WARNING: When this news breaks, the euro could crash
Insider reports Germany is about to re-introduce the Deutschmark... 

 

 

Bernanke Is Setting Up QE3

Dave in Denver at The Golden Truth - 32 minutes ago

Under the cover of that continuous game of "will Greece default or will it not default," the Fed has slipped in its first real pre-QE3 trial balloon: *"If inflation falls too low or inflation expectations fall too low, that would be something we have to respond to [with more QE] because we do not want deflation"* Here's the LINK There's why our interventionist Government/Fed has taken a wrecking-ball to the prices of commodities and gold/silver. Now we can expect to see "reduced" indications of inflation in the next Government-manipulated Producer Price and Consumer Price Index... more »

 

 

Boycott Bank Of America Which Is About To Institute A $5 Debit Card Usage Fee

Just when we thought we had seen every imaginable form of stupidity out of Bank of America, they go ahead and stun us all over again. The latest shock is that starting next year, the repository of hundreds of billions in underreserved (apparently the SEC finally figured out what was obvious to Zero Hedge readers since October 2010) toxic Countrywide mortgages, instead of shoring up capital, will do the opposite and start charging anyone with a debit card $5 a month fee for said card usage. Needless to say, this is obviously a collusive attempt by all the big banks, who are so desperate to generate some revenue (with the 2s10s flatter than at any time in the past 2.5 years) they are willing to drive away millions of paying customers. The problem is that the bulk of depositor clients will simply walk away from Bank of America (which had $1,038 billion in deposits as of June 30), and any other institutions that piggy back on this (and from a game theory perspective, everyone has to do it, or nobody will do it), and instead pull cash out of any and all checking and time deposit account forms. As a result, the key buffer that big banks have had during the entire financial crisis, cash from deposits, is about to disappear. This comes at a time when every US bank is fighting tooth and nail against Basel III implementation which forces banks to have more not less tangible capital (read cash, up to and including deposit cash). Alas, doomed for failure such idiocy can only come out of the US banking system which should have long been insolvent and replaced, but instead the Fed's policy of intercontinental Moral Hazard continues to encourage such "survival of the anti-fittest" decisions with pride. It goes without saying that we urge any and all of our 5 million monthly readers to pull any funds they may have from Bank of America in retaliation for this insanity.

Meltdown Part 1: "The Men Who Crashed The World"

When it comes to financial collapse documentaries, the public canon has one well-deserving Oscar Winner, "Inside Job", and one straight to HBO exercise in ass kissing and name dropping which shall remain nameless. Ironically, just like during the Arab Spring, it is that "dubious" Al Jazeera that shows US media how coverage of various matters, either geopolitical or financial, is done. Herein we present the first episode of Meltdown, in which we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal weakness; a ferocious Wall Street predator; and the power behind the throne. Considering we are about to experience the next Great Financial Crash, since nothing has changed at all since 2008, this should serve as a prominent reminder of all that happened, and a flashback to the future, of all that is certain to occur all over again.

Gold Share Broke Out To New Highs

Eric De Groot at Eric De Groot - 6 minutes ago

Any investor pessimistic about the gold stocks is not listening to the message of the market. What’s that message? Gold leads and the gold stocks follow. The most recent yellow box (green lined) illustrates this leadership. When gold stocks follow in the coming weeks/months will anyone but the talking heads be surprised? Let's hope not. Source: Gold leading Gold Shares The gold shares finally... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Journey Along The Investment Road Is An Arduous One

Admin at Marc Faber Blog - 20 minutes ago

I seldom go to see doctors but when I do, I like to be ideally with a doctor who is a friend, understands my unhealthy lifestyle and in whose judgement I can trust. I have no doubt that trusting a doctor will significantly accelerate the healing process. In the world of investments people’s investment results would be better if instead of trading online day and night they would have a close relationship with a capable and honest financial planner who could provide them with advice and occasionally with a second opinion. What really amazes me is that people want to see the best and ... more » 

Gold & Silver Correction: It`s Good For Markets

Admin at Jim Rogers Blog - 32 minutes ago

Silver and gold - you know, gold has gone up ten years in a row. That’s extremely unusual in any financial asset. Silver skyrocketed here in the last several months. So yeah, it’s a combination of things - financial panic, market re-quals, etcetera. But I don’t see this as any problem. It’s good for markets. Back in the 1970s gold went up 600 percent and then gold went down 50 percent, scared everybody off. A lot of people gave up on gold. And then as soon as they gave up and sold, gold turned around and went up 850 percent. That’s not a typo - 850 percent. So this is nothing unusua... more » 

Guest Post: Jamie Dimon’s Shameful Spouting about ‘anti-American’ Basel III regulations

There are few things more cringe-inducing than a government-subsidized bank CEO spouting self-serving, entitlement-laden idiocy to the world just because he and his bank might be subject to some extra constraints. That hasn’t stopped JPM Chase CEO Jamie Dimon from acting like a spoiled, sociopathic brat while characterizing proposed Basel III capital requirements and regulations as ‘anti-American’ at every opportunity. They are not ‘anti-American’ but globally risk-mitigating in a time of widespread economic Depression, a point lost in the haze of Dimon’s megalomania....Here’s what’s really anti-American – big banks receiving extreme federal assistance while the rest of the country is crushed, loan refinancing and other foreclosure reducing negotiations are anemic, and both private and public sectors can’t finance enough job growth to alter our horrific unemployment or poverty situation.

Presenting The Broke Bureaucrat Babel Fish: The Ten Most Misunderstood Euro Phrases Translated Into Americanish

Of all cunning linguists, Bloomberg's Jon Weil may be the cunningest. You see, the savvy news reporter has figured out that the reason there is zero policy coordination, and whenever Tim Geithner gets involved, negative, is not so much due to the fact that we have two broke ponzi continents trying to outsmart each other as to who is least broke, but, lo and behold, because we speak different languages. In Weil's cunning words, "It’s bad enough for average Americans that most European leaders speak English with heavy accents. What’s worse, even when we can make out the words they utter, it’s almost always impossible to figure out what these officials are really saying. That’s because they’re speaking in Euro-ese. Fortunately, there is an answer to their endless riddles: a Euro-to-English dictionary, excerpts of which I have included below. (Click here to read about its close linguistic cousin: the Goldman Sachs dictionary.) To truly see the meaning of the seismic events rapidly reshaping Europe, you must know what the following 10 Euro terms of art mean in plain American English:" So for the sake of the future of the great Developed Nation KomIntern, here are the ten most misinterpreted phrases...

Market Snapshot: Equities Up (Led by Financials) But Well Ahead Of Credit

A funny thing happened right after the 'successful' EFSF vote in Germany, equity-credit-and-EUR sold off in sync, but this moment of sanity amid the chaos that is the European corporate capital structure did not last as soon after reaching swing lows, European equities surged dramatically ahead of credit markets only to pull back into the US open and stabilize. On a medium-term basis, stocks remain significantly expensive relative to credit expectations but with such a binary outcome (depression or safe-union) the smallest swing in the odds of one or the other tips risk assets rapidly in that direction (as opposed to discounting over a broader set of scenarios).
UPDATE: well that upset the apple-cart as darling of the carry currencies - NZD - gets downgraded - shifting FX carry and thus risk assets in general down with it.

  

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