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Volume 1
Juan Tamariz, a world famous expert in the field of Card Magic, presents this 75 minute lecture where he imparts a part of his vast knowledge, to an appreciative audience of top magicians. As you watch the dedicated audience applaud every routine and take in every word, you'll begin to feel like you are in the room with them. Don't miss this chance to learn from the very best!
The first part of this recording is an entertaining performance in pure Tamariz style (as a bonus, this first part can be shown to your friends as a magical treat, without divulging any secrets). Juan takes us through routine after routine of excellent magic followed by some in depth explanation with invaluable knowledge for any card worker. He starts with a shuffled/un-shuffled routine, whereby a completely shuffled deck is bit-by-bit un-shuffled to an audience members requests. Spectator Locator:- In this, a freely selected card is amazingly revealed by a spectator who has his back turned throughout the routine. Three card Surprise:- An entertaining routine where Three 3's change into three 7's and then melt into just one totally different card. As you would expect with Tamariz, there's an excellent memory routine. A brilliant Follow The Leader (Tamariz style). Four Card Prediction:- Four predictions match four cards (Predictions written before the cards are chosen). Cards Across:- One by one three cards travel from one spectator to another, a superb method that defies explanation (until revealed later in the lecture). All this, plus a not to be missed demonstration of Colour Change Knives.
This performance is followed by some in depth explanation, invaluable to any student of Card Magic. The explained routines are Spectator Locator, Three Card Surprise, & Cards Across, but this is more than just an explanation of these three routines, this is a detailed explanation containing many tips and advice suitable to the performance of all card magic.
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Volume 2
This is the 2nd lecture for the MacMillan family by world famous card expert Juan Tamariz. In this Juan Tamariz presents a full 100 minutes of entertaining and totally baffling card magic.
The lecture begins with �Four Card Prediction': This is an excellent effect whereby 4 predictions are written before 4 cards are selected (no force) yet all four predictions match the cards. Next is an extremely entertaining routine entitled �Same Trick Twice': In this Tamariz claims he'll perform the exact same trick twice (breaking the magicians rules), he then proceeds to do just this accompanied by roars of laughter (you have to watch to see why) and a surprise finish! There are mind blowing versions of �Oil & Water'. An excellent �Estimation' effect, during which Tamariz does more than estimate the quantity of cards removed from a shuffled deck, he predicts how many are face up and face down and then proceeds to name each card. �Hypnotic Cards' is a routine where different spectators choose different cards yet all see the same card, then the whole pack is shown to be an entirely different card, blink your eyes and they change to another card, snap your fingers and all 52 cards are back again watch this and you'll feel he's hypnotised you too! Then there's �The Three Coincidences': A trick involving two spectators with two packs of cards, watch as incredible coincidences take place between them. Finally, he performs �Follow The Leader': With much hilarity, ten red & ten black cards change places one at a time.
"Follow The Leader" & "Same Trick Twice" are both fully explained. But, this is much more than just a performance and explanation of magic, there's an in-depth teaching on Comedy in Magic. Here Tamariz delves into how to make Comedy, various levels of it and more importantly, when to use it! All this plus details on Theory & Misdirection in Magic.
An incredible lecture by one of the true masters of Magic, Juan Tamariz.
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Issue 136
Gold: $1770.500/ Silver: $34.68
SGS Notes: Well, it's been another eventful week... if you had been watching silver prices this week, you would have seen the roller coaster we all experienced. I rarely write the SGS Newsletter main article(s), preferring to allow the 'experts' to speak since they can do it far better than I. However, I'd like to provide the following commentary to try to explain in simple terms what we saw happen this week, and some of the implications, taking information from the variety of sources I peruse daily.
Silver Market Roller Coaster & QE∞
Monday 10th - Our week started out with silver spot at $33.69 as the market opened Sunday evening, and Monday was pretty uneventful closing at $33.51.... the calm before the storm.
"Everything going on these days behind the scenes is interconnected to the take down of the 'Bad Guys'. From the US elections to the European situation to the silver market volatility - it's all interconnected. It is all an orchestrated play that is coming to it's climax. OUR TIME is approaching fast and this go-round there is no stopping what is to come." Bix Weir 9/10
(See 'The Planned Silver End Game' at right)
Tuesday the 11th Monday was followed by a volatile day on Tuesday the 12th. Prices fluctuated all day in a $.40 range... and finally cloased the day at $33.62.
Tension is mounting as the world awaits the speech & anticipated announcement by Ben Bernanke on Thursday.
Wednesday, the 12th all is still fairly quiet when WHAM! around 10:30 a.m. EDT, we have an abrupt downturn of $1.
If there was any doubt in your mind about the silver market manipulation, this week's activity should lay it to rest.
Wednesday's smackdown by the manipulators is on record for all to see. How does a naturally occurring market make a instantaneous drop of almost $2.00, then rise $1 within the hour ???
So what was happening?
One of the favorite tools of the manipulators is to do a quick massive sell-off, which triggers the stop-losses of other investors and floods the market, thereby causing a sharp downturn in price. At the bottom of the downturn, they use the same money to buy up more positions before equilibrium returns. When you are dealing with millions of shares, $1 in price can make a big difference.
Remember we've been hearing how JP Morgan (primary culprit - there are others) holds a massive naked short position in silver derivatives.
Wednesday, I got this from Bix,
" Just a heads up about the Fed announcement tomorrow...
I don't know what that backfire will be but in the Road to Roota Theory the Fed will have to be blamed for the global monetary meltdown. It may be the announcement of some form of QE3 as that would be something that is very visible.
Whatever comes from the announcement watch for the global meltdown to increase in speed over the weeks following."
" Just a heads up about the Fed announcement tomorrow...
I don't know what that backfire will be but in the Road to Roota Theory the Fed will have to be blamed for the global monetary meltdown. It may be the announcement of some form of QE3 as that would be something that is very visible.
Whatever comes from the announcement watch for the global meltdown to increase in speed over the weeks following."
Thursday, the 13th
Bernanke announces QE to infinity...
Bix's comments:
"No limits. No end date. This is QE to INFINITY!
Make no mistake...this is all on purpose. This is the END GAME and the blame for the global meltdown will be placed, rightfully, on the shoulders of the Federal Reserve.
Basically, the Fed has chosen to FALL ON IT'S OWN SWORD!
The Gold and Silver move upward has caught all the shorts off guard. The Bad Guys are in deep, deep trouble as they took their cues from the likes of Jeffrey Christian and Jon Nadler who were advising EVERYONE to short gold and silver. Now it gets exciting!"
Silver had a small drop right before the announcement, then a huge leap of $2.00 where it broke through the $34 ceiling almost reached $35 before dropping off a bit, and continued on almost flatlining throughout Friday.
What was the final outcome of the week? Check out this week's COT Report (at right).
"Clearly, the commercials were preparing for a massive raid on Thursday, until Bernanke dropped their pants by announcing QE∞." Watch for the upside in silver in coming weeks ahead.
Bix Weir is looking for a major CFTC announcement this month on the imposition of position limits, the beginning of the derivative implosion, followed by a silver 'moon shot' in October.
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How Your Bank Account Could Disappear
Jeff Nielson
On the same morning we hear that ¼ of Wall Street executives think that fraud is a necessary part of "doing business" in the financial sector, we hear of a second "MF Global". The U.S.'s so-called regulators are now reporting that somewhere around $220 million in customer funds is "missing" at a financial institution known as PFGBest; once again closing the barn door after all the cows have run off.
With at least one out of every four bankers at U.S. Big Banks (that's how many admitted to being crooks in the survey) thinking that stealing is part of their job descriptions, it's very important for people to realize how little protection there now is between these thieves and your bank accounts. Based on the writing of a number of other individuals with more expertise in these markets, it is apparently an inherently fraudulent banking process known as "rehypothecation" which is allowing the mass-plundering of accounts at U.S. financial institutions, with other Western financial regulatory authorities also rubber-stamping this relatively new form of bankster crime.
