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Manipulation of the Gold Market has created Rarest of Opportunities

by Gary Savage
Gold Seek

The banksters, by manipulating the price of gold and artificially creating a bear market, have created what will likely turn out to be one of the greatest opportunities ever seen. I’ve maintained all along this was their goal. To create the most destructive bear market in history, which would then generate the largest bull market the world has ever seen.

Folks, you might as well take advantage of this opportunity. The banksters aren’t the only ones that deserve to get rich. They have destroyed millions of peoples lives as the authorities stood by and watched them run the precious metals markets, and especially the mining sector, down to absurd levels over the last few years. Now they have switched sides and the attacks have stopped. It’s time for price to swing in the other direction. And it’s going to swing so far in the other direction, that I have no doubt before it is over this will be the largest bull market the world will ever see.

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U.S. Stocks Climb With Bonds, Gold on Stimulus Bets After Brexit

by Inyoung Hwang amd Bailey Lipschultz
Bloomberg.com

U.S. stocks capped the biggest four-day rally in nine months, as bonds rose worldwide on speculation central banks will act to limit the fallout from the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union.

The S&P 500 Index has recouped all but about half a percent of the two-day rout triggered by Brexit. European equities pushed their five-day gain past 3 percent for the best week in a month, with the U.K.’s FTSE 100 posting its biggest weekly rally since 2011. Treasury yields fell to record lows along with rates from Spain to Japan as policy makers signaled their readiness to shore up the economy. The pound slid a second day as gold rose a fifth week.

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The Imminent Arrival of QE to Infinity, and Hyperinflation, Has Arrived

by Andrew Hoffman
Miles Franklin

It’s 1:00 AM Saturday morning, and I’m writing this article with limited lighting and just a few hours of sleep. Unfortunately, Giselle’s inability to settle down amidst lightning and thunderstorms has caused me to wake up – and consequently, I figured I’d pen a few thoughts about this week’s historic events – particularly in the Precious Metal markets. And doggone it, “take a bow” for having been so dead on about this year’s events!

To wit, back on May 18th, when the Cartel launched the “Fed Minutes Attack” – by doubling up their historically high gold and silver shorts, under the guise of an awkwardly telegraphed potential June rate hike, I emphatically predicted it would miserably fail, in the longest, most emphatic Audioblog I’ve ever published. Which couldn’t have been more accurate; as following the issuance of the Fed’s most dovish policy statement since the 2008 crisis a mere five weeks later, both gold and silver had surged back to their pre-Fed Minutes Attack levels, whilst the COMEX “Commercials”’ short positions hadn’t been reduced one iota.

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Leaked: Japan’s Mega-pension Fund Plows Into Stocks, Eats $50Bn Loss, Tries to Hide it Till After Election

by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street

Benefiting hedge funds and banks that had front-run the fund.

Abenomics is facing elections on July 10 for the less powerful Upper House.

But Abenomics hasn’t fared very well. It engaged in the biggest (relative to the economy) money-printing and bond buying extravaganza the world has ever seen. The securities the Bank of Japan has bought, now at ¥426 trillion ($4.15 trillion), amount to 85% of GDP. About $8 trillion in Japanese Government Bonds sport negative yields. Even the 30-year yield is just about zero. The JGB market, once the second largest government bond market in the world, has frozen. The BOJ’s primary dealers are in revolt. Some have already pulled out.

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UK House Prices BrExit Crash NOT Likely Despite London Property Market Weakness

by Nadeem Walayat
Market Oracle

The establishment REMAIN camp peddled the same story for the UK housing market all year, one of a collapse, crash or worse! As operation fear each month ramped up the threats of that which awaited a post Brexit Britain. The house prices crash fear mongering even emanated direct from George Osborne himself who warned: “If we leave the European Union there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets… That affects the value of people’s homes and the Treasury analysis shows that there would be a hit to the value of people’s homes by at least 10 per cent and up to 18 per cent.”

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Weekend Edition: Doug Casey on How to Survive the Deep State

from Casey Research

Editor’s note: Yesterday, Casey Research founder Doug Casey described the powerful force that’s ruining the country: the “Deep State.”

Today, in the second part of his essay—originally published in the September issue of The Casey Report—Doug explains how to prosper during this time.

Here are the actions you should be taking today…

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The Math on Income Inequality

Average annual income of the top 1% is $1,153,293 while that of the bottom 99% is $45,567.

from My Budget 360

Part of the challenge with distorted income distributions is that it hollows out the middle class. The middle class in the United States is now a minority. We have more people making higher incomes and more people making way less and this group is growing much faster. Our economy has taken a bimodal distribution with extremes on both sides. We have a record number of people on food stamps but also a record number of higher income households. The only problem is that the low range of the ladder is growing much faster than that at the top. For every person that makes it into the upper income brackets you have three that fall out of the middle class and into the low income wage trap. Part of the political anger we are seeing in the US and other parts of Europe is that the elites are simply ignoring the needs of the masses. In many cases this purposeful ignorance is because their wealth is built on keeping many stuck on a perpetual hamster wheel where productivity gains only go to a small section of society.

