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Sunday, October 23, 2011

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International Forecaster October 2011 (#7) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 04:01 AM PDT

After three years banks are still working on a mortgage plan as 22.5% of existing mortgages remain underwater. Banks are sitting on $700 billion of home equity loans and seconds at original values, not market value. This refusal needless to say totally distorts their balance sheets.


Where in the world is the gold?

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT

CMRE President Elizabeth Currier chose the title of my remarks -- "Where in the World Is the Gold?" -- and I didn't argue with her, but if I knew where the gold was, they'd have to kill me. And if I knew and told you before they got to me, you'd all have a big problem too.


TSA Now Searching For Silver And Gold!

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 07:00 PM PDT

The TSA has been know to download the contents of flyers laptops and smartphones and to take cash. Now the search and question flyers who have at little as 8 coins. This is totally out side of the law, and amounts to a internal customs check point and is the real reason The TSA was set up. This is a federal power grab!


An Insightful Martin Armstrong Interview

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 05:02 PM PDT

The following interview gave some great insight to how Martin Armstrong thinks.

  • Martin Armstrong talks about how money policy must consider the global impact, only looking domestically like is currently done.
  • comments that the Euro without Eurobonds won't survive long term. Having individual country bonds allows investors to effectively play a virtual currency for those countries. He notes it would be like each US state being able to issue federal bonds, it just doesn't work long term.
  • US Dollar will move up as money run away from Europe and eventually the US will react like they did in 1931 where the government will talk up currency manipulation while they try to devalue the US Dollar.
  • Martin notes that confiscating the top 1%'s wealth wouldn't even significantly affect the US debt
  • Armstrong says we're beyond a balanced budget, its not possible now, the monetary system needs to be reformed, he notes 80% of increase in US debt between 1986-2006 was interest only, 40% of that interest is paid to foreigners
  • He expects a crisis to be required before US politicians will react.
  • the US would have been better to writedown 25% of everyone's mortgage.
  • he notes a real estate recession is the worst because if people perceive they are loosing money in their home they won't spend, which is what happened this time around.

Gold

  • gold should be considered a hedge against political instability
  • gold will eventually run up significantly, possibly beyond $5000/oz
  • va gold standard didn't help in the 30′s and wouldn't help now, in the 30′s gold was revalued from about $20 to $35/oz

  • advantage of gold is it's moveable, consider it a store of value only
  • see's 2015 as when the sovereign debt crisis will come to ahead.
  • doesn't see gold taking off for a while but will bounce around
  • see's a bull market in volatility for the next 2 years

See full interview here.


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In The News Today

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 04:55 PM PDT

 

Jim Sinclair's Commentary

Euroland has never looked less able to manage themselves than they do tonight.

The single currency is close to collapse With Europe on the brink of a disaster, the euro must be reconstituted as an entity based on economic reality, not ideological folly. By Telegraph View 7:49PM BST 21

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Might Silver?s Current Chart Similarity with 2008 Be Implying What?s About to Happen to Rest of Market?

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 04:19 PM PDT

A look at the chart for SLV from September 2007 to* August 2008 (11 months) and*from November 2010 to October 2011 (11 months) is remarkably similar – almost identical in fact. Therefore, if silver continues to trace out a similar path to what transpired in 2008, what are the possible implications for stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, and precious metals? Take a look at the following 19*charts for some possible outcomes. Words: 731 So says Chris Ciovacco ([url]www.ciovaccocapital.com[/url])**in an article* which Lorimer Wilson, editor of www.munKNEE.com (Your Key to Making Money!), has further edited ([ ]), abridged (…) and reformatted below*for the sake of clarity and brevity to ensure a fast and easy read. The author's views and conclusions are unaltered and no personal comments have been included to maintain the integrity of the original article. Please note that this paragraph must be included in any article re-posting to avoid copyright infringement. Ciovacco...


Michael Pento - Destructive Fed Policies Put Floor in Gold Price

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 04:01 PM PDT

With continued volatility in the gold market, today Michael Pento, of Pento Portfolio Strategies, writes for KWN and explains why it will be tough for the gold bears going forward. Pento begins with his take on the Misery Index and what the Fed is up to: "Even though the Misery Index in the U.S. has now hit a 28-year high, the Fed is mulling over new ideas on how to create yet more inflation. The Misery Index—which is simply the sum of the unemployment plus the rate of consumer price inflation--rose to 13.0."


