All the Gold ever extracted is 160,000 tons (in 2009) , The American Debt = 14 Trillion Dollars = 1.8 All the Gold ever extracted in Human History !!! The monetary mass in the US is increasing by 15% a year ! Total gold divided by people in the world gives each of us 23 grams
CNBC is now reporting that Gold may top $6000 an ounce along with silver at $600/oz in the near future caused by the banks failures and the default that are on the horizon in Europe , investment capital will continue to flock into safe heaven assets like gold and silver if these banks continue to default
David Morgan : we broke out of a traditional triangle pattern , I get emails saying that technical analysis does not work , first of all technical analysis dopes work some of the time , it is a tool but it is helpful , and we broke through the bottom side of this symmetrical triangle which normally is bearish for gold and as I said few weeks ago there is gap at the 1670 level I am not rolling that out longer term , I still believe that we are still going to see a a bit of a tough sliding for gold
Donald Trump, chairman and president of The Trump Organization, explains why he will accept gold as a security deposit in lieu of U.S. dollars.
Donald Trump : sadly we all know what's happening to the dollar , the dollar is going down and it is not a pretty picture and it is not being sustained by proper policy and proper thinking , this was an opportunity to show people what's happening to the dollar so we can do something about it "
Owning gold ETFs has been popular for a while, but some firms are starting to bet that owning physical gold is going to be popular as well : "private gold vaulting has traditionally limited the ultra high net worth of our society. it is hard to buy physical gold, have it stored properly and insured so our company is using technology and making it available to everybody " says avneet Singh, Bullion Gold International founder/CEO. " it's more the idea of choice. we want to give investors the ability to buy the physical asset. and we think if we can make it as easy as buying a stock or bond they'll always choose the hard assets because it is a safer product."
"from a product perspective you can buy gold bars, gold coins and store them at different locations. we offer Zurich, London, New York, Utah. you can work through a financial adviser or call us. you want to buy physical gold as easily as a stock or bond"
Steve Forbes is championing a return to a gold standard in five years time. together with Peter Schiff and Ron Paul , If Ron Paul become President in 2013. He will use Gold Standard for US dollar to make it valuable again.Paper money like Dollar, Yen, Euro, and rest currency are worthless. They are not valuable. Gold, Silver, Diamond, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, and other GEMS are worth a lot. If you go back in time like in Middle Age and you bring a currency from your country. You want to buy food and you give them your currency. You know what they going do they are going laugh at you. They say paper are worth nothing. Paper money is not just a mere userfriendly substitute for gold, like it is portrait to be and taught in schools; this is a dirty lie. Paper money is a means for power institutions (states, banks,..) to steal your valuables or fruit of your labor by imposing a fantasy trade item of which the value they manipulate as they wish. They can do this because violence is inherent in this system and all of humanity is oppressed by these institutions. Yes the world has changed; now we all are slaves
Nick Barisheff, CEO at Bullion Management Group Inc says Gold is not in a bubble , Gold has been money for 3000 years and it is still today , the same people that say Gold is a bubble have been saying that gold was in a bubble when it was at 500 , at 800 at a 1000 , and now at 1800 , gold is money also if you has hundred dollars bills in a vault they do not produce dividends , that's because gold is money it does not produce dividend too , because money is not an investment , we are in a currency bubble not in a gold bubble ....
In China Gold jewelry demand accounts for 53 percent of China's total gold reserves. If the global price for the precious metal keeps rising, it's set to increase the risk of gold investment Investment demand for Bullion remains strong despite the instability of the prices and the high volatility the investment remains relatively low risk .....
"I think what we're seeing is continued strong interest in gold across the board,whether it is in the futures speculative positions have been rising pretty aggressively during last couple of weeks , whether it is in ETCs where we are seeing pretty strong inflows and also in the physical market " says Nicholas Brooks, Head of Research and Investment Strategy at ETF Securities told CNBC. " so I think across the board despite the price being at only 3 percent off its all time high we are still seeing very strong demand "
GoldPrices Trapped in a no Man's Land says Phil Streible, senior market strategist at MFGlobal, He says there is slight more downside risk to the gold price but that prices are trading in a tight volatile range.seems like some deflationary aspects is coming into the market today , but if we break through about $1875 to the upside that upward momentum should carry us back up to the contract highs and if we close there I think the $2000 and $2300 is back in the cards
James Turk : ..there is so much nervousness about the fragility of the banking system pretty much globally , everybody knows that the Banks are over leveraged have a lot of bad debt and therefore they are worried about their deposits , in this kind of environment Gold is always going to do well ....we are in the second stage of the Gold bull market , this is the longest and most powerful stage and as gold prices continues to rise it attracts increasing attention and people who have nort been gold buyers before are attracted to the gold market as they are going to learn the advantages the gold has to offer
Azzouz Qasim the Libyan central bank governor Revealed Tuesday that the Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime has sold in the last days before its collapse 20% of the gold reserves, equal to 29 tons of gold.
Mr Azzouz told a news conference in Tripoli that gold sold was worth 1.7 billion dinars (1.47 billion dollars), It was sold in dinars in last April / May to traders within Libya to pay off staff salaries and to provide liquidity in the capital, The Bank officials say the gold sold may have found its way to neighboring countries such as Tunisia and others.
The former Libyan Central Bank Governor Farhat Bin Guidara said last month that Gaddafi will try to sell a portion of the Libyan gold reserves to pay for protection and create chaos among the tribes in Libya.
Bin Guidara told the Italian Corriere della Sera that there are in Tripoli reserves of gold worth ten billion dollars, and may be Gaddafi took some of them, and he pointed out that supporters of Gaddafi offered 25 tons of gold on his banker friend a short time ago.
Azzouz confirmed that none of the assets of the Central Bank, whether or not gold that was not exposed to theft, and that what Gaddafi took was not from the coffers of the central bank, adding that the total cash reserves of the Bank of Libya are approximately $ 115 billion, ninety billion of which there are abroad
According to the World Gold Council statistics for the past month, Libya Gold reserves are about 143.8 tons, equivalent to 5.6% of the total world Gold reserves .
