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New Rules For Western Banks, Same Hypocrisy

The “extra capital” which (some) U.S. banks will be forced to implement over a period of seven years under the new “Basel II” accord would all be 100% consumed (plus much more) if U.S. housing prices fall even 1% more

28Jun2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Growth in Despair the Only U.S. ‘Growth’

Now, as the U.S. economy is quite obviously turning lower again, Americans are finally shedding their “rose-coloured glasses” and beginning to view the U.S. economic nightmare for what it really is. That conclusion is strongly reinforced by the following statistics…

9Jun2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Perpetual Inflation: The Stealth Source of Our Economic Problems

The most serious flaw in most analyses of the financial crisis the failure to correctly see the various causes put forth as the outcome of a single fundamental factor: the Federal Reserve and its permanent and perpetual policy of inflation.

22May2011 | | 3 comments | Continued
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Elitism, Immunity and Outstaying One’s Welcome

Did the Fed join the BIS in 1994 in order to conduct its gold manipulation activities under the shield of diplomatic immunity? Rob Kirby explores.

16May2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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How Big Is The Silver Correction?

My conclusion is that this silver correction is a paper-only affair, similar to the liquidity crunch in the fall of 2008, that hammered gold and silver along with everything else. But while silver reached around $9/oz on the COMEX in that pullback, you were hard pressed to find physical silver under $13/oz.

4May2011 | | 3 comments | Continued
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Amaranth Kill Shot: Collateral Damage in a 78-Trillion Dollar Derivatives Book Compliments of J.P. Morgan Chase

You see folks, when you are printing money like a banshee and telling the world that inflation is running at 2 % – you don’t want interlopers with deep pockets – like Amaranth – bidding the price of strategic commodities like natural gas – UP.

19Apr2011 | | 4 comments | Continued
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Silver Price Suppression: How, Why and Effect

This paper is written as a response to market observers who opine, “how can the price of precious metals be suppressed when their prices have empirically gone up 4 fold and more over the past 10 years?” The following graph depicts the price performance of silver over the course of 2010, paying special attention to […]

28Mar2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Why Gold and Silver Have Declined

Kirbyanalytics subscribers received the following fast blast [in blue] appended below late Tuesday night, Jan. 25, 2011: The Thompson Reuters CRB index weighting has not changed since 2005. However, virtually all other commodities related indexes do rebalance in early Jan of every year. For instance the $CCI consists of 17 commodity constituents – with 5.88 […]

27Jan2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Full Spectrum Dominance: The Pathology of U.S. and Global Monetary Policy

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the Federal Reserve – through its proxy money centre banks – has taken complete control of the interest rate complex enabling them to arbitrarily price capital at or near zero. This has only been possible with accommodation of the ruling elite who mutually benefit from these policies.

13Jan2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Something’s Wrong in the Silver Pit: But It’s Much Bigger than J.P. Morgan

Unless J.P. Morgan and HSBC are LYING to regulators as to the extent of their silver market activity – there are other MASSIVE players in the silver price suppression game. Who ever these ‘players’ are – metaphorically, they MUST BE BLEEDING FROM EVERY ORIFICE with silver’s parabolic run up in price over the past few months.

10Dec2010 | | 1 comment | Continued
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