce?  Is it government?  Is it every one of us taking only the absolute necessities for survival, then giving away the other rewards of our own labor to those who have less, either through bad luck or bad decisions?  Is there some happy medium, where a combination of government and private individuals share---but do not support---and seek a balance in life between survival and something else that makes us more than just eating-reproducing animals?

I'll grant you that governments, and people, waste a lot, but the answer to poverty is a lot more complex than just ending the exploration of space.  Everybody currently breathing has to play a part, which might mean choosing NOT to have kids and never assuming the good conditions of one day will be present each and every day, plus sharing a little seedcorn with those on the wrong side of a random Universe.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 00:05 | Link to Comment wisefool
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The key is "a little" seedcorn. Not all of it. The only observation I have made is that many, many problems are created by lack of monogamous child rearing. Seems like we live long enough lives that people could stick with their co-parent for the 18 year gestation cycle of the human infant brain. Then everyone can do what ever you want.

The other option of course, is to go the bovine route, which I guess is evolutionary possible. Humans need to have big brains, but we also walk upright, Peak Pelvis. We are not really fully capable of true survival/sustainability till late teens. If we have a few thousand years to experiment we could produce children with more fully formed brains and deliver exclusively by C-Section. Most Ungulates can walk within minutes of birth and are mature within a few months. snarc: Any good grant writers here?

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 00:16 | Link to Comment Diogenes
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Go ahead and try it, see what thanks you get. I did but gave it up when I found out I was only making things worse.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 01:21 | Link to Comment chindit13
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Been at it since I left Wall Street, and I'll admit there is a learning curve.  Big tuition, and no Pell Grants for this type!  Still, choose wisely the folks who suffered a below average "accident of birth" appearance in this world, and it can work.  Note also I chose the word "seedcorn" rather than corn muffins or Cheese Whoppers, as it implies providing the means for folks to eventually take care of themselves.

I hold no illusions about the oft-said "nobility" of the poor, as character---or lack thereof---seems to be spread fairly evenly amongst the species.  At the same time, I am fully aware of what one might call luck, in that where and how one was born has enormous influence over what achievements are possible.  There are good places to be born, and bad.  There has never been a better way to materialize on this planet than as a white male, in the US, from the early 1950s to the late 1960s.  Relative to all others ever born, that is like starting a marathon after Heartbreak Hill.  Not to cast aspersions, but the opposite end of the spectrum---at least in today's world---might be a female born in rural South Asia or SEAsia.  Unless such an individual is born with a steel core, escaping those birth circumstances are nigh on impossible.  That is where the "seedcorn" provider can devote his efforts to trying to make a random Universe just a little more fair.

In the 60 Minutes piece, I'm willing to bet---based on more than a decade of experience---that girl living in her Dad's truck is a shoe-in success with just the smallest helping hand, and maybe even without.  She appears to have the kind of character that cannot be taught.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 01:49 | Link to Comment wisefool
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Agreed on the cultural birth luck. History will only repeat the sweet spot for the white american boomer male if we have another war that bombs the crap out of most of the world. Then the children in the country not destroyed will get the same winning ticket. I am not advocating it, just corroborating.

 As you mentioned, the boy and girl in the video are going to do great. Being raised by a widow or by a separated victim of abuse is not the same as being raised in a home broken by adultery, ambivilence, career, money, entitlement games, etc. Tragic, yet beautiful irony. (these kids lost their mother to death, most kids lose their household to "ummm, its not working out")

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 02:54 | Link to Comment chindit13
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History will only repeat the sweet spot for the white american boomer male if we have another war that bombs the crap out of most of the world

I am reminded again of the adage (I want to attribute it to Spinoza, but I'm not certain):  if my demons leave me, I fear my angels will soon follow.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 03:14 | Link to Comment wisefool
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I like the Jamey Johnson (country singer) version.

