Gold

Trojan Horse Before Wall Street

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By IM Vronsky – Re-Blogged From http://www.Gold-Eagle.com

The generally accepted definition of TROJAN HORSE (*) is a person or thing intended secretly to undermine or bring about the downfall of an enemy or opponent. In today’s world, the THE Trojan Horse is Bitcoin – manned by ‘geeks’ using the unbridled greed addiction to attract naïve, innocent and ignorant investors of Troy (i.e. Wall Street).

However, many worldwide recognized monetary mavens, pundits, gurus and experts have emerged to inform and alert the investing world to the eventual dire consequences of the phony currency labeled Bitcoin. Here following are just a few sage well supported views condemning the Bitcoin scourge.

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In Praise Of The Whistleblowers

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By Charles Thorngren – Re-Blogged From http://www.Gold-Eagle.com

Whistleblowers run a two-pronged battle – on the one hand they are lauded for their honesty in exposing wrongdoing in the fields in which they are involved – on the other, they are hated and despised for their actions by those who want to cover misdeeds, or preserve the status quo.

The world of finance has a long history of such characters – some, like Michael Lewis, the ex-bond salesman from Wall Street, who worked for Salomon Brothers in the 1980s and exposed the work practices and ethos which subsumed banks and trading houses – have made their fortunes by such whistleblowing.

Others, like Hervé Falciani, an employee of HSBC’s Swiss private bank, who opened the door onto the bank’s money laundering techniques, and gave details of the hidden accounts of 130,000 wealthy individuals to the tax authorities, was jailed for 5 years for his activities.

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Bitcoin: A Chapter In The History Of Mass Speculation

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By Hugo Salinas Price – Re-Blogged From http://www.Silver-Phoenix500.com

 

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Outlook For The Dollar Price Of Gold

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By Alasdair Macleod – Re-Blogged From http://www.Gold-Eagle.com

Now that gold has become overbought on Comex, the price is vulnerable to being trashed, yet again, by the too-big-to-fail banks. It is a familiar operation in gold futures markets, where speculators buying contracts protect themselves with stop-losses. All the TBTF banks need is a pause in the speculator’s buying and a little good news (bad for gold). Ideally, the active contract will be running into maturity, so the speculators are forced to put up or shut up: in other words, sell the contract, roll it into another later maturity, or stand for delivery.

Bearing in mind these speculators are running highly leveraged positions, greed turns to fear on a sixpence. The TBTF banks will have supplied the speculators with their longs by going short. From the moment you go long, you are trapped in a trader’s version of Hotel California.

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Mutiny “For” The Bounty?

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By Bill Holter – Re-Blogged From http://www.Gold-Eagle.com

China recently announced they will trade oil for yuan “backed” by gold. The story has gotten some press (none of it mainstream mind you), and many have questions as to what it really means. While quite complicated as a whole, when you break this down into pieces I believe it is a quite simple and logical end to Bretton Woods.

For a background, China has had an exchange open for about a year where gold can be purchased with yuan, though the volumes so far have been miniscule to this point. China has also been all over the world inking trade deals (in yuan) and investing in all sorts of resources from oil to gold to grains, they have made no secret about this. With the most recent example here. They have trade arrangements and treaties with Russia, Iran and many other non-Western nations. They have also “courted” many Western nations privately (remember their meeting with the King of Saudi Arabia?) and actually lured many with their “Silk Road” plans via the AIIB which was huge news last year (but nearly forgotten by Americans at this point?). We also know China has been a huge importer of gold for the last 4-5 years and done so publicly via Shanghai receipts and deliveries.

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Major Gold-Stock Breakouts

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By Adam Hamilton – Re-Blogged From http://www.Gold-Eagle.com

The gold stocks are off to the races again, with big gains mounting. They just staged major breakouts, shattering a vexing consolidation that had trapped them for an entire year. Such momentum early in gold’s strong season is a very-bullish portent. As higher prices improve both technicals and sentiment, buying begets more buying. With gold-stock prices still quite low in secular terms, their upside remains huge.

Gold stocks are a small contrarian sector without a wide following. So their latest surge has surprised many investors and speculators. But it shouldn’t have. In the markets knowledge is profits, so staying informed about gold stocks’ fundamentals, technicals, and sentiment is crucial. The traders who did their homework this summer and bought in low when few others were willing are now sitting on fat unrealized gains.

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Eight Crooks Against The World

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By Ted Butler – Re-Blogged From http://www.Gold-Eagle.com

I’d like to share what may be a different way of looking at the gold and silver market, but still remain focused on what has been the primary driver of price – changes in the COMEX futures market structure. It has become fairly common knowledge that prices rise when the managed money traders buy and prices fall when these traders sell. So great is the effect on price of this COMEX derivatives positioning that it is discussed in more commentaries than ever before. And that is due to what has become a clearly observable pattern of cause and price effect.

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