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http://goldsilver.com/news/gold-and-silver-manipulation-high-frequency-shearing/ In this video with RT Capital Account’s Lauren Lyster, Mike Maloney talks about a mission critical topic for gold and silver investors—manipulation. Governments and central banks around the world manage the action of markets to maintain an illusion of prosperity, but Mike calls gold and silver the “canaries in the coal mine.”
Mike talks about the economics of manipulation and how governments and investment banks collude to keep a lid on the price of gold and silver. When gold and silver rise, it is a sign that the governments and central banks of the world are beginning to lose their grip. By being able to sell contracts worth tons of silver in milliseconds, investment banks can control the price of gold and silver. The manipulation can be proven just by examining the price of gold. If you invested in gold during New York trading hours, you would have lost over 70% of your investment. If you were to be short gold during New York Trading and long during PM hours, you would have made massive gains. The manipulation is obvious; even governments agree that manipulation exists in the silver market, as Proven By GoldSilver.com’s Christian Garcia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll-9un7IIfw
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This video came from the heart, please pass it along if you see fit.
Thanks again to BrotherJohnF,
Here is the link to his original video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAy3tq0c9AU
(Reuters) - When the consumer price index is released later this week, it’s likely to look scary because of the run up in gasoline prices that hit at the end of February.
Economists polled by Reuters expect the CPI to be up 0.4 percent in February, double the January rate, mainly on oil price increases that were 11 percent in February. In both January and February, the index would have gone up half as much if food and energy prices were excluded.
Economists in and out of the Labor Department, which publishes the CPI, will try to say that “core inflation” doesn’t include those everyday expenses. But not much is more core to the consumer experience than eating, staying warm, and getting to work.
Now, some economists are taking issue with the way the Labor Department measures prices. That could have huge implications for family budgets, especially for budgets (like those reliant on Social Security benefits) that are dependent on CPI-pegged adjustments.
A group called the American Institute for Economic Research has started publishing a new index it calls the “everyday price index” that measures day-to-day costs of consumer life. In 2011, it says, day-to-day costs for most Americans rose about 8 percent for the year, while the official CPI logged a 3.1 percent increase for the year.
Lord James of Blackheath, House of Lords February 16 2012
Breaking news Lord James of Blackheath has spoken in the House of Lords holding evidence of three transactions of 5 Trillion each and a transaction of 750,000 metric tonnes of gold and has called for an investigation.
I think there are three possible conclusions that may come from it. I think there may have been a massive piece of money laundering committed by a major government which ought to know better and that it has effectively undermined the integrity of the British bank the Royal Bank of Scotland, in doing so. The second alternative is that a major American department has an agency that has gone rogue on it because it has been wound up and has created a structure out of which they are seeking to get at least 50 billion Euros as a payoff. And the third possibility is that this is an extraordinarily elaborate fraud which has not been carried out but which has been prepared in order to provide a threat to one government or more if they don’t pay them off. So there are three possibilities and this all needs a very urgent review.
My Lords, it starts in April and May of 2009, with the alleged transfer to the United Kingdom, to HSBC of a sum of 5 trillion dollars and seven days later, in comes another 5 trillion dollars to HSBC, and then 3 weeks later another 5 trillion. 5 trillion in each case. Sorry. A total of 15 trillion dollars is alleged to have been passed into the hands of HSBC for onward transit to the Royal Bank of Scotland and we need to look at where this came from and what the history of this money is. And I have been trying to sort out the sequence by which this money has been created and from where it has come from for a long time.
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Bill Still takes on all the Republican candidates in a debate on the economy.
Central Banks Take Joint Action to Ease Debt Crisis … The Federal Reserve moved Wednesday with other major central banks to buttress the financial system by increasing the availability of dollars outside the United States, reflecting growing concern about the fallout of the European debt crisis. The banks announced that they would slash by roughly half the cost of an existing program under which banks in foreign countries can borrow dollars from their own central banks, which in turn get those dollars from the Fed. The banks also said that loans will be available until February 2013, extending a previous endpoint of August 2012. “The purpose of these actions is to ease strains in financial markets and thereby mitigate the effects of such strains on the supply of credit to households and businesses and so help foster economic activity,” the banks said in a statement. – NY Times
Dominant Social Theme: Thank goodness the cavalry is here. Free-Market Analysis: This is, of course, the Anglosphere power elite’s fundamental dominant social theme. Our Money Power is good and we use it wisely and well on YOUR behalf. The “system” cannot be allowed to falter or fail. Not an inch of it. Of course, we ask, “Whose system is it, exactly?” It is not the system of about three billion people who live, around the world, on a dollar a day. It is not the system of homeless people in the West. It is not the system of a hungry child. It is not the system of a Latino day-worker. It is not the system of the beret-clad performance artist in Greenwich Village. It is not even the system of a US Marine fighting in Afghanistan. It a system that is of peculiar benefit to the elites. They own it. They run it. They utilize its awesome power as necessary. How can one doubt the existence of a power elite when one watches the sort of spectacle described above by the New York Times (see excerpt)? Here’s some more:
By Jim Rickards, Sr. Managing Dir. Tangent Capital
November 23 (King World News) - From Occupy Wall Street to the halls of Congress there is anger at bailouts orchestrated by the U.S. Federal Reserve. These bailouts have not been limited to banks but include brokers, money market funds and foreign corporations. The Fed has released details grudgingly and some disclosures were forced by the Dodd-Frank legislation. Gradually the bailouts have been revealed as if a veil were slowly being drawn to display a densely formed mosaic. The bailouts have enriched stockholders, bondholders and CEO’s while unemployment remains at depression levels and forty-six million Americans survive on food stamps.