JULIAN PHILLIPS : as an investor in Gold mining shares I would tend to put a big circle around those countries able to take locally produced gold into their reserves those deposits will be far less vulnerable , not entirely without vulnerability but certainly far less vulnerable to such policies (Gold confiscation )
Europe is a classic example of a fixed currency system , you got a strong Germany which actually needs a strong Deutschmark , you got a weak Greece which needs a weak Drachma you put the two together under a one currency that's a fixed exchange rate and the end result you can possibly have is all the capital finds its way into northern Europe leaving Greek investors invested up north and not in their own economy , making sure that Greece remains a nice holiday resort period , so fixed exchange rate I think are a disaster for a range of economies worldwide
Roger Wiegand explains what happened to the Gold prices recently and why we saw that 100 dollars corrections : ....well 3 things happened that fundamentally moved markets the last couple of days , the Swiss put a cap on their currency which is capital controls on money , I was very disappointed to see that and I can understand why they did it , the Swiss franc which was the go to currency is down , that makes it virtually untradable , that was one of my favorite currencies to trade , next thing was that the German Congress agrees to give cash to Greece and Portugal this means that Germany is going down to slippery slop , the selling in Gold today was just a normal profit taking the trend remains up , there is no problem with gold and silver
World gold prices have soared recently amid financial fears. While you might expect this to mean more output, some Chinese mining firms have a different approach--working lower grade ore.
(Tibetan: Yulshul) in Qinghai Province will likely become one of Asia’s largest goldmines, with proven reserves of 300 tonnes, in 2015, reported China’s official Xinhua news agency Aug 27, citing provincial land and resource officials.
The report said the geological exploration was conducted jointly by Qinghai geology and mineral exploration and development bureau and a Canadian mining company with a total investment of 200 million yuan (US $31.3 million).
Noting that Qinghai was endowed with rich mineral resources, the report said the proven gold reserves of the province's six mines, including Dachang, was 430 tonnes.
The gold price is hovering near the $2,000 range, as global finance markets remain unstable. For many world mining operations, this has meant something of a golden age. The law of supply and demand dictates that as gold is worth more, there will be greater efforts to boost output and take advantage of the price conditions.
But things are different in the east Chinese city of Zhaoyuan. It's known as the country's gold capital for its abundant deposits. One small privately-owned gold mine here is estimated to produce some 350 kilograms of gold a year, out of 120 tons of gold ore explored every day.
Production has stayed stable despite the recent price jumps—like some other Chinese gold mines, Zhaoyuan's are keeping output steady, by expanding operations into lower grade ore.
[Hao Zengbao, Zhaoyuan Gold Administrator]:
"This is a resource-type enterprise, as gold mines have their own limited service life spans, and mining exploration usually has to expand year by year, so as to make exploration and mining balanced."
Gold back above 1,900 dollars again , Gold price creates new intraday record on Asian trading this morning .Gold together with silver is a currency a monetary metal , who cares really if the jewellery demand is shrinking as long as the demand for Gold bullion is exploding worldwide and people are starting to wake up to the fact that the only real money out there is Gold and Silver . "Gold is continually showing that it wants to go higher when the markets are going lower, and that seems to be the key change that's happened during the summer," says Ned Naylor-Leyland, investment director at Cheviot,
Gold fell from a record in London as some investors sold metal to cover losses in the Swiss franc after the country’s central bank imposed a ceiling to the exchange rate.
The Swiss franc tumbled after the bank set a minimum exchange rate of 1.20 per euro and said it will defend the target with the “utmost determination” if needed. Ministers from Germany, Finland and the Netherlands will meet today to discuss a Finnish demand for collateral in a bailout for Greece, while the Italian Senate will debate an austerity plan amid a strike.
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Gold Stocks in China Falling despite the Bull Market : This would explain why gold and silver prices were suddenly hammered lower early this morning following the news that The Shanghai Gold Exchange has announced additional gold and silver margin hikes on forward contracts effective Sept. 9th. The Chinese are WAY less likely to be satisfied with paper ticket. We are dis-educated.... but it is normal cultural practice for them to accumulate shiny valuable things and pay cash for them.
I do think there is a market for gold-paper there and yes it does add to manipulation via futures market but it will ultimately be undone by the physical markets. (unless we get global totalitarian state with money metals confiscated.
Peter Schiff : Classic Gold scams & How to avoid getting ripped off , some classic tactic used by some Gold sellers is to advertise something that is really cheap for example a Canadian maple leaf coin with say a 1 percent markup but their real intentions is to sell you something else like a collectible rare or numismatic coin that has a 100 percent mark up claiming that the government will not confiscate it , warns Peter Schiff
Mike Maloney on the Keiser Report with Max Keiser 03 Sept 2011 : I said before that Ben Bernanke is dumber than Gold , Gold automatically balances interest rates it balances currency inflows and outflows trading balances this is something that did not take a group of men trying to figure these things out , what we have got is a monetary system that is a Ponzi scheme it steals wealth from the middle class and transfers that wealth to the government and the banking sector these people got to ride for free because what they are doing by printing more currency and diluting the currency supply all the time and this is what zero interest rate will do it will expand the currency supply when they do this it dilutes the currency supply and causes the purchasing power to go down , people call it inflation , it is actually the dollar losing purchasing power , so basically he is on path of destroying the dollar ...