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US money supply

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 03:30 PM PDT

The following article is posted at GoldMoney, here    

US money supply growing fast

2011-OCT-22

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With all the troubles of Europe hogging the headlines, commentators are ignoring money supply in the US, which is growing strongly, with the broad measure of M2 growing by over 10% for the last 12 months. Furthermore, the annualised growth rate over the last six months has been above 15%. The story told by the True Money Supply, otherwise known as Austrian Money Supply, confirms this.
The reason for using TMS is simple. According to the Ludwig von Mises Institute, it represents the amount of money in the economy available for exchange. Furthermore, it is designed to clearly show any expansion that results solely from central bank injections of cash and commercial banks' credit creation, by excluding anything that has to be converted into cash first, such as credit and money market funds. It is therefore a pure measure of money in the economy available to be used for transactions, more pure than official MZM, M0 or any other central bank "M" measures.
In economic theory this is important, because money is simply a commodity that happens to be used exclusively as a medium of exchange. And as a commodity, its value ultimately depends on its supply and the demand for it. By using TMS we keep the relationship between actual money and prices pure from other arguable factors.
The growth in US dollar TMS over the long-term is shown in the chart below. From this chart it can be seen that following a pause in its long-term trend at the time of the 2007-08 financial crisis, TMS has been growing strongly ever since.
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The bulk of the growth has been in check deposits (customer current accounts) and savings deposits (instant access accounts) at the banks. Some commentators point out that this reflects cash not being spent and cash representing risk-averse hoarding. But this opinion ignores the fact that the cash is being used, because the banks have lent it to the government, and the government is distributing it into the economy.
So this cash does amount to extra supply of money, which will be gradually reflected in a fall in its purchasing power. Given that the acceleration in TMS dates back to 2009, we are already seeing this, with ShadowStats.com, which applies an unbiased statistical rigour to key statistics, estimating actual inflation to be running considerably higher than official estimates.
The other aspects (other than of money that is) of the pricing effects of supply-and-demand is the variability of demand for individual goods. And here, the picture – as always – is uneven. Welfare, defence and healthcare spending by government maintain demand for energy, food, defence and healthcare-related items. Banking and related financial services are also doing well, despite balance sheet problems, as they are closest to the source of the new money (in this case, the Federal Reserve). Much of the rest, as business surveys and unemployment statistics confirm, is patchy at best. So there are identifiable winners and losers in pricing, and the expansion of TMS is feeding through to those goods, demand for which is supported by government spending.
With this monetary background, it is likely that the big headache for 2012 will be persistent and rising price inflation for the US and other economies tied to the dollar. So we can expect stagflation to be in everyone's vocabulary in the New Year, which will inevitably lead to pressure for interest rates to rise sooner rather than later.
Tags: central banks, dollar, Fed, inflation, USA
23 October 2011
Alasdair Macleod
macleod@financeandeconomics.org
www.financeandeconomics.org


The Five Myths of Silver Investing

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 11:14 AM PDT

by Ryan Jordan, financialsense.com:

Oftentimes perception, and not reality, rules the day with the thousands or millions of speculators placing short term bets with assets like silver. These perceptions are particularly strong given that paper players in the silver market often control the price in the short term (6-8 months), since there is so much more paper silver than physical metal out there. As I write this, we are seeing the unwinding of quite a bit of speculative, paper activity at the COMEX, with open interest numbers (meaning the number of players in the casino) lowering to levels just above where they were in the fall of 2008 (when silver was below 10 dollars). The price of silver has fallen, but as far as I'm concerned, there is no fundamental reason for silver to be so cheap. Instead silver fundamentals are badly overshadowed by misconceptions (or outright lies) about silver. Here are five common myths about silver that I bet many speculators still believe are true:

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The Myth of Over-Regulation

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 10:45 AM PDT

by Jeff Nielson, Bullion Bulls Canada:

Perhaps the worst crime committed by the corporate Oligarchs who now dominate our lives was their successful efforts to rewrite much of "history", and then use the mythology they created to brainwash us.

The two most insidious and damaging of the myths they created were that unionization was bad for economies and that regulation was bad for economies. The facts are quite clear here, however. The 1960's marked the absolute zenith in the Western world for both unionization and regulation. Consequently, the 1960's also represented the all-time peak in our standard of living, and the all-time peak in the prosperity of our economies.

