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New World Order ANTIDOTE

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Jan 212013

The New World Order is quite real. The deeper down the rabbit hole you go, in learning about it, the more you will need medicine for your soul. You will go through stages of disorientation and vulnerability, and you will run the risk of succumbing to darkness, fear, hate, anger and bringing out your lesser self. Therefore, look at your mind and feel your emotions. Then select from the “Paths of Love” categories on the right in order to apply the proper antidotes to the particular poisons to which you have become exposed. For example if you feel fear, then go to categories of “Courage”, etc. Then, with renewed vitality and passion for life & liberty, continue on your journey. And always try to hold in your awareness that which is ultimately most important…and real – love.

via New World Order ANTIDOTE.

Silver And The Shift To Measuring Wealth In Ounces Instead Of Dollars

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Feb 072012

Globalization

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Jan 272012

Silver Up Again

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Jul 142011

After having spent a great deal of time over the past handful years intensively studying the dynamics of silver in relation to the macro-economic environment, I am more convinced than ever of an extremely bullish movement for silver. There is simply nothing like silver. There is no other asset than has all of the properties going for it that silver does. And all of this against the backdrop of an ever increasing measure of governmental-monetary insanity.

And with all of that said, it must be recognized that silver is the number one target for Fed-Banker manipulation. They know how important silver is to all economic indicators of currency strength – even more than gold because of silver’s sensitivity to fluctuations and because of silver’s dual use as an industrial metal. In the final analysis, they cannot stop the parabolic rise of silver. It is flat-out going to happen. However, they are going to do everything in their power to maintain an ‘orderly’ rise – right up until the end.

In other words, silver WILL explode, but it will not find its true value until the system, as we know it, collapses. Until then, it is naive to believe that the most powerful banking & trading institutions on earth, with unlimited access to fiat currency, are going to surrender one minute before they have raped and pillaged the entirety of the western world’s treasuries.

There is nothing more important one can do than stack physical silver. Playing the silver market can be done, but (until the system collapses) the reality is that it is J P Morgan’s casino and J P Morgan’s rules.

True, Asian markets are coming along, and that could be a legitimate shift, but don’t expect overnight miracles. Every sovereign currency is measuring itself for whatever trade advantage possible – and they all have their eyes on gold and silver.

There comes a time when men and women of conscience must make a fundamental choice. And those who do not make that choice in time will have the choice made for them, under the worst of circumstances.

The choice is whether or not to divorce the money-reality with which we have been indoctrinated.

Good luck, to all of us.

John

Paper Silver and The Wedge of Fear

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May 202011

Recently, silver investors have received a wicked object lesson in how domination works when price gets too far out in front of where powerful entities want it.

Looking at the current technicals, paper silver wants to break to the upside; traders are having difficulty further milking the short side while fundamentals are pressuring up.

It is a wedge of fear. Shorting goes against the fundamentals and proven demand, but going long goes against the expressed wishes and authority of the people who make the rules. Thus silver’s current sideways up-trending fear trade. It’s like watching a toddler who is ever anxious of what he will be allowed to ‘get away with’ by a stern parent. As the uptrend gains steam, the toddler will become a rambunctious teen who seeks more autonomy and self assertion. And so if you’re in the paper game, at that juncture, be careful because everyone will be looking for the signs of an unhappy JPM/Comex – in order to be the first out before the next hammer falls.

And that is just how they want it.

A few things should be clear by now. First, until this whole thing blows up (which it will) JPM has unlimited liquidity thanks to the Fed window. That liquidity will be used as a weapon against silver – more so than any other asset because silver represents monetary liberation (even more than gold because the huddled masses own zero gold, while the wealthy and central banks own a lot of gold). So through whatever extreme ‘winter of discontent’ transpires, gold can be controlled by the matrix.

Second, the paper silver trade is beyond what can be unwound with the current system. The trade is so vast that it will never be actually backed by physical and it is unlikely that the commercial shorts can ever get out lest the spot go ballistic causing a run on the system and a default.

