May 18, 2012

One day after significant drops in gold and silver, in this article from J.S. Kim, postulates that the banking cartel has been pushing gold and silver lower in the paper markets but that it is likely we are now much closer to a bottom than a top.   He discusses the methods used to manipulate the price lower and why the current downturn in Gold and Silver is not...

Mar 29, 2012

This week: - Triple bottom might be in for NZD gold - Jim Sinclair first out the gate again - More bull from “The Bernank” - More on planning for Bank Failures in NZ   Triple bottom might be in for NZD gold Last week we mentioned gold in NZ dollars might be looking to make a “triple bottom”.  Well with the passage of 7 days it could well be that...

Nov 29, 2011

Last week we were reading this Zero Hedge article with the rather long headline “Futures Plunge As Fed Discloses New Stress Test: Fears US Banks Will Need To Raise Tens Of Billions In New Capital”. It outlines how the US Federal Reserve is intending to stress test 6 large US banks against a “hypothetical” market shock (or should that have said a highly...

It’s been a while since we featured anything from Darryl Schoon.  We always enjoy his writings as we pick up a few bits of monetary history we’ve previously not heard.  In this article he runs through the history of paper money and its travel from East to West and now back again.  Why do we care about monetary history?  Simply, because if we...

Here is the 2nd part of a video interview with Bud Conrad – Chief Economist of Casey Research (Here’s the first part: The Economic Crisis, Part 1: Video interview with Bud Conrad). In this video Bud discusses: The purposeful obfuscation of the US Federal Reserve structure. Precious metals Energy and in particular natural gas   VN:F...