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Silverngold
Yes. Agree, and I do think TSHTF very soon. The plus side is we may not have to pay taxes for awhile or even debt to banks. They are taking the US into full blown chaos. These protests we’re seeing will get worse and destroy the cities. I saw on X that the illegals in NY stormed the city council because they didn’t want to leave the 5-Star Hotels and be put in shelters. Ultimately there will be major violence. For sure over the summer.
I honestly don’t know why the political class – including Republicans are trying to destroy the country.
Mr Copper
The best estimates currently available suggest that around 212,582 tonnes of gold has been mined throughout history, of which around two-thirds has been mined since 1950. And since gold is virtually indestructible, this means that almost all of this metal is still around in one form or another. If every single ounce of this gold were placed next to each other, the resulting cube of pure gold would only measure around 22 metres or 73 Feet….on each side.
FWIW from another site. Couldn’t have said it better!
Everyone has been conditioned to play the paper or ETF game as more or less “day trading Experts”. Used to be, before the turn of this century, you paid your broker to buy actual stocks, you were issued stock certificates, and you just sat back and watched your shares grow until you cashed in the stock certificates. Now most people day or swing trade the ETF’s, which is under the thumb of the super computers like BlackRock’s ALADDIN (which owns or controls over 50% of all the ETF’s). ETF’s have no obligation to own anything they “track” in the portfolio they represent, and in fact, theoretically, when you buy a share of “XYZ”, that super computer can sell (short) that same “XYZ”share, thus nullifying your purchase. IMO that is why the markets have totally changed since the turn of the century as the ETF’s have been slowly introduced to the game. That is why when a stock should go up, it goes down. Good drill results are sold and poor drill results are bought. All logic has left the markets. Everything is being reversed by the super computers so they maintain total control of all markets today….but IMO, when the timing is right, the whole house of cards come tumbling down…and as WEF says “You’ll Own Nothing, But You’ll Be Happy”. (and broke) The only thing’s IMO that you can do to protect yourself are get out of debt, get Silver and Gold in hand, have a good supply of guns, ammo, and groceries on, and keep a low profile until after TSHTF! All FWIW. Better to Count your wealth in Ounces, not dollars.
Hunga Tonga’s revenge
Hunga Tonga an underwater volcano that erupted back in Jan 22, was a similar sized eruption to Krakatoa…ie huge……it was the largest eruption ever recorded by mankind and sent a shock wave round the World !!!!!!
It also increased upper atmosphere water vapour by 10 %, so huge was the eruption…..Well the folks in Dubai have been clud seeding, to get some rain …..ooooops !!!!!
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/did-uaes-cloud-seeding-operation-flood-dubai
There’s the culprit
Powell was out there jibber-jabbering “to cut, or not to cut, that is the question.” He can’t answer it because he knows he HAS to cut.
Other than that, we are in lockstep with the SM & dollar today. Which is OK because the SM is up and the dollar is flat.
Israel will probably retaliate sometime soon, so we should decouple from the SM. We’ll see.
Maybe some short covering into the close. Should be.
Maddog
Interesting. This is weird action today. Markets are all over the map and it appears we are trading with the buy/sell programs going off every now and then.
At least we seem to have some underlying strength in gold as we’ve come $20 off the lows and are holding up and down around the flat line. I don’t know if there’s news of some kind but volatility is the game right now.
Re One Ton of GOLD, 2,000 Lbs, Is a square block 14 X 14 X 14 inches.
You would need a forklift to pick it up. If Gold closes in the $2400s, I think that would be a very good sign. Adjusted for inflation, it should be $2800 to match the $140/oz when we were allowed to own it.
Buygold
I reckon we have a whole new mkt here…..one that doesn’t care what else is going on, one that is just seeing huge demand for physical gold and silver, but gold in particular…..and my guess is China is the buyer.
As I have said before…it’s the action…I just popped out for an hour or so, Gold was trading 2390….I checked while out, saw 2386…thought OK, so buyers backed off a touch….come back and see 95/97….that is relentless buying and almost certainly from dealers covering what was sold overnight, by their Far East branches…..and it is happening every day, no matter what other mkts do…….
This is pure guess work…..there might also be a whale in the West, who buys everyday in massive size, to cause the same action…..but somehow I doubt that….this smells much more like millions of Chinese buyers…..just 1 million oz is nearly 28 tonnes….10 million = 280 tonnes and it is all phys….
Plus this action is getting the Share shorts to add, if metal keeeps climbing, then at some point the shares will get bought big time ……they are gonna have to cover huge shorts in a buying frenzy…..the perfect nightmare.
