Volkswagen, DieselGate And What If Nazi Ruled The World?

  

  It is not about hard working brilliant engineers and workers at Volkswagen in Germany and all over the world. And it is a rhetorical question. You already live in that world. Let's start with the definition:

Nazi - a member of National Socialist German Workers' Party 

  The fat cats in the boardrooms have let us all down again. The key word here is Nationalism. It was not really about socialism or workers, it was about the control of masses and the grand idea. Idea was simple: that one nation can be better than others and, as we all know, it can take you quite a long way with the stretch of the evil imagination. We live in the world when some people have decided that they are better than others. We will not go as far as discussing Brothers and other "conspiracy theories" today, but let's just have a look at the corporate world. 

  It is all about Nationalism (Your Corporation), Control and Punishment if you are out of line. Living from cheque to cheque is not helping to built up your independence. This is why there is a War on the middle class in the West. Independent people are dangerous to the System by definition. Here comes Debt and slavery to the banks by generations only to pay off the ticket just to get on the ladder of the "American Dream". 

  All major corporate crimes can be committed only when the masses are silent being busy digesting fast food with video games and Facebook "friends". Or deeper: when corporate slavery affects you own perspective from the cubicle so much that you think that it is Not Evil any more.

  This is what happened at Volkswagen. This is what happening with Fracking and GMO. They all affect literally billions of people on our planet. It is a corporate mass murder sanctioned by the corrupt politicians. Now we know about Volkswagen and it is already growing into the DieselGate, when nobody of auto-makers really is in compliance with toxic emissions limits. The next is coming the AutoGate, when ALL cars are emitting deadly pollutions at much higher levels than we all have thought. 

  And we are not talking about the socialism in any cense here, it is just the problem that we do not have capitalism in the West as well. We are not against corporations, but the corrupted HFT version of the wild corporate capitalism now is pushing more and more young people to the nihilism and socialism is on the rise in the West again. Evil minds will get into power driving the desperation again. But we are out of politics and, thanks God, we have the solution now. 

  Let's stop talking and let's start walking. But walking to the Solution - not just ban all the cars, get in the communes again and read with a candle. No, we do not have to do it any more, despite of Fossil Fuel corporate propaganda. Finally technology has made it possible not only to preserve "our way of life", but make it better without sacrificing anything or, what is even more important, anyone.

  If somebody in Power does really want it, we have all technology and solutions available now. If somebody in Power was allowed by the Corporations who paid her ticket there - we have all the money to make it. Just take all costs of all Wars - yes, they all about Control of Energy and Oil means Energy to us even now. Add here all Trillions in tax breaks and subsidies provided to Fossil Fuel Industries. Nuclear will go here as well. Add all billions wasted on Hydrogen - it will be controlled by the same Old Big Oil, we will not even talk about the very low energy efficiency of full Energy cycle of Hydrogen To Wheel today. Add here all medical bills for cancer and other chemical pollution related deceases. It will be enough for a very good and fast start to the race into the post carbon world!
  Invest this money into Electric Cars, Solar and Wind. Put trucks on the natural Gas first and Hybrids later. Move to the real Energy Security with distributed Solar and Wind power generation. Close all coal plants and nuclear as well. Use the Sun: Solar and Wind power costs are dropping like a stones now, why do we have to live still in the stone age in cages provided by Big Oil and Fossils? It was supposed to be over - the stone age, and not due to the lack of stones, we have the technology to make it without burning fossil fuels now.
  Maybe now we have a chance, finally, with all our social media? Do not hold your breath thou. There is a Kill Switch. Once you start talking about the real things, censors are here: you are just getting lost - so far so good, it is only in the social media. And it is not in China or with Putin, it is here on Twitter …
 Snowden is trending with his latest revelations how "They" can take over your iPhone. "They" will take over everything if you allow it! And the last thought on social media: we have multiple choices now, but just check the quality and what kind of message do you get from all those multiple streams. It is great that you can chose, but than again GMO is claiming its victims …
  Why is it so long? Because the time has come. Other people will make the choice for you as usual. We are not talking here about poor asylum seekers or millions of refuges displaced by Wars for Oil. We are talking about you driving Range Rover to the school where your kids are breathing toxic cancerogenic air from thousands of other cars around them. Where is your rage, are you mad as hell for all of them lying to us? At least for your kids? No, don't take guns, do not vote for socialist or even do not stop to drive. Just bring change, demand it, talk about it, donate your RT! Vote with your wallet. When you can buy your electric car. Stop buying all that killing us rubbish. Just do not let "Them" decide for you again and raise 70% toxic emissions standards in order that auto-makers can comply with it!
  And it is not your choice any more, The big pain is coming. Lithium Technology is here to change our world. Elon Musk will not make it all alone. We have to push our society to accept this disruption and stop burning fossil fuels to produce our energy. We have to have our "Manhattan plan" to make it.
  China is rising and it has the military plan to build electric cars as strategic industry. It is great … for China, what about us? Do you know that Lithium Battery was developed in the West? It was commercialised by SONY in 80s and now South Korea is the leading manufacturer with Samsung and LG Chem. But China already controls 75% of Lithium Hydroxide which goes into Tesla batteries and they are moving very fast with their own Megafactories to rival Tesla with its Gigafactory to produce lithium batteries on the mass scale. The pain is coming, you can't stop it. Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) will be dying with Fossil Fuels. It is just law of nature. Electric Cars are better and they will become cheaper as well  very soon. We can make it as a pain of growth, but who will make it?  All these jobs for The Next Industrial rEVolution could be here, not just going again to China. Germany with its brilliant engineers can produce batteries and electric cars and it can happen in every country. But they all need your help to change, what have you done lately?

