...[V]iewed objectively, the world currently stands at the precipice of an even greater crisis than the one in 2008-2009 but you wouldn't know it by looking at US stock prices. The S&P 500 is down only about 10% from its peak levels in October 2007 compared to the leading indicator stock markets in Spain, Italy and China which...are all down by 60% or more since their peaks. It is folly to think that the S&P 500 index can long withstand simultaneous conflagrations in those countries because, as their economies go, so too will the entire global economy and [that is bound to adversely affect the U.S. as] close to 50% of all S&P 500 earnings are derived from outside the U.S.. Words: 840

The July 2011 Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released yesterday puts the June year-over-year inflation rate at 1.66%, which is less than half the 3.82% average since the end of the Second World War. That being said the ShadowStats Alternate annualized rate of inflation is 9.26%. [Which is more accurate?] Words: 384

The July 2011 Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released yesterday puts the June year-over-year inflation rate at 1.66%, which is less than half the 3.82% average since the end of the Second World War. That being said the ShadowStats Alternate annualized rate of inflation is 9.26%. [Which is more accurate?] Words: 384

When the public, and in particular the savings public at large, comes to understand that quantitative easing is actually counterfeiting...you will begin to see confidence cave and the collapse in confidence will be epic. That’s what has me nervous. [Here is how to detect when confidence is about to cave and how to protect oneself in such an eventuality.]

When the public, and in particular the savings public at large, comes to understand that quantitative easing is actually counterfeiting...you will begin to see confidence cave and the collapse in confidence will be epic. That’s what has me nervous. [Here is how to detect when confidence is about to cave and how to protect oneself in such an eventuality.]

Natixis, the French investment bank and asset manager has determined that the safest country - the country whose bonds are really risk-free - is Sweden, the only one to score a perfect 5. Where do the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and other major countries rank. Take a look.

The banks don’t have the gold the customers are paying them to have on deposit...and eventually there will be panic because...[of that]....I just see massive turmoil when people finally realize the banks don’t have their gold....You will see governments frantically trying to substitute fiat money for gold because this is going to feed on itself....The banks take in customers gold and charge them fees for storing the gold as allocated, but then they turn right around and lease it out to the market to aid in price suppression. This is the kind of thing that will end in catastrophe.

The banks don’t have the gold the customers are paying them to have on deposit...and eventually there will be panic because...[of that]....I just see massive turmoil when people finally realize the banks don’t have their gold....You will see governments frantically trying to substitute fiat money for gold because this is going to feed on itself....The banks take in customers gold and charge them fees for storing the gold as allocated, but then they turn right around and lease it out to the market to aid in price suppression. This is the kind of thing that will end in catastrophe.

What we have been witnessing in gold is massive accumulation on the price chart, or what some would refer to as ‘base-building.’ Before any market can experience a strong, trending move to the upside, it generally has to have a period of base-building....At some point gold will have a trigger, and when it does you are going to see gold move to the upside....When gold finally breaks out to the upside from this strong, steady base, it will experience a massive move to the upside.

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