Am I shaking a demon thats after my soul, or sending an angel to hell?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:53 | Link to Comment Bolweevil
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Hold it together John.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 01:07 | Link to Comment dalkrin
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In my eyes, that was at least money spent in America, employing Americans, and for genuine scientific pursuits that could yield benefits for every person now and in the future.

Contrast this with the $700 billion in bailouts.  I can't keep track of how much has been squandered since then in QE and other incestuous government-banking deals.  We spend $700 billion a year for our military machine.  In comparison, you are objecting to peanuts spent on peaceful, innovative and inspiring missions.

There will always be hard-luck cases in the world, but they and their parents are not helpless.

You could make that argument ad nauseum throughout history.

Should we have to subsidize the world's problems at the expense of our own nation's concerns and projects?

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 04:33 | Link to Comment Uber Vandal
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How is this not a modern version of the "Oakies"?

What more evidence does anyone need to see that we are in a Depression?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:21 | Link to Comment Oleander
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1500 homeless children in Seminole county school system. Spoke w/ two very mature children living in a truck. "its life"

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:24 | Link to Comment paarsons
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On the bright side, Black Friday was a smashing success.

http://fucklloydblankfein.blogspot.com

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:26 | Link to Comment High Plains Drifter
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i promise you one thing. it is not like the 1930's.........no where to run and no where to hide.........

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:28 | Link to Comment High Plains Drifter
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Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:44 | Link to Comment SGS
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"1500 homeless children in Seminole county school system. Spoke w/ two very mature children living in a truck. "its life""

 

Land of the free, home of the brave.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:00 | Link to Comment Freebird
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Show me a home where the buffalo roam & I'll show you a house with a filthy carpet

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:04 | Link to Comment merizobeach
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Land of the home, free of the brave?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:12 | Link to Comment DosZap
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merizobeach

Land of the home, free of the brave?

No neither if Congress passes their Fascist bill Mon/Tuesday.

 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:32 | Link to Comment zerozulu
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Should we send more soldiers to liberate afghans?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:03 | Link to Comment disabledvet
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What kind of truck?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:13 | Link to Comment Freddie
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They must be American children. 

Illegal aliens get housing vouchers, food stamps, welfare, free education, free school breakfast-lunch-afternoon snack, free healthcare, they can apply for social security disability.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 09:44 | Link to Comment Flakmeister
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You really are a hateful little prick.....

Dollars to doughnuts you would have voted for the Nazis in 1933....

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 20:30 | Link to Comment StychoKiller
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Which part of "moral hazard" are you condoning here?

Before you form the wrong conclusion, alleviate some suffering:  http://www.worldvision.org -- One of the most efficient charities that I know of!

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:22 | Link to Comment American Sucker
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Boomtime construction family, Depression II hits, Dad's been unemployed for years, Mom's dead, kids and Dad live in truck.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:40 | Link to Comment Carlyle Groupie
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Lloyd says "no soup for you truck bitchez"! Starve cuz I have my israeli priorities set in stone.

My slaves will act according to their role. I, Squid Primero will now establish a new cast system in USA.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:47 | Link to Comment Beam Me Up Scotty
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Too bad they sucked all the cash outta their house in the boomtime to finance the big shitty dually diesel pickup, the 4 snowmobiles, the 4 jetskis and the brand new bass boat.  I don't have much sympathy.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:08 | Link to Comment wisefool
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Dude on hard talk in an earlier ZH thread. para: "Households did not make bad decisions, the people who lent money to them made the bad decisions. we have to have a systematic approach to a debt jubiliee/write down."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/steve-keen-parasitic-bankers-deluded-economists-and-why-%E2%80%9Cwe-are-already-second-great-depression

As pointed out in that thread, and what I think he saying to do is let ben dump the money out of helecopters. $100k for each man woman and child. If in debt, pay it off. If a saver, keep on stacking, or improving what matters to you (the debtors will not be able to chase gold). If earnest, but net worth neutral, use the money to start a buisness, retrain without doing the business model from the 1990s-2000s (1. Buy overinflated R.E. 2. Get 125% loan on already overpriced supply/demand value 3. Fail. 4. Squat)

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:18 | Link to Comment paarsons
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Fuck gold and silver in the ass.