  

"Deal Or War": Is Doomed Dollar Really Behind Obama's Iran Warning?

US Dollar Exit And Gold: ZeroHedge - Moscow Says Massive "Holy Grail" Gas Deal With China Is 98% Ready

  

  Update May 21st, 2014.

ZeroHedge:

Russia And China Finally Sign Historic $400 Billion "Holy Grail" Gas Deal

  ZeroHedge reports on further developments around the US Dollar Exit and geopolitical Chess Game - it is all about Resources and Energy is the most important of them. Today we have the very important confirmation to our previous discussion - this is what will drive the Old Good Street On Street Fight in our former Global Village for years to come:

Currency Wars: Russia Holds "De-Dollarization Meeting": China, Iran Willing To Drop USD From Bilateral Trade

  "C.S. We are going into the next stage of The Currency Wars when our previous discussions on this blog are getting into the headlines from Kremlin.Geopolitical map of the world is being re-drawn as we speak now. Our Global Village  is getting to the good old street on street fight. The reason is simple: There Is Not Enough. You can print money and manipulate equity market in to the All-Time-High for a while, but you can't print Oil, Copper, Gold and other commodities without which any growth is impossible. We all need to eat in between of our sessions on Facebook and even Google search will not bring us food into the mouth yet. Our dear Apple is really great, but we can not eat iPads even if their prices are "deflationary". We need Gas, Fertilisers and even more Oil to grow our Food and deliver it. 

  Have you noticed that with global growth in economy being barely above the water and China's "Collapse" Oil prices are strongly north of $100 mark? Where is all that Shale Oil and Gas? What will happen when economy will start growing for real?

  China knows is too well that is why it is buying resources all over the world, including Copper and Lithium. It has the military plan of Electrification of its Transportation and for Alternative Energy. Just check the numbers on Wind and Solar Power installations in the world. Energy Storage is the next stage and Lithium is at the core of it. Now China benefits from all these games and manipulations in the Gold market and buying best Copper deposits in the world.

  Have we mentioned already that poor Ukraine has been caught between the rock and the hard place? That nobody really cares about its Independence or its Proud People? That Joe Biden son has joined the board of the major Gas producer  in Ukraine? Or that it is all really about China? Empire has the only one resource left - its Military Complex (Industrial part of it gone, but Nukes are here) and it is playing the very dangerous game to leverage it and slow down China.

