-- Posted Thursday, 8 May 2008 | Digg This Article
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US MARKETS
The elitists have already set the stage for the next gold rush. As soon as their latest bevy of lies and false statistics are shown to be the despicable falsehoods they are, people around the globe will rush back into gold and silver with a vengeance. By that time, all trust in official statements and statistics will evaporate, and the propaganda machine of the Illuminati, via our corrupt, fascist government, Wall Street brigands, Fed Ponzi-schemers and fane-stream media, will completely break down, all conspiratorial control over markets will terminate as PPT manipulations are ignored, and all hell will break loose. If you do not have a position in precious metals and their related shares, which are now currently at bargain-basement prices, by the time this occurs, you will miss out on one of the largest run-ups in these assets of all time.
The objective now is to keep the Goldilocks matrix flowing through the collective brains of American sucker-dupes through the November election in order to reelect as many incumbents as possible from the corrupt cabal of traitors, perverts, reprobates and sociopaths who now stain the halls of our Congress with their vile perversions and nonstop toxic legislation. Despite the best efforts of the elitists, however, the suspended animation of the US economy that now hangs by a thread based on little more than the cartel's mirage-like affectations may very well be compromised prior to November, so do not waste any time taking a position in precious metals on the assumption that gold and silver might go lower. While we do not promote the use of charts and graphs in our highly manipulated markets, markets which eat financial models for breakfast and which more often than not turn these models against their users, you might note that both gold and silver are now vastly oversold by anyone's standards, and both have bounced off long-term support at their 200-day moving averages. The last time that happened, gold went on a wild rampage, rising from 650 to 1030, and silver ripped upward, advancing swiftly from 13 to 21. Also, because gold has now asserted itself as both a measure and store of monetary value as well as a hedge against inflation to an extent that is far above and beyond its role as a component of jewelry, the cyclical nature of its rallies that in the past have been caused by seasonal market action will be far less pronounced, and we may have just seen the bottom for all of 2008. In addition, the incentive to manipulate will be greatly diminished after elections are over in early November (assuming we do not end up under martial law and a suspension of elections first) because what might be gained by further connivance will be overpowered by the cost of the cartel's manipulations which will spike to infinity based on ever-worsening economic news that even the Illuminist propaganda machine will be unable to cover up and dissemble. Based on the foregoing, we do not see the pathetic, oafish support for the view that "the worst is behind us" going beyond that point in time.
Anyone who is not an elitist insider and who ventures back into the general stock markets because they think the worst is over is like a lamb being led to the slaughterhouse. In fact, such people deserve to be ruined if for no other reason than they obviously suffer from a severe case of terminal stupidity. The elitists will simply put them out of their misery like a wounded animal. In case you have not yet figured it out, you are playing in a rigged game. Worse yet, by participating in this charade as a patsy for the Illuminati, you are helping these evil, would-be lords of the universe to carry out their deception, which is to bail out of the general stock markets through use of dark pools of liquidity at the blow-off top just before everyone else gets beggared and pauperized by what will be the greatest crash in stock market history. Forget about 1929, that was small potatoes. This is much bigger and will create a worldwide meltdown as tens of trillions are lost in US government treasury bonds, in corporate bonds, in various illiquid, asset-backed derivatives for which there are no markets, in declining real estate values and in imploding credit default swaps and interest rate swaps backed by insolvent counterparties who have put up little or no collateral. In the subprime category alone, losses disclosed by the banking community worldwide are less than a quarter of those expected by the IMF. Based on that thought alone, how can anyone be that vapidly stupid to think that the worst is behind us? Such losses not only are not priced in, they are not even discussed in the media. Does that mean these losses will not occur, simply because the fane-stream media ignores them? Has everyone become an ostrich? Next come the trillions that will be lost in Alt-A mortgages, in prime ARM mortgages and in negative amortization pick-a-pay or payment-option mortgages that are due to start imploding at the end of this year and that will make the subprime losses look diminutive by comparison.
