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Short Gold With These ETFs

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 12:04 PM PDT

Gold Gains as Yellen Speaks

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 10:19 AM PDT

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Five Years That Changed Silver Forever – Ted Butler

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 10:00 AM PDT

I did not immediately see the monumental change that began to occur five years ago. This astonishing development that had begun in 2011 did not come clear to me until late 2013. I discovered that the largest U.S. bank, JPMorgan Chase, began to accumulate massive amounts of physical silver starting in 2011 and has continued […]

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Gold Set Up to Make New Multi-Month Lows in August?

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 09:25 AM PDT

We have been waiting for gold to have a technical breakdown and to retrace back up into a short-term overbought condition.  As of Tuesday, March 29 it looks as though we finally have the setup. The odds favor gold should roll over and make new multi-month Lows in August.   Submitted by Chris Vermeulen: Tonight as I was going over […]

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Harvey Organ: Yellen Gets China’s Message

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 09:01 AM PDT

On Thursday I told you that after China devalued their yuan on 4 consecutive days, the POBC was sending a strong message to the USA not to engage in any interest rate hikes.  Although three of the Fed governors were pounding the table that the USA needed to raise rates, it was obvious that if […]

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Creature From Jekyll Island Author On The Infamous Roots of US Political Parties

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 09:00 AM PDT

Renowned researcher and author of the seminal treatise on the US Federal Reserve, “The Creature from Jeckyl Island,” G. Edward Griffin returns to reveal the shocking and untold common roots of all of the world’s most powerful political parties of the 20th and 21st centuries. Griffin lays out in stark relief that Communism, Socialism, Fascism, […]

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The Silver Golden Cross Has Arrived! – Bo Polny

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 08:25 AM PDT

Silver has completed a historic GOLDEN CROSS! Now here is the kicker; Bo warns a silver golden cross means silver will explode, which in turn will cause a derivative meltdown, detonating like a "nuclear bomb" through world markets:  

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Contract Expiration and Open Interest

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 08:18 AM PDT

Once again, no follow-through today as gold is shoved back lower, regardless of the ECB, the FOMC and now Mother Fellen's own words. So we're left waiting and wondering what the market reaction will be once we get the latest issue of "the most important jobs report of all time".

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America’s Top Rogue Mercenary – Blackwater’s Erik Prince is Under Federal Investigation

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 08:00 AM PDT

Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor's operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater's top manager there issued a threat: "that he could kill" the government's chief investigator and "no one could or would do anything about it as we were in […]

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NY Fed to Bundesbank: NO GOLD FOR YOU!

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 07:01 AM PDT

It seems the NY Fed has run out of the Bundesbank’s gold…     FOR THE 3RD STRAIGHT MONTH, NO GOLD GOES TO GERMANY AS FRBNY INVENTORY REMAINS CONSTANT/GOLD AND SILVER HOLD AFTER ANOTHER ATTACK INITIATED LAST NIGHT/OPEN INTEREST IN GOLD AND SILVER REMAIN EXTREMELY ELEVATED/THE CHAIRMAN OF CHINA'S LARGEST STEEL COMPANY HANGS HIMSELF ONE […]

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Mexican Silver Mining Production Grew 3.5% in 2015

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 07:00 AM PDT

Mexican Silver mining production in grew 3.25 percent in 2015 vs. 2014:     Submitted by Smaulgld: Earlier this year we reported that the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated global silver production and Mexican silver mining production grew in 2015. The USGS projected that global silver mining production grew about 2% and that silver mining […]

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Is The Pullback In Gold Over, Part Deux

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 06:27 AM PDT

The bullion banks/Central Banks seem to be having a problem pushing gold lower here. Nearly every evening (U.S. time zone) they take a sledge hammer to the price by dumping payloads of paper gold electronic contracts in the Globex trading system.  But gold snaps-back typically after the London a.m. fix.  They also try to hammer […]

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Believe It or Not, Its Happening to Gold

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 06:09 AM PDT

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Gold: Yen Lightning & Love Trade Thunder – Stewart Thomson

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 03:00 AM PDT

There's a very large inverse head & shoulders bottom pattern forming in gold, and I expect the right shoulder low could occur around the April 19 time frame. Here's why:   Submitted by Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates:  Gold continues to track the sideways action of the US dollar against the Japanese yen, ahead of Friday's […]

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Depressing Survey Results Show How Extremely Stupid America Has Become

Posted: 29 Mar 2016 09:28 PM PDT

No Thinking - Public DomainTen years ago, a major Hollywood film entitled “Idiocracy” was released, and it was an excellent metaphor for what would happen to America over the course of the next decade.  In the movie, an “average American” wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that he suddenly finds himself in.  Sadly, I truly believe that if people of average intellect from the 1950s and 1960s were transported to 2016, they would likely be considered mental giants compared to the rest of us.  We have a country where criminals are being paid $1000 a month not to shoot people, and the highest paid public employee in more than half the states is a football coach.  Hardly anyone takes time to read a book anymore, and yet the average American spends 302 minutes a day watching television.  75 percent of our young adults cannot find Israel on a map of the Middle East, but they sure know how to find smut on the Internet.  It may be hard to believe, but there are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet today, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.

What in the world has happened to us?  How is it possible that we have become so stupid?  According to a brand new report that was recently released, almost 10 percent of our college graduates believe that Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court…

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know.

Nearly 10 percent of the college graduates surveyed thought Judith Sheindlin, TV’s “Judge Judy,” is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Less than 20 percent of the college graduates knew the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. More than a quarter of the college graduates did not know Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during World War II; one-third did not know he was the president who spearheaded the New Deal.