  Can even the good Golfer who is spending more time on the Greens than in the War Room fight with the Bear Hunters or Shaolin Masters? This is the question two charts are talking about. US Dollar above, which is playing with dangerous 80.00 level after breaching 79.00 once already these weeks; and Gold below, which is harder and harder to break down below MA200. 
  Nobody knows the future, but the one outcome is already here: due to stupidity and arrogance the world has another Tsar  and will have one more retired Golfer ... Read More"

ZeroHedge:

Moscow Says Massive "Holy Grail" Gas Deal With China Is 98% Ready

"We have previously profiled the "holy grail" gas deal between Russia and China on several occasions, and with its announcement scheduled for next week (barring some unmitigated disaster) during Putin's first visit to China since Xi's appointment as president last March, it is time to do a status update on where it stands even ifaccording to SCMP, at this point finding the "holy grail" is merely a formality.

The Hong Kong publication reports that China and Russia hope to sign a massive deal for natural gas supply when their leaders meet in a regional summit in Shanghai next week, a senior diplomat has said. Under the deal, Russia will supply 38 billion cubic metres of natural gas annually to China for 30 years. Deputy Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping told reporters yesterday that President Xi Jinping would discuss the deal and other points of co-operation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, who will visit Shanghai on Tuesday. Read More."

Gold: Russian Presidential Adviser Proposed Plan For Currency War GLD GDX MUX TNR.v

  

  With all the cry about Gold price going lower, Gold is climbing The Wall of Worry and building the Second Bottom of the Double Bottom on daily chart above. This is a normal correction after very impressive run from December Low. We are not the only one watching this chart, so expect the volatility and attempts to paint the breakdown picture here. Otherwise the positive action in Gold today will build up the reversal pattern of Double Bottom on daily chart with the Three White Soldiers - very strong continuation of the Bullish Reversal Pattern. All momentum indicators are positive and confirming this formation.

  The Weekly chart below demonstrates our point in the perspective of last year's Double Bottom reversal in Gold market. Gold is ready to go higher - if it will be allowed now.

  This Cold War is only getting hotter day by day. We do hope that some wisdom will prevent the full escalation of the war, but the Financial Damage will be mutually assured. From ZeroHedge:

"According to Vedomosti as Bloomberg reported, Glazyev proposed:

• Russia should withdraw all assets, accounts in dollars, euros from NATO countries to neutral ones
• Russia should start selling NATO member sovereign bonds before Russia’s foreign-currency accounts are frozen
• Central bank should reduce dollar assets, sell sovereign bonds of countries that support sanctions
• Russia should limit commercial banks’ FX assets to prevent speculation on ruble, capital outflows
• Central bank should increase money supply so that state cos., banks may refinance foreign loans
• Russia should use national currencies in trade with customs Union members, other non-dollar, non-euro partners

In other words, a full-blown scorched earth campaign by Russia."

Gold Surges As US Dollar Exit Begins: Russia Largest Bank Halts Foreign Currency Loans MUX TNR.v GLD GDX

 "CS. It did not take long for Putin to start its retaliation against the sanctions and excuse was presented by JP Morgan's block of some payments on the grounds that Bank Rossii was involved in transaction. Bank Rossii was on the list of sanctions and even its issued international credit cards were declined after that. Mr Putin said that he will open his personal account in that bank and now it became really personal. We are not judging who is right in all this mess created by CIA vs KGB 2014 War Games, but ultimately aimed to push China from its path of Dangerously Fast Rising Into Power by all means possible including the last asset of the Falling Empire - Military Industrial Complex. We are just observing the outcome. 

  For us this action from Russian Largest Bank is the sign of US Dollar Exit flashing Red to everybody who is watching. Any Exit will not be even contemplated without China supporting it - we guess some arrangements are in place already. Putin is looking to reallocated Russian Oil and Gas, Metals and Agricultural Commodities towards Asia: China and India particularly.
  So far China was benefiting from all these Ukraine games by playing "The Smart Monkey Watching Two Tigers' Fight": by abstaining in UN's vote, but treating Michelle Obama during her "family visit" at the highest level at the same time. China is more than happy to buy Copper and Copper projects at the lower price, Chinese are buying the record amount of Gold and now will have the upper hand on pricing in the ongoing long negotiations on Oil and Gas supply to China, which are reported to be concluded in May. 