Rehypothecation is a heinous practice permitted by the pretend-regulators of Western markets, where financial institutions are allowed to pledge their clients' funds as collateral to cover their own gambling debts. I say "inherently fraudulent" since few of the clients of these financial institutions would ever knowingly enter into contracts with these gambling-addicts where their cash could be used to cover their bankers' gambling debts.
Instead, what is happening here is that the rehypothecation clauses are being buried in the "small print" of these contracts and (obviously) never properly explained to these clients: seemingly textbook fraudulent misrepresentation. The only "advantage" to a client into entering into such a contract is a slight reduction in fees, or slightly improved interest rate - certainly not near enough to entice people into risking some near-100% loss insuring someone else's gambling debts.
So we have our "regulators" (i.e. the only protectors of our funds in the hands of these admitted thieves) giving these fraud-factories the green light to enter into these inherently fraudulent contracts, putting any/all funds of these clients in permanent jeopardy. Thus it's important to outline how this could happen with ordinary bank accounts.
First it must be noted that the Corporate Media (loyal friends of the Big Banks) are referring to this as a "brokerage" problem. Understand that a brokerage is nothing but a legal "bookie", an entity which takes (and makes) bets, and which must hold the funds of its "customers" in order to do business. Apparently the principal difference now between a "legal" bookie and an "illegal" bookie is that an illegal bookie is much less likely to use his customers' funds to cover his own bad bets.
What people must also understand is that the world's biggest bookies, indeed, the biggest bookies in the history of the world are the Big Banks themselves (specifically U.S. Big Banks). Most of their gambling is done in their own, rigged casino: the $1.5 quadrillion derivatives market.
Note that you won't see that number quoted by the Corporate Media (any longer). As concern about the size of the bankers' mountain of bets grew; the bankers asked the Master Bookie - the Bank for International Settlements - to change the "definition" of this market, and instantly the derivatives market shrunk to 1/3rd its former size.
As many know, the BIS is known as "the central bank for central banks". What a smaller number of people know is that this is the world's great money-laundering vehicle, an entity created just before World War II specifically to allow Western industrialists to continue to do a vast amount of business with Adolph Hitler. In other words, it's not exactly a reliable source for information. So I choose to use the same numbers that the banksters previously used themselves, before they started getting defensive about the insane amounts of their gambling.
We are being led to believe by the Corporate Media (another unreliable source) that this problem is only a risk for all individuals with "brokerage" accounts, however as we piece together all the pieces of the puzzle (already revealed) this is what we see before us:
1) Our banking regulators knowingly allow financial institutions to engage in recklessly misleading (if not outright fraudulent) contracts with their clients, through the use of complex "small print" in their account contracts with clients.
2) The three largest U.S. "banks" by deposit (JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup) have made bets in their own rigged casino, which total well in excess of $100 trillion, an amount which completely dwarfs their total, combined deposits (and assets).
3) A large portion of those bets occur in the $60+ trillion credit default swap market. Pay-outs in these markets can (and do) exceed 300 times the amount of the original bet. It is bets in this market which "blew up" AIG, requiring more than $150 billion in immediate government aid.
4) Following the Crash of '08; these same banks mooched a package of hand-outs, tax-breaks and "guarantees" (i.e. future hand-outs) from the Bush regime in excess of $15 trillion, the last time their gambling debts went bad on them - and all of these banks have been allowed to dramatically increase the total amount of their gambling since then.
5) It would take only a minor change in the gambling contracts in which these bankers engage to allow their creditors to seize funds out of ordinary bank accounts.
6) The existing language for the bank accounts of these U.S. banks is possibly already so vague (and prejudicial to clients) that it would allow these banks to reinterpret the terms of these bank accounts - and allow rehypothecation to be used to rob the holders of ordinary bank accounts, people who themselves make no "bets" in markets whatsoever. Alternately, customers could be blitzed with an offer for "new and improved" bank accounts, where terms allowing rehypothecation are slipped into the contract, with the banks knowing that the "regulators" will do nothing to warn account-holders of the gigantic risk they are taking.
We are being led to believe by the Corporate Media (another unreliable source) that this problem is only a risk for all individuals with "brokerage" accounts, however as we piece together all the pieces of the puzzle (already revealed) this is what we see before us:
1) Our banking regulators knowingly allow financial institutions to engage in recklessly misleading (if not outright fraudulent) contracts with their clients, through the use of complex "small print" in their account contracts with clients.
2) The three largest U.S. "banks" by deposit (JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup) have made bets in their own rigged casino, which total well in excess of $100 trillion, an amount which completely dwarfs their total, combined deposits (and assets).
3) A large portion of those bets occur in the $60+ trillion credit default swap market. Pay-outs in these markets can (and do) exceed 300 times the amount of the original bet. It is bets in this market which "blew up" AIG, requiring more than $150 billion in immediate government aid.
4) Following the Crash of '08; these same banks mooched a package of hand-outs, tax-breaks and "guarantees" (i.e. future hand-outs) from the Bush regime in excess of $15 trillion, the last time their gambling debts went bad on them - and all of these banks have been allowed to dramatically increase the total amount of their gambling since then.
5) It would take only a minor change in the gambling contracts in which these bankers engage to allow their creditors to seize funds out of ordinary bank accounts.
6) The existing language for the bank accounts of these U.S. banks is possibly already so vague (and prejudicial to clients) that it would allow these banks to reinterpret the terms of these bank accounts - and allow rehypothecation to be used to rob the holders of ordinary bank accounts, people who themselves make no "bets" in markets whatsoever. Alternately, customers could be blitzed with an offer for "new and improved" bank accounts, where terms allowing rehypothecation are slipped into the contract, with the banks knowing that the "regulators" will do nothing to warn account-holders of the gigantic risk they are taking.
The same media apologists who would scoff at this suggestion are the same shills who claimed "there could never be another MF Global". Meanwhile we have the biggest gambler of them all, JP Morgan, just confessing to having made more of these bad bets - which continue growing larger by the $billion.
When we add-in the fact that the U.S.'s mark-to-fraud accounting rules mean that these banks are easily able to hide the level of their insolvency, the pretend-regulators apparently don't have the slightest idea of the level of risk to which account-holders are being exposed. This is the charitable explanation for these facts. The alternative interpretation is that these "regulators" are direct accomplices of the criminal banking cabal.
I have consistently referred to the U.S. financial sector as a "crime syndicate" for several years now, often drawing considerable criticism for supposedly hyperbolic rhetoric. Obviously I have been completely vindicated here. One quarter of these bankers are now confessed thieves. The pretend-regulators (notably the SEC and CFTC) on a daily basis rubber-stamp the banksters' acts of fraud (where they are caught red-handed) - handing out totally trivial fines, and not even requiring these thieves to admit their guilt.
If there are any substantive differences between how the U.S. financial sector is allowed to operate versus any generic definition of a "crime syndicate", it would be enlightening to hear what those (supposed) differences are. And now these thieves are closer than ever to simply reaching into peoples' bank accounts and grabbing every dollar they can steal.
The principal reason why I and others have urged people to convert their banker-paper to gold and silver in the past was the 1,000 year track-record of these bankers' paper, fiat currencies always going to zero (through the bankers recklessly diluting these currencies via over-printing). However, we can add to that a much more basic reason: every ounce of gold and silver which you purchase (and store in your own home "safe" or other secure location) is wealth which cannot be stolen by the banking crime syndicate. This is what commentators are really referring to when they speak of "counterparty risk": placing your future financial security in someone else's hands.