Since that time (and during the rise of the Oligarchs), they have pursued two goals with ruthless tenacity: union genocide and the abolition of all "regulation". Consequently, over the past 40 years we have seen our standard of living plummet across the Western world, while our ever more anemic economies drowned themselves in debt. This particular piece will focus on the irreparable economic damage which the Oligarchs have caused with their myth of "over-regulation" – and the era of deregulation they spawned.

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[OTE128] On the Edge with Ed Harrison

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 10:27 AM PDT

We interview Ed Harrison of Credit Writedowns about the Greek debt crisis and about the bond market. Don't be fooled by GLD or SLV. Only GoldMoney offers real bullion allocated in your name.


Heading Into The Holiday Season, The US Consumer Is Worse Off Than Last Year

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 10:25 AM PDT

As so often happens, one of the biggest surprises of the recent period of broad economic weakness, has been the American consumer, who always somehow manages to come through (or so the official econometric authorities make us believe) and cross a chasm of economic stagnation with shopping bags full of stuff. But while the "consumer" (or his department of truth proxy) has sourced the US economic dynamo in the past several months as Europe imploded, and thus served as a supporting brace for the latest incarnation of the US decoupling thesis (where not just Europe, but also the economies of Japan and China have been deteriorating rapidly), the reality is that unless European problems are promptly fixed (which they won't be) the last ditch global economic support pillar, the US consumer, is about to roll over, because as Bank of America explains, "heading into the holiday shopping season; most [consumer statistics] measures are no better than they were last year. In fact, many are worse." And in what may be news to JP Morgan, "With home prices continuing to decline, a wealth driven consumption binge looks unlikely." In other words, while for now the bottom had managed not to fall off the global economy as the tapped out US consumer spent their last dollar to avoid a worldwide re-depression, if European problems are not rapidly resolved, and by that we mean well before the Thanksgiving sales begin, not even "record" corporate profits (which incidentally are rolling over and are purely at the expense of consumption capacity), will do much to prevent the market from finally catching up to reality.

Bank of America explains further:

One of the surprises in the recent data has been the resilience of the US consumer. Auto sales continue to trend higher as Japan-related supply-chain disruptions fade. The back-to-school shopping season was strong, with a 5.5% year-over-year gain in chain-store sales in September. A strong back-to-school season implies a strong holiday season. Unfortunately, we do not believe the recent strength in consumption is sustainable and remain cautious on consumers as we head into the holiday season. We expect real consumption to run just 2.0% annualized in Q4, barely keeping up with the growth in the overall economy.

 

Households face very tight budgets. Since hitting a nearby peak of 5.3% in June, the savings rate has declined 0.8ppt to 4.5%, the lowest level since December 2009. Over this period, real income growth has been weak; indeed, real disposable income is lower today than it was heading into 2011. And, while consumer price inflation receded recently, there has been limited follow through to real incomes since wage growth has also declined. The bottom-line is that there is a limit to how much households will be able to draw down their savings to finance spending. Table 1 summarizes several consumer statistics heading into the holiday shopping season; most measures are no better than they were last year. In fact, many are worse.

 

Meanwhile, consumers are still recovering from the wealth shock of 2008-09. On the one hand, consumers have made progress in repairing their balance sheet. The debt-to-income ratio has dropped to mid-2000 levels. However, net worth has barely recovered from its lows. In fact, nearly all the improvement in wealth has been driven by price appreciation in the stock market. The value of real estate assets has actually declined since the recession has ended. A home is the principal asset on the balance sheet of the average consumer. With home prices continuing to decline, a wealth driven consumption binge looks unlikely.

 

Policy dysfunction in Washington is adding to the laundry-list of concerns. Last year's tax compromise included a one-year payroll tax cut and extension of jobless benefits for 2011. However, similar to last year's tax debate, the debate over the fate of these policies will likely undercut consumer sentiment and economic activity. The risk of higher taxes next year might be having a negative impact on consumption now. Together, the expiration of the payroll tax cut and the failure to extend jobless benefits will hit personal income by roughly $130bn next year.

And if there is one thing that is absolutely certain this year, in addition to death and taxes, is that if there is something that congress and the senate can disagree on, it is everything. Kiss any fiscal stimulus extensions goodbye into 2012.