Third, China does not take its marching orders from Jamie Dimon. The East is now a driving force in commodities that has long felt the economic control of the U.S. Petro-Dollar as the world reserve currency. What is more, they’re genuinely culturally different (and not better, just ask the Tibetans). And finally, they’re smart. They have given the U.S. all the rope it wanted. And now the party is over (though most are still drunk & mesmerized by the Dow). The Chinese are buying real assets. They are uninterested in buying U.S. Treasuries and they have stopped selling silver. On the contrary, with a long tradition of silver money, China is aggregating its physical silver stack.

So there it is. JP Morgan is a crazy man at the wheel of a party bus in which China has glued the gas pedal to the floor. This thing is going to end badly. In summary, systemic collapse is inevitable (also in many other ways outside the scope of this article). And this translates into a parabolic silver move. So try not to sweat the current wedge of fear too much. On the contrary, take advantage of it as much as possible. If you have a way to game the paper system, go for it (at your own risk). If you can keep stacking, these are prices that were only recently hoped would return. Now is the time to make your future gains.

Investors losing confidence in stocks: polls

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May 122011

Fifty percent of people believe the US stock market will drop more than 30 percent in the next 12 months, according to the latest Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index poll.

via Investors losing confidence in stocks: polls – International Business Times

Mike Maloney on the Keiser Report 11/05/11

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May 112011

OK, here you go. The basic, vital, info to keep in mind. Also, interesting insight on the Hunt brothers.

Silver Data - Backwardation

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May 102011

Check out the rise in silver Backwardation during the height of the recent CME smackdown.

Silver Data

Silver Market Forms the Keystone of the Central Vault

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May 102011

Pointed out by BrotherJohnF, this comment by Urban Redneck on Zero Hedge is essential reading towards understanding how crucial the silver market is regarding the entire financial system.

Major commodity producers outside of the PM markets currently maintain outsized commodity trading departments in relation to their hedging needs for production because they need to maintain the size and strength in the paper markets to shake the price free from the paper commodity banks when their shenanigans get out of hand, or trade their way to a fiat profit they are unable to free the fiat commodity price.

In a fiat world, where there is a paper product to meet every conceivable financial desire, the fact that large commodity producers (agribusiness, mining, petroleum) would engage in off-exchange forward physical commodity swaps, which are inherently less cost efficient than their fiat counterparts, should be a warning to smaller market participants as to how rigged and expensive the paper commodity game actually is even at the top.

Large market participants have an inherent advantage over smaller players in any financial market exchange. When the Comex is finally banished to the eighth circle of hell, new exchange(s) willemerge to replace it. Hopefully they will achieve more honest price discovery and will better represent the interests of producers and small market participants and less represent the interests of politicians and bankers. A movement away from dollar hegemony will be painful to those who measure their wealth in nominal dollars, but it will strip some of the power politicians and central bankers to destroy the wealth of their nations through policies of monetary debasement.

The actions in the tiny silver market over the last week demonstrate the determination, power and collusion of politicians and bankers in preventing honest price discovery. They lay bare the lies of the BLS propaganda as to inflation and the diminishing purchasing power of the masses through unsupported fiat currency printed at the will of the central bankers. The actions in the miniscule precious metals markets struck at the fiat heart and reverberated through the much larger oil, food, and currency markets.

The immediate CME and bullion bank concern (within the confines of the silver futures market itself) is not directly related to either covering shorts or the paper price, especially since the short positions were opened with monopoly money to begin with.

The primary concern is controlling the flow of the underlying physical silver, and buying time to keep the Crimex scam alive. The longer the Crimex scam remains viable, the more money they make for themselves and the more wealth destruction by central bankers they can hide. By shaking the weak long positions out, they now control more of total open interest, and did so at a lower cost and higher profit than possible in an “fair” market, as there are less “outsiders” capable of removing whatever pot of physical silver remains in their vaults through the exercise of long contracts.

Since they now control more of the total supply of contracts, both long & short, they have the option, which they will exercise at their leisure, of either selling them back to the sheeple at a profit, or closing their shorts, depending on their current view of the greed vs. fear conundrum.

