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Collapse Survivor On The Reality Of Killing And Violence: “Killing Is A Nasty Job…”
Gold is Testing Key Technical Support – Is There More Downside Ahead?
Big Trouble Ahead For Copper Is Good For Silver
Philip Morris: Help From A Weaker Dollar
The Gold-to-Silver Ratio: A Truly Generational Opportunity
This is How World War III Starts—It Will be Financial
Gold Focus 2016
Alasdair Macleod: A Tale of Two Currencies
Neither Gold Nor Silver Are About to Launch
Andrés Sepúlveda Comes Clean From a Colombian Jail – This is How You Hack a Presidential Election
DOLLAR DEATH SENTENCE : Jim Willie
Silver Lows – Silver Ratios
Awesome Silver & USD Alarm Bell – Stewart Thomson
Two traders fined over gold spoofing
Podcast: The End Of Privacy = Risk Off And Soaring Gold
Watch Japan – For All Is Not Well In The Land Of The Rising Sun
GATA secretary covers gold and commodity market rigging on CNBC Asia

Collapse Survivor On The Reality Of Killing And Violence: “Killing Is A Nasty Job…”

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 01:00 PM PDT

This is how he survived one year in hell… From SHTFPlan: Editor's Note: One of the most well informed and insightful preparedness resources you can tap to understand what is really necessary in order to survive a worst case scenario such as a total collapse of the system or a civil war-torn region is Selco […]

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Gold is Testing Key Technical Support – Is There More Downside Ahead?

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 12:54 PM PDT

The gold price advanced sharply during the first three months of 2016 (+16%), marking its best quarter in 30 years. However, it corrected from a high around $1,287 to $1,200 over the past few weeks. There was a nice bounce yesterday, but gold has once gain dropped today, back below $1,220. With this latest pullback in […]

Big Trouble Ahead For Copper Is Good For Silver

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 12:30 PM PDT

It looks there may be trouble ahead for copper. This goes well beyond the falling copper price and annual surpluses. So, why is this good for silver? Submitted by SRSRocco: According to the article, China's True Demand For Copper Is Only Half as Much as You Think: For years, traders on the mainland have […]

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Philip Morris: Help From A Weaker Dollar

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 12:07 PM PDT

The Gold-to-Silver Ratio: A Truly Generational Opportunity

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 12:00 PM PDT

Are we staring at a once-in-a-generation opportunity here? Source: Michael Ballanger: This week’s Gong Show in the global financial markets reminds me of the early 1980s before the advent of the Internet or online trading or blogs and especially before 30-something financial “advisors” were allowed to go on the national (and international) airwaves or […]

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This is How World War III Starts—It Will be Financial

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 11:00 AM PDT

Are the US and China about to fall into Thucydides Trap, detonating WW III? Submitted by Sovereign Man: In his History of the Peloponnesian War, ancient Greek historian Thucydides told us the tale of a dominant regional power (Sparta) that felt threatened by the rise of a competing power (Athens). Sparta felt so threatened, in fact, […]

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Gold Focus 2016

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 10:17 AM PDT

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Alasdair Macleod: A Tale of Two Currencies

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 10:00 AM PDT

There is a widespread and growing feeling that financial markets are slipping towards another crisis. Now is the calm before the storm, a storm which in the absence of a good grasp of price theory, central banks are simply not equipped to weather. The only shelter for individuals is sound money, money that cannot be […]

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Neither Gold Nor Silver Are About to Launch

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 09:00 AM PDT

"Nothing ever changes on Wall Street. Speculation is as old as the hills. What has happened before in the markets will happen again." Jesse Livermore Submitted by ETP: Despite taking his life at the Sherry Netherland Hotel in 1940, at the age of 63, [he considered himself a failure], Livermore is revered by many as […]

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Andrés Sepúlveda Comes Clean From a Colombian Jail – This is How You Hack a Presidential Election

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 08:00 AM PDT

In July 2015, Sepúlveda sat in the small courtyard of the Bunker, poured himself a cup of coffee from a thermos, and took out a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. He says he wants to tell his story because the public doesn't grasp the power hackers exert over modern elections or the specialized skills needed to stop […]

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DOLLAR DEATH SENTENCE : Jim Willie

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 07:05 AM PDT

The Verdict Is In. The Sentence Has Been Issued. The Great Quickening Has Begun…

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Silver Lows – Silver Ratios

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 07:00 AM PDT

In my opinion, silver reached a bottom back in December 2015. The silver to gold ratio and the silver to S&P ratio support that conclusion. The RSI turned up in December. Anything can happen in "managed" markets, but 26 years of history indicate that silver bottomed in December. Submitted by Gary Christenson: Silver prices […]

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Awesome Silver & USD Alarm Bell – Stewart Thomson

Posted: 06 Apr 2016 05:06 AM PDT

The technical action in silver stocks is probably best described as, "awesome". Against the background of the dollar's inflationary alarm bell ringing, silver stocks are likely poised to launch what may be the biggest rally seen in any asset class of the past few years! Submitted by Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates: I've strongly stated that […]

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Two traders fined over gold spoofing

Posted: 05 Apr 2016 10:37 PM PDT

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Podcast: The End Of Privacy = Risk Off And Soaring Gold

Posted: 05 Apr 2016 08:08 PM PDT

Between the “Panama papers” and the DC Madam’s customer list, we might be witnessing the end of personal (and corporate and government) privacy. The result? Less financial and geopolitical risk-taking and more gold buying. But don’t get burned by failing precious metal dealers. Here’s how to make sure you get what you pay for.