Load up on ammo and pork and beans.

That's where the real money is.

http://fucklloydblankfein.blogspot.com

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:25 | Link to Comment SHRAGS
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Trolling for dummies, 

Step 1: Post as early as possible in the thread to provoke as many as possible...

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:20 | Link to Comment slewie the pi-rat
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shhhh!

don't tell ORI!

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:30 | Link to Comment Ace Ventura
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OK, but what happens when the guy down the street who has that extra case of toilet paper or functioning multi-band radio (or insert other item you need here) already has all the ammo and canned food he wants?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:35 | Link to Comment RafterManFMJ
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Perhaps you could interest him in a reach around

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:36 | Link to Comment paarsons
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 I guess you shoot him and take his stuff.

http://fucklloydblankfein.blogspot.com

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:45 | Link to Comment Ace Ventura
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LOL, I guess you missed the part where he has all the ammo he needs.

Point being, you could offer him something which is portable and carries value (gold/silver), which he can then use to do likewise in exchange for something he wants that you may not have.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:10 | Link to Comment merizobeach
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I did have a laugh with you about his outright shooting the guy, but I think his point is still valid in terms of the zombie mentality: when the ammo is the only barter chip you have, there's only two ways to negotiate with it.  Social breakdown, bitchez!

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 20:34 | Link to Comment StychoKiller
Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:04 | Link to Comment nmewn
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"I guess you shoot him and take his stuff."

Question...can you hear an arrow passing through your ear & exiting the other?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:32 | Link to Comment UP Forester
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Only if it's a Pierce Arrow.  Fletched arrows are too darn quiet....

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:39 | Link to Comment wisefool
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  • If a property owner, enact Official Property tax, without the "unofficial" kickbacks for the "in" crowd.
  • If single, Foist the town bicycle with accessories or ex-con babies' daddy who needs a second chance on him/her.
  • If married, get to the intellectually weaker spouse via media and social contacts to "upgrade" their life (taxes and interest in the wings) Contort instincts to make the threat of adultery/divorce as "enlightened"
  • If with kids, repeat above with some type of organization that requires "private" subsidy, use unofficial kick backs for the true team payers. FACT: In many US states the college sports program employees are the highest paid public employees by far 'cause those programs "produce revenue" without costing the state anything .... a.k.a Sandusky $600k/yr, Dean of the Medical school, $450k/yr.
  • If debt free, make sure media talks about "means testing" for debt jubilee/entitlements/"jobs programs". i.e. if you are debt free and own a shack, you are better off than some 25 year old Jersey shore kid with student loan debt and a 125% on $500k crib. No unemployment check for you, so keep wearing kneepads to work.
  • If Older, do the same, but with SS/Medicare.
  • Bait, Bait, Bait. Use MSM 24x7 injecting "social ideology" warfare agent provacatuers from all ends of the spectrum, from OWS to "tea party radicals". Talk radio to local news to banner ads on email services. You'll catch him/her eventually voicing an opinion or taking an action to get 'em, on super secret probation.
  • If self sufficient type, send in a particular regulator to have that victory garden declared a bio hazard. Or those solar powered clothes lines cited as "eye-sores. On the other end, create some food supply hysteria around improperly handled foodstuffs from mega-producers, such that there is a demand for more .gov regulators/inspectors. Insist that a true environmentalist would have their laundry done a central processing facility to optimize carbon and water footprints.
  • If union, imbue a sense of chaos around wall street destroying pensions. If non-union, get the guild to socially ostricize.
  • Tax all PM transactions like "sin" products. Legalize and encourage all other previously sin products that pacify the populous (alchohol, marijuana, caffine, prescription drugs, excessive food) but keep a demon product or two availible to castigate (Tobacco, HFCS, non-food animal products, "puppy mills ... as opposed to ... puppies that were lovingly shit out of a unicorns butt because it knew YOU needed an animal to be the gardian of!")
  • If none of the above work on our smug little zerohedger, start a war. Use a false flag if nessecary, and force war bonds on anyone with savings. Run up a couple trillion of national debt too. Wiat 6 months and talk about how much "womens rights" have improved in some 3rd world shithole. Withdraw, repeat.
  • Send in the underpants gnomes after the TP.