  Next moves will be very interesting to say at least. Western Equity markets are levitating without any reflection of reality of the underlining economy and all it takes now to bring these Currency Wars to the next level  is for Putin to announce that All Russian Commodities will be traded Not In US Dollars and any pricing and transactions in US Dollar will be prohibited by Russian Central Bank. Next move could be the pricing and transactions in Gold based currency which is so well explained by James Rickards. 

  Russia has already announced the creation of its own payment system not depending on the western financial institutions. White House Hawks are better take notice now as their push to isolate Russia can succeed and Russia can take into "isolation" China, India and other BRICS Club countries with a good half of the world population. Wall Street can survive for a while rigging what is left from the financial markets, but once all Cloud and Mobile Games IPO will be sold to Muppets people will be asking for Food on the streets. As for the "Isolated" - just check your iPhone. Was it Made in China - we guess? The Isolated Club will have all commodities and technology available to prosper. Who will be left behind in the end?"

In Gold We Trust: Forming Of Eurasian Economic Union And Joint Currency Accelerates

ZeroHedge:

Furious Russia, Downgraded To Just Above Junk By S&P, Proposes "Scorched Earth" Retaliation Against NATO Countries

Cyprus and Russia - what's the difference (aside from the fact that the former was a money laundering offshore center of the latter until last year of course)?

If you said one is a lackey to statist, selfish banker interests, and after having its economy thoroughly destroyed by the great doomed European sociopolitical (and pathological) experiment, came crawling back to its Eurozone masters, while the other couldn't care one bit about Pax Petrodollariana and the global central bank cabal, you are right. In which case it will also be clear why a few hours ago that joke of a rating agency, Standard & Poor's, which also earlier announced it was "affirming" France at an AA rating making it very clear it will no longer accept being sued for telling the truth and downgrading sovereigns or otherwise have its offices abroad raided, not only upgraded Cyprus from B- to B (please deposits your funds in Cyprus banks now: they are safe, S&P promises), but - far more importantly - delivered a political message to the Kremlin, and downgraded Russia from BBB to BBB-, one short notch away from junk status. This was the first downgrade of Russia by S&P since December 2008.

WSJ reports:

"In our view, the tense geopolitical situation between Russia and Ukraine could see additional significant outflows of both foreign and domestic capital from the Russian economy and hence further undermine already weakening growth prospects," S&P wrote in its report.

Moscow's MICEX stock index fell by 1.5% after the move. The ruble weakened 0.6% against the dollar to 35.977.

A further cut to junk status would be a big move, given Russia's relatively modest level of debt, according to Tim Ash, an economist at Standard Bank.

"But if the crisis in Ukraine deteriorates further, and we see sustained capital flight and pressure on the ruble and Russian markets further, then it is possible," he said.

Russia's response was prompt.

First, in retaliation to the downgrade, Russian economy minister Alexei Ulyukaev said S&P’s downgrade of Russia’s rating was expected by investors, won’t significantly change their behavior, adding the obvious that the decision to cut Russia’s rating was partly political, partly based on economic situation. In other words, entirely symbolic - it is not as if Russia has access to bond markets anyway, plus as we wrote earlier this week in "Why Putin Is Smiling At The Bond Market's Blockade Of Russia", it is not as if it needs them.