Gerald Celente : I begun trading Gold in 1978 , my first buy was at 187 dollars and fifty cents an ounce , and what's different now and then that people do not understand and why they think it is a bubble and it is not is back then it was only the United States that was really playing the gold market you had guys like The Hunt Brothers that had cornered the silver market for example it is a whole different world now , back then there was the red Chinese nobody was doing business with them and Russia and Eastern Europe were locked behind the Soviet Union's iron curtain , there is a whole global game going on it is a global meltdown and Gold is the ultimate golden safe heaven that's gold is going so high it is because everyone knows that the only way that the Europeans or the Americans can get their way out of this mess they are actually not going to get out of it but to keep the Ponzi scheme going is by printing more money but they put those white shoe boyz labels on it such as 'QE2' and 'QE3' it means just printing more money and by the way : interest rates the FED have said that they are going to keep them down near zero until mid 2013 and the European Central Bank ECB is talking about lowering them and so the lower the interest rates go and they stay low the higher the price of gold goes it is simple arithmetic ...
Gold is now the most precious precious metal , for the first time in history Gold is now more expensive than Platinum and Rhodium , Gold is today and for the first time in history the most expensive precious metal as the prices of gold and silver surge to the highest level in more than a week against a weak job report.
Andy Schectman Miles Franklin Precious Metals CEO gives his view on precious metals demand, the Pan Asia Gold Exchange, the Bernanke and the fall of the EU and United States. Buckle up. " When everybody realizes that this is not much a liquidity crisis but a currency crisis , interest rates have nowhere to go but higher and when that happens what I consider to be the mother of all bubble has nowhere to go but down " says Andy "we are starting to see for the first time central banks accumulating Gold , they were net sellers just few years ago"
Thanks to record gold prices, companies are reopening California's old mines , it takes a lot oif money and patience to start a new mine , there is gold in California and Nevada and the companies are rushing tp extract it , the hardest part though is not mining the gold but getting the permits to mine and cope with the rules and regulations , it may take up to 15 years to open a mine due to the regulations in place
While gold is off its all time high, prices are up more than 25 percent this year. Insight on where will head to next, with Mihir Dange, Arbitrage gold options trader.gold is off the all-time high prices are up more than 25% this year and yesterday popped $35 an ounce after a Chicago fed president Charles Evans told Steve linesman that we were basically in a recession at least when you look at the job market. "we're still in an overall bull trend. there's one piece of mfgs that still has me a little bearish and that's we have a trend gab at 1668.70. we would see that number and on the lows we were going to hit that number last week. it's all over the place right now. the volatility is still very high and we're getting $60 moves." says Mihir Dange
What happens to gold once it's been refined and how is the precious metal priced? A look at the middlemen of the gold world, with Bob Pisani."it was hot right down there in Johannesburg, south africa, we trafrled to the deepest mine in the world, and then we went to the world's biggest refinery outside of Johannesburg. what happens to the gold once it's refined and how is it priced? meet the middlemen of the gold world. the bullion banks. London. an epicenter of the gold bullion market where about $75 billion worth of gold is traded every day. banks like HSBC trade much of the world's bullion which is housed and bought all over the world like this one in London. whether the banks buy the gold directly from the miners and refiners or hold it for clients, want banks serve as a vital intermediary according to HSBC's global head of precious metals Jeremy Charles. when the producers want to sell. they can sell to a bank. when a consumer wants to buy, they can buy from a bank. it's a lot of different things the banks can do with it. they can store it for private clients or exchange-traded funds or central banks or they can sell it to other banks or they can advance it to jewelry manufacturers and industrial companies. Jim is a managing director on the gold trading desk in new york. he says bullion banks operate a lot like traditional banks. it's kind of like a microcosm of a bank where the bank does finance, cash management and other services. we do that in precious metals for clients. bullion banks play an important role in the daily price of gold and it all starts in London. for 100 years the spot or cash price of gold has been set at a twice daily conference known as the fix. now done by phone, between five bullion dealers who settle the price based on the buy and sell orders of their customers."
Gold Is the Safest Currency Gold is money the only real money , gold is not an investment it is not a speculative investment , Gold is not a commodity , many people are confusing Gold for a commodity or an investment , gold is Money , I hope people get it , Gold is the only money with no counter party risks attached to it , even the Swiss franc is being debased by the Swiss government in order to boost the exports , when you own gold you are your own central bank , cash is just a certificate saying that some central is holding gold for you which is not always true as we know , what would you trust more Gold or a piece of paper with somebody's name and signature on it ??? governments can change their currency or debase it with a stroke of a pen leaving you holding piles of worthless papers it happened before it could happen anytime , no central bank can print Gold out of thin air , gold has been money for 6000 years and will continue to be the only money ,
Very bullish for Gold what Charles Evans Chicago FED said this morning to CNBC he says that he favors QE3 : The current economic situation is disappointing, says Charles Evans, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, who explains that the job market is tough to characterize as recession-like but the economy is moving sideways "I think we would have been so much worse off if we didn't have the accommodation that's in place, the additional accommodation that came with qe2. i talk to business people all the time. I was talking to a small business person just the other day. you know, actually my brother who is in the furniture business. I was reminding him that, you know, back in the fall of 2008 when libor rates increased. he finances his inventory on that want basis. if things had not improved he's laid off three workers out of 18 over this entire period. but he would have laid off more if interest rates had not gone down, if we did not control, you know, improved the operating efficiency of financial markets. so the counter fact the salary we would have been much worse off." Evans says
Gold rose 46.34 percent from 52 weeks ago . Year to date Gold is up 28.54 percent .Bob Pisani takes you to the deepest part of the deepest mine in the world. Rep. Ron Paul, (R-TX) and presidential hopeful, weighs in on the recent gold rush.
Ron Paul: I never think about the price of Gold I always think about the value of the dollar , traditionally for thousands of years the currencies been measured by Gold , there has been a lot of fiat currencies throughout history but never one like we have today and that's what people are discovering , the financial crisis is discovering this
Gold breaking through 1800 again up almost $40 on news that the FED neds more stimulus : Phil Streible, senior market strategist at MFGlobal, says that today's rally sparked by Chicago Fed President Evans isn't sustainable. Streible is bracing for a correction.As long as we maintain below the 1840 level you want to look at the short side if we break above 1840 that's the resistance I think we will go back up and we will retest the highs at least 1900 , so that's my line in the sand says Phil Streible .