EDIT: And I forgot the most important thing: Make sure no matter where your "cause" is on the political spectrum. make sure you use a tax free vehicle to implement. 501c, corp, NGO, etc.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:10 | Link to Comment Bansters-in-my-...
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How about fuck paarsons up the ass with a big golden dildo,

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:19 | Link to Comment Arius
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i saw it ... they had a similar piece a year or so ago ... and that is Florida ... you wonder what the situation is like in Michigan, ohio ... but people are taking it well ... i guess you got to do what you got to do ...

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:28 | Link to Comment therealmonty
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We're totally fucked, and as things get worse, the denial only gets stronger and stronger.  It's sickening, maddening, and downright disgusting: and yet we're conditioned to SPEND, SPEND, SPEND.  

Dear Aliens,

Can you hurry up and get this shit over with?  Not sure I can take much more.

Thanks,

An earthling and your humble servant.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:16 | Link to Comment Freddie
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Keep watching TV because your viewership supports it.  Also thank the MF'ers who voted for the Muslim. 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:19 | Link to Comment He_Who Carried ...
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Hey Goldbugs, you should be happy!

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 09:34 | Link to Comment bernorange
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Everyone should be happy.  Happiness is a state of mind and to a large degree within the control of the individual regardless of circumstances depending upon their ability to shift perspective and manage expectations.

Goldbugs should be prepared.

www.pmbug.com

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:16 | Link to Comment Boston Wealth
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Going out on a fucking limb here and say that the futures will be lock limit up by open.

My track record on predicting lock limit up is 1 for 1!

 

Barron's! Brings back memories of their cover article "Bear Scare" http://online.barrons.com/article/SB127327052815488571.html#articleTabs_panel_article%3D1 Well even before that article came out, or before Europe announced the rescue plan for Greece, I had announced on Friday that the futures would be lock limit up!.. and they where! http://www.bostonwealth.net/2010/05/09/limit-up-who-knew/

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:16 | Link to Comment WonderDawg
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I'll take that bet.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:18 | Link to Comment johnnymustardseed
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stocks move up on the good news of another bailout.... $700 billion doesn't seem like enough

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:22 | Link to Comment hack3434
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Hey Tyler how about a chart of spam ($/lb) vs. currency in circulation  

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:59 | Link to Comment CitizenPete
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Not that I've been following the cost of Spam, but I saw some in the store recently and thought it was really expensive.  How come I can eat lunch and breakfast in China for under a buck still? Government Sachs needs to export some of the debt burden to the East after they milk and destroy the EU. 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:11 | Link to Comment Temporalist
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"How come I can eat lunch and breakfast in China for under a buck still?"

Maybe it's because plastic rice is so damned cheap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT3JTUCaB_4

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:40 | Link to Comment UP Forester
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I don't know about Spam, but some things here:

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/pricebasket.html

Must be old, bacon in the stores around here are up around $5/lb.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:21 | Link to Comment sabra1
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phew! for a moment there, i was afraid inflation would drop!

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:22 | Link to Comment fonzanoon
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Who is printing the money? The US via the IMF? I thought someone on here said Congress would have to vote on that. Or is it the ECB? I thought Germany was against that....wtf?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:54 | Link to Comment Talleyrand
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No one is printing money. You can't print money any more than you can print oil.

