Friday Edition:   December 06, 2013

COT Gold, Silver and US Dollar Index Report - December 6, 2013
By: GoldSeek.com
COT Gold, Silver and US Dollar Index Report - December 6, 2013

Gold-ETF Selling Waning
By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Research
This first chart looks at GLD’s holdings during this past year superimposed on the flagship American S&P 500 stock index (SPX). The US stock markets have been levitating and melting-up all year long thanks to the notion that the Fed’s massive QE3 campaign is backstopping them. This seduced investors away from alternative investments including gold, leading to the capital rotation out of GLD into general stocks.

The Gold Price is being held back by one Government
By: Julian D. W. Phillips, Gold Forecaster - Global Watch
The point is that governments can act directly to manipulate gold prices inside their country, whether to its detriment or advantage. And India’s blockading of gold imports has prevented the gold price from reaching a market accurate price.

USFed QE Volume to Triple, not Taper
By: Jim Willie CB
The winner will be the Gold Market. The loser will be the United States, the United Kingdom, and Western Europe. These regions will tiptoe into the Third World if lucky, and fall head first into the Third World if not careful. They should have thought more fully about the Chinese Most Favored Nation pact back in 1999. The low cost solution as center piece to globalization effectively destroyed the Western economies, by removing the industrial core. It was far more carefully planned than the great majority of people believe. The ultimate goal in my opinion was to wreck the cradle of capitalism in the United States. The compromise was to create the newly industrialized Chinese superpower, which will fall victim to fascism soon enough. It is the natural course, given human nature and the proclivity toward corruption, inefficiency, power, and greed. The winner will be Gold. It will reign over banks again. It will serve as arbiter over trade again. Its bright yellow lights and strong whips will emanate from the East.

China finds Secret Door leading out of Dollar Trap
By: RJ Wilcox
Sun Zhaoxue is president of China National Gold Corporation, China’s largest gold mining company. He is on record indicating that in order to have a strong currency, it must be backed by significant gold reserves.

The Kress cycle and the fate of the middle class
By: Clif Droke
Just how much pain has the middle class suffered in the last four years? The data is quite conclusive: the pain has been harsh.

According to government statistics, wages for the middle class have shrunk appreciably in the past decade. The Census Bureau points out that the typical middle class household made $51,017 this year, roughly the same as the typical household made a quarter of a century ago. Adjusted for inflation, that’s a decline in living standards too big to ignore.

"I, Broken Pencil": An Economic Analysis of Bitcoins
By: Gary North
Am I exaggerating? No. The Bitcoins system has no customs, courts, legally enfirceable contracts, no resolution of disputes. All it has is algorithms. Yet its defenders say that the system is an extension of the free market’s social order. It is in fact a denial of such an order. Its defenders think the Bitcoins markets can do without the social order that brought capitalism into existence a millennium ago. It is a classic free rider. Yet they insist that their system can replace the present capitalist order.

This is a programmers’ fantasy.

Gold & Silver Market Morning: December 6, 2013
By: Julian D. W. Phillips, Gold Forecaster - Global Watch
Meanwhile gold prices at such low levels continue to undermine profitability and move the mine’s attention from lower grade ores to higher grade ores. While this restores short-term profitability, if carried on for too long, it will result in longer-term profitability being harmed. They need to see the gold price rising and costs either hold at current levels of drop.

Economists Warn Depositors May Be Burnt In Bail-Ins (Part III)
By: GoldCore
For investors, bank diversification is essential, but more broadly, asset diversification has to be the priority for anybody with any wealth. We still live in very dangerous and uncertain times and investors should do whatever it takes to manage risk and ensure that all of their eggs are not in a single basket that may be badly holed.”

Gold Reverses Sharp Drop on Strong US Jobs Report, Short-Covering "Now in the Air"
By: Adrian Ash, BullionVault
"Short covering is now in the air," one Asian trading desk said earlier, after Wednesday had seen bearish speculators being forced to close their bets by a $25 spike on the private-sector ADP jobs report.

My Big Fat Chinese Plenum
By: Eric Coffin, HRA Journal
No, it’s not a glandular condition. China’s leaders concluded the third Plenum of the 18th Party Congress a couple of weeks ago. Party Congresses last for five years and Plenums (full meetings) are annual except for the first year of each Congress where there might be two or three full meetings.