Guest Post: Wealth Inequality In America, Understanding The Source

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:52 AM PDT

Submitted by Arkady of The Right Condition

Wealth Inequality In America, Understanding The Source

With the OWS movement leaving many Americans confused as to whether they should support or stay away, one thing is for certain, Americans are aware of a certain truth that is happening in our country.  We have a certain combination of events that is leaving many people struggling and asking very good questions.

The truth is this; We have structurally high unemployment, salaries are stagnant, debt burdens are rising, costs for education, health and energy are on the rise and we are increasingly overwhelmed with clear and present danger coming from every corner of the earth.

To make matters worse the ruling elite of this country and the very wealthy are continuing to benefit while the remainder of the population struggles.  This is the appeal of the OWS movement despite the fact that the members making up the movement are advocating entirely unappealing solutions in the form of wealth distribution, punishing success and other hard left ideologies.

Of course in a country where American Idol and the Jersey Shore are better known than who currently runs the Federal Reserve it is hardly a wonder that cries for Socialism just sound appealing.  To further exacerbate the overall ignorance of the populace our education system and emphasis on history and economics appear to be tilted in the direction that highlight correlation and anecdotal evidence rather that fundamentals.  I understand it does not behoove me to openly ostracize a large segment of the population, but until we address core understanding of our economy and core principles of what makes our society tick then the partisan rifts will continue.

So let us tackle this "explanation" of inequality which is now being circulated on the internet and shared on Facebook with proud posters feeling rather enlightened about their "discovery".  Unfortunately the explanations are nothing more than illusory and are further fueling the partisan divide and the protests against the "haves" of the society.  The explanations either blame capitalism or Congressional policy favoring the rich.

Consider for example:  Plutocracy Reborn by Business Insider which attempts to convince the readers that it is our policy that is causing another Great Depression in America. Without digging deeper than the surface they present for most people what appears to be a very convincing argument as to why the current Congressional taxation policy has created our wealth gap.  

Another example: It's the inequality, stupid by Mother Jones showing a combination of pretty charts, graphs and bubbles that all attempt to convince the reader that the policies of America are entirely responsible for all the inequality in this country.

Too bad both sources are wrong.  They are showing the effect, without any explanation.

It is easy to scratch the surface, notice a correlation and run with it.  So stick with me for a little bit and I will show you the simple truth.  Yes, we have inequality, but this inequality is neither driven by the free market nor by tax policy.

I have taken the plutocracy picture and placed two graphs under it:

What you are looking at:

Top - Average income and the uncanny relationships between inequality and economic calamity.
Bottom left - Monetary base from 1918 to 1930 (amount of money controlled by the Federal Reserve)
Bottom right - Interest rates from 1954 to 2010.

I have also added green and red lines that clearly demonstrate the relationship between the amount of money in the system and income inequality.

Unfortunately we only have interest rate data going back to 1954, so the monetary base will have to suffice for the earlier years and while this comparison is not exact - the idea is the same, price of money.

If you treat money as a commodity, which it should be, then like any commodity there is a price.  We can measure the price of money by either looking at its value as it relates to other money (Euro vs Dollar) or its purchasing power or the rate of interest.  Interest rates are always a measure of how valuable money is at any given time.  If money is scarce then the interest rate is higher, if money is widely available then interest is lower.  Right?  Good.

As you can plainly see our centrally planned authorities dictate the price of the most vital and precious aspect of our economy, our money.  When these authorities incorrectly price our money we develop massive distortions.

Why does this happen?

Because money is priced through the banking system.  That is, the quantity of money increases (when rates are low) through the banking system first and then into the general economy later.  Therefore banks benefit first and foremost as they are the recipients of newly created money, while the rest of us poor shmucks see this increase in money through price increases.  If you think about it, provided production capacity remains the same then the price of all goods invariable increase *if* the supply of money goes up.  Yes?

So what does that look like?

Observe the massive price increase that began to occur around the 1970s.  There were two things that happened in the past 40 years that contributed to this jump.

1)  1971:  End of Bretton Woods and the US Dollar disconnecting from any material store of value (gold).
2)  1982:  A thirty year prolonged effort of systematically lower and lower rates, thus making money/credit cheaper and more plentiful.  As you can see in the first chart, we have now reached the floor at 0% interest rates or in more simpler terms the price of money is the lowest it has been in history.

Are there other effects of cheap money other than price increases?

Yes, salaries tend to go up.