But far more importantly, and ahead of yet another round of western sanctions which appears imminent unless Obama is to look even more powerless than he currently is (granted, a difficult achievement), Russian presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev proposed plan of 15 measures to protect country’s economy if sanctions applied, Vedomosti newspaper reports, citing Glazyev’s letter to Finance Ministry. According to Vedomosti as Bloomberg reported, Glazyev proposed:

• Russia should withdraw all assets, accounts in dollars, euros from NATO countries to neutral ones
• Russia should start selling NATO member sovereign bonds before Russia’s foreign-currency accounts are frozen
• Central bank should reduce dollar assets, sell sovereign bonds of countries that support sanctions
• Russia should limit commercial banks’ FX assets to prevent speculation on ruble, capital outflows
• Central bank should increase money supply so that state cos., banks may refinance foreign loans
• Russia should use national currencies in trade with customs Union members, other non-dollar, non-euro partners

In other words, a full-blown scorched earth campaign by Russia.

Granted, Russian holdings of US Treasurys are not that substantial (and could be monetized entirely in three months of POMO by the Fed), and western financial linkages to Russia, aside from trade routes, are not life-threatening, but if Russia were to take the baton, and other BRIC countries, already furious by the recent US decision to not boost their IMF status, follow suit, then Obama's life is about to become a living nightmare. Especially, if that most important BRIC member - China - does any of the many things it can do to indicate if, in this brand new Cold War, it is with or against the US...

Finally, those curious what are the linkages between the west and Russia are, review our recent post on the matter: All You Need To Know About Russia, In Charts."

Jim Rogers: On Conflict in Syria, Gold and Market Panic

  Jim Rogers is stepping in with his view on the recent geopolitical developments. With Gold in the Bull Market territory now any further war escalation will lead to the parabolic rise in the gold price.

Gold Breakout: Jim Sinclair - The three entities that called the $1900 in gold are back long. GLD, SLV, GDX, MUX, TNR.v

"Now we have the full A Team calling for the New Bull Leg in Gold. Summer doll drums time out is officially over. Gold was over 1400 intraday and Silver is over 24 now. Junior miners are exploding to the upside with McEwen Mining pushing 3 dollar mark. Survived Juniors will show this Fall what is called the ten baggers again."

Rob McEwen Shares his Views on Market Conditions and Future of McEwen Gold Mining Projects in Mexico, Argentina and Nevada MUX, TNR.v

"The whole picture has been set up for the major move in Gold and Silver now. McEwen Mining will enjoy its high leverage to the Gold, Silver and Copper price. Rob McEwen is on the road telling his story and delivering results.

Shorts are busy now covering their 27 million shares Short Position in McEwen Mining as of August 15th, 2013 and it will provide the fuel for the upside breakout."

James Dines - Gold, Silver & A New Super-Major Bull Market

  James Dines talks about new Super-Major Bull Markets in the making, which are still invisible for the crowds. He praises Tesla Motors with its disruption of auto-market and 3D printing technology. We think that our ideas about Lithium will fit nicely in this trend.

  Original Gold Bug has recently reinstated his Buy Call on Gold. His observations are correlating nicely with the technical picture provided by Adam Hamilton in his latest piece:

Adam Hamilton: Gold and GLD Exodus Reversal MUX, TNR.v

"Adam Hamilton provides now a very compelling case for the General Equity Markets and GLD relationships and correlations and if you do not think that trees can grow straight up to the sky we are at the historical point in the markets development in the age of FED central planning now."

King World News:

"Dines:  “Remember, gold moves on its own cycle.  It has come down with the whole raw materials crash in China, and it’s dragged down every single raw material including rare earths, uranium, everything.  But gold is different.  Curiously enough we have been getting an upturn in some of these rare earths and uraniums.  They seem to be moving together for some reason.  The answer to that is probably somewhere deep in mass psychology.  

But the most important thing to remember about the geopolitical situation is that gold is a hedge against two things:  Currency debasement, in other words too much printing of phony paper money, and also geopolitical fears....

“And that’s happening in the Middle-East.  That’s expressing itself in Egypt right now.  The violence is going to get much worse.  And of course whenever there is trouble around the Suez Canal, the prices of oil and shoots up.  Why?  Because the people in those areas are uncertain about their currencies -- will they be there tomorrow?

So they swing their money into gold, and to some extent silver.  That’s what’s happening now.  Gold will move generally, but not precisely, against or opposite the stock market -- not every day but generally.  