Michael Maloney, CEO and Founder of goldsilver.com speaks at the Casey Research/Sprott Summit When Money Dies.
The sold-out When Money Dies summit was a huge success, with attendees and participants alike receiving much to think about. If you missed it, you can still “be there,” via a full set of audio recordings. These are available now, in CD or MP3 format for your convenience.
A discussion with Bob Chapman on a potential infiltration of the Occupy Wall Street movement by George Soros and other socialist groups.
Along with SGTbull07 I don’t agree with Chapman’s premise that this movement is another organised sheep herding technique by the powers that be. They are most definitely trying I’m sure, but weather they will succeed is another story.
OccupyWallStreet protester with a spot-on & passionate speech re Ending the Federal Reserve, Ending the Fractional Reserve Banking System, Ending the Monetary Fiasco that is the government-controlled FIAT money system & Ending the Wars that were engineered to make the richest 1% even richer. We also need to have an independent audit and inventory of all the gold reserves in the USA. We need to hold the Bankers and Elite responsible for their crimes against humanity… End the Fed, End the Wars & End the Corruption!!
Distribute Far and Wide… Props to the young man in the video & small story visuals (user/Small1124)… if you know this protester’s name and he would like credit, please message me. Otherwise He is You… He is Me… He is US… We are Fed Up (no pun intended) with TPTB…
edit - i found videographer’s (Philip Small) blog & post on his capturing of this amazing protester:
http://smallstoryvisuals.com/blog/?p=528
A nice bit of symbolic civil disobedience. After all, what is a dollar worth nowadays? I’ll tell you what it’s worth! FUCK ALL!!! A can of fucking Coke at best!
http://maxkeiser.com/2011/10/04/max-keisers-new-plan-tear-up-your-dollars/#respond
“When it comes to financial collapse documentaries, the public canon has one well-deserving Oscar Winner, “Inside Job”, and one straight to HBO exercise in ass kissing and name dropping which shall remain nameless. Ironically, just like during the Arab Spring, it is that “dubious” Al Jazeerathat shows US media how coverage of various matters, either geopolitical or financial, is done. Herein we present the first episode of Meltdown, in which we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal weakness; a ferocious Wall Street predator; and the power behind the throne. Considering we are about to experience the next Great Financial Crash, since nothing has changed at all since 2008, this should serve as a prominent reminder of all that happened, and a flashback to the future, of all that is certain to occur all over again.”
— [Intro paragraph from goldsilver.com (http://goldsilver.com/video/meltdown-part-1-the-men-who-crashed-the-world/) ]
From Al Jazeera:
In the first episode of Meltdown, we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal weakness; a ferocious Wall Street predator; and the power behind the throne.
The crash of September 2008 brought the largest bankruptcies in world history, pushing more than 30 million people into unemployment and bringing many countries to the edge of insolvency. Wall Street turned back the clock to 1929.
But how did it all go so wrong?
Lack of government regulation; easy lending in the US housing market meant anyone could qualify for a home loan with no government regulations in place.
Also, London was competing with New York as the banking capital of the world. Gordon Brown, the British finance minister at the time, introduced ‘light touch regulation’ - giving bankers a free hand in the marketplace.
All this, and with key players making the wrong financial decisions, saw the world’s biggest financial collapse.
From Al Jazeera:
In the second episode of Meltdown, we look at how the financial tsunami swept the world. We hear about a renegade executive who nearly destroyed the global financial system and the US treasury secretary who bailed out his friends.
Henry ‘Hank’ Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and later an economic advisor to the US government; refused to bail out global financial services firm - the Lehman Brothers. Paulson said it was not the role of government to save private businesses.
Lehman’s failure had repercussions around the world. Millions of people lost their life savings. Pension plans were decimated.
Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister at the time and a close friend of Paulson’s, publicly described Paulson’s decision on Lehman “horrendous”.
Markets from London and Paris to Shanghai fell. An epidemic of fear caused the world’s major banks to stop lending, ending the year in protests and industrial action.
From Al Jazeera:
The third episode of Meltdown looks at how the victims of the 2008 financial crash fight back. A protesting singer in Iceland brings down the government; in France a union leader oversees the kidnapping of his bosses; and thousands of families are made homeless in California.
Hordur Torfason, an Icelandic singer, leads the way in holding protests over the country’s economy, calling for the resignation of the government and new elections. Geir Haarde, the prime minister of Iceland, was surrounded and pelted by the protestors. Haarde soon resigned and the country’s government collapsed.
In France, workers fought back to claim their rights. The Continental Tire factory announced its plant would close by 2010, meaning job losses for its 1,120 employees. Workers occupied offices and trashed the place in protest. Protests spread right across France and Europe.
As the grim toll of the financial crisis continues to mount around the world, many governments are looking for the true causes of the meltdown. In many cases, what they are discovering amounts to a crime.