What the large financial institutions of the 21st century have taught us (through the cruel "lessons" of their serial crimes) is that there is no one in the world whom you can trust less with your money than a banker.
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Egon von Greyerz
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Robert Fitzwilson
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Issue 135
Gold: $1671.90/ Silver: $30.82
SGS Notes: This week started with a BANG! as we watched precious metals begin their long-forecasted breakout. Gold started the week Sunday night at $1619.00 and closed tonight at $1671.90. Silver began the week at $28.19 and ended at $30.82. Our Gold/Silver ratio dropped from 57 to 1 to 54 to 1… a move in the right direction… but a long way to go before it gets back to its historical rate of 16/1. We've seen big names in the industry liquidating their paper investments and putting funds into gold and silver… Countries like China, Russia, India … all doing the same… More revelations on the financial scandal fronts… and QE3 threatening to upset the dollar… It never ceases to amaze me how many things are linked in to Silver and Gold. Lots of fodder for our newsletter… has been a real challenge to pick which articles to post… if you want to see the 'rejects' go to our Facebook page!
Why You Always Want Physical Everything
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog
On the way from San Marino yesterday, I had to stop for some gas near Rimini, a beautiful beach town on Italy's Adriatic coast. As an aside, Italian gas prices are among the highest in Europe… and the world… at €1.77 per liter (almost USD $8.50 per gallon).
Naturally, the vast majority of this is due to taxes. From the € 1.77 per liter, only about € 0.48 can be attributed to the price of oil. Profit margin and distribution costs run about € 0.28. The rest of it (just over 1 euro) is tax. This amounts to an effective tax rate of over 130% on fuel.
Anyhow, when I pulled in to the gas station, I whipped out my American Express card and asked the attendant in broken Italian to turn on the pump. He acted like I had just punched him in the gut, wincing when he saw my credit card. "No… cash, only cash," he said.
I didn't have very much cash on me, so I drove to the next station where a similar experience awaited me.
This is a trend that is typical when economies are in decline- cash is king. Businesses often won't want to spend the extra 2.5% on credit card merchant fees… but more importantly, distrust of the banking system and a debilitatingly extractive tax system pushes people into cash transactions.
You can't really blame them. In Italy there's massive distrust of the local banking system. Most of the banks are insolvent, and the government has already started imposing capital controls by limiting withdrawals in some cases to 1,000 euros.
As a result, many bank customers are facing substantial difficulty in accessing their funds; it's easy to understand why they want to deal in physical cash- the counterparty risk is much lower.
Nobody gives these issues much thought… right up until they get shut out of their account. But these are the real consequences of counterparty risk: anytime your asset is simultaneously someone else's liability, you might have a big problem when tough times arise. This is when physical cash becomes a premium asset.
It's the same thing with gold and silver when you think about it. In the early days of the post-Lehman financial crisis, precious metals prices were tanking. At least, on paper.
Gold and silver contract prices may have been plummeting in futures exchanges around the world, but simultaneously, premiums for physical gold and silver coins were skyrocketing. The US mint was unable to keep up with demand for physical coins, and premiums hit double digits by December 2008.
It was an obvious example of the huge disparity between the paper price and the physical price. And in tough times, the paper price is irrelevant. Physical is all that matters.
Cash is in the same boat. When you look at the numbers, the amount of physical currency in circulation is dwarfed by the digital money supply.
In the EU, the M2 money supply is 8.77 trillion euros, of which only 861 billion is in physical cash… about 9.8%. In the US, the proportion is similar- $10.02 trillion M2 money supply, $1.1 trillion in physical cash. The rest is all digits in a database.
It's a prudent idea to heed this lesson from Italy, for as the banking malaise in southern Europe spreads, cash is likely going to be a premium asset in the rest of the world as well. And it certainly makes sense for individuals to have some holdings of cold, hard cash in addition to physical metal.
After all, if you're only generating 0.0000001% interest in your bank account anyhow, what difference does it really make to hold physical cash? You're not worse off for it, but you'll be a lot better prepared in case something goes wrong.
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Rothschild, Paulson and Soros All Betting on Coming Financial Disaster
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Fed Court Rules Banksters Can Steal Pensions
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Part 2: A Shortage of PHYSICAL Gold & Silver IS Devleoping
Issue 132
Gold: $1616.50/ Silver: $28.18
SGS Notes: If you've been following the prices of precious metals the last couple of weeks, you know that we saw a drop down in the high $26 range… that has been eclipsed this past week by prices moving up over $28. This is just the beginning of what looks like a new move upward in silver and gold prices, according to experts we're reading. And although our focus is precious metals, there are a lot of factors in banking and finance that have a relationship with these monetary metals, which is why we report on economic and other finance news.
Precious Metals vs. Commodities
Jeff Nielson, BullionBulls, Canada
I had the opportunity to listen to an inteview with noted commodities-guru Jim Rogers, which is never a bad investment of one's time.Rogers is both very astute, and a straight-talker; two "commodities" which I'm sure that he would purchase if he could - since both are clearly in short supply in the 21st century.
The central topic on the mind of Rogers' interviewer was Ben Bernanke's farcical testimony before the U.S. Congress. That love-fest had all the interrogative value of spending the day watching Sesame Street. Rogers was also totally unimpressed:
…Mr. Bernanke is going to print more money…I wouldn't pay much attention to the man…He only knows one thing - and that's what he's going to do…
…Mr. Bernanke is going to print more money…I wouldn't pay much attention to the man…He only knows one thing - and that's what he's going to do…
The interview then proceeded to Rogers' specialty: the world of commodities. He remains totally committed to commodities over the long term, rightfully pointing out that as the global economy continues to be drowned in mountains of the bankers' paper currencies, that these hard assets must soar in price - as all that paper collapses in value.
When asked to compare the different commodity sectors, Rogers was also unequivocal. He was most bullish with respect to "soft" commodities and industrial commodities, while less bullish on the monetary commodities: gold and silver (at the present time). It's here that I'm going to dare to differ with Rogers to a degree.
I wouldn't presume to contradict his long-term prognosis on the future of commodities, in a commodity-starved world. In fact I completely agree with him. However, it is over the short/medium term where I believe I detect a small inconsistency in his analysis of these markets.
The inconsistency lies in the fact that Rogers fervently believes (as do I) that we are on the verge of a Flight out of Paper. He ranked the various forms of these fraud-currencies, and said he expected the holders of this paper to soon begin an exodus out of the most-worthless of them - specifically noting the U.S. dollar.
He also observes that once this exodus starts that there will not be enough stable currency remaining in the world for all of the U.S.-dollar refugees (and other paper-holders) to find a home. This leads to the obvious question: where will all those other $trillions go?
Rogers' implicit answer is that this paper will flow into his favored soft and industrial commodities. However this ignores a large and obvious practical issue: the absolute need for functional currency. Once we ditch the last of our banker-paper in favor of holding our wealth in some instrument which actually has value, we cannot simply all load up on commodities.
People are not going to go to their local shopping mall lugging bushels of wheat, barrels of oil, or truckloads of lumber in order to do their daily shopping. However, they will be quite happy to conduct their commerce using silver and/or gold coins, since as a species we have collectively had thousands of years of practice in using this only form of "good money".
What we have here is the world's foremost expert on commodities warning us that we are about to experience a shortage in a "commodity" with which our modern economies cannot function: usable currency. Then there is silver and gold. These precious metals have a 5,000-year track-record of being the world's ultimate "safe havens", because they are the only perfect form of money we have ever been able to devise.
At the same time, thanks to (literally) a century-long propaganda campaign to cause people to forget the true status of these precious metals, gold and silver have never been so under-owned as assets in the history of our species. Even when times are good, people have typically held between 5% and 10% of their wealth in gold and silver, while in times of peril those ratios typically soar.