Thursday Edition:   December 05, 2013

Not all boats are rising for the S&P 500!
By: David Chapman

Time for Goldbugs to Admit Defeat?
By: Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst

Will the “Least Loved” Bull throw a “Taper Tantrum?”
By: Gary Dorsch, Editor, Global Money Trends

GoldSeek.com Radio Gold Nugget: Chaplain Lindsey Williams & Chris Waltzek
By: radio.GoldSeek.com

Taxes Don’t Matter… Until They Do
By: Dennis Miller

Embrace The Panic
By: Justin Smyth

Gold Gives Back "Short-Covering" Rally as US Data Beats Forecasts
By: Adrian Ash, BullionVault

Gold & Silver Market Morning
By: Julian D. W. Phillips, Gold/Silver Forecaster - Global Watch

Deposit Confiscation Poses A Real Risk To Investors, Savers and Corporate Depositors (Part II)
By: GoldCore

Wednesday Edition:   December 04, 2013

Gold Seeker Closing Report: Gold and Silver Jump Higher
By: Chris Mullen, Gold-Seeker.com

FLOWS: Liquidity, Credit & Debt
By: Gordon T Long

Bubbles, bubbles everywhere
By: Clif Droke

No 'Too Big To Fail' in Mining Sector Opens Opportunities for Value Investors
By: The Gold Report and Mike Niehuser

Evidence on Why Gold Is Falling on the Verge of a Dollar Implosion
By: Bud Conrad, Chief Economist

The Eastern Lust for Gold
By: Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals

The most incredible chart pattern of Accumulation I have seen is in the Gold Miners (GDX)
By: Scott Pluschau

Mining Stocks Suggest Further Declines
By: Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA

Control Via Interlocking Complicity
By: GE Christenson

Being Bold – and Being Right, Part II
By: David Morgan

From the Taj Mahal to Westminster Abbey: Notes from a Gold Investor
By: Frank Holmes

Silver mining company says it's helpless against market manipulation
By: Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer, GATA

BREAKING: Canadian Maple Leaf Sales Q1-Q3 Already Surpass 2012 Total
By: Steve St. Angelo, SRSrocco Report

Gold Jumps After Strong ADP Jobs Data, "Short-Covering" Likely
By: Adrian Ash, BullionVault

Era Of Depositor Bail-In Cometh (Part 1)
By: GoldCore

Asian Metals Market Update
By: Manan Somani, Insignia Consultants

Tuesday Edition:   December 03, 2013

Gold Seeker Closing Report: Gold and Silver End Near Unchanged
By: Chris Mullen, Gold-Seeker.com

Gasoline: $1/Gallon
By: Dennis Miller

What's Broke In Gold & How To Fix It
By: Stewart Thomson

The Next Black Swan: A Dollar Crisis
By: Toby Connor, GoldScents

Is the Fed increasingly monetizing government debt?
By: Axel Merk

So why do the Chinese keep on buying gold when the price is still falling?
By: Peter Cooper

The silence of the blockheads -- maybe soon to be dead silence
By: Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer, GATA

Closing the 2008 ‘Gap’
By: Gary Tanashian

Prepare for Precious Metals to Lift Off
By: The Gold Report and David H. Smith

Seabridge Gold Reaches Agreement to Sell Grassy Mountain NPI for US$7.5 Million
By: Seabridge Gold Inc.

Gold & Silver Market Morning
By: Julian D. W. Phillips, Gold/Silver Forecaster - Global Watch

Analysts Line Up to Declare "Decline & Fall" of Gold After 2.6% Tumble
By: Adrian Ash, BullionVault

Bail-Ins And Deposit Confiscation Confirmed At ‘Future of Banking in Europe’ Conference
By: GoldCore

Monday Edition:   December 02, 2013

Gold Seeker Closing Report: Gold and Silver Fall Over 2% and 4%
By: Chris Mullen, Gold-Seeker.com

COT Gold, Silver and US Dollar Index Report - December 2, 2013
By: GoldSeek.com

Gold Mining Executives: “You Have To Be Able To Survive The Lows In Order To Reap The Benefit Of The Highs”
By: Tekoa Da Silva

Gold Bugs Index (HUI): Buy, Hold Or Sell? Update #18
By: Peter Zihlmann

A look at Some Currencies through the Chartology Lens
By: Rambus

What now for Janet Yellen?
By: Matt Machaj, PhD.

Is the gold price pulling on a string and about to snap back like in 1999 when it jumped 27% in two weeks?
By: Peter Cooper

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 1 Dec, 2013
By: Keith Weiner

Gold & Silver Market Morning
By: Julian D. W. Phillips, Gold/Silver Forecaster - Global Watch

Market Looks to 'Improved' US Data as Gold, Silver Reverse Rally
By: Adrian Ash, BullionVault

Gold Storage In Switzerland Increasing Due To Swiss Tradition Of Respecting Private Property
By: GoldCore

Asian Metals Market Update
By: Manan Somani, Insignia Consultants

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