You can print currencies.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:20 | Link to Comment fonzanoon
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who is printing the currency?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:47 | Link to Comment Talleyrand
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Who controls the banks?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:04 | Link to Comment fonzanoon
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Spiro Agnew

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:20 | Link to Comment Talleyrand
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We have a winner!

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:08 | Link to Comment disabledvet
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I think his name is Fred. Fred...Epstein. Yep...says right here in "employee roll of the US Mint. "Fred Epstein prints the money."" so there you go!

also says "he's been employed for the Federal Government for over 40 years and was a former counterfeiter of great acclaim before being hired on!" whodathunkit! our prison system truly does reform the criminal!

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:22 | Link to Comment monopoly
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You have to laugh all. Rumor on, rumor off. Gather the sheep and herd them all together now. It will be over in just a while. Then we can start from the beginning.

 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:23 | Link to Comment Jendrzejczyk
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Are we there yet?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:56 | Link to Comment CrockettAlmanac.com
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Clark Griswald: Roy... can I call you Roy? Have you even driven cross-country?

Roy Walley: Oh, hell yes. Drove the whole family to Florida. Worst two weeks I ever spent in my life. The smell from the back seat was terrible.

Clark Griswald: Ooooh. Ooooh, I know that smell.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:15 | Link to Comment erg
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You have to pull over, I'm prairie-dogging it over here.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:32 | Link to Comment saulysw
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Waiting for Gold-o

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:23 | Link to Comment Esso
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Looks like oil's doing pretty good too.

Funny, with all this abiotic oil just bubbling up out of the ground, one would think oil should be down to about two cents per barrel by now.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:25 | Link to Comment sabra1
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not with iran about to rule the world!

 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:10 | Link to Comment disabledvet
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that's "Saudi/Aramco" to you Space Cowboy.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:25 | Link to Comment GOSPLAN HERO
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Kwanzaa is good for the economy.

Malt liquor sales are up!

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:39 | Link to Comment Rakshas
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The Dalmore, 18 yr, The Balvenie Portwood 21yr old, Glenfiddich 18 yr all so yummy commuting to the UK has its advantages for now.....

Gold for tough times, silver for bartering and tougher times copper and mash for the real fuck ups..... don't know how y'all city folk gonna git on but Pa showed me how to survive rite proper...

 

 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:40 | Link to Comment Jendrzejczyk
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"....all increases in sales actually attributed to 17 year old anglo saxon high school kids wishing they were niggers."

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:57 | Link to Comment CrockettAlmanac.com
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Asshole.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 04:23 | Link to Comment Jendrzejczyk
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If you meant sarcastic asshole, guilty as charged.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:45 | Link to Comment SGS
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"Malt liquor sales are up!"

You mean grape drink.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:50 | Link to Comment Hook Line and S...
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Grape soda (Fanta) mixed with Crown Royal is what I see some ordering up of late.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 00:04 | Link to Comment Bolweevil
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purple drank! I'm high right now, shit.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:26 | Link to Comment monopoly
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And where is the 800 billion from the IMF coming from to move Italy back to excessive spending?

Gotcha!

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:28 | Link to Comment Divine Wind
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U.S.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:27 | Link to Comment GenXer
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Australian market is up 2% already (monday morning)

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:27 | Link to Comment Divine Wind
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I wonder if Oooogo Chavez is going to get all of his gold back home before things completely fold up.

 

 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:43 | Link to Comment DosZap
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Divine Wind

Got his first load already....................

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:58 | Link to Comment Talleyrand
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Poor Hugo. CIA got him. They couldn't get Fidel, but they got Hugo with the big C.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:15 | Link to Comment agNau
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Tungstennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
Now wouldn't that be funny.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:43 | Link to Comment Divine Wind
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Brahahahaha.

The last thing he sees is the formal assay.

