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Francis Koster: Deploying Our Investment Capital Locally Yields Better Returns for All

Adam Taggart — Sat, 11 May 2013 16:21:07 +0000

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We are conditioned to think that financial "investing" means sending your capital to Wall Street. There it will be put into paper securities (stocks, bonds, etc.), and hopefully when your next statement arrives, the dollar total is higher than you put in.

There's no connection between the investor and the investment. And in today's market, where safer investments offer nearly no return, investment capital is increasingly paying to chase risk it has little understanding of. And all the while, the middlemen -- with their 100% perfect trading quarters and record bonus payouts -- demonstrate that the system really exists to siphon off money from this 'dumb capital'.

Robert Mish: Front-Line Observations from a Seasoned Gold & Silver Bullion Dealer

Adam Taggart — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:48:55 +0000

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Spikes and plunges in the U.S. dollar price of gold; this is not new. It goes back to the early 1970s. We remember that for most of the past 40 years, physical gold and silver investors, particularly in the U.S., tended to chase big rallies and buy late, while too often selling after plunges or after long periods of price erosion. Gold was sold then primarily as an inflation hedge. When it was working, speculators bought much more. When it stopped working as an inflation hedge, they first became puzzled and frustrated, then fearful, and they sold out at bottoms.

So, fast-forward to this month, and today’s gold community starts to look a bit different as the breakdown below previous gold and silver price support levels began, and especially last week, with gold going below $1400. Physical buyers were outnumbering sellers in our store by at least 5 to 1.

The Spot Price of Precious Metals Is Becoming Irrelevant

Adam Taggart — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:38:07 +0000

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In light of the recent violent down-and-up action in the precious metals, we invited the executives behind the Hard Assets Alliance (HAA) on to discuss the impacts they're seeing recent developments have on the balance of buying and selling for gold and silver.

Bill Fleckenstein: Hold Tight To Your Gold

Adam Taggart — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:35:02 +0000

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The bond market is an accident waiting to happen.

When the bond market finally does crack, it is going to be one epic nightmare that is going to make 2008 and 2009 seem like a picnic. It will be a different kind of a crisis; but it will be an enormous crisis. These people that are bullish about stocks and bonds and the bond market, they do not understand anything.

Mike Maloney: Today's Low Gold & Silver Prices Are Not Realistic

Adam Taggart — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:49:01 +0000

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During this very tumultuous week for precious metals prices, Chris sat down with Mike Maloney, founder and owner of GoldSilver.com, one of the world's largest bullion dealers.

Mike is a true scholar of monetary history. His reasons for getting into the bullion business have their roots in a very predictable cycle that has happened time and again over the centuries (more accurately millennia):

David Stockman: We've Been Lied To, Robbed, And Misled

Adam Taggart — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:42:33 +0000

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David Stockman, former director of the OMB under President Reagan, former US Representative, and veteran financier is an insider's insider. Few people understand the ways in which both Washington DC and Wall Street work and intersect better than he does.

In his upcoming book, The Great Deformation, Stockman lays out how we have devolved from a free market economy into a managed one that operates for the benefit of a privileged few. And when trouble arises, these few are bailed out at the expense of the public good.

By manipulating the price of money through sustained and historically low interest rates, Greenspan and Bernanke created an era of asset mis-pricing that inevitably would need to correct. And when market forces attempted to do so in 2008, Paulsen et al hoodwinked the world into believing the repercussions would be so calamitous for all that the institutions responsible for the bad actions that instigated the problem needed to be rescued -- in full -- at all costs.

John Doody: The Falling Knife of Mining Stocks Has Hit the Floor

Adam Taggart — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:31:33 +0000

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Look across the universe of equities these days and it's hard to find a stock sector more thoroughly hated by investors than precious metals mining companies.

They are supposed to act as leveraged investments on the price of the precious metals. However, on average, the sector has underperformed the price action in gold in silver over the past several years. In fact, many miners have been absolute widowmakers.

On top of that, as the stock market has powered to new highs over recent months, many miners and mining indexes have sunk to multi-year lows.

What gives?

Bob Fitzwilson: Charting a Safe Course Through A Market Gone Insane

Adam Taggart — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:14:06 +0000

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The Dow Jones has had 10 consecutive days closing in the green, a streak not seen since the mid-1990s. Both the Dow and the S&P are at or near all-time record highs.

That's what happens when you flood the markets with liquidity, which the Federal Reserve has done with trillions of newly-printed money over the past several years. It's currently juicing the money supply to the tune of $85 billion per month. All those dollars have to go somewhere.

So, has the Fed won? Has the crisis been averted?

Jim Rogers: We're Wiping out the Savings Class Globally, to Terrible Consequence

Adam Taggart — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:19:14 +0000

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Jim Rogers decries the growing uncertainty and recklessness of global central planners as the world enters unchartered financial markets:

For the first time in recorded history, we have nearly every central bank printing money and trying to debase their currency. This has never happened before. How it’s going to work out, I don't know. It just depends on which one goes down the most and first, and they take turns. When one says a currency is going down, the question is against what? because they are all trying to debase themselves. It’s a peculiar time in world history.

Alasdair Macleod: Europe is in Worse Shape Than Everyone Thinks

Adam Taggart — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:18:12 +0000

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From his perch in the United Kingdom, Alasdair Macleod provides an update on the ongoing economic crisis in Europe, which -- while largely absent from headlines in the US of late -- continues to worsen.

Due to bloated state-run programs and extreme malinvestment, EU governments find themselves in a box. Economic growth has stalled, and no amount of intervention seems able to get it going again. So in order to keep their economies moving forward, they are becoming increasingly rapacious in extorting tax revenues from wherever they can find them.

Click the play button below to listen to Chris' interview with Eric Sprott (34m:40s): - See more at: http://www.peakprosperity.com/podcast/80989/eric-sprott#sthash.ok7RFfsH.dpuf