from Silver Doctors:
The legendary Jim Sinclair
has sent an email alert to subscribers comparing this week’s terrible
situation along the east coast in the wake of Sandy to the coming
collapse of the US dollar. Sinclair states that Ben Bernanke is
the only person in US financial management that understands the current
situation, and that QE∞ is the only thing delaying a complete systemic
collapse.
Sinclair states that if Romney is elected and follows through on his threats to fire Bernanke, it would ”be the single greatest error made in US financial management ever”, and would result in gold trading above $3,500/oz and a complete US dollar collapse within 6-9 months!
MUST READ!!
From Jim Sinclair:
The legendary Jim Sinclair
has sent an email alert to subscribers comparing this week’s terrible
situation along the east coast in the wake of Sandy to the coming
collapse of the US dollar. Sinclair states that Ben Bernanke is
the only person in US financial management that understands the current
situation, and that QE∞ is the only thing delaying a complete systemic
collapse.Sinclair states that if Romney is elected and follows through on his threats to fire Bernanke, it would ”be the single greatest error made in US financial management ever”, and would result in gold trading above $3,500/oz and a complete US dollar collapse within 6-9 months!
MUST READ!!
From Jim Sinclair:
The thesis of MSM is that “Nothing must ever disturb the social order.” Mother Nature can do this in seconds, and an overnight collapse of confidence in the dollar will do it in three days.Read More @ Silver Doctors
Currency induced cost push inflation is what will collapse confidence overnight and cause an explosion in the velocity of money in three days. Study history. It has happened before and will happen again. Although you will not want to hear this, it is true.
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11/05/2012 - 04:48
Cashin On An "Embarrassing Victory" In The Election
As
normal, what takes pundits 1000s of words to pontificate upon, UBS'
ever-ready Art Cashin succinctly summarizes in one paragraph.
Critically, as we have noted previously (here, here, and here), he hopes that the election is not close...
Service ISM Posts First Miss And Decline In 3 Months, Employment Index At Highest Since March
Moments ago the Non-manufacturing ISM came out, and in keeping with the theme of Baffle with BS, started last night when the China HSBC services PMI dropped even as the Manufacturing PMI from last week signaled the start of a "new recovery" or something (just don't look at the Baltic Dry, and definitely don't look at the endless barrage of reverse repos proving the PBOC will not engage in wholesale easing), it printed the first miss and decline in three month, coming at 54.2 on expectations of a 54.5 print and down from 55.1 previously. What is troubling is that while otherwise an economic miss such as this one would have been sufficient to ramp the bizarro marke, today it has merely sent ES to fresh intraday lows. Perhaps the reason is that unlike last week's Manufacturing ISM, whose headline was good but internals were not, this time it is the other way around with New Orders down but Employment rising from 51.1 to 54.9, the highest since March. Does this meant the Fed will prematurely end QEternity? Of course not, but the market appears to be shooting first, as usual, and asking questions later.Your support is needed...
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Meet The French Major Whose Spanish "A" Rating Keeps The ECB €17 Billion Margin Call Away
Egan
Jones may be a registered NRSRO, but that doesn't matter to the global
status quo perpetuation syndicate ("SQPS" or "the syndicate"). Why?
Because the small rating agency misplaced a comma when it was filing its
NRSRO application with the SEC and has infuriated the same clueless
and corrupt SEC, which 2 years after the flash crash still allows the
high freqs to make a total mockery of the market (as seen here).
