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Swiss Bank Whistleblower Claims Panama Papers Was a CIA Operation

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 12:00 PM PDT

“There's something seriously sinister here behind this…"   Submitted by Michael Krieger: Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he'd be cheering on the disclosures in the new Panama Papers leaks. But today, Birkenfeld is raising questions about the source of the information that is shaking political […]

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Gold Price-Triangle Breakout Targets are 1310 and 1340

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 11:55 AM PDT

Gold Weekly: Be Ready For The Breakout

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 11:36 AM PDT

Harvey Organ: Somebody BIG Is Standing For Silver!

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 11:32 AM PDT

 Somebody BIG is standing FOR SILVER DELIVERY…   HUGE 6.38 TONNES OF GOLD ADDED TO THE GLD/OPEN INTEREST ON SILVER CONTINUES TO RISE/IN DOHA NO AGREEMENT AND STRANGELY AFTER OIL PLUMMETS, IT REVERSES AND RISES AND IT ELIMINATES MOST OF ITS LOSSES/GOLD EAGLES SALES SKYROCKET ON THE SECRET FED MEETING/UNITED HEALTH ABANDONS TWO MORE STATES, MICHIGAN […]

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The Exodus Of People Moving Away From California Is Becoming An Avalanche

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 11:00 AM PDT

The mass exodus out of California appears to be accelerating…   Submitted by Michael Snyder: Over the past ten years, approximately five million people have moved away from the state of California, and as you will see in this article this mass exodus appears to be accelerating.  So exactly why is this happening?  Once upon a […]

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The Midas Touch Consulting Report

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 10:19 AM PDT

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Robert De Niro, Autism and “VAXXED” – a Tragic Drama of Intimidation

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 10:00 AM PDT

I have met numerous children in clinics and rehabilitation centers who have been maimed, crippled or mentally turned into vegetables from vaccinations. Their stories are hushed up by the medical industry, a trillion dollar cartel that links countless medical professionals, scientists, pharmaceutical makers, the CDC and the WHO. What none of the mainstream, politically correct, […]

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The Gold-Silver Opposites Report

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 09:00 AM PDT

Well that was interesting. Gold went down over thirty bucks and silver went up over thirty cents. How much longer can this silver rally continue in the face of gold's non-participation? Will speculators really be comfortable bidding silver up to $20 while gold sits at $1200? Do the fundamentals support a higher silver price?   […]

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China Gold Bullion Yuan Trading Opens…Gold & Silver Promptly Go Vertical!

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 08:05 AM PDT

Well, THAT didn’t take long…   Submitted by Mark Obyrne: China launched yuan denominated gold bullion trading today in a move that will further boost its power in the global gold and fx markets. Critics of the existing pricing mechanisms hope that it will lead to increased transparency and may end price manipulation. The Shanghai […]

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Yuan Denominated Gold Fix Begins, Gold & Silver Shorts in a Panic?

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 08:03 AM PDT

Y-Day is here! We’ve waited for years for the Chinese and their Shanghai Gold exchange to offer a competing Price “fix” to the existing structure out of London…and it all starts NOW! How will this impact the gold market?  At what price will the Shanghai Fix come in? If this morning’s massive short squeeze is […]

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Video of the Day – Frustrated Chinese Construction Workers Use Bulldozers as Battle Tanks

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 08:00 AM PDT

It's not an easy time to be a construction worker in China. In some cases, economic frustration bubbles over into the streets such as the other day, when workers from rival companies used their bulldozers as battle tanks.   Submitted by Michael Krieger: The AP reports: BEIJING (AP) — Police in northern China say an […]

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Chinese Yuan Gold Fix

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 07:47 AM PDT

Commodity prices are up across the board today on POSX weakness so we can't assume this entire rally is based upon the unveiling of the long-awaited, yuan-denominated Shanghai Fix. However, it certainly is an interesting coincidence of events.