All that the gargantuan Fed rate cuts have accomplished is to increase the asset spreads for lenders who are no longer lending due to raving fear of default by potentially insolvent borrowers and a complete lack of confidence in the entire interbank lending system and in the entire "financial engineering" products sector which is now viewed as if it were an unmapped minefield. These terrified lenders, such as the commercial banks, as well as investment banks and brokerage houses that are outside the Federal Reserve system but that are benefiting from the rate cuts thanks to the Fed's ill-advised adventure into territory uncharted since the 1930's, are instead hoarding government securities and highly rated corporate bonds most of which have been producing negative returns based on official inflation much less actual inflation that is now over 12% and that is only two thirds of the way to catching up with an M3 of 18%. How do you improve your balance sheets without the benefit of the fractional reserve banking multiplier that can only be achieved through bank lending which has been curtailed by the credit-crunch? Do returns below the rate of inflation really improve balance sheets? Who is fooling who here? Despite these humongous and virtually unprecedented rate cuts, mortgage rates in the real world outside of the Illuminist interbank system have barely budged even for those with sterling credit. For everyone else with not-so-sterling credit, which is most people, the rates have moved higher, along with underwriting standards, to take into account the increasing risk of default based on fraud-laced toxic waste. The new FHA jumbo loan program is not working because the rates have climbed well above non-jumbo rates even for those with excellent credit. And now the Fed's so-called "pause," which we can assure you will end before this year is closed out, has sent treasury rates back up. While this has accounted for some of the recent support given to the dollar as foreigners and large institutional investors go for the higher rates on what they foolishly perceive to be higher quality paper, most of the support has been direct intervention by the PPT and its European and Asian counterparts that have been spiking the dollar out of the blue for several weeks now as part of their gold suppression activity. Further, these higher rates on treasuries means that those who already owned treasuries got a big haircut, and guess who that might be. That's right, the same banks who are insolvent and who just absorbed another big sock-it-to-me in the Treasury bond department, making them even more insolvent. Wait until interest rates really get cranking as everything implodes, which will happen even if the Fed lowers the funds rate to 0%. When the greatest bear market in bonds of all time gets under way on account of double digit interest rates brought on by long overdue risk reassessment and counter-hyperinflation strategy, the losses will dwarf the subprime problem. Traders will be pining for the good old days of the subprime debacle. Then it will be sheiks to the rescue again, but we suspect that rich oil exporters will want gold instead and will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to rescue the banks which will be all but vaporized by then as the Fed pumps M3 to infinity to keep them all alive. Has anyone got a sub handy so we can cut those communication cables again? Now they're threatening to remove those darn dollar pegs because we cut their cables - forget Iran, can we nuke Mecca without starting WWIII?
And then of course there is the supposedly recovering US economy. This is so preposterous that all we can say is that you just can't make this stuff up! Bear in mind that oil has already been way, way north of $100 per barrel for the first five weeks of the second quarter. How does that bode for corporate earnings and consumer spending? In the meanwhile, food prices continue to soar, having doubled over the past three years according to a key UN food index, thereby causing food riots and rationing. While all this transpires, wages are stagnant while inflation rampages at 12%, hundreds of thousands lose their jobs monthly, fixed and adjustable mortgage rates continue to rise and mortgage defaults double year over year while equity withdrawals from home ATM machines go the way of the dodo bird. Of course, that wonderful stimulus package will save everything, right? Has everyone started smoking mushrooms laced with crack? Look at all the cutesy GDP hedonics, the ludicrous retail sales statistics pumped up by inflation and the rosy jobs report made that way by adding in hundreds of thousands of jobs that do not exist while many billions of taxpayer dollars are used to hire tens of thousands of totally unnecessary government employees to make the abysmal statistics look better and to gain votes for incumbents. Consumer credit cards are now virtually all tapped out and defaults on their balances have accelerated. To put the icing on the cake, US citizens will now get to import all the inflation that we have exported for decades to other countries through free trade, globalization, off-shoring, outsourcing and illegal immigration. That is because lots of unhappy foreigners, who we have recently screwed out of billions with fraudulent sales of toxic waste and a "strong" dollar policy, are shunning our treasury bonds, and who can blame them as we continue with our "beggar-thy-neighbor" policies. While sucking in all this new, wonderful inflation, workers lose pension and medical benefits as their municipalities and employers collapse and our national debt and trade deficits continue to grow to un-payable levels. As all this is coming down, the dollar is taken to the cleaners as Wall Street's profligate fraud is nationalized by the private Fed with the blessing of our Treasury Department so we get to have some nice entertainment by doing a reenactment of 1920's Germany. Yeah, we just turned the corner all right, head-on into the business end of an oncoming tractor-trailer loaded with steel girders and concrete from the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers. Our economy will have to be removed from the ensuing wreckage with a spatula. If you don't own gold, silver and/or their related assets, we suggest that your last investment be the purchase of a pancake flipper so that by your surviving relatives can remove and separate your body from the flattened vestiges of our economy.
Large specs who go into the current stock market leveraged to the hilt deserve to be blasted into oblivion. The only fundamentals in favor of non-resource stocks are lies about economic news, false statistics and PPT manipulations, and if you are not an insider, the PPT manipulations are not of much use because you are forced to guess at what their next move might be. Take Goldman Sachs for instance, which is touting 200 oil with help from neocon, war-jawboning government officials so they can unload their long positions in oil without losing too much profit as they make plans to knock oil way down should gold and silver decide to get porky, which both did on Monday as gold crossed 880 and silver touched 17 again. Once again, the yen strengthened while the COMEX was open and weakened after it closed. Same old, same old. Pessimism for carry traders while gold markets are open, optimism when the gold markets are closed but while stock markets are still open. Message: Use the liquidity we give you to buy stocks to suck in the dupes, not gold. If you buy gold, you will be punished by super-yen and wimpy-oil. Protective derivatives in the form of stock index puts, yen longs against both the dollar and the euro as well as oil shorts are a must to counter these potential cartel-orchestrated boondoggles that are intended to drain large spec liquidity and cause liquidations of metals positions. If the cartel tries to put a squeeze on your protective derivatives, the solution is massive physical buying of gold and silver and stock de-leveraging into PPT provided strength which will force them to back off lest they send gold and silver into outer space and the stock market into the deepest depths of Mordor. That is how you make your own game without playing their game. Physical is the key, along with de-leveraging out of general stocks.
