Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Is China Behind the Big Silver Short?
From Seeking Alpha.com:As reported by Bloomberg on October 19, 2010, Chinese silver exports declined 60% in the first eight months of this year. There could be several reasons for this: increased investment demand by the Chinese public, hoarding for industrial use by Chinese businesses, and accumulation by the Chinese Central Bank. China is now the world’s third largest silver miner after Mexico and Peru, and the world’s largest refiner of silver. There have been rumors that Chinese silver exports may be reduced to zero in 2011. Although they are now the world’s biggest gold producer, China exports no gold, and increased their gold imports by nearly 500% in the first ten months of 2010, according to Bloomberg.
Silver is a crucial material input for many high tech goods produced in China, and the Chinese government economists are surely wise enough to see that it will continue to get scarcer and more expensive in the coming years. They will be needing a ready supply of silver to dominate the world market in flat panel TV's, cell phones, computers, hybrid car batteries, solar collectors, and many more products too numerous to mention......read in full
Monday, December 27, 2010
Remember when things were built to last?
From Rense.com:
- Mr. Allen Swift ( Springfield , MA.) received this 1928 Rolls-Royce Picadilly P1 Roadster from his father, brand new - as a graduation gift in 1928. He drove it up until his death last year...at the age of 102 !! He was the oldest living owner of a car from new. Just thought you'd like to see it. He donated it to a Springfield museum after his death. It has 170,000 miles on it, still runs like a Swiss watch, dead silent at any speed and is in perfect cosmetic condition. (82 years) That's approximately 2000 miles per year...
History lesson on Currency Debasement
Nero the Roman Emperor feared being lynched if the people caught him debasing their money and went to great lengths to hide his crimes. Yet Ben Bernanke proudly boasts that he is debasing the people's money on 60 minutes and is still able to walk the streets.
It must be our greater level of education and intelligence compared to those simple Romans that has allowed us to overcome such silly notions of money being a store of value. Even America's founding fathers as recently as 1792 also held this primitive notion that any one debasing the people's money should be put to death.
Isn't wonderful we have managed to over come such primitive thoughts and the no doubt turmoil that a stable store of value must have reeked on the ancients.
It must be our greater level of education and intelligence compared to those simple Romans that has allowed us to overcome such silly notions of money being a store of value. Even America's founding fathers as recently as 1792 also held this primitive notion that any one debasing the people's money should be put to death.
Isn't wonderful we have managed to over come such primitive thoughts and the no doubt turmoil that a stable store of value must have reeked on the ancients.
Gold Silver, platinum & palladium fall after China rate rise
Dec 26 (Reuters) - Spot gold prices dropped by almost 1 percent on Monday after China raised interest rates on Christmas Day, the latest in a series of measures to cool inflation which is running at its highest in over two years. Gold dipped to $1,373.20 an ounce early on Monday, from Friday's notional close of $1,384.25. By 2324 GMT, gold stood at $1,375.10. China's central bank raised interest rates on Saturday for the second time in just over two months as it stepped up its battle to rein in stubbornly high inflation.
Dec 27 (Reuters) - Spot silver fell 1.2 percent to $28.86 an ounce, and spot platinum also fell 1.2 percent to $1,701.49 an ounce by 2341 GMT, after China raised interest rates on Christmas Day.
Spot palladium declined nearly one percent to $746 an ounce.
THE FED’S FINAL DAYS
By Darryl Robert Schoon:THE TEMPLE OF PAPER MONEY IS UNDER SEIGE
In 2008, America suffered a massive economic heart attack. Its doctors, thought to be the world’s best, believed the US to be in good health, having recovered from a similar though smaller crisis in 2000.
But America hadn’t recovered. In fact, the Fed’s palliative for the 2000 crisis, i.e. lower interest rates, soon created an even larger crisis, i.e. the 2002-2006 US housing bubble whose collapse caused global credit markets to contract and investment banks to fall,necessitating government intervention on such a massive scale it led to today’s sovereign debt crisis as private losses were absorbed onto public balance sheets; and, now, in 2010, the crisis continues to fester and spread.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s solution for our current problems is but a more extreme version of the Fed’s near fatal prescription in 2001, i.e. lower interest rates, but this time combined with a new iteration of voodoo economics, a witch’s brew called QE II, a monetary gesture as futile and impotent as a Hail Mary pass thrown by an atheist as time runs out.........read on
But America hadn’t recovered. In fact, the Fed’s palliative for the 2000 crisis, i.e. lower interest rates, soon created an even larger crisis, i.e. the 2002-2006 US housing bubble whose collapse caused global credit markets to contract and investment banks to fall,necessitating government intervention on such a massive scale it led to today’s sovereign debt crisis as private losses were absorbed onto public balance sheets; and, now, in 2010, the crisis continues to fester and spread.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s solution for our current problems is but a more extreme version of the Fed’s near fatal prescription in 2001, i.e. lower interest rates, but this time combined with a new iteration of voodoo economics, a witch’s brew called QE II, a monetary gesture as futile and impotent as a Hail Mary pass thrown by an atheist as time runs out.........read on
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