Today one of the wealthiest people in the financial world stunned King World News when he said we may be nearing a point where we see a historic melt-up in gold, silver, and the mining shares. Rick Rule, who is business partners with billionaire Eric Sprott, also discussed exactly how this historic advance will unfold and why the up-moves will be so incredibly violent. Eric King: “Rick, are we [...]
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NIRP Arrives In The US: TBTF Banks Tell Customers To Move Their Cash Or Be Charged Fees
Back in June, the world was speechless when Goldman's head of the ECB, Mario Draghi, stunned the world when he took Bernanke's ZIRP and raised him one better by announcing the ECB would send deposit rates into negative territory, in the process launching the Neutron bomb known as N(egative)IRP and pushing European monetary policy into the "twilight zone", forcing savers to pay (!) for the[...]
Even The BIS Is Shocked At How Broken Markets Have Become
Not a quarter passes without the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) aka central banks' central bank (also the locus of some of the most aggressive manipulation of gold and FX in human history) reiterating a dire warning about the fire and brimstone that is about to be unleashed upon the global economy. It started in June of 2013, when Jaime Caruana, certainly the most prominent doom and[...]
3.9% GDP Nonsense-Dollar Turns Sharply Soon-John Williams
By Greg Hunter On December 3, 2014 Economist John Williams is not buying the recent 3.9% GDP upward revision. Williams explains, “No one I know thinks we are growing at 3.9% other than they are trying to sell a bill of goods to the markets, specifically the currency markets. 3.9% is nonsense. You had 4.6% growth in the second quarter and 3.9% in the third. Here you had two quarters at close[...]
With Its Gold “Vaporized”, A Furious Ukraine Turns On Its Central Bankers
As reported two weeks ago, following a stunning announcement by the head of Ukraine's central bank, Valeriya Gontareva, on primetime TV we learned that (virtually) all of Ukraine's gold was gone, or - in the parlance of Jon Corzine - had "vaporized." And as we also predicted two weeks ago, it was only a matter of time before Ukraine's people - the vast majority of whom are innocent pawns in a[...]
The Retail Apocalypse Accelerates: Collapsing Holiday Sales Are A Signal That A Recession Is Coming
By Michael Snyder, on December 1st, 2014 Retail sales during the four day Thanksgiving weekend were down a whopping 11 percent from last year. This is a “make or break” time of the year for many retailers, and if things don’t turn around during the coming weeks we could see a tsunami of store closings in January and February. As you read this article, there is already more than a billion[...]
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Price Of Oil Crashed Like This?…
By Michael Snyder There has only been one other time in history when the price of oil has crashed by more than 40 dollars in less than 6 months. The last time this happened was during the second half of 2008, and the beginning of that oil price crash preceded the great financial collapse that happened later that year by several months. Well, now it is happening again, but this time the stakes[...]
London Gold Pool II On The Verge Of Collapse As Panic Nears – World Scrambles for Physical Gold, US Generally Clueless
With the war in gold continuing to rage, today one of the most respected veterans in the gold world told King World News that the Western central bank cartel which has been capping the gold price for more than a decade is nearing the point of collapse as panicked phone calls are now being made to acquire sizable amount of gold. James Turk: “The battle for $1,200 gold is really heating up,[...]
Global Business Outlook: “Darkest Picture since Financial Crisis.” “US of Greatest Concern”
by Wolf Richter The plunging price of oil since June has been a leading indicator: global economic growth is in trouble, despite six years of unprecedented central-bank free-money policies that caused asset prices to soar but has accomplished little else. This scenario has now been confirmed by businesses that help drive the economy forward – not by economists and Wall Street hype mongers:[...]
Grandmaster Putin’s Golden Trap – Forget Misplaced Sentiment, Position to Profit From the Financial War
By Dmitry Kalinichenko Very few people understand what Putin is doing at the moment. And almost no one understands what he will do in the future.No matter how strange it may seem, but right now, Putin is selling Russian oil and gas only for physical gold. Putin is not shouting about it all over the world. And of course, he still accepts US dollars as an intermediate means of payment. But[...]