We suspect that the hedgies are waiting for the dollar to stop spiking as exporting nations try to push their currencies down versus the dollar and as foreigners begin to think that it is safe to get back into the water full of Wall Street sharks as they tempt fate and purchase dollar-denominated assets, especially US treasuries, which despite their currently rising rates of return pay far less than actual inflation with the added bonus of potential default as all US financial fallout is about to be nationalized by the Fed and the Treasury to create levels of debt that will never be repaid. What these "proud" owners of treasuries will gain when the Fed is forced to lower rates again to save ever more insolvent banks and financial institutions they will more than lose as the dollar which their assets are denominated in explodes and goes down in flames. This is a no win situation, and once others realize this gold and silver will explode as they are your only protection under these inflationary circumstances.
Silver lease rates for three months or less are still negative, meaning that the bullion banks will pay you to lease their silver. So much for making profits on non-performing assets. As a side note, when oil is sold off to hit gold and silver, a lot of those proceeds will be transferred into precious metals, thereby softening the blow. As a further side note, only three months ago, the USDX was at about 77 and gold closed at 906.40. Tuesday the USDX was about 73, with gold closing at 876.40, even with the Fed funds rate being a full percentage point lower and the chances of a rate increase being slim to none. We are left stunned and incredulous by the lack of public outrage at these despicable, suppressive manipulations.
Today Wall Street cannot exist without a strong Fed reflationary policy. Our economic and financial problems are tied to the excesses in Wall Street and banking over the past several years. As we have often said deflation has to be smothered at any cost. We currently see the deflationary fallout in housing and in the ongoing credit crisis. On the other hand we see M3 increasing at close to 18%, a wideopen Fed discount window, massive auction lending by the Fed and massive loans by the Fed to other select central banks. You could call this push-push economics and finance. The media, particularly the financial media, portrays this as normal. Our economy and the world economy are being distorted by the practice of financial arbitrage capitalism. As we have often said the system is dysfunctional and unsustainable. All the masters of the universe are doing is adding to the existing groundwork for the coming depression. Incidentally, they are well aware of that and could care less.
It once was the function of finance capitalism to raise capital for American industry and the capital development of the economy as opposed to speculation and trading profits. The advent of free trade, globalization, offshoring and outsourcing changed that. Due to inflation and lack of industrial demand the management of money grew in importance. Leverage was employed and banks became an integral partner supplying the money and credit the Fed so amply provided. Investment banks, private equity, hedge funds, brokerage houses, insurance companies and corporate America are playing in one vast casino. Profits no longer came from production and trade, but from gambling. This assumption of leverage and debt is exactly what took place in the period between 1927 and 1933. America never got out of the depression. They just had another war. That is what is going on today in Iraq and Afghanistan. If that isn’t enough to distract the public and investors from our immense financial debt and economic problems, then the Illuminists will crank-up Iran or Georgia or Kosovo.
This is another Keynesian nightmare: advanced capitalism as a casino. As we learned from the 1930s this has to end in tears. The manifestation of these problems today is the credit crisis, which produced marketplace illiquidity. The Fed has for nine months tried to reverse that, so far unsuccessfully. The days of limitless speculative profits fired by unlimited debt and leverage are over. Again, the game has changed over the past eight years. There is capital development affecting now only 15% of the economy. This is a major misallocation of funds, because nothing is being created except bubbles. We call it a flight from economic reality. The over expansion of credit and debt will not in the final analysis avoid depression. The longer they prolong the inevitable the worse it will be.
We are witnessing the greatest speculation the world has ever known. The financial system and Wall Street are collapsing. The evidence is right before you. Look at the radical measures we have cited. The bailout of financial institutions, the continued massive extension of money and credit in a system where the credit crisis is supposed to be over. The Federal Reserve and our federal government are using trillions of dollars of securities as loan collateral, which isn’t worth the paper it is written on. All this to save Wall Street and the bankers and to allow the dollar to collapse. When all is said and done the American taxpayer is consigned to pay the bill to bail out these miscreants. In the process we are as well seeing the nationalization of our financial world to fully integrate it into our corporate fascist government. How else would you save a dysfunctional system rightly called a Ponzi scheme? Those in charge will continue this game until this misallocation of resources ends. Before the great purge comes it will be preceded by price distortion, major volatility and social and political unrest that will grow in severity. The credit bubble is still inflating at the highest levels and when that ends the purge begins.
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-- Posted Thursday, 8 May 2008 | Digg This Article | Source: GoldSeek.com