With entire nations going bankrupt, and with the highly-respected Jim Rogers predicting an exodus out of many paper currencies (such as the U.S. dollar); we have never experienced an era of such extreme economic crises in our entire lives. Yet instead of even holding the "normal" 5 - 10% component of wealth in precious metals, Western investors currently hold only about 1% of their wealth in these assets.
Consequently, with demand/ownership at a temporary and artificial trough just as we are (apparently) about to experience an explosion in demand for these metals; the current rock-bottom prices for gold and silver cannot last. Here Rogers also had some guidance to offer investors.
He noted what is regularly pointed out by myself and other precious metals commentators: in relative terms silver remains a superior value to gold. Rogers based this assessment merely on the fact that the current gold/silver price ratio is sitting at an absurd level of roughly 55:1, as compared to the 5,000-year historical average of 15:1.
This alone implies the price of silver should currently be more than three times the present price, nearly $100/oz. However this ignores 50 years of 'destruction' of silver inventories and stockpiles; the direct consequence of well over a half century of price-suppression of this market - primarily through the extreme and relentless "shorting" of silver by the bullion banks (notably JP Morgan).
We have the world's foremost expert on commodities predicting a shortage of the most important "commodity" for any modern economy: legitimate money, the foundation of all human commerce. We have the two most-reliable forms of money currently being the two most under-owned asset classes on the planet (implying a steep discount in current prices). And we have one of those commodities (silver) priced at a further, steep discount in relation to the other (gold).
This is called "a buying opportunity."
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Ted Butler
Financial Times' Report That CFTC to Drop Silver Investigation is 'Inaccurate & Premature
Gold & The Perfect Storm That Will Lead to Collapse
Peter Schiff
How To Run A Central Bank With a Gold Standard
The Tortoise And The Hare
Jeff Nielson
The Biggest Banking Scandal
The World Has Ever Seen
Silver Shortage This Decade, Silver
Will Be Worth More Than Gold
Issue 133
Gold: $1584.20/ Silver: $27.37
SGS Notes: Lots of items of high interest in the ongoing LIBOR scandal...just the tip of the iceberg… see this week's major article on US Marshalls Expose Biggest Scandal in History for all the details…
Also, Bill Murphy of GATA in this week's video references connections between the JP Morgan/LIBOR scandal and silver… Keep your eyes open out there!
Silver Metal Now and a Golden Traveler's Check
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
One of the main advantages of buying silver versus more costly precious metals like gold and platinum is that silver's relative cheapness allows you to buy more metal for the money.
Furthermore, inflation is a reality that eats away at the value of all paper currencies, while boosting the value of hard currencies like silver.
Given the likelihood of ongoing paper currency devaluation and debasement, despite short term perceptual fluctuations in the basket of floating currencies, the U.S. Dollar you are holding today is more valuable in terms of its purchasing power today than it will be tomorrow or a year from now.
Putting Things Into Perspective
If you are skeptical about holding silver or need a way to determine what time frame you should be holding silver for, you can consider the following question:
Given the at least 95% loss of purchasing power in the U.S. Dollar seen since 1913, with the vast majority of that loss of value occurring over the last 40 years, what would you rather be holding one year from now: An ounce of silver or the amount of U.S. Dollars that can currently purchase an ounce of silver?
Now ask the same question over a three, five and ten year time horizon. If your answer is consistently silver, then you really should be stocking up now that its price has retraced substantially from its recently made long-term highs.
This type of analysis allows you to put things into perspective and tolerate the short-term noise as the silver market fluctuates with less anxiety.
Why Choose Silver Over Gold?
Silver is currently preferable to gold for a variety of reasons. One of the most compelling is the price to supply ratio. The current supply of investment grade silver is 1 billion ounces versus 5 billion ounces for gold, while the ratio of metal in the ground is below 20 to 1.
Furthermore, both metals are well below their inflation-adjusted highs, especially when you calculate inflation based on an older, simpler methodology. In fact, silver is even more attractive than gold from this perspective.
Another factor is that silver is actually a more strategic and necessary commodity than ever. Its growing use in electronics, health applications and solar power production assure strong industrial demand for years to come.
Traveling With Silver's Bulk in Emergencies
Some investors who like to hold precious metals as an emergency get-out-of-town card are concerned about silver's extra bulk compared to gold when traveling. Basically, a given dollar amount of silver is much heavier and bulkier than the equivalent dollar amount of gold - so silver is just not as portable as gold.
Nevertheless, silver is not really that bulky relative to its value since a bowling ball made of pure silver would be worth well over $20,000 at $30 per ounce. What else can the average person readily accumulate and store in their house with the equivalent size and value?
Still, if you really need to 'get out of dodge' in a hurry or on foot, it would admittedly be a lot easier to carry only 15 ounces of gold - until you can switch back to silver of course!
Fortunately, investment grade silver and gold share enough properties to make them easily convertible into each other in emergencies. Silver is also easier to spend in small quantities to pay for the necessities of life while traveling.
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48 Tons of Silver Recovered From World War II Shipwreck
ABC News
LIBOR Manipulation Leads to Questions Regarding Gold Manipulation
Financial Sense
The Return Of The Gold Standard?It Lies Ahead
Seeking Alpha
The LBMA Gold Price Fixing Scheme Is Over
King World News
Silver Undervalued
US Marshals Expose Biggest Scandal in History
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EXCLUSIVE- Bill Murphy's London Source: "Big Gold & Silver Moves Coming in August"
SGS Notes: Have had a little 'vacation' from newsletter lately, but events in the silver market and related economy/banking/financial worlds have been mushrooming… This week's newsletter is a 'catch-up' on things going on… what's happening in finance has a direct relationship in the precious metals marketplace… things are heating up on every side… and, with the CFTC gearing up to impose position limits, it won't be long until we see the coming breakout to the upside in precious metals.
A 'Lehman Moment' Will Ensure Gold and Silver Will Soar Again
Be sure that a huge volume of money printing will soon be on the way in Europe, and in the U.S. too, and the gold speculators' long awaited stimulus to drive prices up will at last become a reality.
Nowadays it seems that every time there is inaction, or minimal stimulative action, by the Fed that gold - and silver - take a dive. It appears to be long forgotten by the markets that gold performed extremely well throughout most of its bull run without overt Fed stimulus - but then gold investors on the fringe tend to be fickle animals increasingly overtly swayed by short term pronouncements with little cognizance taken of many of the underlying changes in the marketplace that have to be extremely bullish for precious metals. Not least of these factors include declining gold output in most of the world's major gold producing nations, hugely increasing Chinese demand - and perhaps most of all the fact that the global economy and banking system is teetering on the edge of a cliff with only a slight push needed to make it plunge to who knows where.
In his latest commentary on gold, Jeff Nichols - Managing Director of American Precious Metals Advisors and Senior Economic Adviser to Rosland Capital ponders on gold's performance vis-a-vis U.S. Fed pronouncements. "Gold shed more than $50 an ounce in a blink following last Wednesday's news from the Federal Reserve that America's central bank would not, at least not now, initiate another round of quantitative easing, opting instead for more muted monetary stimulus by extending its "Operation Twist" through year-end"
As Nichols then notes, "the recent correction in gold and silver prices has some precious metals pundits already writing obituaries for these metals. Last week, gold in New York was off more than three percent, falling from a recent high near $1,627 to $1,570 - just about giving up all of this year's gains and, worse yet, down some 18 percent from its all-time high last September. Meanwhile, silver fell by more than six percent from $28.75 an ounce to $26.90 - and at week's end silver was off some 3.4 percent for the year to date and more than 45 percent from its April 2011 peak."