Unfortunately the rate of salary increases does not keep up with the rate of price increases.  You can tell in fact that at the moment of the writing real income is now lower than it was before the recession of 2008, yet price increases are at their highest!

Why does that matter?  Because of the following:

Source

Rise in prices affect the lower income families the most.   It is useful to look at the expenditure ratio of things like gas and food because these items are required for survival.

You need food and energy in order to produce and build capital.  Without capital there is no wealth.

Visually the picture is starting to coalesce.  The lower income families are having a harder and harder time building capital because they are spending at least half of their entire income on survival!   The bad news does not stop there unfortunately because the price of money causes yet another distortion.  It forces people to move potential capital into acquiring tangible goods instead of actually saving the money for more prudent purchases or investments.

This is the sad state of our society over the past 30 years:

As money becomes cheaper and more plentiful the rate of savings declined with it.  This was happening DESPITE the fact that prices for all items were going up.  Essentially this means that Americans were spending more and more, but getting less and less for it while diminishing their capital formation (wealth).  
You could argue for instance that purchasing items can be translated into wealth, but that is only true to a limited extent.  Most items that you buy depreciate and this is is precisely why gold was always used a store of value, it never depreciated.   Housing was another popular item for storing wealth, but houses also depreciate and the past few years demonstrated just how sharply prices can decline in what appears to be a traditional "store of value".
So what is the conclusion here?
In order for more and more Americans to participate in the American dream, there needs to be an accumulation of wealth.  Wealth is accumulated through capital formation or more simply put, saving money. Saving money is effective only when the savers are guaranteed that the money saved provides the same purchasing power before the saving, as it does after the saving.  In a climate where the amount of money is constantly expanded the saver gets no such guarantee.  Incidentally, people chasing stocks, houses and other risky mechanisms for capital formation are doing so precisely to mitigate the hardship of saving in the western world.
In order for money to be saved there must be excess income generated after the staples have been purchased.  As we saw up above, due to massive price increases due to money expansion the amount of disposable income is constantly getting reduced.   The days where a man could provide for his family and send kids through college are long gone,  price increase cause this and nothing else.
The last consequence of cheap monetary policy, credit.  Because money is cheap, debt is spurred.  Therefore people can much more easily accumulate debt because the interest paid on this debt is "negligible".  So not only are Americans not saving, but they are spending more and more on goods that they technically should be buying.  Whether that is electronics, cars or houses matters not.  As you can see, the appetite for consumption has steadily increased: 
Credit expansion causing housing bubbles is nothing new,  consider for example the Florida housing bubble of the 1920s.
Unfortunately when large portions of income are spent on survival items, savings are destroyed and debt obligations rise - you are left with nothing, hell, nothing would be preferable to the mountains of debt that people have accumulated. 
This is the source of our income inequality, this is what happens when the free market and capitalism are replaced with central planners and cronyism.  This is our America. 
Now what will you do to change it?


Weekly metals review and Davies, Embry interviews at King World News

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:21 AM PDT

5:21p ET Saturday, October 22, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

"Consolidation" is the word from both Bill Haynes of CMI Gold and Silver and futures market analyst Dan Norcini in their weekly review of the precious metals markets at King World News:

http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2011/10/22_...

Meanwhile, full audio of the recent King World News interview with Hinde Capital CEO Ben Davies can be heard here:

http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2011/10/22_...

And full audio of the recent King World News interview with Sprott Asset Management's John Embry can be heard here:

http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2011/10/22_...

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.



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Golden Phoenix Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire and Reopen Santa Rosa Gold Mine in Panama

Company Press Release
Monday, September 19, 2011

SPARKS, Nevada -- Golden Phoenix Minerals Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GPXM) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 60 percent interest, with an option to buy an additional 20 percent interest, in the Santa Rosa gold mine in Panama, now owned by Silver Global S.A., a Panamanian corporation.

Santa Rosa produced more than 100,000 ounces of gold from 1996 to 1998 before being closed in part to low gold prices, which are now more than five times higher.

Golden Phoenix intends to acquire its initial 60 percent interest in Santa Rosa by acquiring 60 percent of the share capital of a recently created company under the name Golden Phoenix Panama S.A., formed to hold and operate the mine.

Tom Klein, CEO of Golden Phoenix says: "The agreement establishes a solid framework from which we can advance Mina Santa Rosa to production-ready status."

