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Long time, no see. I gotta think it’s not too much longer before we break one way or the other. Pretty frustrating to watch the manipulators keep every up move in check.

Dec. 22nd is the big day for the new rules at the CME.

COMEX is a small part of the game. As Maddog mentioned a week or so ago, the LMBA is where all the good metal trading action takes place. They trade exponential amounts of metal compared to the COMEX. So worrying about what the numbers are in the COMEX is only a small part of the story, and this is because the royal family/bank is in control.

Five freaken weeks now… stuck at the $1200 line.  Doesn’t matter whether one is in calls or puts as the premiums for both get hammered.

Climbing out of the LA basin through Cajon Pass,
the BNSF Christmas train, in silver and gold.
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/510621

The nightmare continues. No oversight, no markets, just manipulation 24/7

Obesity ‘could be a disability’ – EU courts rule

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30529791

I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. Gold gets bid up in Asain trading, only to be smacked down when our markets open up.

TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – US gold mine output during the first nine months had slid 7% year-over-year, hurt in part by lower production from the world’s two largest gold miners by output, Toronto-based Barrick Gold and Denver-headquartered Newmont Mining.

In its latest ‘Mineral Industry Surveys’ report, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported that Barrick’s Cortez mine, in northern Nevada, produced 21 600 kg in the nine-month period to September, 36% less than in the same time period in 2013, owing to a lower ore grade.

Newmont’s Nevada operations produced 34 600 kg, a 10% decline over the same period last year. The C$83-million sale of the Midas mine and mill to Klondex Mines earlier this year, and a development phase that would increase waste stripping and decrease mill throughput at several mines impacted the company’s output over the period, the report had found.

The production decreases were partially offset by Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon copper/molybdenum mine, near Salt Lake City, Utah, which increased output as the operation continued to recover from the April 2013 land slide. Gold output at Bingham Canyon totalled 7 060 kg in the none-month period, an increase of 70% over the same period of 2013.

For September, the USGS reported total US gold output of 18 000 kg, down 5% quarter-on-quarter, and down 8% year-on-year

more http://www.miningweekly.com/article/us-gold-output-sags-as-low-grades-at-barrick-midas-mine-sale-weigh-2014-12-18

Rubicon Begins Stockpiling Mill Feed for Projected Production Commencing Mid-2015

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/rubicon-begins-stockpiling-mill-feed-110000319.html

Timmins Gold to Purchase Caballo Blanco Gold Project

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/timmins-gold-purchase-caballo-blanco-110000450.html

Lake Shore Gold Targets Continued Strong Production, Low Unit Costs and Aggressive Exploration in 2015

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lake-shore-gold-targets-continued-110000934.html

Barrick to suspend operations at Zambian mine on tax increase

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/barrick-suspend-operations-zambian-mine-131435887.html

Dead cat bounce.

kinda looks like it during pre-trading on some PM stocks. We shall see I guess

Oil, Ruble and Ideology

Check Zerohedge….China will bail Russia if necessary ….and if I’m right about IMF/Ukraine, it may well be that Obummer may be on his own soon.

Ps Swiss people now furious that they were connned over the Gold Vote, after tdys rate cut.

The place is as bent as all hell and now IMF and World bank are backing out, huge amounts of money have gone awol, ie stolen…..which may well be an excuse for the EU to back away, as they have had enough of US Russian threats.

Long article below, in a nutshell if the IMF and World Bank pull out, it will be down to the US to bailout along with the EU….if the EU agrees……. and of course we have the likes of Franklin Templeton playing around in Ukrainian bonds and on the hook for billions.

IMF, World Bank Halt Lending to Ukraine – Franklin Templeton $4 Billion Ukraine Bet Goes Bad

If Russia is selling it looks like they aren’t doing so today-Feb comex gold futs just popped=up $15

I think it was in 2004–but not sure of the date–that gold-stocks and-to some extent-the $….all rallied together

Macroman, having a coffee with Bill.