You vil COMPLY
Transport Minister Threatens Germans With “Indefinite Weekend Driving Ban” To Meet Mandated Emissions Targets
Glimpse of the future? Would you keep much in there?
Bank in Canada won’t let customer withdraw cash
they ask him to prove why he needs cash pic.twitter.com/jSghFYxLcI
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Maddog
I think the HUI is confirming your suspicions. It’s done a quick 10% or so correction since Friday. If this is our real bull, that should be about it and we’ll move higher.
Still a few things they aren’t squaring with me. Gold, rates and dollar all up together. I don’t really care though as long as gold is up. 🙂 Bitcoin down again, would love to see some of that money come over.
Maddog
Speaking of which, First Majestic. I held that stock even after figuring out the exact top which was basically a double top. Now I will never buy that stock again. It drops way too fast. Plus it was too interested in another project snowline at it’s expense. I just caught it did just produce some metals but you know what they say about news. Then I heard from Rick Rule just last week or so it’s too interested in another project and had a different name. It’s all over the place. Now if they were going after top like tier 1 and had a potential for a big mine vs a bunch lower level small ones might be good for future interests. Less your just trading in its sector sympathy and get in and get out.
Maddog
Yeah it seems to be a pattern but can still not drop. That’s why it’s safer to have stop loses or at least cover cost and taxes instead of guess, if it heads down you’ll have more to buy back, if it doesn’t and sold too soon just have cash on hand to buy it back. More than not stop loses save you money. Then again near tops, you can think it’s gonna breach resistance so you hold instead of sell or at least half and I’ve done that and hold and instead it falls back down and fast. It can bring the worst out on you sometimes lol
goldielocks
Tks for that re Golden Cross…..and the formation, where the 50 av touches/ breaks the 200, then falls away and then goes back and breaks above, I have noticed gives a super buy signal…..and this one has done it twice and we have a double bottom.
So much for AI
the whole world seems terrified/in awe of AI….well there is no better place to test it, than in the mkts…and so far it don’t look too bright at all…..someone is clearly buying huge quantities of PM’s, they are in every day, day after day, something really smart might see a pattern…..yet the AI Algo’s only see it as a shorting oportunity for the shares……talk about dumb…..
and lets face it the financial AI is as good as it gets…..
Maddog
FWIW and doesn’t mean ignore stop loss percentages be 7-10 % or what ever but both XAU and HUI just made a golden cross. Doesn’t mean they couldn’t drop to the 50 or 200 ma first or not especially with the SM not looking too good but generally followed by higher highs. Generally
Ipso Buygold
You know that Jewish person I mentioned says Israel will probably be destroyed because of their own hate. That they are made believe since WW11 they don’t want any non Jewish neighbors. They’re not exactly good neighbors. Also according to others not a good military. Many who were killed in that attack were killed by friendly fire including when taking hostages shot at and killed the hostages too. Also said that there was no sexual assault or abuse one said she was in her PJs and they handed her cloths and told her to get dressed. She lost two of her friends by friendly fire. Not saying no one was assaulted but she didn’t see any.
Buygold I heard on Bloomberg that the UK is getting a appetite for gold too. Other options is short term treasuries a anti gold mentioned without mentioning the value of those dollars vs inflation.
A slight hesitation in the Metals rise and the shorts go ape in the shares
First Majestic down 10 % on Silver down 3 %….yet ystdy Silver was up 3.5 % and the First shares unch to down even!!!!
goldielocks @ 10:07
The whole situation is a gordian knot. The hatred is so ingrained I don’t think there is a solution. It will be a festering wound on the Earth as long as man is here. JMO
“Get rid of Hamas” Good idea although I’m not sure how that can be accomplished. Look what Hamas has done to Gaza!
When’s the last time you bought any?
From the @WSJ article, “America’s #bonds are getting harder to sell: Record issuance raises worries that #debt sales will exacerbate volatility.”
Concerns about who would buy all the stepped-up US bond issuance had significantly diminished since their peak last October. However,… pic.twitter.com/cSk2au0IjD— Mohamed A. El-Erian (@elerianm) April 14, 2024
Ipso
That is funny. What Iran should do is help in infrastructure and help Palestine their own military and get rid of Hamas and own dome to take out missiles and drones plus their own port for supply’s and food so it doesn’t have to go through Netanyahu and zionist ” not Jewish” land stealing war mongers. Where in the Tora does it say to turn into a war state. A son of both parents survivors of the worst concentration camps said he feels safer in the UK than when he was in Israel. That they’re spreading antisemitism but those complaining about it aren’t moving to Israel anytime soon.
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The flyers reads:
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