 

http://youtu.be/WWaLxFIVX1s

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:30 | Link to Comment kaa1016
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That chart is great except for one problem and I've been a gold bull since '02 when Tom Calandra was pumping gold stocks on CBSMarketwatch, if we have a deflationary bust, like I think we will have, and the amount of credit in the system is decreased, which also decreases the money in circulation, gold will be going down as well.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:34 | Link to Comment monopoly
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Agree kaa. But....I do not see a deflationary bust. Sure, housing, retail and such will decline but as long as they keep printing, monetizing, all I see is a steady stream of inflation, even with decreasing credit. I continue to see higher prices in food, ags, gas, health care and steel. Sure Ipads may come down in price, but how many of those and how many houses does one buy. 

 

 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:42 | Link to Comment Ace Ventura
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Still too many hundreds of trillions worth of derivatives plays that need to be unwound or otherwise made whole at peasant expense.

Your scenario would be the best case for the average serf, which is why it is also the least likely. A deflationary bust hurts TPTB way more than inflationary insanity.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:32 | Link to Comment sbenard
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...and so does crude!

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:36 | Link to Comment chump666
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yes oil inflation.  The extra tax/austerity on Europe. 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:33 | Link to Comment chump666
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Black Friday post rally + oversold markets.  Should top end week when the SHTF again

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:35 | Link to Comment apberusdisvet
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At a GSR of over 50:1 (when it should be less than 10:1) is the greatest asymmetic ratio anyone will find in many years.

Keep stacking folks; the majority of the silver left on the planet has grades less than 3g/t.  It would take silver @ $300/oz to mine it profitably.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:15 | Link to Comment spdrdr
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"It would take silver @ $300/oz to mine it profitably."

Utter nonsense - it only costs $5 per Oz to dig out of the ground.

MathMan told me this.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:39 | Link to Comment Divine Wind
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I know this can be viewed as a 'cherry' question, but does not Dodd-Frank throw a wrench in the idea of U.S. dollars at the IMF being used to bail out troubled Euro-entities?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:46 | Link to Comment Carlyle Groupie
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LOL, yea right.

Congress passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 1997 to prevent U.S. corporations from bribing officials of foreign governments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act

Should that not have immediately ended the war in Iraq?

Silly rabbit.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:52 | Link to Comment Divine Wind
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Yup, thought so.

My bad.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:08 | Link to Comment Carlyle Groupie
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No bad Wind. It's just the most incredible dog/pony show on earth.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:41 | Link to Comment Chappy
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The scales on the 2nd chart make it very misleading.  Money supply has doubled but the price of gold is up 5x.  So the recycled chart alone doesn't make a case for gold not being a bubble.

 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:54 | Link to Comment CitizenPete
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boing...

time to go back to China, tired of eating turkey.

 

Hmmm...  I bought gold in 2005 for around $400. (http://www.kitco.com/scripts/hist_charts/yearly_graphs.plx)

Accoording to the Minneapolis Fed (http://www.minneapolisfed.org/) home page that same gold should cost me 463.56 today.  Me thinks the Fed should adjust their CPI algorithm.  

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:09 | Link to Comment DosZap
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Me thinks the Fed should go to hell, and take the lying assed CPI bstds w/them.(any legit agency that does not include the Three most important items purchased in their stats(food, fuel,energy) are Bucket mouthed Liars.)

3-4% inflation, MAX, my ass.11% Minimum.

*****New #'s China & India now buy 55% of all the worlds GOLD.****

This keeps up, I see Prems WAY up, and a severe shortage SOON.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:56 | Link to Comment Ted Baker
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+27$ DEC FUT - GREAT!!!...LET'S BE FRANK GOLD IS WORTH AROUND $2,000 HOWEVER THE CROOKS AND SCAMBAGS OF JP MORGAN AND HSBC AMERICAS CONTINUE MANIPULATING PRICES...THE SAME GOES FOR SILVER IT IS WORTH 40$

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:52 | Link to Comment stacking12321
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how did you come up with those numbers?

not that i don't trust the wisdom of an obviously very intelligent poster who types in ALL CAPS...