Gold to storm all the way up to $5000 an ounce over the next few years , you have people like Steven Forbes predicting $5000 Gold in the next five years and he also predicts that we will back on the gold standard , within five years . , congressman Ron Paul also predicting $5000 an ounce gold or even higher and he says that he is not purchasing gold for profit but as an insurance against the coming hyperinflation ....
Gold is having v moves it is trying to find its legs and I believe its legs are well above 1800 says Anthony my prediction is by the 4th quarter the end of the 4th quarter thanksgiving actually we will see $2000 Gold he added , Europe is in trouble and needs its own Quantitative Easing , in the US QE3 is bullish for Gold as the FED will have to create more money
The business of recreational gold panning in the Swiss Alps. is Booming lately probably because of the higher gold price.The near record price of gold has many people heading to the Swiss alpine rivers to mine and pan for the precious metal.
Puru Saxena of "Puru Saxena Wealth Management says that he expects a big rally in gold and silver after the correction we saw last week , : Mr Bernanke will do something to help his brothers in the banking industry he runs the federal reserve for the benefits of the banks , the federal reserve is run by the banks for the banks , he is not going to set by and let these banks implode , these banks need capital and the easiest way for them to get capital is through the federal reserve , there will be assistance from the federal reserve says Puru no matter what they are going to call it , I think we are going to be in the verge of a big rally within 6 to 9 months in Gold as well as Silver , before the end of this rally we are going to see 1 to 1 Gold to Dow ratio or perhaps 2 to 1
James Turk : “It is very important that demand in Asia for physical metal has reappeared,” “I continue to be amazed how the Asian buying adjust so quickly to the rising gold price.”
“Clearly people are worried about the train leaving the station without them, so demand for physical metal adjusts quickly to the reality of higher prices,” “After all, what would you rather own – gold or the dollar?” Or the euro? " - in www.beaconequity.com
Peter Schiff : "If you look at the value of U.S. stocks in terms of gold, the Dow peaked in 2000 at about 43 ounces. We're now at barely 7 ounces of gold for the Dow [7 x $1650 = 11,550]. Ultimately, I think we see that ratio come down closer to 1 to 1," he says. That would require either much more Dow decline, a lot more gold gains, or some combination of the two.
Just playing with some numbers here, if gold and the Dow Industrials both had 75% respective gains and losses from their current levels (approx. $1650/11,550), we'd be looking at $2887 to reach a 1-to-1 Gold-to-DJIA ratio. You can run your own scenarios, but the mere thought of that is chilling. - in Yahoo Finance
Marc Faber : “So, you are probably better off in equities than in bonds. My favorite investment remains gold. As it happens, the gold price is coming down, and I hope it will drop $100 or $200. Not necessarily a prediction. I think we will go down in a correction because there has been too much enthusiasm recently.” - in Bloomberg
Get out of the stock Market before it collapses , invest in Gold & Silver says Ted Anderson GCN's Owner and CEO of Midas Resources , Ted Anderson talks Dr Deagle about why gold is taking off the way it is and how far it may go. Now is the time to buy gold while you can before it goes to the next level.
Bob Chapman : Gold and Silver are going to go back right where they were and go higher , this is a tremendous opportunity for buyers , the stock market is going to go down despite that they will try to hold it up , the bond market is being held up by swap agreements but I won't get into that because it is too technical the ring leader into that is Morgan Stanley they are playing a three card monkey game and the other player with them is the FED of New York are the others ones who are driving bonds higher and yields lower so that banks can borrow cheaper, do not buy a home the trend will be downside for at least another 5 years
Bill Murphy : The European currency stinks too , Bill Murphy, a financial commentator and chairman of GATA, the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee. GATA was organized in January 1999 to advocate and undertake litigation against illegal collusion to control the price and supply of gold and related financial securities. GATA exposes and actively opposes collusion against a free market in gold, other precious metals, currencies, and related securities. Gold and Silver manipulation is the hottest story of the year! The weekly media is suppressing the story. National security is the excuse for the suppression and the manipulation! We the people are in real trouble.
Bullish news for Gold after Ben Bernanke's speech , gold have rallied but the bigger rally could be for next week when the markets reopen on Monday we could see gold going back up to $1900 and probably higher .Respond to this video...
Just buy what you can afford , and hold onto it for as long as you can afford , either way you cannot loose , our fiat money is not worth nothing long term ,Ben Bernanke will continue printing more and more money
Gold Rallies on Bernankes No News Speech , we are in a situation that resembles pre Lehman with the banking crisis in Europe there is not only a liquidity problem that is building but also an insolvency problem , people are losing faith in paper money worldwide , we will see a $2500 Gold in no time , Ben Bernanke is more likely to announce Qe3 or whatever he will call it during the coming FED meeting in September we will more likely see gold at $2000 by then
Bob Chapman : Steve Jobs is dying it is as simple as that that's why he is stepping down , they have tried to phase it out they did not want to do it when he was having these treatments , that's what is happening , Apple is a wonderful company with a wonderful product but I think but I think with him really out of action it is really going to hurt the company it will probably take may be 50 to a 100 dollars a share of its value I would be a seller , and I would switch the money to gold and silver coins bullion and shares certainly they are cheaper than where they were two days ago , I will be getting out of the stock market as well sooner or later it is going down , it is a giant bubble and a scam so the only place to be is gold and silver coins bullion and related assets
It is becoming dangerous wearing Gold jewelery with these current prices and current economiuc situation , when millions are jobless and many will do anything to rob a piece of gold jewelery off your neck or your ears , some people won't hesitate to pull a a gold chain off your neck ....so watch out when wearing any gold jewelery these days ...