Another way of explaining the ongoing precious metals market manipulation is the analogy that the Crimex is nothing more than a crooked poker parlor. The CME packs some of the seats at each table with shills (the bullion banks) who didn’t actually have to pay for their chips, so there isn’t money in the cage to back all the chips (contracts) on the floor. Marks are drawn into casino and pay up (current margin requirement) and receive casino credit for the balance of chips desired at the cage before taking a seat at the table. The con succeeds (and the Crimex dealer, pit boss and the shills book profits) when the mark loses his chips at the table, not when the excess chips are picked up from the table and returned to the cage (so open interest doesn’t need to decline). As long as the number of marks walking back to the cage to cash out the chips is controlled then the con can continue. Sometimes the shills have to collude with house to prevent a run on bank, so a combination of margin hikes (revocation of casino credit) and volatility (big bluffs) is employed, and the clueless mark is often sent scurrying out of the casino with a much lighter wallet.

This is a con worthy of Joe Kennedy and his old business partners before he became head of the SEC and “outlawed” some of the very practices which he formerly excelled in. Nixon abandoned the dollar to gold convertibility in August 1971 by executive order. However, Congress still had to continually devalue the US dollar against gold since the gold price was fixed and Congress’s spending habits weren’t. The dollar was devalued by raising the gold price from $35 to $38 on May 8, 1972 by PL 92-268. The dollar was again devalued by raising the gold price from $38 to $42.22 on October 18, 1973 by PL 93-110. Since the fixed gold price problem was getting to be like the debt ceiling problem is today a decision to float the gold price was made. The Crimex gold contract was launched on December 31, 1974. Coincidentally on December 31, 1974 the prohibition of private ownership and trading of gold in the US was revoked by PL 93-373. Since the original purpose of the Crimex gold contract was to control the devaluation of the dollar-the US Government has been in bed with Crimex and its bullion bank shills since its very inception, just like the local police and politicians on the take who granted the license and continue to allow the crooked poker hall to remain open.

In the past several decades, politicians and bankers have created a worldwide FIAT CATHEDRAL to honor Satan (conveniently denominated in USD and primarily benefiting US politicians spending desires). The bargain was struck in the hope of receiving FINANCIAL STABILTY and INCREASED SPENDING POWER at no cost to politicians or bankers, but rather at the cost of the wealth and souls of the masses commanded and controlled by the very politicians and bankers striking the deal with the devil. The gold market forms the vault of the cathedral’s crossing, and the silver market forms the keystone of the central vault. The equity and debt markets form the transept, the broader commodity futures market forms the choir, and the remaining derivatives market forms the huge nave (primarily consisting of the interest and F/X derivative markets).

The central banks maintain gold reserves to back the bullion banks in their battle against anyone trying to bring down the gold market. The central banks do not maintain silver reserves and questions about depth of bullion bank reserves in the Comex, SLV, and LBMA vaults are leading to serious arch balding. The collapse of the keystone can bring down the crossing vault and the entire cathedral roof, but how else can the masses save their souls from devil who continues to extract his pounds of flesh through inflation masked as diminishing purchasing power.

How The CBOT, Comex And CFTC Coordinated To Break The Last Silver Price Surge | zero hedge

YouTube - Gold & Silver Game Changer - Central Bank Buying - Mike Maloney

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Apr 072011

Government’s / Central Banks are distrusting the US Dollar and they are buying silver.

FT.com / Commodities - Americans feather nests with silver Eagles

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Mar 312011

FT.com / Commodities – Americans feather nests with silver Eagles

Silver Set for All Time Record Quarterly Close - Precious Metals - Resource Investor

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Mar 312011

Silver Set for All Time Record Quarterly Close

via Silver Set for All Time Record Quarterly Close – Precious Metals – Resource Investor

Keiser Goes Ballistic on Banks - Buy Silver - Episode 133

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Mar 312011

Episode 133

The Silver Institute - Investment Options

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Mar 302011

The Silver Institute – Investment Options

Things New Investors In Silver and Gold Should Know!