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Europe is a Minefield

by John Mauldin
Gold Seek

[…] I am sure your inbox and the magazines you peruse and the TV programs you watch have been saturated with commentary on Brexit, much of its speculative nonsense. What I find the most annoying are people who feel that the British have made a huge mistake and that they are going to have to go through a period of unmitigated pain as punishment for their not appreciating the wisdom of their elders. They express an almost joyful glee in that prospect – especially if they don’t live in the United Kingdom.

As Donald Rumsfeld more or less said, there are things we know and things we don’t know and things that we can’t even imagine. Brexit falls into all of those categories. So before we start speculating ourselves, let’s take a trip down Reality Lane in Europe.

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Has Brexit Really Damaged London’s City or Will British Finance Benefit?

by Daily Bell Staff
The Daily Bell

If the City has truly found humility, it can still be useful to Britain … Some figures in the financial services industry are almost starting to sound contrite. Given the trade surpluses they generate, it’s tempting to listen … The City is nervous about Brexit. – Guardian

This article is telling us that post-Brexit, London’s City is “remorseful” about how it has acted. Or at least it should be.

Of course a city cannot be remorseful, and we are not sure about the remorse of City bankers either. It seems something like propaganda, a dominant social theme being purveyed by the mainstream media.

The top bankers in our view are going to use Brexit to further a globalist agenda.

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This is How They Protect Us!

The Latest TSA Horror

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org

“These people think they are God. They think they can do anything they want.”

A partially blind, partially deaf young woman returning home from treatment for a brain tumor was brutally smashed to the ground by goon tug TSA “security” while her mother, a nurse, was shoved away.

The good tugs responsible should get at least 30 years in a maximum security prison for assault with intent to kill. But nothing will happen to them. Their corrupt bosses always cover up for the psychopaths who occupy so many “security” and police positions from which they exercise unaccountable brutality over those of us forced to pay their salaries.

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Idiot Dies, I Cheer

by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org

Yes, I said cheer, and I did.

The U.S. announced Thursday the first fatality of a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode, the 40-year-old owner of a technology company who nicknamed his vehicle “Tessy” and had praised its sophisticated “Autopilot” system just one month earlier for preventing a collision on an interstate. The government said it is investigating the design and performance of the system aboard the Tesla Model S sedan.

The deceased was a flat-out jackass.

The wreck occurred in Florida and I actually know where it was; I’ve driven through there. A truck turned (legally) in front of the vehicle, which was on autopilot, during difficult lighting conditions making the “autopilot” effectively blind to the fact that it had been obstructed from the side.

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China is About to Shock the World

from King World News

On the heel of an absolutely wild trading week, China is about to shock the world and the global markets.

(King World News) Stephen Leeb: “Psychologists have a term for it: denial. It’s the perfect description of all the repeated, reflexive talk by Western analysts about how a debt-laden China is on the verge of a hard landing that will threaten and possibly destroy that country’s political and social fabric…

[…] Stephen Leeb continues: “The U.S., which for so long has been the world’s unquestioned No. 1 in almost every sphere, finds it hard to face the reality that China now rivals us on economic, geopolitical, and even military playing fields.

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Robot Lawyer Successfully Appeals 160,000 London and New York Parking Tickets

by Mike ‘Mish’ Shedlock
Mish Talk

A free “Chatbot” service called “DoNotPay” has successfully appealed 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York.

The website of its creator, Joshua Browder, a 19-year-old London-born second-year Stanford University student, bills the product as the “World’s First Robot Lawyer“.

Browder has expanded his Chatbot to cover flight delays and to help those with HIV understand their rights.

Please consider Chatbot Lawyer Overturns 160,000 Parking Tickets in London and New York.

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Brexit Shocked Global Markets – Now What?

by Mike Meyer
Daily Pfennig

I’m sure by now you’ve heard all about the Brexit drama.

Just two weeks before the vote, polls were showing the “Leave” campaign was slightly ahead.1 Later surveys however, showed that 52% of Britons were going to vote to stay in the European Union (EU).2

In other words, the average of opinion polls was suggesting the Brexit was too close to call. Anything could happen.

But in the betting market the story was different. Bookmakers were putting the chance of remaining at around 90%.3 So the market and the media ran with the story that U.K. leaving the EU was highly unlikely.