Marc Faber : People should buy gold today because there is a huge run in precious metals recently and I think they need to consolidate and shake out the weak holders, , everyone should hold some gold because it is a form of cash. Gold is the most honest form of Cash
Jim Rickards : Gold is money , Warren Buffett is wrong when he said that gold is an investment , it is not an investment it is not a commodity , it is money , if you like money you should have some Gold , ultimately Gold will go to $7000 an ounce it is the price based on the amount of money supply it won't get there for several years and whether it gets there through some kind of presidential commission that starts the return to the gold standard that's what I would certainly favor the other way is through the chaos where there is a sort of sub-sequential collapse of paper currencies and then we go to gold on more emergency basis it other way we got to reconcile the price of Gold to the money supply , when you do those ratios those are the prices you get ....
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This Gold Pullback is Normal says Aaron Smith, managing director at Superfund Financial
: the bond market is the biggest bubble , Gold is money it was money for the last 3000 years and this is not going to change for the next 3000 years . China and India small invstors are pouring into physical gold ."We saw a normal pullback yesterday in the gold price, nothing really different from what we saw in silver a couple of moths ago, when silver went parabolic. So this is totally normal," ,He added . Smith said he sees "lots of support for gold at $1,650, the long - term 150 - day moving average is way down at $1,500, so there's plenty of breathing room for gold to move around without having a correction or a turnaround."
Libyan war 100 Tons Of Libyan Gold being looted and Will Not Be Found .More speculation has been raised on the reasons for NATO's intervention in Libya. the organization may have been trying to prevent Gaddafi from burying the American buck.its simple...the western powers dont want to lose control of there monetary system. So if a country that is rich in natural goods doesnt want to except paper as payment ..but actual gold as payment ...it devalues there paper money as worthless. The aggressor uses propaganda and manipulation to convince the taxpayers its all in the name of the people safety but in reality its all about the bankers and strategic positioning for expansion.
Libya's former central bank governor, Farhat Bengdara, says Gaddafi will try to sell part of Libya's gold reserves to pay for his escape and to spread chaos among the tribes.
Bengdara has allied himself with the Libyan rebels. In an interview with an Italian newspaper he claimed that an ally of Gaddafi had offered to sell 25 tons of gold to a friend of his, but that this friend immediately rejected the offer. Bengdara declined to reveal his friend's identity. The former central bank governor also said that Tripoli has 10 billion US dollars in gold reserves in Tripoli and that Gaddafi could have made off with some of it. Bengdara believes that Gaddafi has fled Tripoli via the Algerian border, and that he may try to pay off some tribes for protection. With regards to Libya's future, he says the country will need 5 to 7 billion US dollars as a bridging loan to restart the banking system and pay for imports.
Bob Chapman : Gold is not going to stop at $2000 it may quiver at $2200 , this is a wonderful correction , and those idiots had it all done in two days , you talk about painlessness , it is like you go to the doctor and you had two tooth pulled and there is no pain , it sure is down but what are they going to do onward ? they have no bullion for sale it's all paper , and so what should the public be doing and professionals as well , they should be in there mid-day tomorrow started to phase in the new buying they should be buying all the time but especially hen you have dumps like this , obviously for the government to do this with the brokerage houses and the hedge funds and the banks and the working groups in the financial markets for them to do that some very very bad news is coming I can promise you , JPM would not come out and say Gold is going to $2500 this year , if they did not think it is going higher because they wanted to stop in there that's why they are doing what they are doing it is called psychological warfare , and so where is gold going ? I'd say by the end of February which is kind the end of the big move historically yearly in gold and silver we are looking at $3000 - $3200 and a $100 silver and it is going to happen they cannot stop it
Jim Rogers :It is (what Venezuela has done ) certainly significant especially if they (the banks ) find out that they do not have it , it will be quite a turmoil if all of sudden the banks will say we do not have all that gold we do not find it because you know a lot of gold has been mixed with other gold it might just mean more and more people do want to hold their gold in their own hands , I would suspect so , we are coming in more and more turmoil more and more banks will be going bankrupt and The last thing you want is for your Gold to be in a vault of a bank which goes bankrupt or which has to suspend redemption , so I suspect you'll see more of it
Peter Schiff : I have been buying gold for over ten years it has been good for me , people who bought stocks ten years ago have lost money and I think people who are buying bonds are going to lose even more , the rising gold prices are telling us that money is so cheap , interest rates are too low , Ben Bernanke is going to keep printing money that's all he knows to do , people were telling me that gold is in a bubble since it was at $500 , look you do not compare gold to stocks gold is money compare it to the dollar , compare it to the Euro compare it to the Yen , and so if you are going to compare it to other currencies what is more likely to maintain its purchasing power over time ? something that is scarce like gold that has intrinsic value that can't be printed or something with no intrinsic value that has been run off the printing presses like it was going out of style ...people are accumulating gold they use it the things that they need but if you understand money and gold , you save your gold and you spend your paper that's what I am doing that's what my clients are doing we are holding gold and we are spending paper , gold has always been money our founding fathers made it money ....Gold is an excellent store of value , oil is cheaper today than it was 30 or 40 years ago if you are paying for it in gold , it is more expensive if you are paying for it in dollars but not if you got real money
Gold having a technical correction after CME Group Raises Margin Requirements 27% for Trading Gold Futures , Gold is down $150 in less than 12 hours , this is a healthy correction for Gold look how far gold have gone it has spiked more than $400 in less than two months time from $1500 to above $1900 without taking a break basically , some retailers have decided to take profit at this time , It is normal that when it got toppy, we will see a correction. this is a healthy correction. nearly every trader and analyst says the same thing. it is necessary when you see the price rally like it did. $400 spike in two months time and gold hasn't looked back since $1500 an ounce. we saw that relationship between equities and stocks flip again. as we saw equities rally, gold came off. we have seen the CME group raise margins and Shanghai exchange did the same , and now we have thesemargin calls hitting new traders as well as those in the market exacerbating the selling. how low do we go? a key technical level. 1758 broke the low at the close and now looking at the next key level at 1650. does that mean the rally is over? most traders say, no, the same issues that caused gold to rally, mainly low interest rates, one of the keys, will continue to see that rally in gold and investors will still be interested because so many average investors are under-weighted if they have gold at all. thank you very much. talk to you later.
