Euro and Yen Make Up 71.2% Of Dollar Index Which Is Why I Am Dollar Bullish

How many times do you hear someone who sells gold and silver be dollar bullish? Probably not very often. But when you look at what the Dollar Index represents, a basket of other currencies, it’s quite easy to be dollar bullish right now. This doesn’t mean that the dollar is any stronger as far as it’s purchasing power mind you. It just means that it will be stronger versus the...

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2012 Predictions For Gold, Silver, Stock Market, Economy and Elections

Recap of 2010 and 2011 While some well known trend forecasters like Gerald Celente were predicting a crash in 2010, I was taking the opposite side saying that “I don’t see it happening as quickly as Celente does.” In September of 2010 I cautioned traders in gold and silver mining stocks to think about taking profit. The HUI at that time was trading around 525 and today, 15 months...

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IMF Gold Sales and Credit Expansion Maneuvers Show How Desparate Situation in Europe Is – Central Banks Step In

Central Banks stepped in today to help raise liquidity for the struggling Eurozone. The Central Banks involved included the U.S. Federal Reserve (of course), the European Central Bank, and the central banks of Japan, Britain, Canada and Switzerland. Hey…where’s China? It might also be noted that G20 leaders promised this month to boost the global lender’s (IMF) warchest....

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Congress Gives IMF Your Tax Dollars to Bailout Greece

This was an article I wrote about Greece and how they exactly are being bailed out by the IMF/U.S. taxpayer. Back then, the debt in the U.S. was just over $12 trillion. Today, the debt in the U.S. is approaching $15 trillion. Greece is now in the process of writing down their debt by 50% by the beginning of 2012. And now because of this perception that Greece has somehow solved its problems (and...

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On and On – The Fed Keeps On Failing

Whether it’s Bernanke and Geithner, today or Greenspan and Snow of years  past, the Fed will always do what they do best, interfere in the markets. But how effective are they? Author’s Note: Seeking Alpha, a financial website, did not allow this article to be posted on their site. They claim they are not biased against gold, but their editors compared gold to “wine, stamps,...

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New Currency The Barackazillion – The Only Currency You’ll Ever Need

Introducing; the Barackazillion – The Only Currency You Will Ever Need – go to http://barackazillion.com/ and watch the video. “Money We Can Believe In” “As Good As Gold” For those who lean left, I would have done the same thing for Bush had I thought of it then – I am neither left nor right in my political views. I will do the same thing for the next...

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Increase In Bank Sub-investment Grade Derivatives Reveal A Need For Gold Insurance

The financial crisis started with banks getting burned in the derivatives market. Then TARP was manipulated to help banks get cash. Next came the Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB) allowing banks to mark to model (fantasy) their real estate assets (cheat). And now we have come full circle once again as banks own more sub-investment grade derivatives today than at the height of the 2008...

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4 Reasons There Will Be Future QE And A Higher Price For Gold and Silver

There has been talk of late that the Fed could put end to quantitative easing (QE) early. This article will address the probability of future QE and list four problem areas where the Fed may have to return to their hat and see just how many quantitative easing rabbit’s are left in it that can fool the investing public into thinking the recovery is real. But first some questions to...

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The Lender of Last Resort Isn’t the Fed or ECB, It’s YOU!

Banks always are bailed out by the government or the Fed and in Europe’s case, the equivalent of the Fed, the European Central Bank (ECB). The ECB is who is keeping Portugal’s banks afloat. But it’s also the IMF who likes to stick their greedy fingers into the pie, just as they have in many other countries, like Jamaica for example, where they create slaves of the...

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Failed European Bank Stress Tests Offer Even More Reasons To Own Physical Gold and Silver

One by one, country by country, the Eurozone’s PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) are succumbing to the excesses of the credit expansion era that saw out of control government spending and banks lending to businesses and consumers who now can’t pay the loans back. At the same time, the traditional way banks make profit has also disappeared as banks are not doing much...

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What Happened To Gerald Celente’s Crash Of 2010 Prediction?

Celente will eventually get his crash, but I don't think it will occur until people wake up to the problems our biggest banks are having.

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$4 Trillion Bank Sub-Investment Grade Derivatives Now More Than Financial Crisis Peak Part 2

Part 2 of this article analyzes the top 5 banks future problems with the over $4 trillion sub-investment grade derivatives maturing in the next 5 years, an amount that is greater than at the peak of the financial crisis.

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