But, Nichols avers, "This backtracking in gold and silver does not signal a new bearish phase for precious metals prices. At worst, it calls for more patience from investors and savers holding these metals as they await the next major move up in a still very much intact bull market. More importantly, the current weakness in gold and silver prices simply gives smart investors and fearful savers more time to buy the protection and financial insurance offered by these metals."
Most long term holders of gold invest in the knowledge that over time gold has proved to be a great wealth protector. In bull markets, yes it can generate short term gains and it is the prospect of these that brings in the speculators and leads to the kind of volatility which is currently affecting the gold and silver markets. Even the out and out gold bulls who predict soaring prices do so not in the belief that gold will provide speculative gains per se, but that fiat currencies will collapse and that say a 50% increase in the gold price will be due, in effect, to a 50% corresponding fall in the purchasing power of their local currencies. Indeed the real gold bulls believe that the increase will be far greater than 50% as fiat currency purchasing power collapses totally.
So what really is the chance of this 'worst case' scenario taking place? Unpleasantly and worryingly near. A sovereign default in Europe would not be purely a local phenomenon but would have global repercussions. A Greek default for example - which ultimately looks to be inevitable - if it happens soon will likely bring down some major European banks with it. The knock-on effect across the global financial system will be far worse with governments finding it increasingly difficult to find the wherewithal to meet their guarantees to major bank investors - and Greece is only a tiny economy. If much larger economies like Spain, or Italy, were to default, the impact on the global banking system would be truly horrendous.
All the European Community is really doing with its Greek bailouts is buying time in the hope that the banks will be able to make arrangements in the meantime to mitigate the impact of the pending default.
And the American investor can't just sit back in the hope that a European meltdown won't affect the U.S. economy and its banking system. It will. The global banking system is completely interconnected and bank failures in Europe will trigger similar failures in the U.S. Like it or not the U.S. Fed will likely need to help out Europe by pumping money into the system to prevent the dominoes starting to fall - a possibly futile gesture in the long term. The next dose of real QE from the Fed may thus not be to prop up the U.S. economy, but the European one too - and could be the biggest injection of new money into the economy yet.
Nichols puts it succinctly: "The timing of more monetary stimulus from the Fed - and the next major upward move in gold and silver prices - depends either on the economic news here in America (with bad news raising the chances of more quantitative easing sooner rather than later) or an impending financial disaster in Europe."
However he expects a round of QE in the U.S. regardless of the European situation - perhaps as soon as August given the continuing failure of the U.S. economy to show any real growth and unemployment remaining unacceptably high.
Nichols goes on "Despite yet another round of funding for Europe's sickest economies and banks - and regardless of whatever decisions are taken at the European summit this week - the Eurozone will continue to unravel. There's just no way that citizens of the peripheral economies will continue to accept austerity, collapsing economies, rising joblessness, and deteriorating living conditions for years to come."
"Sooner or later, I expect an impending if not actual default by one or another sovereign borrower or failure of one or another major European bank (what some are calling a "Lehman" moment recalling America's 2008 banking crisis) will trigger an unprecedented flood of new money from the Fed, the European Central Bank, and other central banks in Europe and Asia - assuring that gold and silver once again shine brightly."
This is perhaps an understatement. If this degree of monetary stimulation does come about the impact on gold and silver prices would be immense, and way beyond the power of governments, compliant central banks and their banking sector allies to maintain any degree of control of what is seen as the ultimate standard against which fiat currencies are measured.
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Now the FED gets Dragged into LIBOR-Gate
BigBanks Craft 'Living Wills' in Case They Fail
JP Morgan Trading Loss May Reach $9 Billion
NY Times
One Billion Silver Ounces and 100 Billion Owners
Jeff Lewis
Silver: A Tier 1 Asset for All
Jeff Lewis
Precious Metals Paper Sellers Conveniently Trapped
Jeff Lewis
US Dollar VS Gold: Epic Money Battle
Golden Jackass
We're About to Have the Most Devastating COLLAPSE in World History
Harley Schlanger
Federal Reserve encourages Banks to Hold Gold
Gary North
CFTC Sets Precedent and Lays Groundwork For Ending Silver Manipulation
'The mob learned from Wall Street': Eliot Spitzer on the 'cartel-style' corruption' behind Libor scam
The Next Crash Will Be A Lot Worse!
Happy July 4th !
Issue 131
Gold: $1570.00/ Silver: $28.17
SGS Notes: We're sending out our newsletter mid-week this issue because there is so much going on right now we want you to be aware of. The JP Morgan news is HUGE… so we are featuring various articles this week about that and the implications for all of us.
There are also things happening in the Eurozone and in Greece that will affect us all dramatically. Hold on to your seats, the ride is about to get bumpy. We're looking for the end of the metals manipulation when physical silver prices detach from the ETC prices… should be soon. We saw silver spot dip below $27 this week, and, looking at the Gold/Silver ratio… it's up quite high - again. Remember: that ratio SHOULD be in the 16/1 range. Still a long way to go.
Dismal Metals Sentiment - Just What Bernanke Ordered
Jeff Lewis
Since the dramatic drops the silver market saw in May and September of last year, prices in the precious metals market have been suffering from an excess of negative sentiment. This adverse perception is weighing on metal prices and keeping investor demand at bay.
Furthermore, although investors have continued to buy physical silver, the overall quantity being purchased has declined significantly, resulting in reduced support for the metal's price.
Nevertheless, the supply of silver is naturally limited by the quantity existing in the Earth's crust, despite ever growing industrial applications for the metal and rising price inflation. This key combination of factors still provides a strong fundamental basis for continuing to hold silver over the long term.
Could Weak Silver Sentiment be Conveniently Manufactured by Central Bankers?
Interestingly, this depressed silver market sentiment picture seems to be the perfect political tool needed during a U.S. election year to lend much needed psychological support to an ever weakening U.S. Dollar in terms of its ability to purchase goods and services.
Keeping silver and other precious metal prices low by depressing market sentiment, and perhaps even engaging in covert market intervention, seems suspiciously convenient after such an excessive amount of liquidity has already been pumped into the U.S. monetary system by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank's highly controversial quantitative easing measures promoted by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
In addition, given the high amount of liquidity the European Central Bank needed to inject to deal with the debt troubled Eurozone countries like Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland and Portugal, the increasingly obvious end result will be higher consumer price inflation, despite ongoing denials by central bank and government officials.
More QE Measures Likely as U.S. Economy Languishes in Election Year
Bearish for the Dollar, but very bullish for hard precious metal currencies like silver, is the view among many market participants that further rounds of quantitative easing or QE measures by the Fed are still practically a given during this election year to help lend support to a stubbornly struggling U.S. economy.
Nevertheless, allowing metals to trade higher based on their strong fundamentals would severely dampen the U.S. central bankers' ability to overtly increase the money supply in a substantial way.
EU Moves Toward Ratifying ESM to Provide More Permanent Bailout Mechanism
Another related development is that the European Stability Mechanism or ESM is expected to be ratified by July of this year, provided that enough of the 17 Eurozone member states approve of the bailout system to represent ninety percent of its capital commitments.
This new EU rescue program is expected to permanently replace the existing temporary European Financial Stability Facility within the Eurozone, thereby making meta-government bailouts an ongoing feature of the Eurozone's economy.
As in the United States, a reasonable person can only expect more liquidity increasing measures will soon also follow in the EU, thereby making an even stronger case for continuing to hold and accumulate precious metals like silver.
Does Jamie Dimon's Problem Actually Reside in SILVER DERIVATIVES?
Facts are facts. Since May 7th the price of silver has been mercifully driven down below $30 and on May 10th Jamie Dimon announced a $2B derivative loss. The price of silver is continuing to be driven down which in my mind means only one thing...JPM is losing the physical silver game and having to drive the price lower to get their hands on physical at a price that would reduce their overall losses. Never mind that the paper silver short will increase...this is now a physical game.