The Shanghai Gold Exchange said on Tuesday that it will raise trading margins on three gold spot-deferred contracts to 12 percent starting on Friday to limit trading risks following the rapid rally in gold prices.The CME has raised margin requirements for gold twice this year, once in January and once in early August, by 11% and 22% respectively. The moves did little to stem gold's rally. A week after the margin hikes in January gold was down just 2% and a week after the August hike gold was up 1.5%.Gold pulled back to as low as $1745 this morning before re-bouncing 35 dollars
Many experts think, that any dips will be met with strong buying and help curb a deeper correction.Don not panic just do what Bob Chapman always recommends use the dips as God's given opportunities to buy as much physical gold as you can , this rally is not even started , the gold prices are very likely to touch the $3000 mark before 2012
Gold is retreating today After five straight days of gains and records , we are seeing some profit taking , the trend remains up the prices will continue to go higher and higher , use those GOD's given dips to consolidate your positions , this bull run is just starting this is your opportunity to jump in if you have not already , we may never see gold as low as $1800 ever again as most experts expect Gold to go through $2000 in the coming weeks and continue from there towards $8000
How long can gold keep making new highs? Insight with Paul Sacks, Aurum Options Strategies principal gold trader.Paul is not worried about the parabolic run of the Gold although he says there may be some sell offs from now on " as you've stated, gold is up about 17%. up over 50% year over year. the easiest thing to say is that a sell off is coming. i just don't see it. i think we're going a lot higher into the fourth quarter and into next year. I think gold will spend next year over $2,000 an ounce" he said
Ben Davies (hindecapital.com) and James Turk, Director of the GoldMoney Foundation, talk about the Gold outlook in the light of the Fiat currency debasement by central banks worldwide . They see gold breaking the $2,000 barrier this year and moving exponentially. Ben Davies explains that he uses a power-function model to analyze the price of gold, based on Benford's law.
Gold hits today another all time record high above $1900$ and Continues to Rise! Jeffrey Nichols, senior economic adviser to Rosland Capital LLC, gives his outlook for Gold , we had big purchases this year by central banks those are likely to continue and what is really important about central banks is that gold is now off the market , when speculators or even investors buy gold often they will sell it a few months or a year later these central banks are there for decades most likely , we have strong demand from India and from China , retail investors from Europe and the United States all are buying gold
Savneet Singh, chief executive officer of Gold Bullion International, talks about investing in physical gold , there is a huge differentiation between owning the physical gold and owning a share in trust that belongs to somebody else , with physical Gold there is no counter party risk
Jim Cramer : If you have more than twenty percent of your assets in Gold that's the only time you should sell ( I have more than 80 percent of my assets in Gold and I am not selling a bit , so I beg to disagree with Jim Cramer here
) and people who do not have twenty percent or minimum ten percent should using any weakness to buy , any weakness , I am looking for an alternative to the debasing of world currencies and silver is not that says Jim Cramer regarding the Silver , Gold is not a bubble , what gold is , is an alternative that's what it is getting it is getting alternative status it is changing its asset class and that's why it is not a bubble it is a reconfiguration
Phil Streible, senior market strategist at MFGlobal, reveals how he is trading gold as it approaches $1,900 an ounce.
problems around the world and also in Libya are supporting the Gold rally just recently Hugo Chavez has recalled over $11 billion worth of gold reserves to come back to Venezuela calling gold from the U.S., Europe, Canada and the Swiss Bank. France and Germany met this week in Paris to discuss the EU bail out plan and help get the euro zone back on track. and the FED may announce QE3 .it doesn't matter if gold/silver corrects 20%. by 2012 2013 they will double in value.
the global economy is unrepairable and needs to collapse
Jeff Neilson does a really good job explaining the current issues in this market and how to make use of the gold/silver ratio as a means to optimize your precious metals portfolio.
A brief history of the gold:silver ratio: Notice the dates: fixed for many years, then it floated over 40:1 when silver demonetized Roaring 20s brought it down to 16:1 Great Depression, ratio went to 100:1, no significant industrial use After the post WW2 boom, it went way down, industrial use and electronics Early 1970s, US off gold standard and individuals could own gold - look how it went up Hunt Brothers event bottoming it out at 9:1 Then it went back up, over 90:1 during the recession of the 1990s Dot-com boom sent it under 60:1 Panic of 2008 sent it over 80:1 - deflation, less industry use Recent stimulus sent it to 60:1
Preservation of Wealth is all about the accumulation of assets against the dangers of fiat currency, inflation , Gold is for Real Wealth Preservation , how difficult economic calculation is when the unit of account is unstable and the price of money, interest rates, are distorted and centrally planned, not reflecting real free market supply and demand.
If we consider that a gold coin is worth around $2,000 or so today. Then we can get an idea of how it could work again to carry gold/silver. Lets say gold is valued at $10,000 someday. That would mean that small fractional coins would be very easy to carry and worth a great deal of purchasing power. Instead of carrying around $100 or $1,000 notes we could carry a couple small coins. Each merchant has a scale or scanner to verify the gold.