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:25 | Link to Comment razorthin
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I was wondering if we would get one last spike on the right shoulder, analogous to the swan song in September 2008.  And here we go.  McGinley says fade the rally.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:04 | Link to Comment penisouraus erecti
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"This country is in bankruptcy, we have to deal with it, we can't remain in denial" Dr. Ron Paul, 11/20/11

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:05 | Link to Comment dwayne elizando
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On an off note. Has anyone noticed that the Dow-S&P500 charts lately seem to follow the EUR/USD charts?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:19 | Link to Comment razorthin
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No, its a totally "on" note.  The inverse relationship between the ES and USD is symptomatic of a broken financial system and a failing economy.  Inflate (with the reserve currency) or die.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:21 | Link to Comment Dre4dwolf
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Well if the current system stays in place, its guarenteed that the amount of FIAT in circulation will always exceed the amount of gold in circulation, thus gold will always be more valuable than paper, (allowing for the temporary short term spikes up and down).

 

 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 00:30 | Link to Comment UP Forester
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Unless they're FIAT 500s....

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:25 | Link to Comment tkinfo
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Since this latest rumor will fail just like the rest, sell Gold now...

http://thebeareconomy.com

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 22:29 | Link to Comment Ned Zeppelin
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Let them have their market manipulating fun. Facts are facts, and will come out whether the TPTB like it or not. Europe is hosed unless the ECB mounts a multi-trillon Euro QE program, and that's it in a nutshell.  And that is, in itself, only an exercise in kicking the can down the road and raising considerably the explosive capacity of the ponzi when it finally blows. 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:14 | Link to Comment wisefool
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This is one of the biggest things I do not understand about this place. Many posters get really excited about manipulation of the PM prices. What does it matter if they personally hold the physical? For stocks, bonds, and consumables, I could understand the outrage. I dont hear Kyle Bass complaining about Blythe.

Serious/non-sarc lack of understanding on my part.

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:43 | Link to Comment Talleyrand
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Tired of waiting?

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:54 | Link to Comment Hook Line and S...
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These are the ones who intellectually understand both paradigms, but are still attached to the emotional component of fiat gains and losses. 

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 00:29 | Link to Comment wisefool
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Right.Thanks. I figure it is that, and/or it is fear of confiscation. If I could afford it I would own and hold physical and keep my mouth shut. Back the truck up when TPTB make it cheaper than it should be.

But when people can not afford beans, and/or are taxed on PM purchases, then there should be outage. 

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 23:21 | Link to Comment Temporalist
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I know I'm asking the wrong crowd, but gold hit $1900 months ago...and things are even more fucked now, WTF?  Silver too and now Sprott has approval to drop $1.5B on more physical.  What will the price of both be on Dec. 30th?

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 00:01 | Link to Comment Hook Line and S...
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Magic 8 ball time for some!

My tarot says "unexamined assumption in premise", which leads to the draw of The Fool and the Hanged Man.

Hook Line and Sphincter ( ! )J ...embracing uncertainty.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 00:32 | Link to Comment UP Forester
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In other words, who cares.  Just get phyz, and wait.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 00:46 | Link to Comment wisefool
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You cant eat it, but chances are people will always trade you gold for lots and lots of food. Ink on paper not so much.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 00:02 | Link to Comment Talleyrand
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Au 1728. Ag 30.31 (or not)...and now you know.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 06:32 | Link to Comment sockcutter moto...
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we should all be kissing dimon's ring (and blythe's clit ring) in thanks for the extended dip being granted to us

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 07:35 | Link to Comment QuantumCat
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Sadly, gold and silver are trading in near perfect harmony with RISK ON. Leveraged traders are trying to have their cake and eat it too...fucking up the real money hedge for the near term.

Mon, 11/28/2011 - 08:16 | Link to Comment cccmachine
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The beat from MC Hammer

You cant print this !!!!!

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