For Golden Phoenix's complete statement, please visit:

http://goldenphoenix.us/press-release/golden-phoenix-signs-definitive-ac...



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The Risks Involved in Investing Today

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:18 AM PDT

Money market funds are no longer guaranteed, yet it is clear that mutual fund companies and portfolio managers believe that the feds will step in once again and bail them out if another financial collapse is imminent. Read More...



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Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:13 AM PDT

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Jeff Christian now just makes it up as he goes along

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 06:46 AM PDT

2:46p ET Saturday, October 22, 2011

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Debating GATA Chairman Bill Murphy yesterday at the Silver Summit in Spokane, Washington, CPM Group executive Jeffrey Christian graduated from his usual distortions to outright contrivance.

The subject was one of the cables from the U.S. embassy in Beijing, China, to the State Department in Washington that were disclosed recently by the Wikileaks organization. Murphy characterized the cable as signifying the Chinese government's awareness of the Western central bank gold price suppression scheme.

Christian disputed that. He replied: "What the cable said was the Chinese government asked for information related to allegations that they'd heard in the market from GATA about that, and what would the U.S. government say in response to those allegations? It didn't say that the Chinese government believed it. ... That's typical of taking a piece of information and twisting it and dropping off a couple of important words and making it fit your theory as opposed to the reality."

In fact the cable, quoting commentary published in a Chinese government newspaper, Shijie Xinwenbao (World News Journal), on April 28, 2009, said nothing at all about allegations heard from GATA and made no inquiry of the U.S. government. Rather, the commentary quoted in the cable was exactly as Murphy characterized it: a flat-out assertion of gold price suppression. GATA didn't "twist" it or "drop off a couple of important words." Here is the text of the quotation in the cable:

"According to China's National Foreign Exchanges Administration, China's gold reserves have recently increased. Currently, the majority of its gold reserves have been located in the United States and European countries. The U.S. and Europe have always suppressed the rising price of gold. They intend to weaken gold's function as an international reserve currency. They don't want to see other countries turning to gold reserves instead of the U.S. dollar or euro. Therefore, suppressing the price of gold is very beneficial for the U.S. in maintaining the U.S. dollar's role as the international reserve currency. China's increased gold reserves will thus act as a model and lead other countries toward reserving more gold. Large gold reserves are also beneficial in promoting the internationalization of the renminbi."

The cable can be found here:

http://cables.mrkva.eu/cable.php?id=204405

And here:

http://www.gata.org/files/USEmbassyBeijingCable-04-28-2009.txt

The exchange about the cable during the debate at the Silver Summit begins at 15:40 in the video at Kitco here:

http://www.kitco.com/falltour2011/debate.html

During the debate Christian also sought to misrepresent Barrick Gold's motion to dismiss the federal anti-trust lawsuit brought against it by Blanchard Coin and Bullion, a motion in which Barrick sought to claim for itself the sovereign immunity of central banks against lawsuit. Indeed, for some time now Christian has been promoting a package of misrepresentations and distortions about some of the gold price suppression evidence collected by GATA, misrepresentations and distortions GATA answered in detail a year and a half ago here:

http://www.gata.org/node/8659

The guy isn't just misrepresenting and distorting now; he's making stuff up from scratch. But maybe we're lucky that this is the best the other side can do on the rare occasions when it comes out to answer for itself.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.



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Golden Phoenix Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire and Reopen Santa Rosa Gold Mine in Panama

Company Press Release
Monday, September 19, 2011

SPARKS, Nevada -- Golden Phoenix Minerals Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GPXM) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 60 percent interest, with an option to buy an additional 20 percent interest, in the Santa Rosa gold mine in Panama, now owned by Silver Global S.A., a Panamanian corporation.

Santa Rosa produced more than 100,000 ounces of gold from 1996 to 1998 before being closed in part to low gold prices, which are now more than five times higher.

Golden Phoenix intends to acquire its initial 60 percent interest in Santa Rosa by acquiring 60 percent of the share capital of a recently created company under the name Golden Phoenix Panama S.A., formed to hold and operate the mine.

Tom Klein, CEO of Golden Phoenix says: "The agreement establishes a solid framework from which we can advance Mina Santa Rosa to production-ready status."

For Golden Phoenix's complete statement, please visit:

http://goldenphoenix.us/press-release/golden-phoenix-signs-definitive-ac...



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from Inflation.us:

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