A clue lies in the COMEX data that shows that silver is in backwardization!
Bix Weir,
Soros Quadruples Gold Holdings
Wealth Wire
Gold, Money, and the Parable of the Three Little Pigs
Lew Rockwell
The 2 Billion Dollar Loss By JP Morgan Is Just A Preview Of The Coming Collapse Of The Derivatives Market
Full Blown Bank Run In Greece
How The U.S. Dollar Will Be Replaced
This is Why World Markets are Incredibly Unstable
Stephen Leeb
Will See Three Digit Silver In The Next Couple of Years
Stephen Leeb
JP Morgan's Losses A Canary in A Coal Mine?
Bill Moyers
Bix Weir
JP Morgan Derivatives Book
Blowing Up
Lindsey Williams Part 1
Derivatives Market Collapsing & JP Morgan
Lindsey Williams Part 2
Derivatives Market Collapsing & JP Morgan
Issue 130
Gold: $1644.40/ Silver: $30.44
What Good is it if you Can't Spend It?
Jason Hommel
This article is more valuable than a Harvard Education!
Buying silver and gold today will likely be better than buying Microsoft or Apple stock way back when they first came out, and this article addresses the fundamental reasons why.
People often ask, "What good is silver or gold if I can't spend it?"
But that's exactly why we all should buy it! Low monetary demand means silver and gold are still cheap and undervalued liquid assets that investors should crave.
And crave it, they do. But 99% of silver investors are duped into buying the wrong kind of "silver", the kind that is not silver at all.
"Investors" have "bought" up to 200 billion "dollars" worth of "silver" in "accounts", which would be 15-20 years of annual mine supply. Clearly, that silver was never bought by the "brokers" who "sold" that much "silver" in "accounts" to "investors".
Source: http://silverstockreport.com/2012/morgan-silver-manipulation.html
Every word in quotes above needs clarification and/or translation. Each word is quoted to highlight the fact that while I'm trying to tell the story in the silver market, it's difficult to do, because there so much fraud all over the place that if I stopped to define each word as I went, it would be so distracting that I could hardly write a single sentence. Here's how those lines should read, if the discussion were a bit more truthful:
"Misinformed greedy gamblers" have "gambled on the paper currency value" of up to 200 billion "units of paper currency" worth of "paper promises of silver" in "computers", which if it were actually what it was supposed to be, would be 15-20 years of annual mine supply. Clearly, that silver was never bought by the "broker / casino operator / thieves" who "took money for" that much "paper promises of silver" in "computers" for "the gamblers".
Getting back to the point of why people should want real physical silver (outside of brokerage accounts) especially when you can't spend it.
The point is that without monetary demand, gold and silver are cheaper than they otherwise would be.
Also, as long as 15-20 years' worth of mine supply worth of investor demand is siphoned away from the real silver market into "computer" accounts, then silver prices will not go up as fast as they should.
Lower demand means a lower value. Investors know that they want to buy things that have a low value, knowing that the value will likely go up. But investors are still not understanding what silver is, since they continue to be satisfied with "paper silver", or perhaps "computer silver".
So, here's the fundamental reasons why gold and silver will continue to gain in value. Gold and silver are true money, even if they can't be used to buy groceries yet.
What makes gold and silver good at being money?
Many people are beginning to re-learn why gold and silver are the best money, and have been money for thousands of years. They seem to be able to recognize some of the self-evident and obvious truths that those metals have certain unique features making them essential and especially good at being money.
But these need to be listed, because sometimes people have funny ideas about money, because we live in a society that must convince us that paper is the best money.
There is a lot more here than I can remember all at once. I need a list I can refer back to and update, and you just can't find the truth about this stuff anywhere else. So you might want to keep this for future reference, too. None of this is "news", but it will be news to some, because they just don't teach this stuff anywhere.
I have a Harvard Textbook, "Principles of Economics", 4th ed., that defines the three functions of money, the medium of exchange, the unit of account, and the store of value.
It has a 5 star rating! So, it must be one of the best. But how can it be, when it is filled with so many lies?!
The book encourages the reader to "examine" the three functions of money on page 643, (and that's also the only page that mentions the gold standard!), but the book just defines the terms -- but they don't even explain what makes an item good at being one of the three functions of money; the medium of exchange, the unit of account, or the store of value. Furthermore, the textbook is full of lies, misinformation, and false innuendo about money.
It's propaganda of the State. Propaganda works best if you have to pay to learn it. Nobody would believe it if they strapped you to a chair, tied you down, and shouted at you, "believe our lies about the usefulness of paper money and the stupidity of gold, or else!" No, it only works when they make the kids have to pay to learn their propaganda, and then reward those who have the best memories for the lies, with high paying wall street jobs whereby they fleece the rest of the public.
The "Harvard" textbook actually suggests in two ways that only criminals have a large need for cash, because bank deposits leave a "paper trail", and because cash does not earn interest.
But paper is not the only form of "cash". There is also gold. Is all the gold owned by criminals, too? Nonsense. And why does gold have to earn 1% interest, when gold and silver have been going up in value by 15-30% per year for the last ten years? Interest on gold is nonsense.
Precious metals are a great store of value:
To be a store of value:
Precious metals are a great unit of account:
To be a unit of account:
Precious metals are a great medium of exchange:
To be a medium of exchange:
$300 of gold is .15 of an oz., and can be easily hiding in any wallet.
$300 of silver is just under 10 oz., and such a bar easily fits into your back pocket.
$300 of copper is 33 pounds, which is a major strain to lift.
$300 of oil is 3 large barrels, and is too heavy to be lifted by a person's own strength.
These fundamental reasons why silver and gold are true money, help to answer the top ten excuses why our friends have not bought silver and gold, which are listed here:
EXCUSE IN CAPS, followed by my answer/rebuttal.
TOO HIGH NOW. No, Gold and silver can never be valued "too high" against paper money. Paper money is by nature fraud, and always will be. It's interesting that people thought gold was "too high" at $1000/oz. back in Dec. 2009. Clearly, with gold at a stable $1600 just over two years later, we can see more clearly
that they were all wrong who called gold "too high" a few years ago.
HOW TO SELL? Gold and silver are easier to sell than US "dollars", which are not accepted in many nations these days.
CRAZY GOLD BUGS: No, we who understand gold are not crazy. People who pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to Harvard to be taught lies might be crazy.
I'M CLUELESS ABOUT GOLD: Well, if you went to Harvard, I can see why. And I hope this article helped to change that for you and your friends.
SHUT UP: Well, this is written, not oral.
PRICE CHANGES: As you can see, it's paper money that is changing in value, far more than gold and silver, but silver and gold will continue to gain value during this time.
GOVERNMENT WILL FIX: As you can see, government cannot change a single fundamental nature or property or feature of silver and gold. Gold and silver expose the lies of excess paper money printing by governments.
SILENCE: Yes, I know, the nay sayers are once again speechless. Hey, gold also doesn't talk, but that does not mean gold and the nay sayers are useless. Gold, if you examine it, reveals its properties to you. Similarly, by examining the arguments, or silence, of the nay sayers, we can see we are on the right track.
I'M BROKE: Hey, gold is not for every man. It's really just for those who would be kings.
BAD BROKERS: Now you can see why the brokers, and their lackeys, the "financial advisors", talk people out of gold and silver. They would go bankrupt if people bought the real things, because their short positions are 15-20 years of mine supply. Furthermore, brokers don't earn commissions on gold that you hold in your own possession and keep in your own vault, and neither do we. We only earn our commission one time, when you buy it from us.
Getting back to the fundamentals.