The Dines ‘Wolf Pack’ theory says that groups of similar economic backgrounds tend to move together.  You will note that all of the metals tend to move together -- gold, silver, platinum, and palladium.  We flashed a buy signal on gold again recently, and we think they (the metals) look higher.

It depends on whether there will be peace in the Middle-East or what’s going to happen.  The area is in turmoil.  It’s historic.  The area is seething, and worse than that there is an eery collection of coincidences relating back to the 1930s.  (As an example) the popularity of Superman is an interesting resurgence.

You are also getting a re-militarization of the Far-East.  Japan, India, and the Philippines have just announced aircraft carriers to counter the aggressiveness of China.  China is still screaming for revenge for Nanking.  That area looks like a war (is coming).

So it looks like the 1930s, the rebuilding of navies -- all of this is so typical of what led up to World War II.  That of course would be very bullish for gold.  In addition to that, you also had the Fed running the printing presses like crazy during the 1930s.  That’s when this generation of economists got locked into the idea that running the printing presses and printing crazy amounts of money and going ever deeper into debt really got started.

Not many people realize that Franklin Delano Roosevelt raised the price of gold in the 1930s, and I think that was one of the key reasons there was a recovery.  But even in the 1930s, the unemployment problem was not solved until after World War II started and a lot of the population moved into the military.

Fed-head Bernanke is out of control.  Bernanke is still overspending and over-borrowing to boost the economy -- frantic, fanatical, undeterred by six straight years of spending and increasing debt.  (He has) utterly failed to increase the number of paying jobs, and still insists that even more will help.”

James Dines Interview.

Apple To Break Down to 400 and Gold & Commodities To Break Out on China Move AAPL, GLD, FXI, TNR.v, ILC.v, LMR.v, RM.v, CZX.v

  C.S. We Do Love all Apple products and have written The Letter to Steve Jobs about Electric iCar. It Is Such A Loss - he did not have enough time.

Lithium Drive: Steve Jobs’ Apple iCar dream - Mickey Drexler: "Steve’s dream before he died was to design an iCar.”

  But now we can see that this stock will go down and it will be fast - our target is 400, that gap needs to be filled. Apple has built almost perfect Bearish Reversal Pattern - Head and Shoulders and has penetrated the neckline. There is No Support until 400. Slightest Panic among investors which will come with the realisation that Apple is Not A Growth Story any more, but a Value Play will bring Over Leveraged Hedge Funds into the First Blood Bath of 2013.

Charles Nenner Calls For Silver and Gold Bottom - We Call For Apple To Cool Down AAPL, GLD, SLV

"If you are long Apple, please, do not worry - we have been right only a few times. Charles Nenner Call is a much stronger proposition for the market - he wasn't right all the time as well, but some of his longer term calls are worth studying at least. 

  We decided to make our Call on Apple, because we are totally in love with its products, were calling for Steve Jobs to make an Electric iCar for years, but do not follow the company or holding any position in its stock now - we are totally disconnected with its market. And still, we can hear about Apple every day everywhere, everyone and his grandmother have invested in it and it is the newly found "sure thing". Life has taught us a very expensive lesson - that once everybody has invested in a "sure thing" the universe will switch the deck. Now, when everybody is in love with it and indexes are moving everyday with Apple's market the company can not allow to make anything wrong. Margin for any investors' tolerance is so thin now - any step back will bring the realisation that Steve Jobs is not there any more. Once it happen, selling will ignite further selling and commentators will be crying on Bubble TV "we have told you so" - then it will be time to buy again.

  We never give any Buy or Sell here - only our observations of trends and participating companies. We are covering our journey in the search for the real value and long term trends shifting our world. We have started with Gold and Silver, moved to Uranium, Copper and Zinc and now following the Energy Transition to the post carbon world, when the cheap oil will be out. Our play is on the side of strategic commodities via Junior Miners. Gold and Silver names as a Real Store of Value, Copper and Zinc as  part of electrification and Lithium, Rare Earths and Graphite names  as the core critical materials play for the electrification of our transportation. Nobody is interested in this market now and we will pull another chart for your attention. More."

