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- The U.S. Treasury's Golden Shell Game
- There is some question as to whether or not the gold vaults of the U.S. Government still have any of the yellow metal in them. The question is inaccurate in that it focuses on whether there is any gold left, instead of how much gold is left....
- External links 2009-01-25
- Is the Unemployment Percentage Misleading?
- The announcement that the unemployment numbers actually fell in July comes as good news, but also raises questions as to how the numbers are being manipulated. While the headline rate fell to 9.4% from 9.5%, an additional 637,000 people suddenly appeared in the "Not in Labor Force" part...
- External links 2009-08-07
- U.S. Fiscal Policy: Fantasy and Reality
- Robin Williams once said "Reality, what a concept". If it wasn't so sad, it would be funny. Our current National Fiscal situation is not only a Mickey Mouse operation with apologies to Walt but Fantasia is the starring production. Treasury Secretary Geithner on Friday, formally...
- External links 2009-08-12
- Monday's Million Ounce Silver Withdrawal
- COMEX registered Silver Stocks took a million ounce hit on Monday, dropping total COMEX silver stocks to slightly less than 116.5 Moz. Of that amount, only 61.5 Moz is registered available for delivery against contracts. Total COMEX stocks haven't been this low since 2006 and are...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Which Two Banks Are Massively Short Silver?
- Two US banks continue to hold massive short positions in the COMEX silver futures. Although the CFTC refuses to name these two banks, at least one, JPMorgan JPM, seems to be a pretty sure thing due to circumstances that have been covered in detail over the past year....
- External links 2009-09-08
- Comex Silver - Another Bubble Or Desperation?
- In the past two weeks, the Commercial Short Position in COMEX silver has increased by 16.2%. The small number of Commercial Traders have basically sold short some 11,500 contracts (57.5 Moz) in just the past two reporting weeks while at the same time, trimming their long positions...
- External links 2009-09-15
- A Silver Takedown's Currently in Progress
- Commercial Short positions at highest long to short ratio since July 2008Commercial Short positions up 16,000 contracts in last three weeksContracted Silver Volume is now 619 Million ounces.Excessive leverage :Comex has only 60 Million ounces registered for delivery. (more than 10-1) The COT report for September 15th (released on Friday,...
- External links 2009-09-20
- COMEX Silver Positions Since May 2008
- The following is based on a study of the COMEX silver positions since May of 2008. Information is taken from COT weekly reports.The Commercial Short position in silver has reached what may be considered a tipping point as Comm Shorts added another 3400 short positions in the last reporting week,...
- External links 2009-09-30
- Silver: Commercial Short Positions Continue to Rise
- The numbers are understandably ballpark, but the fact is that the Commercial Short Position on the COMEX has taken a 2.2 Billion dollar short position since July 31, 2009. Using the Closing silver value, multiplied by the ounces sold sort derives the figure. And what deep pockets the...
- External links 2009-10-09
- Silver Futures Show Markets Are Acting Strangely
- One need look no further than the Silver futures to see just how strange the markets are right now. October Bank Report - 2 US Banks are short 38,375 Silver Contracts. This is 29.1% of all Commercial Short Positions (91,723). Total Contracts: 131,801. Why...
- External links 2009-10-21
- Scary Comex Silver Withdrawals: Will They Continue?
- It’s bad enough that the silver backing the COMEX futures market is only 1/12th of the amount of silver that is under contract, but the day before Halloween dropped a new trick on things. Total Silver withdrawn on October 30th totaled a massive 3,627,012 ounces. ...
- External links 2009-11-04
- Will Obama's Plans to Pay for Deficit Government Spending Succeed?
- A review of the CBO Baseline Budget Projections brought out the hopes of the Obama Administration in regards to the recovering economy. Under the president's plan, not only will we see an economic recovery in 2010, we will also begin trimming the yearly federal deficit by 2011....
- External links 2009-08-06
- Significant Silver Withdrawals from COMEX
- Ending last week with nearly 119 million ounces of silver Moz in the four COMEX depositories, this week the word has been get your silver while you can. Slightly less than 2 million ounces of silver has been withdrawn from COMEX stocks in three days (July 6-8), with eligible...
- External links 2009-07-10
- Is Iceland the Canary in the U.S. Coal Mine?
- The collapse in late January 2009 of the Icelandic Government is being blamed directly on the collapse in 2008 of the country's banks after they were overleveraged to such an extent that the world-wide financial crisis caused investment values to implode. During a period of rapid growth, the banks amassed...
- External links 2009-01-29
- Housing Bailout - This Is Getting Ridiculous
- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made his case before members of the U.S. Senate this week for bailing out those with unaffordable mortgages. His main point was that if your neighbor’s house caught fire through no fault of yours, you should still call the Fire Department...
- External links 2009-02-26
- USGS' Curious Silver Numbers
- The U.S. Geological Survey is not the first government agency that one would think of when it comes to having what appears to be misleading information. The information that I am referring to could simply be a clerical error. However, when the error repeats more than once, most...
- External links 2009-04-09
- The U.S. Treasury's Golden Shell Game, Part 2
- Good News: The US Treasury has a little over 261 million ounces of gold which, because of Breton Woods, they value at a price of $42.22 per ounce, giving it a book value of slightly more than 11 million dollars. The gold appears to be in repositories and while the...
- External links 2009-04-28
- Getting a Handle on the Deficit Problem
- Trying to explain the deficit is like trying to explain rocket science to someone who rides a bicycle for a living. First off, they don’t care about thrust and G-force; they only want to know when they will get hit by the rocket. For our average...
- External links 2009-05-06
- Shorts Unable to Stop Silver Rise
- Much of the blame for the price of silver has been laid at the foot of a few commercial banks that take extreme short positions regarding silver. The fact that the two large commercial US banks, which the COMEX refuses to identify, have positioned themselves to bet against...
- External links 2009-05-29
- Silver Shorts Exerting Price Control
- Just a month ago, the COMEX silver price was rising, despite mixed economic news and proclamations that the economy was improving. At that time, the commercial positions in silver on COMEX were short 58,000 contracts or 79% of all short positions held (5/8/09). While...
- External links 2009-06-18
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