Gold is easily transportable. This means that the brokers really have no excuse to not send it to you when you buy it. Assays are free. Shipping and insurance for the shipping costs are less than 1% of the value. Thus, the only reason to not send you your gold or silver when you buy it, is because the sellers are running a scam, or are bankrupt.
And there you have it. You now know more about the essential nature of gold than 99.9% of people in the world.
Other Articles
Silver: The harsh realities behind diminshing supplies
Gaia Vince
Currency Debasement and Social Collapse
Ludwig von Mises
Why Did Gold Become Money?
Tyler Durden
JP Morgan Silver Manipulation
Jason Hommel
Why Silver Is Money
Jason Hommel
This is What I'm Doing with My Own Money Right Now
John Embry
A Return to the Gold Standard, or Gold Behind Currencies
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Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
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Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
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Silver is Money
This is fascinating… how silver is mined… and why it SHOULD be much more valuable! After you watch this, you will understand why everyone has been saying that silver is grossly UNDER priced… and… Why this price manipulation is causing a depletion /extinction of this metal in the marketplace.
Why Silver & Not Gold
The Silver Suppression Scheme
Is Ending
David Morgan
Issue 127
Gold: $1630.30/ Silver: $31.79
SGS Notes: Our key article this week is quite lengthy but very informative … I hope you will take the time to click the 'Read More' to see the full article… we are only able to publish the initial portion of it below:
The Coming Paradigm Shift in Silver
Steve St. Angelo
The biggest problem for investors today in trying to forecast the future price of silver is the enormous amount of contradictory analysis on the Internet. There are bulls, bears, paper traders, physical buyers, technical analysts, hedge funds, commercial banks and silver manufacturers all trying to play a part in this highly volatile silver market. Trying to sift through the huge volumes of silver analysis on the internet can be extremely frustrating. In addition, some of this information is not meant to inform, but rather to confuse or mislead the investor.
There is a great deal of misinformation on the internet when it comes to silver. I find it ironic that one of the so-called "bullion specialists" seems to give bearish commentary whenever the price of gold or silver rises to new highs. This is akin to a CEO of a corporation telling the media and shareholders that the company's stock price is too high and needs to drop down to more sustainable levels. What CEO on Earth would say something as stupid as this with the best interest of the company and shareholders in mind? Furthermore, how many CEOs would keep their job if they repeated this over and over for the past several years, and got it wrong time and time again?
Unless you have been in the precious metals markets for quite some time, it is easy to be misled by this type of information. This is the very reason behind the motivation that I had to write this article. In it, I will attempt to give the reader-investor a more detailed and fundamental comparative analysis of the future price of silver, rather than the typical fly-by-night technical charting or bull-bear rant. This should give a more commonsense methodology in forecasting the future path of silver and its eventual paradigm shift.
Paradigm Shift: -n, a radical change in underlying beliefs or theory
The coming paradigm shift in silver will not happen due to technical analysis, fundamentals, or supply & demand forces, but rather due to a change in mass psychology of investors. Even though fundamentals and supply-demand forces will play a part in this shift, they will not be the ultimate cause. I believe technical analysis as it is used today, only charts the amount of manipulation and mass psychology in the silver market.
Throughout history, a paradigm shift occurs in rigged markets when the manipulation of the financial system and economy is no longer sustainable. This occurred in the banking and housing markets in 2007-2008 when we had what I call a "Negative Paradigm Price Shift"- a trend where prices or values are declining.
Negative Paradigm Price Shift in Housing and Banking
Prior to 2007, the real estate market was kept alive by the work of clowns and magicians in the mortgage industry and banking system. For several years everyone was having a great time. As housing prices and sales continued towards the heavens, bank profits hit all-time records. Everything was going along just fine until the market realized one day that there was nothing left after "Liars Loans" were levied to keep the Ponzi going. Once the housing market collapsed, so too did the banking system. Like two twins attached at birth, one could not live without the other.
In true waterfall fashion, investment banks, commercial banks, government-sponsored entities and insurance companies went bankrupt, were either taken over or became a mere shadow of their former selves.
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The Banker's New Gold
Jeff Nielson
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In a fresh sign of bankster desperation, we recently learned that they have pushed lease rates for gold to the lowest, negative level in history - i.e. they are paying people more money to "borrow" their gold than at any other time. We know this is a sign of desperation, because back in the real world, buyers are paying premiums near record-highs to buy their (real) gold.
There are numerous implications regarding this latest bankster tactic to suppress the gold market, but before getting into those let's explore all of the reasons why bankers like "leasing gold" in the first place. The starting point is to note that it is with gold-leasing that we see the beginnings of the banksters' 100:1 leverage in the gold market.
A banker is holding a quantity of gold in his vault. He "lends" the gold to a trader, and suddenly you havetwo parties both pretending to be the "owners" of that gold. Naturally, the banksters also like the fact that this is a totally opaque, unregulated/unreported transaction. The banksters can secretly lend out their gold, and since the transactions are never reported, we lack the absolute proof that none of this "loaned gold" is ever repaid.
There is certainly plenty of circumstantial evidence on which to base such a conclusion, however. In order to review this evidence, we first need to know what is being done with the bankers' leased gold. A detailed analysis by veteran precious metals commentator Frank Veneroso explains how and why "The ultimate borrowers in the gold lending operation are these shorts in the gold futures and forward market."
We immediately see a second reason the bankers love gold-leasing: all of the "leased" gold ends up being shorted onto the market. What this directly implies then is that in order for these gold leases to ever be repaid the short positions must be closed out so that the gold (supposedly) backing the trade can be repatriated to the bank. However, what we see in the gold market is a huge, permanent short position in the gold market - which has swelled enormously since Veneroso wrote the article above nearly a decade ago.
We now know that at least some of these gold leases have never been repaid, since the gold that was loaned out remains on the market. However, as a matter of simple arithmetic we can deduce that few if any of these leases are ever repaid. As I noted above, each gold lease creates "paper gold" (i.e. a "fractional reserve" gold market) and increases the bankers' leverage in the gold market.
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Using Garritan Jazz & Big Band
by Chuck Israels
Lesson 1 - Intro & Rhythm
The information in this book is arranged sequentially, and the first reading of the material is probably best accomplished in that sequence. But the information wasnt acquired that way, doesnt exist that way in the writers mind, and wont be used that way by the reader after it has been learned and integrated. We learn things best by immersion, the way we learned to speak our native language as children. Any language that we learn later, through books and courses of instruction, is learned less efficiently. There is no substitute for learning the language of music by writing it, and hearing it played. Unlike learning to fly a plane, mistakes will cause no permanent damage and may turn out to be memorably instructive.
Music notation software and the Garritan Personal Orchestra Jazz Library make it possible to include easily accessible playback of the jazz arranging examples in this book. Together, they allow an arranger who doesnt have easy access to live musicians to examine a variety of musical choices and play back a sketch version of the results. A performance by live musicians is the best feedback, but this method can provide an informative step along the way to finding the sounds and balances that define a composer/arrangers personal style. High quality sketch playback can bring the composer/arranger closer to the end product and improve communication with musicians by providing a good representation of a basic interpretation of the notation.
As long as the composers intention is to achieve results that are recognizable as being in the jazz style, its essential to have some listening background in the history of jazz arranging, so that elements of existing styles can be used as building blocks for the development of new music. Jelly Roll Mortons march-based polyphony, Fletcher Hendersons early big band swing, the Kansas City tradition as developed by Count Basies arrangers, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorns expansive variety of techniques, Tadd Damerons bebop sounds, Horace Silvers mastery of small group forms, Gil Evans developments of more typically orchestral ideas, Oliver Nelson, J.J. Johnson, Gerry Mulligan, Bob Brookmeyer, Dave Berger the list is a long one, and familiarity with successful pieces written by masterful musicians can save a new arranger a lot of time by pointing to effective established techniques.
