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Why Buy PHYSICAL Gold? Charles Dupont’s True Story
This true story was told by Robert Strebel at a Financial Times World Gold Conference in Vienna, Austria in 1988. Strebel was a Member of the Executive Committee of the bank J. Vontobel & Co. Ltd. of Zurich, Switzerland. He ended his talk by telling “the story of a friend of mine, Charles Dupont.” “At […]
Weimar: First DEFLATION Then INFLATION
Today, the entire global economy is deflating. Industrial demand and manufacturing are collapsing worldwide. Once economic deflation is underway, debt snowballs. The Federal Reserve will turn the money spigots wide open to mitigate the paralyzing effects of deflation on the U.S. consumption-economy. For now, the dollar is strong because the yen and the Euro are weakening […]
FEDERAL RESERVE DOUBLE WHAMMY
For 179 years, America’s currency was backed by silver and gold. During this era of sound money, the rise in the over-all prosperity of the citizenry of the United States was meteoric. The poorest immigrants enjoyed upward economic mobility. If you are wondering why living standards for most Americans are now declining, look FIRST to the […]
The Federal Reserve is a Cartel.
Three years before Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act, representatives of European and American banking families clandestinely gathered at an exclusive get-away owned by J. Pierpont Morgan and John Davison Rockefeller. After more than a week of intense negotiations, they hammered out the agreement for the “United Reserve System” [today’s “Federal Reserve System”]. FORMATION OF THE GREATEST […]
The “MONEY” Follows Gold & Silver.
In 2013, gold futures had the first annual drop since 2000. That is what happened in the PAPER gold market. The New York Commodities Exchange (COMEX) sells derivatives; the exchange sells the same ounce (1 oz) of PHYSICAL gold or silver hundreds of times. Take a look at what happened in markets that traded actual […]
Hunt Brothers & 1980 Silver Short Squeeze
The last major silver short squeeze was in 2011. During the 1980 squeeze, the New York and Chicago exchanges halted silver trading several times. Whenever markets were disrupted, the prices quoted in New York did not match the prices buyers had to pay per ounce for actual bars of silver. Premiums above the spot price for […]
Naked Silver Shorting
Farmers, airlines, and manufacturers lock in their costs for commodities by using the New York Commodities Exchange (COMEX). Rather than speculating, they buy and sell commodities to hedge their costs. On the other hand, the majority of those who buy/ sell gold and silver derivatives are short-term speculators [Exchange Traded Funds such as SLV and GLD, […]

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