Loading ...funny isn’t it… with gold NOTHING is ever straight forward. always some mystery or intrigue around. hmmm, I wonder why
hold on a minute – Dutch changed their mind
this just in
The Mystery Deepens: Dutch Central Bank Denies Reports It Bought Gold For The First Time In 17 Years | Zero Hedge
drb2 … someone’s got some splainin to do
The Mystery Deepens: Dutch Central Bank Denies Reports It Bought Gold For The First Time In 17 Years
Trouble in Chop Stick City
Chinese Yuan Strengthens As Industrial Profits Plunge By Most On Record
Tyler Durden’s pictureSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 01/26/2015 20:45 -0500
After 2 days of dramatic weakness in the Chinese currency, the Yuan is strengthening modestly at the open following the 8% plunge year-over-year in Chinese Industrial Profits. This is the biggest drop n profits since Bloomberg data began and points to accelerating weakness in China’s economy – in the face of the very modest rise in GDP recently. Chinese stocks slipped from a small positive to a smal lnegative in the pre-open, down around 0.1%.
back page news
nothing to see here……worthless, barbarous relic
Netherlands Increases Gold Holdings for First Time Since ’98 – Bloomberg
They have basically shut down travel
A fine of $300 if caught traveling on the roads til they say it’s OK.
Big Brother
U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars
DEA Uses License-Plate Readers to Build Database for Federal, Local Authorities
By
Devlin Barrett
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has been building a national database to track in real time the movement of vehicles around the U.S., a secret domestic intelligence-gathering program that scans and stores hundreds of millions of records about motorists, according to current and former officials and government documents.
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macroman3 @ 1:42
I think some of those ISIS guys are going to be on the receiving end of that heavy metal. Couldn’t go to a more deserving group!
Puptent and Commish
“what is your plan of excape”
I’m thinking we should all get together and charter a jet and fly it to New Zealand so we can stay with Margaret until the troubles blow over. I haven’t talked to her yet but I’m sure she won’t mind. 🙂
Good morning Oasis
Miner Freeport-McMoRan posts loss on $3.1 bln charges
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/miner-freeport-mcmoran-posts-loss-133341094.html
Tarsis Acquires Eight Gold Properties in Nevada From Sandstorm Gold
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tarsis-acquires-eight-gold-properties-140000018.html
Morning Oasis
A little ugly in SM land. The PPT better get busy.
Durable Goods down 3.4%, prior months revised down.
CAT getting smashed, as is MSFT.
Maybe the US economy isn’t immune from the rest of the world after all.
the US east coast population is waking up and saying
boy these politicians sure are a bunch of dumbasses, it’s all about power over people (under the shroud of “safety first”)
Coffee Time: Stay Safe “Historic Blizzard” Whaaaat ?
“Blizzard of the Century”
National Weather Service (NWS) warned that the storm could still bring “crippling snowfall amounts and life-threatening blizzard conditions to much of the north-east”.
………. Mainstream media is out of control
I’m off to work in a few minutes and will clear my driveway later as I have every winter of my life
Six “snow”days a year for school, office and most businesses is normal.
Of course, safety first, but to “close” the biggest Cities on the United States East Coast is a bit dramatic
Winedoc
So ipso, seems the Stennis from your neighborhood is on a PR (Persian Revolution) mission
That or a Salman RushDie.
Tell me main component for glass…Oh yeah, sand. And a splash of black gold.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-26/aircraft-carrier-stennis-has-biggest-ordnance-onload-2010
Hey Maya, can you download a copy of McCulloch’s Wonder by Barry Sanford?
If you can’t, I’ll send you my copy…
KVR in my neck of the woods, great mountain biking now, especially through Myra canyon.
No that ain’t the dude in the Beige House MyRa. He ain’t confiscating that jewel.
There is no escape…
Commish is snowed in/under. NYC closed the subways!? WTF? Expecting the tunnels to be packed with snow??
Even the trains are being cancelled… except this one!
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=511295
What do you think this will do to trading tomorrow? Lots of telecommuters, for sure.