The World Bank suggests gold could act as a reference for currency values

12 November 2010
www.GoldForecaster.com

The head of the World Bank suggested gold be used as a reference for currency values, not as money itself. This is entirely different. What virtues could gold bring to the monetary table?

• Gold is internationally accepted and held by central banks.
• The days when central banks implied they were going to sell their holdings and assisted the gold price to fall have passed. Central Banks are either holders or buyers of gold now.
• Gold is not vulnerable to a printing press.
• When economic decay sets in gold is not affected.
• Gold is not vulnerable to individual government action except within the Jurisdiction of that country.
• With national interests overriding international interests, international gold will remain respected money when currencies fail.
• As such in the international arena, gold's value will reflect the value of currencies, whether governments like it or not. As such a currency can be devalued or revalued against gold when comparison to another currency is inadequate [such as the dollar being valued against the euro - with both suffering one form of monetary decay or another]........read in full
  

Crash JP Morgan Buy Silver – Growing Economic Guerrilla War to Crash Bank With Silver Bullets

By Andrew Zarowny:

Even while the Asia-Pacific Economic Council (APEC) adjourns in Yokohama, Japan, with no real agreements, a war is brewing. No, I’m not talking about the currency war between China the America. Nor even the trade war between our two countries. I’m not even talking about the big battle between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito! However, I am talking about an economic war between two super-powers, The People vs J.P. Morgan-Chase Bank. There’s a guerilla war growing on the Internet to crash J.P. Morgan, and the weapon of choice is silver.

Why do so many people want to crash J.P. Morgan-Chase Bank? Well, much of the angst stems from the office of JPM’s head of global commodities, Blythe Masters. She rose to power by pushing the creation of those nasty Credit Default Swaps. Remember them? Those CDS contracts that were used by banks like JPM and Goldman Sachs to make billions off of mortgage-back securities that were essentially worthless? They had a great deal to do with the economic Crash of 2008 and all of the misery that has since followed.......read on

Ireland Goes Bust

From the Market Oracle:

There was a bank run in Ireland on Wednesday. LCH Clearnet, a London based clearinghouse, surprised the markets by announcing it would increase margin requirements on Irish debt by 15 percent. That's all it took to send investors fleeing for the exits. Yields on Irish bonds spiked sharply as banks tried to close positions or raise the capital needed to meet the new requirements. The Irish 10-year bond soared to 8.9 percent by day's end, more than 6 percentage points higher than "risk free" German sovereign debt. The ECB will have to intervene. Ireland is on its way to default.....read on

Recent action in the Gold market

Thanks to Jesse for the chart

Jim Rickards interviewed on CNBC

Jim Rickards interviewed on CNBC about dollar devaluation, the G20's evasion of the sovereign debt crisis, and the need to use gold as the measure of currencies.........watch here

James Turk - Gold to $8,000

By Michael Mross, mmnews.de:

Gold is in a 2nd stage of a bull market. We will see a more rapid price appreciation than in the past years. Price target until 2015: 8000 Dollar. Price manipulation has come to an end. Gold as natural alternative to currencies. Chances of hyperinflation 100%. Gold prohibition possible.

For James Turk its quite clear, that the price of gold is manipulated. “By doing so it makes the Dollar look better because gold is the only natural competitor towards the Dollar. If you keep the gold price low it makes the Dollar look better then it really is”.

According to Turk, the capping of gold won’t last for ever.......read on