Related ETFs : Ishares Silver ETF (SLV), SPDR GOld ETF (GLD) SPDR GOld ETF (GLD), Powershares DB SPDR Gold ETF (GLD), Newmont Mining (NEM), Barrick Gold (ABX), GoldCorp (GG)
Jim Rogers : I own gold , if it goes down I am going to buy more I do not see any reason to sell gold until it winds up in a big bubble that's may be ten years from now , I do not know when it is going to be all commodities are going to go up a great deal more including gold , do not sell your gold if it goes down buy some more , absolutely it is going to go over 2000 dollars may be not this year I hope not this year but certainly over this decade no question....- in ABC Australia interview
Marc Faber : Gold is likely to correct, possibly by $100 or $150, but I continue to recommend gradual accumulation. As long as the trio of Obama, [U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner] and Bernanke are in power, gold is destined to move higher. Long-term U.S. Treasuries are of no value. They will default by paying interest in a worthless currency. - in Baron's Blog
Chavez GoldAction Leads to Backwardation, Short Squeeze and Havoc Concerns . Venezuela's President wants all the country's gold being held in European and American banks returned to Caracas. It would be the largest physical movement of gold in recent history. Hugo Chavez said he's trying to protect his country from the financial woes on both sides of the Atlantic. Chavez is brilliant, one of the only true leaders of the age. He puts these massive immoral countries to shame. He empowers his people and takes control of his resources while these other monsters that bad mouth him oppress their people and sell their resources for pennies to their friends..Chavez should make sure that every single gold bar be tested when it returns to Venezuela.Make sure these scam artists dont gold plate a load of tungsten bars to give back to him.Pretty bad when a small country puts its larger competitors to shame by following the rules of just governance.
President Hugo Chavez said his government plans to "bring home" 211 tons of gold currently stored in international banks.
Up to USD 6.3 billion in liquid reserves will also be transferred to banks in Brazil, China, and Russia. The transfers are expected to take more than two months.
Chavez has also announced that he may invoke the Enabling Act which will grant him powers to pass a law next week to nationalize the country's gold industry.
Some critics say this move may lead to possible international sanctions after next year's elections.
According to Venezuela's Ministry of Finance and Central Bank, two-thirds of its total reserves (USD 18 billion) are in gold.
Marc Faber : I think that Gold have had a bit of a run-up here that is above the trend line and that a correction can occur but I do not see a huge downside risk in Gold because if you think it through and people are concerned about cash they are concerned about sovereign debt they are concerned about everything and the stock market has given a very powerful sell signal , I think as soon as gold price drops say a 100 - 150 dollars there will be a lot of physical buying ...
Bob Chapman : well you heard the song up up and away . that's just the way it is going to be , one of the psychological aspects of this and these people are very good at this , JP Morgan Chase came up a couple of days ago and said Gold is going to $2500 by the end of the year , here there are with the largest short position , naked short position in silver and silver usually runs with Gold , what are they up to ? , what they are up to is this : they are trying to set up a barrier at $2500 because they think on the short term before the end of the year it could go higher than that , they are trying to set a psychological new ceiling , it is just common sense and understanding the criminal mind , if you want to find out what they are doing you have to think like a criminal ...that's what they are trying to do here , they are not frightened about gold they know it is going to $8000 , they are just as smart as we are , but they want it to go as slowly and incrementally as possible
(19Aug11) People rushing into gold to protect their money
World investors rush to buy gold; prices continue to soar .Fueled by concerns over the security of bonds, investors all over the world are flocking to gold. Retailers are also benefiting from increasing demand for the yellow metal, and soaring prices. But analysts have a word of warning - what goes up, must eventually go down.
Gold prices have rebounded and continue to soar on the international market. Experts attribute the recent gold rush to investors' weak confidence in European bonds, on the heels of the region's lackluster economic performance.Continuously soaring gold prices are due to investor worries. Concerns were revived by the recently-released European economic results, which were unsatisfactory
Peter Schiff on RT America 19 Aug 2011 : Goldis a safe heaven treasuries are not , people who buy Treasuries think they are safe heaven they are mistaken and when they will figure it out they will go to gold , Gold is not in any bubble because if this was a bubble or a mania you would expect gold stocks to be outperforming the metal because that's where all the speculative money flows ...there is no floor to the fiat currencies as they keep printing them so there is no ceiling for gold to go to , Gold is like a thermometer on the economy , the yield on treasuries is negative , so how you get safety with a negative yield ? I think the people who are going to lose the most money are the people who are in bonds , people will lose more money in bonds than in stocks ...Gold is the one place there is not a bubble because gold is reflecting the loss of purchasing power of fiat currencies , Gold is not going up it is paper currencies that are losing value ... Gold is money everything else is a poor substitute
David Tice (http://prudentbear.com) and James Turk, Director of the GoldMoney Foundation, talk about the 1999 credit bubble symposium, and the outlook for Gold.
David Tice : "Well, I think people should own gold and silver bullion. I am a shareholder of GoldMoney.com. I'm also a big customer of GoldMoney.com. I think that's a great place to hold your bullion. I also own a number of junior gold mining companies. I've typically not owned the seniors, but I'm now starting to invest in seniors. I'd say probably a third. I'm more invested in silver today than gold. I'm a believer in what Eric Sprott talks about, as far as silver having even more extraordinary potential than gold does. I'd say it's kind of an individual preference, as far as how much bullion versus how much metals equities, but a nice blend would be appropriate."
Gold Hits Record High as Global Economic Uncertainty Continues .For investors in this economic climate, it seems that all that glitters is gold. The price of gold hit a record high on Friday, as investors are seeking safer assets amid deepening concerns over slowing economic growth and the outlook for euro zone banks. Gold spot was up 2-and-a-half percent at 1,868 dollars 70 cents an ounce after peaking at 1,877 an ounce.It is being called a modern day gold rush, and is fueled by the dismal performance of the stock markets across Asia pacific Europe and North America . The US Dollar is dead, the body just hasn’t hit the floor yet.You still have some time to save your wealth by exchanging your worthless paper for gold and silver.
Jim Rogers : I do not like buying anything going straight up. I like to buy something going down. So if and when gold goes down, I hope I am smart enough to buy more and I would buy silver the same way.
Hugo Chavez wants to repatriate all of Venezuela's gold reserves deposited abroad, mainly in London and New York Vaults . Hugo Chavez Demands 99 Tons of Venezuelan Gold Returned From the Bank of England/ JP Morgue
he also have decided to nationalize the exploration and exploitation of gold and related activities inside Venezuela .