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Gold Looks Ready To Spike Higher – Fund Manager

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 07:30 AM PDT

Gold looks ready to make a major move…   Submitted by Dave Kranzler: These are the most gold-friendly readings in almost 2 months. India is getting ready to participate in the world gold market again. India's gold imports drop 80.48% to $972.9 million in March documents what a heavy blow the Indian gold retailers strike […]

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Breaking News Links — April 19, 2016

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 07:19 AM PDT

Earnings season is a mess so far (we’re looking at you, IBM, Morgan Stanley and Goldman). US growth slows further, OPEC’s production freeze fails but oil prices stabilize. The Panama Papers claim new victims. Trump and Clinton should win New York. Oh, and Deutsche Bank admits that it manipulated the silver market and is poised to name […]

Sprott’s Thoughts On First Quarter in Review: Gold

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 07:00 AM PDT

With a quarter of 2016 already behind us, I'm pleased to report that there have been some signs of life in our beleaguered natural resource sector.  The rally so far has been historic:  Buy 2016 Gold Eagles Best Prices Online Submitted by Sprott’s Thoughts: gold spot prices are up 15% YTD and the HUI Gold Miner's […]

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April World Economic Outlook and Gold

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 06:19 AM PDT

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Precious Metals Investing podcast – On Google Play Music!

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 04:36 AM PDT

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Listen to your favorite precious metals experts like David Morgan the Silver Guru and author of The Morgan Report. Richard Maybury, author of the US and World Early Warning Report and the Uncle Eric Series of books. Michael Pento author of The Coming Bond Market Collapse: How to Survive the Demise of the U.S. Debt Market and the Pentoport podcast. A frequent guest at our site is Paul Mladjenovic author of Precious Metals Investing For Dummies, Stock Investing For Dummies and High Level For Dummies. Randy Smallwood, CEO of Silver Wheaton, the largest silver streaming company in the world. Charlie Nedoss of Lasalle Futures Group talks to us about futures.

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Silver Price Forecast 2016: A Powerful Signal for the Coming Silver Rally

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 03:54 AM PDT

The silver price and the US Dollar/South African Rand exchange rate (USD/ZAR) have a very interesting relationship that goes back a long way. Due to the nature of this relationship, I have found the USD/ZAR chart to be a good tool for determining a silver bottom. In Jan 1980, when silver peaked at about $50,…

Fort Knox Looted of 7,000 Tons of Gold in 1973-1974 says 1981 Article!

Posted: 18 Apr 2016 10:45 PM PDT

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Corporations Are Defaulting On Their Debts Like It’s 2008 All Over Again

Posted: 18 Apr 2016 07:26 PM PDT

Corporate Debt Defaults - Public DomainThe Dow closed above 18,000 on Monday for the first time since July.  Isn’t that great news?  I truly wish that it was.  If the Dow actually reflected economic reality, I could stop writing about “economic collapse” and start blogging about cats or football.  Unfortunately, the stock market and the economy are moving in two completely different directions right now.  Even as stock prices soar, big corporations are defaulting on their debts at a level that we have not seen since the last financial crisis.  In fact, this wave of debt defaults have become so dramatic that even USA Today is reporting on it…

Get ready to step over some landmines, investors. The number of companies defaulting on their debt is hitting levels not seen since the financial crisis, and it’s not just a problem for bondholders.

So far this year, 46 companies have defaulted on their debt, the highest level since 2009, according to S&P Ratings Services. Five companies defaulted this week, based on the latest data available from S&P Ratings Services. That includes New Jersey-based specialty chemical company Vertellus Specialties and Ohio-based iron ore producer Cliffs Natural. Of the world’s defaults this year, 37 are of companies based in the U.S.

Meanwhile, coal producer Peabody Energy (BTU) and surfwear seller Pacific Sunwear (PSUN) this week filed plans for bankruptcy protection. Shares of Peabody have dropped 97% over the past year to $2 a share and Pacific Sunwear stock is off 98% to 4 cents a share.

A lot of big companies in this country have fallen on hard times, and it looks like bankruptcy attorneys are going to be absolutely swamped with work for the foreseeable future.

So why are stock prices soaring right now?  After all, it doesn’t seem to make any sense whatsoever.

And it isn’t just a few bad apples that we are talking about.  All across the spectrum, corporate revenues and corporate earnings are down.  At this point, earnings for companies on the S&P 500 have plunged a total of 18.5 percent from their peak in late 2014, and it is being projected that corporate earnings overall will be down 8.5 percent for the first quarter of 2016 compared to one year ago.