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Mickey Fulp’s Monthly Major Market Review for June, 2016

from Financial Survival Network
Mickey Fulp says the results are in for June and if you’re a lover of volatility then you’re quite happy for sure. The share markets continued their upward trajectory, Brexit be damned. The metals were just stellar, continuing the bull market that started in January, with silver putting in a big performance. While the money markets were relatively subdued, Bitcoin was up a whopping 62 percent for the quarter and 10 Year Treasury yields hit levels not seen in a long time. Energy recovered well in the quarter with the exception of Uranium, which hit new lows. This may be the first year in a long time where it didn’t pay to sell in May and go away.

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New Investment Property SWOT Analysis (Episode #692)

from The Creating Wealth Show

This episode starts out with an introduction on buy downs and then finishes up with a live recording of Jason’s session on SWOT aka Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, as they apply to the most historically proven asset class in the world. Jason explains why the imperfection and fragmentation of the U.S. real estate market make it a beneficial investment vehicle and why it outperforms Wall Street and stocks every single time.

Just go to JasonHartman.com and get started now!

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Averting a Global Depression with Richard Duncan (Episode #691)

from The Creating Wealth Show

When the United States stopped backing dollars with gold in 1968, the nature of money changed, becoming the fiat currency system that has now put the world into an unprecedented recession. Jason Hartman is joined by returning guest, Richard Duncan, to talk about how we are in danger of a global Great Depression and how we can stop it. Richard’s previous book talked about the inevitable collapse of the dollar, and his new book discusses “a new theoretical construct, The Quantity Theory of Credit, that is the key to understanding not only the developments that led to the crisis, but also to understanding how events will play out in the years ahead.” Richard explains how the expansion of credit eventually implodes and the dangers of the contraction of credit. Richard Duncan is the author of three books on the global economic crisis. The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures (John Wiley & Sons, 2003, updated 2005), predicted the current global economic disaster with extraordinary accuracy. It was an international bestseller. His second book was The Corruption of Capitalism: A strategy to rebalance the global economy and restore sustainable growth. It was published by CLSA Books in December 2009. His latest book is The New Depression: The Breakdown of the Paper Money Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2012). Since beginning his career as an equities analyst in Hong Kong in 1986, Richard has served as global head of investment strategy at ABN AMRO Asset Management in London, worked as a financial sector specialist for the World Bank in Washington D.C., and headed equity research departments for James Capel Securities and Salomon Brothers in Bangkok. He also worked as a consultant for the IMF in Thailand during the Asia Crisis. He is now chief economist at Blackhorse Asset Management in Singapore.

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Beyond Brexit – More Earthquakes on the Way

by James Rickards
Daily Reckoning

On Monday, June 20, 2016, I stood in the London Eye Ferris wheel. I was just across the Thames from the UK Houses of Parliament, standing with a film crew to record an urgent warning. I said that the Brexit vote, coming just three days later on June 23, could produce a financial earthquake.

I recommended the exact strategies to avoid losses and to profit from the catastrophe to come. These strategies included shorting sterling, buying gold, and increasing cash allocations so our readers could “go shopping among the ruins.”

As a result, my readers were prepared for what happened — unlike the elites and so-called “smart money” who were totally unprepared.

I wish that were the end of it, but it’s not. New earthquakes are coming soon as part of the Brexit aftershocks.

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Can Post-Brexit London Retain Its Crown as a Global Hotspot?

by Ben Marlow
Telegraph.co.uk

What makes a city great? With the UK now facing an uncertain future outside the European Union, it is a question that will become increasingly pertinent as the government attempts to negotiate a new trade deal that enables it to remain in the single market and continue to be one of the world’s economic powerhouses.

Amid such huge uncertainty, companies that have large UK operations, some built over many decades, are now being forced to consider moving some of their workers to other parts of the bloc.

The large majority of those will be based in London, which has long been the number one commercial, financial and business centre of Europe, dwarfing its rivals when it comes to luring the world’s top companies; 40pc of the biggest companies from across the globe have chosen the capital for their European bases, and 60pc of the big companies from outside Europe have chosen to locate their continental headquarters in the city.

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The Subprime Bubble Grew by $1.4 Trillion in Just One Month

by Simon Black
Sovereign Man

In the late 12th century while the rest of Europe was choking on feudalism, Venice was rapidly becoming the most advanced power on the continent.

At that point Venice had already created a free society where anyone, regardless of origin or class, could work hard and prosper. It was truly the America of its day.

The Venetians were very forward thinkers. They established a very crude type of limited partnership called a commenda that formed the basis for the modern corporation.

And starting in the late 1100s, the Venetian government began issuing a unique type of sovereign debt called prestiti.

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Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and The Jackass

by Turd Ferguson
TF Metals Report

On Thursday, our pal Jim Willie stopped by for another holiday weekend podcast. Making it even more special was conducting this program in our A2A format where our Vault subscribers got to ask the majority of the questions. The result is 90 minutes of compelling audio that you’re definitely going to want to hear.

This was, as usual, great fun and extremely informative. Jim must have answered about 20 questions from listeners, covering topics as diverse as:

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