He calls it a measure of national sovereignty by ordering the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations' institutions such as the Bank of England as prices for the metal rise to a record high .
Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 tons of gold reserves in U.S., European, Canadian and Swiss banks, will progressively return the bars to its central bank's vault, Chavez said yesterday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Barclays Plc (BARC), and Standard Chartered Plc (STAN) also hold Venezuelan gold, he said.
Chavez, whose government depends on oil for 95 percent of its export revenue, is looking to diversify Venezuela's cash reserves from U.S. and European banks to include investments in emerging markets including Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa, central bank President Nelson Merentes said yesterday.
The world's 15th-largest holder of gold is bringing back its gold after a 28 percent rally in the price this year.
This is the same what France did in 1969, Charles de Gaulle, sent a naval battleship to reclaim their gold due to a trade imbalance deficit, 300 million or something? The "exorbitant privilege?" There is a cool video up about this. England tried to do it right away also but was told no. France was unhappy about Bretton-Woods. They got it back! Uprated.
Geitner and the Bernanke are going to do the Old "Check is in the Mail" story. Yeah we got your gold, we are just arranging a barge to bring you your gold....... Two weeks late ring ring, Hey Hugo, this is Tim Geitner at US Treasury, bad news on the gold you ordered, what I know you didn't order it you mean the gold you own well the barge it was on, someboy was playing with the controls at the HAARP facility and it get sunk by a water spout, but we are getting it for you, don't worry.:)
"what happens if the physical gold is not there?", i.e. it's rumored that a lot of gold held by the international banks has been in play for so-called "Leasing".
This move by Venezuela might uncover that the physical Gold just isn't anywhere to be found even though the au is still carried as inventory by numerous bullion banks, etc.
The US gold reserve hasn't been audited for a long, long time (better than 20 years). Is there gold at Fort Knox or are there just IOU's from a wide range of counter-parties?
An organization called GATA has maintained for a long time that most of the physical gold has been "leased" and will never been seen again.
It's an interesting issue to follow during these troubling times.
Related ETFs : Ishares Silver ETF (SLV), SPDR GOld ETF (GLD) SPDR GOld ETF (GLD), Powershares DB SPDR Gold ETF (GLD), Newmont Mining (NEM), Barrick Gold (ABX), GoldCorp (GG)
Nigel Farage has spent 20 years as a commodity broker and trader " I suspect we have not seen the worst yet , I think what happened in 2008 is we deferred the banking crisis it is now coming back to bite " Nigel Farage says " It is impossible to predict where gold will go but it is not impossible that Gold could double again from here , the western world finance are in the most horrifying mess , our banking industry has been allowed to go completely out of control"
Hugo Chavez of Venezuela nationalizing Venezuela's Goldmines
Phillip Streible : "there is insufficient response to the sovereign debt crisis in europe. makes sense for gold prices. he's repatriating. and the physical front and by him nationalizing all by gold mines in venezuela, you know, you have to think those gold mines, although Venezuela is not a key player, some of that gold makes it out on to the market. and those people are going to have to look for gold out there and try and, you know, recapture and harness down some of the that gold that they need. "
Gold remains the ultimate safe heaven says Andrey Kryuchenkov, a commodities analyst at VTB Capital, Any Gold Sell off Would Be `Short-Lived' Central Banks became net buyers of gold , Gold will remain the most appealing short term asset , where else would anybody put his money when there are so many market uncertainties and the FED just announced that it will keep interest rates so low for another couple of years ....
Gold is now number export out of Dubai after Oil and they want to keep it that way they built a physical and financial market , there is a gold future Market in Dubai , the trend is of aggressive accumulation , unlike the other times when the gold prices climb investors used to take advantage by selling their jewelery , this time it is not happening , Gold sales are up a 100 percent to individual consumers , the rulers of Dubai want to become a gateway to the Indian market one of the largest Gold markets . they even created a Dubai gold coin to be legal tender ....
China and India remain key driers to the gold market , they totally now account for over fifty percent of both bar and coins investment and jewelery demand on a regular basis ....demand remains strong , in both these countries the saving rates are much higher than in western countries and gold is very easily available liquid asset unlike western countries , China used to make no net contribution to the Gold market they would consume their entire gold mine production and have no net effect , last year they imported 260 tons , this year they are going to import well over 300 tons may be as high as 400 tons i 2011 , s there was a huge shift on the demand side of this market , this is a market in deficit not in surplus , mine production is rising but it is not rising fast enough to keep pace with the growth of demand - Marcus Grubb, managing director of investment research at the World Gold Council
In some parts of the world gold is viewed as the protector of wealth. In North America, gold is viewed as a speculative investment. Our economists regard a rising gold price as an admission of defeat, and their disparaging attitude toward higher gold prices took on a more desperate tone in 2010. Nevertheless, gold had another remarkable year, up 25% in 2010, its tenth straight annual gain. Meanwhile, over the same 10-year period, five major currencies -- the US and Canadian dollars, the euro, the British pound and the yen -- have lost between 70% and 80% of their value. In reality, gold is not rising; currencies are falling in value, and gold can rise as far as currencies can fall. Nick discusses the three dominant medium-term trends that pushed up gold prices in 2010 (central bank buying; movement away from the US dollar; China) as well as three longer-term, irreversible trends that will put upward pressure on the gold price for years to come (the aging population; outsourcing; peak oil). In addition to these trends, more and more investors will be competing to buy a shrinking gold supply. As safe-haven demand accelerates, there will be a transition from the $200-trillion financial asset market to the $3-trillion above ground gold bullion market. About half of that $3 trillion is held by central banks as reserves; the remainder is privately held, and not for sale at any price. If the world's pension and hedge funds moved only 5% of their assets into gold, it would trade at over $5,000 per ounce. Nick's conclusion: Without any new financial crises, both mid- and long-term trends indicate that gold -- and silver -- will continue rising through 2011 and well beyond.
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