Of course, the assumption is that a creative musician will go beyond mimicry and use historical precedent as a starting point for new uses of established ideas, but there is rarely a need for a self-conscious search for originality. Most of us will naturally (and often unconsciously) insert enough elements of our point of view to provide the music with its own personality. There is no reason to fear that experience with, and understanding of, historically successful techniques will lead to a lack of creativity. More often than not, familiarity with examples of great music leads to efficiency in achieving the goal of effective personal expression.
The most important things in music are: rhythm, rhythm, and rhythm, in that order. The most important thing in jazz rhythm is the democratization of the beats, the equalization of emphasis on all parts of the measure. This is not music theory. This is music fact, and it is what makes jazz swing in its idiomatic way. Musical elements that help balance the rhythms add to the propulsive forward motion of jazz; those that unbalance the rhythms impede that propulsion. (The Brazilian word for swing is balance.)
In jazz and most popular music, harmonic changes take place on the first and third beats of common time music. The accents on the second and fourth beats in jazz function to balance the emphasis that accrues to the down beats as a result of the changes of harmony, and should be played as strongly as they need to be to fulfill that function and no stronger. Accenting the second and fourth beats heavily, as so many school musicians are taught to do, only serves to unbalance the music in the other direction and is as destructive to the swing as overemphasizing one and three. The only time heavy accents are needed on the off beats is when there is an equally strong emphasis on the down beats in a passage that needs a powerful two beat feel. In that case, the heavier off beats restore the balance.
Beyond the world of half note and quarter note rhythms, smaller subdivisions of the pulse are also equally emphasized in jazz. There is no better or more characteristic demonstration of how this works than the music of Louis Armstrong, the genius of jazz expression who perfected this style. Louis singing and trumpet playing provide the quintessential basic templates for the understanding and creation of swinging jazz music. Everything that follows flows from the example set by his music.
Some of the history of this style goes back to the West African need for songs and music to maintain historical tradition in a culture that did not use written language. Expressive singing was more than entertainment, it carried essential historical connections, and it had to be related to speech closely enough to make resonant sense to the listeners. This singing tradition began to show up in this country in the music of early Delta Blues singers and in the singing of Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. Louis Armstrong applied this conversational style to a broader range of material, as he was encouraged to record the popular songs of his day in order for his music to reach a wider audience.
The rhythms in Armstrongs trumpet playing are directly related to those in his conversational singing style, the prototype for American interpretation of popular music lyrics. Jazz rhythms come from the way the originators of the style heard and spoke the English language, and familiarity with the sound of the language goes a long way towards suggesting ways to notate swinging jazz rhythms. Normally expressive spoken rhythms are full of nuances of timing, things that surge forward and things that hold back. And if those surface timings are experienced in relation to an underlying tempo of speech, they will show a balance of accents and stresses, some of which fall into regular predictable patterns, and some that are surprising in their syncopations and cross relationships with the general tempo.
That is a pretty good parallel with the swinging rhythms of jazz. In order to have a good effect, those rhythms need to have predictable elements that establish expectation in the listener, and unpredictable elements that disturb that expectation soon enough and for a long enough time to be interesting, but neither too early nor for too long to obscure the memory of the established expectations. There is no substitute for immersion in the sounds and rhythms of good jazz in order to absorb them on an intuitive level. Still, something can be gained by looking at the way elements of jazz forms are interrelated and how they can be used to control the sense of expectation and surprise.
Consider the way rhythmic expectations function in the first 16 measures of a 32- measure AABA song form. Whatever happens on the first beat of the 1st measure is deeply related to what will happen on the first beat of the 9th measure, slightly less deeply related to the first beat of the 5th measure, and another level less (though still connected) to what happens at the beginning of the 3rd measure. Corresponding relationships exist among other similar rhythmic positions in the form, and awareness of these relationships allows the jazz musician to use the mathematical predictability of the form as a background on which to superimpose elements that provide a felicitous balance of expectation and surprise.
Here is the rhythm scheme of the first 16 measures of a simple standard popular song, as it might be performed by a, rhythmically-aware, singer or instrumentalist:
This is a simplified example, and is only a rough template designed to show how parts of popular song form relate to one another. The benefits to be gained from careful listening and analysis of the recordings of great jazz singers cannot be over emphasized as a starting point for understanding how to create swinging jazz phrases. There are wonderful, challenging, examples among the recordings of Joe Williams, some of which are so rhythmically complex and sophisticated that they nearly defy notation.
Changing pitches has less effect on our perception of music than changing meter and rhythm. Here is a simple example of how much more difference changing the rhythm makes than changing only the pitches.
Score References & Musical Examples Using JABB:
Click on Play Button below to Play from the Score
These are a few of the most basic rhythms that help to identify the rhythmic character of American Jazz.(The Charleston rhythms are always played with a 12/8 swing feel. In order for the cross rhythms examples to have their maximum effect, they must be performed more evenly.)
Score References & Musical Examples Using JABB:Click on Play Button below to Play from the Score
Here is a sophisticated example using carefully notated improvisatory rhythms that set up an effective cross meter pattern that resolves in the 3rd measure.
Score References & Musical Examples Using JABB:
Click on Play Button below to Play from the Score
Arrangements written by otherwise sophisticated musicians can fall short of their potential because of a lack of courage and persistence in remembering and notating the rhythms regularly played in jazz improvisations. Learning to notate improvisational rhythms takes considerable attention and practice, but the results, once understood and absorbed by the performers, can transform what might otherwise be a mundane piece of work into music that expresses the variety and joy of rhythmic spontaneity. Most arrangers spend the majority of their time and attention on questions of chord voicing and a small percentage on rhythm. For the most effective results, the proportions should be reversed. Devoting energy to the careful choice of rhythms brings musical rewards. It would be difficult to overemphasize the importance of this aspect of the jazz composer/arrangers art.
Getting started
As the work on the composition/arrangement gets started, nothing is more important than getting the rhythmic proportions of the melody in balance. Thats a good first step. After the rhythmic phrasing has been decided and the proportions are satisfactory, the next step is to secure the foundation of the music by writing a good bass part. Once the relationship between the outside voices is determined, much of the work has been done, and other elements tend to fall into place more easily. It would be difficult to overemphasize the importance of organizing the details of this basic, outer-voice, sketch in directing the flow of the musical idea. Time spent considering and solidifying this part of the musical design is time well spent.
Part of the jazz tradition is to provide only a chord chart for the bass player. While this can work well when the player is experienced, it can omit information that might lead to a more effective relationship between the bass part and a written melody. If there is going to be any doubt as to the direction of the line, writing it out can erase that doubt and give the bass player confidence that the part will be going in an effective direction. When in doubt, write it out (and provide chord symbols as an encouragement to embellishment).
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So our senior boys highschool rugby team went on tour to Bermuda for a series of 7s and 15s games (different formats of rugby) against the Bermuda national under-19 team. For the most part, our Toronto-based high school team dominated them in every way possible. This was by far the highlight of my rugby carrer (at least caught on video): 75 meters of pure orgasmic shiftiness. This was also pinnacle of my career, before I headed to university and drank away most of my athletic prowess. Nonetheless, this is the most epic try ever.


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Interested in Language
I would like to ask you a question regarding English intonation and stress-pattern.
The word pair very beautiful should be stressed on very or beautiful? Could you please elaborate on the topic because Im confused whether or not the adjective or the adverb should be stressed?
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The intensifier—in this case 'very'—is more likely to be stressed than the adjective.
'He's a rude man...in fact he's an extremely rude man.'
'One really hot day last July...'
'She's only slightly younger than me.'