Friday, August 10, 2012

John Mauldin: Keep Your Capital Intact


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The Golden Age Is Here

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/thomson_s/thomson_s_080712.html 


 


The Truth about TARP
The free money for crooked bankers program
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47aHCpYaNkU&feature=player_embedded#! 
 


Conversations with Casey -
 LIVE part2 

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Weimar Greece



 




 

Weimar Greece

The debt owed by Greece is in the neighbourhood of US $345 billion (reports vary). The likelihood of eventual repayment is very slim indeed.  The logical solution would be to allow a collapse. To be sure, both blood and red ink would flow, but, as a result, Greece would emerge sooner as a country of people who learned, painfully, that their only solution is to pick up their socks and begin to rebuild. But this will not happen. 




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Challenging the Paradigms of Investing



A strong dollar doesn't mean the end of the world for gold.

 
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Reuters 

Euro Coal-Prices rally to $95/T, highest since April



 

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Planets Align for Stock Market Crash in 2013 ­− If Not Sooner


KING WORLD NEWS - BLOG 

This Chart From The 70s Gold Bull Market Will Shock People 
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/8/1_This_Chart_From_The_70s_Gold_Bull_Market_Will_Shock_People.html

Hathaway - We Are About To See $100+ Up Days In Gold 
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/7/29_Hathaway_-_We_Are_About_To_See_$100+_Up_Days_In_Gold.html 


               



  You cannot get the water to clear up until you get the pigs out of the creek. - Author unknown
The ECB is the only European institution that can conceivably bail out the PIIGS. It can do this only by debasing the euro. Inflation is the only option. There will be no fiscal union, except one that is imposed illegally. In any case, it cannot come before the end of the year. It is unlikely to come by the end of 2013. But the eurozone's banking system does not have until the end of the year. It must have a bailout now – one large enough to carry the banks and governments of Spain and Italy through the recession. 

  Planets Align for Stock Market Crash in 2013 ­− If Not Sooner


 

Argentina Begins to Implode

In Argentina, the situation continues to spiral out of control. The government there has effectively banned the conversion of Argentine pesos into U.S. dollars and has also instituted all-out capital controls to prevent the flight of all U.S. dollars still held in Argentina. As a result, the black market exchange rate for U.S. dollars is nearly 50% higher than the official exchange rate quoted by the government. Moreover, the Argentine government is so concerned about the flight of U.S. dollars that its citizens cannot exit the country without a blessing from the Argentine tax authority and a once-over by cash sniffing dogs.
Meanwhile, the real inflation rate is expected to top 30% in 2012, and promises by the Argentine government that they will not devalue the peso seem laughable to everyone but government officials. In an effort to prop up the peso, the Argentine government is forcing property owners and lenders to accept Argentine pesos in lieu of U.S. dollars. Fearful that all U.S. dollars left in the system may be confiscated, many Argentines are withdrawing whatever U.S. dollars they have and putting them in safety deposit boxes, leaving a shortage of available safety deposit boxes in Buenos Aires. Why Argentines believe their government will act with more restraint than the United Kingdom is unclear. (British Government Raids 7,000 Safety Deposit Boxes)
The Argentine boom/bust cycle is happening again, as it does nearly every decade. This time is no different, despite what Keynesian economists might say.
Thought of the Day
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.
Government programs, once launched, never disappear."

~ Ronald Reagan


China Daily Website 

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

China prepares vast stimulus as slump threatens Asia


 

Wall Street Legend Sandy Weill: Break Up Big Banks

 

Norway is one of the most heavily taxed countries in the world with a total tax burden of roughly 45% of GDP-- almost 4x Hong Kong and nearly twice the US.


Money and Markets 
Treasuries Shot Up ...
Then Came Tumbling Down!
 
Treasury bonds completed what is known to technicians as a "weekly outside reversal." That means Treasury bonds made a new, 
52-week high last Wednesday, but finished the week lower thanks to Friday's big decline. You can see this in the chart below. 
10 year Treasury Prices