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Watch Japan – For All Is Not Well In The Land Of The Rising Sun

Posted: 05 Apr 2016 03:08 PM PDT

One of the epicenters of the global financial crisis that started during the second half of last year is Japan, and it looks like the markets in the land of the rising sun are entering yet another period of great turmoil. The Nikkei was down another 390 points last night, and it is now down more than 1,300 points since a week ago. Why this is so important for U.S. investors is because the Nikkei is often an early warning indicator of where the rest of the global markets are heading. For example, the Nikkei started crashing early last December about a month before U.S. markets started crashing really hard in early January. So the fact that the Nikkei has been falling very rapidly in recent days should be a huge red flag for investors in this country.

I want you to study the chart below very carefully. It shows the performance of the Nikkei over the past 12 months. As you can see, it kind of resembles a giant leaning “W”. You can see the stock crash that started last August, you can see the second wave of the crash that began last December, and now a third leg of the crash is currently forming…

And of course the economic fundamentals in Japan continue to deteriorate as well. GDP growth has been negative for two out of the last three quarters, Japanese industrial production just experienced the largest one month decline that we have seen since the tsunami of 2011, and business sentiment has sunk to a three year low.

The third largest economy on the entire planet is in a comatose state at this point, and Japanese authorities have been throwing everything but the kitchen sink at it in an attempt to revive it. Government stimulus programs have pushed the debt to GDP ratio to 229 percent, and the quantitative easing that the Bank of Japan has been engaged in has made the Federal Reserve look timid by comparison.

But none of those extraordinary measures has been successful in stimulating the Japanese economy, so now the Bank of Japan has been been trying negative interest rates. Unfortunately, these negative rates are also having some unintended consequences. According to the Wall Street Journal, the negative interest rate program is putting additional stress on the Japanese financial sector…

The Bank of Japan started imposing a minus 0.1% rate on some deposits held by commercial banks in February, meaning that those banks now have to pay a small fee when they add to their money parked at the central bank. The financial sector has suffered amid worries that banks can't pass on negative interest rate to their depositors and therefore will take a hit to their profits.

I would keep a very close eye on the big banks in Japan. It is my conviction that there is a lot more brewing under the surface than we are being told about so far.

In addition, many analysts in Japan are complaining that all of this manipulation by the BOJ is essentially destroying normal market behavior. The following comes from Bloomberg…

Nobuyasu Atago, who also had worked at the BOJ and is now the chief economist at Okasan Securities Co., pointed out that instead of serving as a important source of cash for borrowers, the credit market has become a profit center for dealers looking to buy securities from investors and sell them to the central bank. While the strategy may be lucrative now, financial institutions face the risk of massive losses, he said.

"By making the trade with the BOJ the only source of profit, markets are exposed to unexpected volatility when that trade ends and the BOJ moves toward the exit," Atago said. "Markets are being destroyed."

The more global central banks try to “fix things”, the more they make our long-term imbalances even worse.

To me, it makes no sense to have a bunch of unelected, unaccountable central planners constantly monkeying with the financial system. In a true free market system, we would allow market forces to determine the course of events. But of course we don’t have a free market system anymore. Instead, what we have is a heavily socialized system that is greatly manipulated by the central planners.

That is why global financial markets gyrate wildly if Janet Yellen so much as sneezes. They know who holds all the power, and investors are constantly on edge as they wait for the latest pronouncement from our central banking overlords.

At this point, 99 percent of the global population lives in a country with a central bank. Our world is more deeply divided than ever, and yet somehow everyone in the world has agreed to adopt this insidious system.

It sure is quite a coincidence, isn’t it?

Getting back to Japan, things are so bad now that the Japanese government is actually considering giving gift certificates directly to low-income young people. The following originally comes from Bloomberg…

The Japanese government plans to include gift certificates for low-income young people in its fiscal 2016 supplementary budget, Sankei reports, without saying who provided the information.

Recipients would be able to use them for daily necessities.

The government sees gift certificates as more effective in stimulating consumption than cash handouts, which may be deposited.

This is what the end of democracy looks like.

When the government just starts handing out money like candy, you might as well turn out the lights because the party is over.

Since 2008, global central banks have cut interest rates 637 times and they have injected approximately 12.3 trillion dollars into the global financial system through various quantitative easing programs.

Has all of this monkeying around solved our problems?

Of course not.

Instead, our long-term problems have grown progressively worse and now a new financial crisis has begun.

Keep an eye on Japan, and also keep an eye on Europe. Huge problems are bubbling right under the surface, and when they come bursting into the open they will deeply affect the United States as well.

*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.*

GATA secretary covers gold and commodity market rigging on CNBC Asia

Posted: 03 Apr 2016 08:36 PM PDT

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