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Mar 302011

Things New Investors In Silver and Gold Should Know! 0 comments
Mar 22, 2011 10:19 PM | about stocks: SLV, GLD, IAU, SIVR, SIL, GDX, GDXJ

We at thesilvershortage.com feel so strongly about silver that we invested 100% of our investable retirement assets in the ETFs Physical Silver shares trust (SIVR) when it was $29.10 in December 2010. We went up on our portfolio 5% in just a few days to end the year 2010 and were ecstatic. Then in January we went from up 5% to like down 8% YTD. Our relative performance was looking weak versus stocks. However we at thesilvershortage.com had done our research and our investment convictions we’re so strong that we didn’t panic. We then sold some of our physical ETF at a 5% loss but then bought silver mining stocks 15-20% off their recent highs. Since then as silver prices have continued to shock the long time investors in it and it just won’t pullback. Even when the S+P 500 pulled back a good 8% it only fell about 5% and now has regained almost all of that loss. Bottom line is now we at thesilvershortage.com are up 37% YTD in our silver model portfolio. We have executed a total of fifty-three trades with forty–five have been winners and 8 being losers. That is an incredible win/loss ratio of 84.91% and 15.09%. We admit that is the best streak of our investment career which spans over twenty years. Obviously we’re not going to be able to replicate those returns in the next few months but by the end of the year we predict will continue to have a powerful bull market in silver. We admit that the old saying rings true: Everybody’s a Genius in a Bull Market!

New precious metals investors should know that even while gold has risen about 25% and silver about 100% in just the last twelve months, skepticism about them as an investable asset class still abounds. Yes there are millions of new gold and silver investors in the respective exchange traded funds and yes the media has begun to cover silver much more than in recent years, the amount of investable assets in precious metals is about 2% of the worlds institutional investors and the entire mining industry is only about 1.8% of world stock market capitalizations. It is nice to know this because we might see a short-term peak in silver soon with a pullback. That would be healthy and just gives it more future potential. The thing we at thesilvershortage.com fear right now the most is that it might become too hot of a sector like it became and ended about one week ago. We don’t want a rush into silver by the public and a higher parabolic move higher now. That would destabilize the nice uptrend and threaten the strength of silvers investment fundamentals longer-term. Remember at thesilvershortage.com we believe the key to rising silver prices is new marginal investment demand. That will continue to rise as silver performs well but a large fall in the price could harm its long-term uptrend we’re in now.

We want the public and institutional investors to flood in and buy so much a big parabolic move comes a couple of years from now when silver is like $60. Then it might soar to $100 or $120 in a final blow off crescendo of buying. So far things are setting up right with media and general investor skepticism. The small investor who has been and continues to accumulate silver under $40 will be rewarded long-term. That’s right at $40 we might change our tune and not acquire more silver. That is because if our forecasts and estimates are wrong the price might top out around $50. If you don’t buy any higher than $40, that would still be a nice 25% return. Even that beats any opportunities in stocks, bonds or real estate right now. The great thing about that is you’re also protected against currency debasement and higher inflation and at the same time outperforming almost any other investments that is a no brainer in our book.

The 3.7% correction in silver last week came and went pretty soon with silver strong again here on mid-day Monday, up 2.52% and then up again on Tuesday. This Thursday is the beginning of the expiration of silver futures so we wouldn’t be shocked to see silver strong again and come close to reaching its recent high of approximately $36.66. Remember this was supposed to be the month when multiple players were going to demand physical delivery and try to squeeze the shorts again. We are dubious of this simply because there was a squeeze at last month’s expiration and prices have been nothing but strong ever since so we think the market has anticipated and discounted this event. Also the conspiracy theories in the silver sector are overhyped and some of them border on the ridiculous.

We recently read an article that was in a major financial newspaper that covered asset classes that would protect you in retirement from inflation. Believe it or not gold and silver were not even mentioned as an asset class. Every time you hear about gold it is dismissed as a bubble and a fundamental bias against precious metals. However after multi-years of outperformance of precious metals vs. stocks and bonds you have to ask yourself the question: why is the media, especially the financial media and the financial services industry so reluctant to advise a significant percentage of holdings in gold or silver? The answer is fairly simple. They are ignorant about the subject and secondly they have no financial interest in advocating them. The media is from the age when financial assets were in a bull market and precious metals floundered and were for fringe conspiracy types. It also takes some effort to sort thru a lot of myths, hyperbole and incorrect facts in the precious metals world to research it. In fact until I was desperate for an alternative to stocks, I didn’t have much of an interest, had a built in bias against it and researching it was about 500% more work than I originally imagined. Secondly if you’re buying gold or silver long-term, those are investable assets a broker can’t trade and generate commissions or management fees from.

