By Michael Snyder Are we on the verge of an unprecedented global currency crisis? On Tuesday, the euro briefly fell below $1.07 for the first time in almost a dozen years. And the U.S. dollar continues to surge against almost every other major global currency. The U.S. dollar index has now risen an astounding 23 percent in just the last eight months. That is the fastest pace that the U.S. dollar [...]
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Top Asset Manager Warns Of Risks In Banking System: “It’s The Biggest Reason To Own Precious Metals”
Mac Slavo March 10th, 2015 SHTFplan.com Top alternative asset manager Eric Sprott, whose company has $10 billion in assets under management, sounds the alarm about the day everyone in America finally realizes that the real economy has collapsed. In a highly informative interview from one of the most respected financial analysts in the world, Sprott explains why he believes gold, silver and[...]
Anti-Gold Propaganda In The West At An All-Time High – The Stench of Desperation Hangs Heavy
by David Kranzler Investment Research Dynamics "I’ve been involved in every aspect of the precious metals market since late 2001 and I’ve never heard of Rick Spooner or CMC markets…Rick Spooner? Why not just drag out Pee Wee Herman and have him read off a teleprompter?" David Kranzler CNBC, Ansuya Arjani and anti-gold terrorism With gold under the most intense market manipulation effort[...]
Nearly At ‘Full Employment’? 10 Reasons Why The Unemployment Numbers Are A Massive Lie
On Friday, we learned that the official “unemployment rate” has fallen to 5.5 percent. Since an unemployment rate of 5 percent is considered to be “full employment” by many economists, many in the mainstream media took this as a sign that the U.S. economy has almost fully “recovered” since the last recession. In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, some Federal Reserve[...]
The Global Problem: Monetary Policy Can’t Fix an Economy’s Structural Problems – C. H. Smith
When we look back from 2025, it will be painfully obvious that central bank policies exacerbated the systemic crises that brought down the global financialization machine. What with all the praise being heaped on central banks for "saving" the world from economic doomsday in 2008, it's only natural to ask which structural problems their unprecedented policies solved in the past 6 years. After[...]
Why the U.S. is Letting China Accumulate Gold – James Rickards
A lot of people think about gold as a percentage of a country’s total reserves. They are surprised to learn that the United States has 70 percent of its reserves in gold. Meanwhile, China only has about 1 percent of its reserves in gold. People look at that and think that’s an imbalance. But those are not very meaningful figures in my view. The reason is that a country’s reserves are a[...]
ATTENTION ALL CONCERNED WITH GOLD CONFISCATION – 100% Bullion Investment Asset Also Serves As Confiscation Hedge
Many individuals will fail to protect themselves and safeguard their wealth with precious metals due to the perceived threat of gold confiscation. This fear is based on a previous US gold confiscation that took place at the height of the depression in 1933. Whether such an action by the US government would take place again is up for debate. Realize that the US was on a gold standard in 1933 [...]
Suspicions About the Federal Reserve Spill Out in House Hearing
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: March 2, 2015 Fed Chairman Janet Yellen fielded questions last Wednesday before a combative House Financial Services Committee. Tempers flared, fingers stabbed the air, arms waved wildly as House reps expressed pent up frustrations with how the Federal Reserve is handling the economy. At times, Yellen answered curtly and at one point rolled her eyes at[...]
Bill Gross: “Central Banks Have Gone Too Far In Their Misguided Efforts To Support Economic Growth”
The usual stuff in Bill Gross' latest monthly letter which could have been picked form the pages of Zero Hedge circa late 2009/early 2010, now that virtually all the "conspiracy theories" we first presented years ahead of everyone have not only been validated, but accepted as New Paranormal canon. The excerpted highlights: None dare call it a “currency war” because that would be counter to [...]
Is This The Most Important Chart For The Future Of The World’s Reserve Currency?
When it comes to the future of the dollar status as the world's reserve currency, the most important chart may be the fact that the US is now so woefully buried in debt that another global military conflict appears inevitable... ... or that it now takes virtually unlimited monetization of the debt shown above to preserve the illusion that the US is not bankrupt, pushing the S&P to record[...]