We will run more details later, stay turned. 

  US Dollar had a very definitive Break Down on Friday, if we will account for the Muted Reaction from Gold on the chart below - We Are Primed To Experience The Major Monetary Episode now. We All Know the Drill by now: Hit the Gold First and announce QEn+1 later. Actually it was even already announced by FED. Now they will Not Look at the prices of commodities and "transitory" Inflation, but will concentrate on Jobs and Long Term Inflation projections. It Is Just Great News for us - until They will Run our Country into The Ground. 

  US Dollar has made a very definitive Head and Shoulder Reversal Pattern on the chart above. We are close to the Major Move Downside now. FED will try to accommodate the Fiscal Cliff in its balance sheet which is expected to be extended by 2015 to 6 trillion. 

"Ben’s balance sheet was just $800 billion in 2007. It is now $2.8 trillion and is expected to grow to roughly a shocking $6 trillion by the end of 2015.  A few more years of trillion dollar deficits that are completely monetized by the Fed should ensure that our government’s creditors will demand much more than 1.6% for a ten-year loan.  Michael Pento"

  New QE4.0 will be done without Bond sterilisation - it is like QE1.0 was done - Pure Printing Press in Action and creation of US Dollars out of thin air.

Sci-Fi Movie Script: "Federal Reserve - Keeping The Strong US Dollar Policy From 1913 - Established To Serve and Protect" GS, JPM, BAK, C, HBC

  Gold, in our view, has quite the opposite to the Apple Story and is ready for the Major Move Up. All Bulls are exhausted, all Hedge Funds are chasing Apple - it is time for Gold fundamentals to shine again. We have a total mess in financial system now: FED will Not be able to stop QEn+1 now - All Western Financial and Banking System is Hooked on the Central Banks Needle of QEs to Eternity.

  All Markets are Rigged now, but you cannot manipulate large markets with diversified participants forever - Gold is building the  Bullish Wedge on the cart above - it is the Continuation Pattern in the Next Bull Leg Up.

Austrian School of Economics: The Gold Standard in Theory and Myth by Joseph Salerno

"Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power. They must reluctantly admit that they are subject to the laws of nature. But they reject the very notion of economic law . . . economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics."

— Ludwig von Mises, in Austrian Economics: An Anthology

   "It is time for Education and Austrian School of Economics will the very good base for any well rounded individual. It is truly Amazing: How Our World Has Changed Even from 2005, just listen to the comments about the Gold price, US National Debt and Federal Balance Sheet. All Fundamentals are The Same - we have just moved from Billions to Trillions in a few very short years talking about Debt and FED.

  Gold provides the Golden Cuffs on The Government - It Is Not Able to Engage Private FED in order to create money out of thin air and debase the US currency, taxing the Savers and Expropriating Their Saving by Creating Inflation. Just remember How Much the Real Things were priced when you were  kids. More."

The History Of Money And Why US Dollars Are Issued By Private Bank - Federal Reserve System

  We will throw few charts and a couple of links: One guest of Jim Puplava is taking about Dow to Gold ratio dropping to at least 5. It means that with all QEn+1 DOW can Reach easily 15,000, but Gold price will be at 3,000 at that moment. Below is the chart showing the relation between the two Measures of Wall Street Health (DOW) and Real Wealth Preservation (Gold). 

  The very interesting observation one can make here is that Wall Street is making its money on the "commissions" and Turn Over of the Market numerous times between the Muppets (as introduced in our Sci-Fi Movie Script).

  It does Not Matter where actually The Dow Is - the Talking Heads on Bubble TV are generating Trades and Trades are generating Commissions, but general direction should be Up - to please the Servants in order to continue their Servitude to The Masters. More."

  The very important news last week was from China - there is some growth and maybe "The End of the World" will be postponed one more time. If it will be the case, the Toilet Paper - which used to be the Reserve Currency of Choice can still find some market in China with its population now of more than 1.3 billion people, but we think that the better Bet will be Gold and Commodities. 