We understand why financial media and investors have been slow to come around to precious metals. It is very simple if you’re 45 years old or younger, you have been trained since you can remember that paper financial assets are real investments and precious metals aren’t. If you’re in that age group like we are, we we’re about 10 years old in 1979-1980 when gold and silver went parabolic and there was a public mania. After that gold and silver prices did nothing but fall for twenty years and the only investors in it we’re gold bugs who gold and silver seemed to be their investment ideology instead of a valid strategy. We here at thesilvershortage.com suffered from this same malady until last fall when the evidence was finally so overwhelming, we finally stepped out of our comfort zone in stocks and became heavily involved with silver. However you know what in 2000, stocks soured and commodities began their up cycle again by 2002. By 2005 Gold and Silver entered strong bull markets and in 2010 silver finally exploded. Since these cycles run 15-20 years before stocks and real estate are cheap again and precious metals are overvalued, there are years left in the precious metals bull market. That also means there are years left for stocks to underperform and disappoint investors

The various arguments against precious metals make little sense to us. The biggest argument against precious metals about storage, cost and convenience were eliminated with the advent of the Gold and Silver Exchange traded funds. In fact this is what changed the precious metals market fundamentally. Now for the first time I can take a position in gold or silver by purchasing in a regular brokerage account with very small flat rate commissions. This is similar to when stocks became more accepted by millions of new investors in the 20’s, when mutual funds flourished in the 60’s and the baby boomers became stock investors in the 1990’s. The main influence on an asset classes prices are number of investors increasing or decreasing and the net amount of dollars entering or leaving the asset class. That is the true bottom line and can only be temporarily out of whack. For instance after the crash of 2008, money in stocks continued to flow out even as prices recovered until just the last few months. However once again the long-term trend with stocks is negative from a demographic point of view. Because the baby boomers are beginning to retire and need income, are still shell shocked by two bear markets and a crash in just ten years in stocks and a crash in real estate prices, they are reluctant to go back to stocks and are net sellers.

Number one is that gold or silver doesn’t produce any earnings or dividends like stocks do. So to own it you only have one purpose, to sell it higher to the next greater fool. As if that wasn’t the reality of what you do when you own a stock or a bond. First of all there are thousands of stocks that don’t pay any dividends and have earnings that are never shared with stockholders with dividends or effective stock buybacks. It is true that when you own stock you have a theoretical claim on future earnings of a company but you’re also the first to lose your investment if business deteriorates significantly.

Precious metals can decline in value substantially, however they never go to zero like hundreds of thousands of stocks and bonds have over the last 500 hundred years. They also usually retain their purchasing power over the very long-term which is what most investments do but precious metals do it better. Precious metals have one feature that no other asset class on earth contains protection from wreck less excessive printing of a nation’s currency and deficit spending. There is no other and never will be another asset class that can do that. Some fools think that TIPs or treasury inflation protection securities will protect purchasing power but to believe that you have to believe the Consumer Price Index accurately reflects real inflation and the government’s solvency and credit will never be in question. I wouldn’t want to bet on those fallacies.

If you’re new to precious metals I suggest you do some research and find a place for them in your portfolio. We at thesilvershortage.com prefer silver over gold because we think it is so much more undervalued relative to gold and has that much more percentage upside. We like silver mining stocks more than gold mining stocks which have struggled this year while the average silver miner is up about 50%. We think you should dismiss the conventional wisdom that 5-10% of your portfolio should be in precious metals. We think 25-50% is more accurate for an average investor and ourselves have been at times 100% and it has paid off big time. We would caution however that right now is not a time where you want to go in big like we have been advising for months. Our first quarter wound up being better than we could have hoped for and while silver and silver miners offer money to be made over the longer-term, the next one to two months may be difficult and being more patient for good entry points will be required.

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Mark Thomas is the Chief Investment Strategist and author of Silver-Short-Squeeze.com newsletter. Prior to founding the report he has worked in the securities field since 1996 to 2003. He has been a successful individual investor, trader, newsletter author and has been actively involved in the Financial and Securities markets since 1990. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance with emphasis in investments from California State University Long Beach. He currently is studying for a BS in Accounting.

Disclosure: I am long SIVR, AG.