It can be tempting to laugh at numbers like these until you realize that survey after survey has come up with similar results.

Just consider what Newsweek found a few years ago…

When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America's official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn't name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn't correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn't even circle Independence Day on a calendar.

Even worse were the extremely depressing results of a study conducted a few years ago by Common Core…

*Only 43 percent of all U.S. high school students knew that the Civil War was fought some time between 1850 and 1900.

*More than a quarter of all U.S. high school students thought that Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean after the year 1750.

*Approximately a third of all U.S. high school students did not know that the Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

*Only 60 percent of all U.S. students knew that World War I was fought some time between 1900 and 1950.

Of course survey results can be skewed, and much hinges on how the questions are asked.

However, even studies that are scientifically conducted confirm how stupid America has become.  In fact, a report from the Educational Testing Service found that Americans are falling way behind much of the rest of the industrialized world.  The following comes from CBS News

Americans born after 1980 are lagging their peers in countries ranging from Australia to Estonia, according to a new report from researchers at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). The study looked at scores for literacy and numeracy from a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, which tested the abilities of people in 22 countries.

The results are sobering, with dire implications for America. It hints that students may be falling behind not only in their early educational years but at the college level. Even though more Americans between the ages of 20 to 34 are achieving higher levels of education, they’re still falling behind their cohorts in other countries. In Japan, Finland and the Netherlands, young adults with only a high school degree scored on par with American Millennials holding four-year college degrees, the report said.

Out of 22 countries that were part of the study, the Educational Testing Service found that Americans were dead last in tech proficiency, dead last in numeracy and only two countries performed worse than us when it came to literacy proficiency

Half of American Millennials score below the minimum standard of literacy proficiency. Only two countries scored worse by that measure: Italy (60 percent) and Spain (59 percent). The results were even worse for numeracy, with almost two-thirds of American Millennials failing to meet the minimum standard for understanding and working with numbers. That placed U.S. Millennials dead last for numeracy among the study's 22 developed countries.

So why has this happened?

Why have we become such an extremely stupid nation?

Well, at least a portion of the blame must be directed at our system of education.  The following is an excerpt from an article written by reporter Mark Morford.  In this article, he shared how one of his friends which had served for a very long time as a high school teacher in Oakland, California was considering moving out of the country when he retired due to the relentless “dumb-ification of the American brain”

It's gotten so bad that, as my friend nears retirement, he says he is very seriously considering moving out of the country so as to escape what he sees will be the surefire collapse of functioning American society in the next handful of years due to the absolutely irrefutable destruction, the shocking — and nearly hopeless — dumb-ification of the American brain. It is just that bad.

Now, you may think he's merely a curmudgeon, a tired old teacher who stopped caring long ago. Not true. Teaching is his life. He says he loves his students, loves education and learning and watching young minds awaken. Problem is, he is seeing much less of it.

And of course things don’t get much better when it comes to our college students.  In a previous article, I shared some statistics from USA Today about the rapidly declining state of college education in the United States…

-“After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change.”

-“Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago”

-“35% of students report spending five or fewer hours per week studying alone.”

-“50% said they never took a class in a typical semester where they wrote more than 20 pages”

-“32% never took a course in a typical semester where they read more than 40 pages per week.”

I spent eight years studying at some of the finest public universities in the country, and I can tell you from personal experience that even our most challenging college courses have been pathetically dumbed down.

And at our “less than finest” public universities, the level of education can be something of a bad joke.  In another previous article, I shared some examples of actual courses that have been taught at U.S. universities in recent years…

-"What If Harry Potter Is Real?"

-"Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame"

-"Philosophy And Star Trek"

-"Learning From YouTube"

-"How To Watch Television"

Could you imagine getting actual college credit for a course entitled “What If Harry Potter Is Real?”

This is why many of our college graduates can barely put two sentences together.  They aren’t being challenged, and the quality of the education most of them are receiving is incredibly poor.

But even though they aren’t being challenged, students are taking longer to get through college than ever.  Federal statistics reveal that only 36 percent of all full-time students receive a bachelor's degree within four years, and only 77 percent of all full-time students have earned a bachelor's degree by the end of six years.

Of course our system of education is not entirely to blame.  The truth is that young Americans spend far more time consuming media than they do hitting the books, and what passes for “entertainment” these days is rapidly turning their brains to mush.

According to a report put out by Nielsen, this is how much time the average American spends consuming media on various devices each day…

Watching live television: 4 hours, 32 minutes

Watching time-shifted television: 30 minutes

Listening to the radio: 2 hours, 44 minutes

Using a smartphone: 1 hour, 33 minutes

Using Internet on a computer: 1 hour, 6 minutes

When you add it all up, the average American spends more than 10 hours a day plugged into some form of media.

And if you allow anyone to pump “programming” into your mind for 10 hours a day, it is going to have a dramatic impact.

In the end, I truly believe that we all greatly underestimate the influence that the mainstream media has on all of us.  We willingly plug into “the Matrix” for endless hours, but then somehow we still expect “to think for ourselves”.

There are very few of us that can say that we have not been exposed to thousands upon thousands of hours of conditioning.  And all of that garbage can make it very, very difficult to think clearly.

It is not because of a lack of input that we have become so stupid as a society.  The big problem is what we are putting into our minds.

If we continue to put garbage in, we are going to continue to get garbage out, and that is the cold, hard reality of the matter.

Gold Royalty Companies Continue to Progress

Posted: 28 Mar 2016 01:00 AM PDT

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Fixing the Silver Fix : the Corruption Continues - Jeff Nielson

Posted: 27 Mar 2016 11:00 PM PDT

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