  Chart above confirms our observations: FXI is ready to break out Up from the total Disaster of the last few years. Not a lot of people have noticed this move yet. Transition in China is over, now the Agenda there will be Growth - Growth at Any Price. State will be leading the Nation into the new Normal - like recently announced program of 36 million apartments to be built for the low income citizens.

  Do you need any more US Treasuries to make it? - No, We Do Not think so - you need a lot of Commodities like Copper, Zinc and Iron Ore among others.

Lithium M&A "Art of War": Talison Lithium backs $848,000,000 Chinese Takeover Bid TLH.to, ILC.v, LMR.v, RM.v

"We have here the Fiscal Cliff, Billions in Subsidies to the Big Oil, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and The Pile of Never To Be Repaid Debt for our children. China has a military level long term planning and strategic plan to leapfrog the Technology of 19th century based 100% on Oil with Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) to the 21st century Technology based on Electric Cars with Diversified, Multiple Choices for the Energy Transition based on Distributed Local Energy Production and Smart Grid. More."

  Where the Money will go now, after they are going out of Apple apparently and USTs will be Next in this Trend? We think, that they will go into The Real Things, as usual, in times of The Great Uncertainty. Our Plays here are Junior Miners In Gold, Copper, Lithium, Potash, Graphite, REE, Zinc and others.

  The chart above of Junior Gold Developers provides some Hope - which is the dirty word in the investment world, but this is All what we have left now - All major Bull Legs Up has started from this position of total Desperation. While the Sector is totally Forgotten, Smart Money are accumulating Those Who Will Survive and have Goods in the Ground, Teams who can Develop it and Access to The Capital in order to make it All Happen.

Junior Miners - Prepare For a Great Bull Run!

"Nobody cares, Nobody is Buying - It Is The Best Time To Buy Junior Miners, but Only Ones that will Survive. Who will survive? It is time to dust off and Rub Your Own Crystal Ball and check what companies Insiders Are Buying - it can give you Some Indication where to spend more of your time.
  Call the company, listen to the story - if you Do Not Bother - send half of you money to Charity and keep the rest - you will be much better off. The Only Advise You Can Get From This Blog is on the right side of the page; and if you have spent less time making DD on the company you are going to Buy, than when last time you were buying your Flat TV - run away from the Buy Button.

  Talking about the flat TV and approaching Xmas Sales - It Is still an Enigma for us, that even after so many years, even for us here - it is still Always So Sweet To Chase the running up Stock, than to wait for the sign Sale. We do not like to offend any ladies reading us (usually they are much better long term investors), but some can say that you need to have some particular parts of you body in order To Act when it is necessary and Word seems to be Falling Apart again.

  Why do we Never rush to buy almost anything else rising in price, but stocks?! You can find a lot of Books on this one - yes you have to Read some Books - not just Internet Flash Instant Free information - it is Instant and Free. Take the advice you get with the same value you have paid for it. This Blog will qualify for the same quality - it is our Travel Book. In order to write Yours - you have to travel by Yourself. 

  Make Always you own DD, listen to the couple of Good Things and then make your move ... to the next page - we will continue to Share Our Own Stream of Consciousness. More."

  Just few weeks ago we were discussing the situation in Junior Miners with The Very Respected Broker in Toronto. We must say that he was in the Market for at least 5o years by now. We have suggested that we have the situation very similar to 2008, when All Juniors were priced for "'The End Of The World" scenario. The Gentlemen has told us: "I have never seen Anything like this in my Lifetime!"

  The Good and The Bad are All together and All Babies Are Thrown Out with The Bath Water by now on the chart above. As Lawrence Roulston has pointed out recently : "It's Time to Look at Companies, Not Markets." All Markets Are Rigged - Full Stop. Real Value, Real People and Real Stories are There - you have just to Find It.

  We need just 0.1% of the money coming out of Apple and USTs to lift all our Juniors to the Cruising Altitude with multiples to the recent Market Caps.

Total US National Debt on Dec 13, 2012.

16,369,984,159,473.81

and more is coming now...

  

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