As earnings decline, a lot of big companies are getting into trouble with debt, and we have already seen a very large number of corporate debt downgrades.  In recent interviews, I have been bringing up the fact that the average rating on U.S. corporate debt has now fallen to “BB”, which is already lower than it was at any point during the last financial crisis.

A lot of people don’t seem to believe me when I share that fact, but it is absolutely true.

One of the big reasons why corporate debt is being downgraded is because a lot of these big companies have been going into enormous amounts of debt in order to buy back their own stock.  The following comes from Wolf Richter…

Downgrades ascribed to "shareholder compensation," as Moody's calls share buybacks and dividends, have been soaring, according to John Lonski, Chief Economist at Moody's Capital Markets Research. The moving 12-month sum of Moody's credit rating downgrades of US companies, jumped from 32 in March 2015, to 48 in December 2015, and to 61 in March 2016, nearly doubling within a year.

The last time the number of downgrades attributed to financial engineering reached 61 was in early 2007. It would hit its peak of 79 in mid- 2007, a few months before the beginning of the Great Recession in Q4 2007. At the time, stocks were on the verge of commencing their epic crash.

When corporations go into the market and buy back their own stock, they are slowly cannibalizing themselves.  But we have seen these stock buybacks soar to record levels for a couple of reasons.  Number one, big investors want to see stock prices go up, and so big investors tend to really like these stock buybacks and will generally support corporate executives that wish to engage in doing this.  Number two, if you are a greedy corporate executive that is heavily compensated by stock options, you very much want to see the stock price go up as well.

So the name of the game is greed, and stock buybacks have been fueling much of the rise in U.S. stock prices that we have been seeing recently.

However, the truth is that nothing in the financial world lasts forever, and this irrational bubble will ultimately come to an end as well.

Earlier today, I am across an article that included a comment from Michael Hartnett of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.  He believes that there are a lot of parallels between what is happening today and the period of time that immediately preceded the bursting of the dotcom bubble…

Back then, as could be the case today, a bull market & a US-led economic recovery was rudely interrupted by a crisis in Emerging Markets. The crisis threatened to hurt Main Street via Wall Street (the Nasdaq fell 33% between Jul-Oct 1998, when [Long-Term Capital Management] went under). Policy makers panicked and monetary policy was eased (with hindsight unnecessarily). Fresh liquidity combined with apocalyptic investor sentiment very quickly morphed into a violent but narrow equity bull market/bubble in 1998/99, one which ultimately took valuations & interest rates sharply higher to levels that eventually caused a "pop".

Like Hartnett, I definitely believe that a major “pop” is on the way, although I would like for it to be delayed for as long as possible.

Someday we will look back on these times with utter amazement.  It has been absolutely incredible how the financial markets have been able to defy economic reality for so long.

But they can’t do it forever, and according to a brand new CNN survey Americans are becoming increasingly pessimistic about where the real economy is heading…

In a new CNNMoney/E*Trade survey of Americans who have at least $10,000 in an online trading account, over half (52%) gave the U.S. economy as a “C” grade. Another 15% rated the economy a “D” or “F.”

This gloom persists despite the fact that the stock market is on the upswing again. The Dow topped 18,000 Monday for the first time since July 2015.

If some Americans think that the U.S. economy deserves a “D” or an “F” grade right now, just wait until they see what is in our immediate future.

Personally, I give our economy an “A” for being able to maintain our unsustainable debt-fueled standard of living for as long as it has.  Somehow we have managed to consume far more than we produce for decades, and the largest debt bubble in the history of the planet just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Of course we are very much living on borrowed time at this point, but I truly hope that the bubble economy can keep going for at least a little while longer, because nobody should want to see what is coming afterwards.

*About the author: Michael Snyder is the founder and publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog. Michael's controversial new book about Bible prophecy entitled "The Rapture Verdict" is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.*

Gold Trading Model and COT Data Are in Conflict

Posted: 18 Apr 2016 01:00 AM PDT

Technical Analyst Jack Chan says his trading model is indicating that the gold sector is on a new major buy signal, but the COT data is bearish, so he is waiting for the COT to return to bull market...

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