Another reason: it recently downgraded Spain to a CC rating, the
lowest and thus most accurate of all rating agencies, with a C rating
projected, which means if its rating were to be taken into account by
the ECB, the result would be massive margin calls amount to 10% or
higher of all the Spanish bonds repoed at the ECB. Instead, the SQPS is
delighted to have Canadian-based DBRS on its side. Why? Because the
tiny firm's A-rating obviates all others' sub-A ratings, this includes
Moodys, S&P and Fitch, at least in the eyes of the ECB and thus
Mario Draghi has an alibi to not demand an additional €17 billion
collateral call from Spain, which would send its banking system on full
tilt (this is money neither Spain, nor its banks has to spare). Which
is why we wish to present to our readers the man behind the Spanish
A-rated myth: Fergus McCormick (Reed College; BA, with honors, French), formerly of Spanish bank BBVA (surely BBVA is not calling in any favors from its former employee currently head of sovereign ratings at DBRS; none at all).European Rumblings Return As ECB Integrity Questioned
As we warned here first, and as the sellside crew finally caught on, while the key macro event this week is the US presidential election, the one most "under the radar" catalyst will take place in Greece (currently on strike for the next 48 hours, or, "as usual") on Wednesday, when a vote to pass the latest round of Troika mandated austerity (too bad there is no vote to cut corruption and to actually collect taxes) takes place even as the government coalition has now torn, and there is a high probability the ruling coalition may not have the required majority to pass the vote, which would send Greece into limbo, and move up right back from the naive concept of Grimbo and right back into Grexit. Which is why the market's attention is slowly shifting to Europe once more, and perhaps not at the best time, as news out of the old continent was anything but good: Spain's October jobless claims rose by 128,242, higher than the estimated 110,000 and the biggest jump in 9 months, bringing the total number of unemployed to 4,833,521, a rise of 2.7%, according to official statistics released Monday. This means broad Spanish unemployment is now well above 25%. In the UK, the Services PMI plunged from 52.2 to 50.6, which was the lowest print in nearly two years or since December 2010, and proved that the Olympics-driven bump of the past few months is not only over, but the vicious snapback has begun.Be Wary of the Phrase, "I Was Right But Too Early"
Eric De Groot at Eric De Groot - 1 hour ago
Simplified Trading Principles of the Masters: Act with discipline (not
emotions) without ego away from the crowd. Identify the secular trend.
Follow the trend. My add - Follow the management of the trend via money
flows. My add - When price no longer reflects the money flow intentions of
the invisible hand, something big usually happens. Livermore, Wyckoff,
Segilman family, etc. all...
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Video Interview: Asia Has Been Slowing Down
Admin at Marc Faber Blog - 2 hours ago
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of the stock market and futures markets around the world.*
Video: Global Outlook
Admin at Jim Rogers Blog - 2 hours ago
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international investor. He has been frequently featured in Time, The New
York Times, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The
Financial Times and is a regular guest on Bloomberg and CNBC.*
Market Still Building Cause For Another Rally?
Eric De Groot at Eric De Groot - 2 hours ago
The what if game has many investors expecting the worst after the
Presidential election. Bullish divergences of price (lower lows) and trend
energy (higher lows) suggests a market building cause for another rally.
The market rarely gives what the consensus expects. Chart: NYSE Composite
and Internals ------------------------------------- Insights is...
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Merkel: Euro debt crisis will last 5 years or more
Eric De Groot at Eric De Groot - 2 hours ago
"A bit of strictness" or austerity carries social consequences that will
translate into "a bit of looseness" instead. The global debt crisis will
worsen in 2015. What happens after depends on the level of
cooperation/commitment left to protect the current monetary system. As
cooperation fades, the scope and magnitude of World War III will expand.
Headline: Merkel: Euro debt...
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other
content, and more! ]]Post-Election Stress Syndrome
There
is one thing that is certain come Wednesday morning; there will be
just as many losers as winners and as ConvergEx's Nick Colas notes,
while the main-event remains too close to call, the psychology of 'losing' will become a critical part of the domestic political process
from November 7th onwards. We suggest the Post-Election Stress Syndrome
(PESS) will follow the Kubler-Ross model - which means initially 'Denial' and 'Anger' will dominate people's deeds and words.
None of this is good news for an efficient resolution to the political
Gordian Knot know as the 'fiscal cliff' or to the stability of capital
markets going into year-end as politicians and plebeians alike will be
PESS'd off - and as a sad reminder, a loss in a sporting
contest doesn’t just sting the losing players – it lowers the
testosterone levels of male fans that back the unhappy team.Your support is needed...
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How Canada Became Spain's Best Friend; Or Why The ECB Does Not Need To Haircut Toxic Spanish Bonds
As reported over the weekend, the German press did some work and discovered that despite Spain being rated practically junk across the board, its bonds pledged as collateral with the ECB had virtually no haircuts, despite as we said back in April, them needing to be haircut by a solid 5% or more an amount which would force the Spanish banko-sovereign system to scramble to procure the critical €17 billion margin call. Well, moments ago the Bank of Spain (not the ECB) came out and said that the ECB had applied collateral rules correctly. However, by that they meant not that the ECB had demanded the needed 5% haircut due upon a downgrade into sub A-range, but that the rating agency which absolutely nobody has every heard of, Canadian DBRS, has a "rating that needs to be taken into account." In other words, Spain's collateral call is now dependent not so much on Moody's downgrading the country to junk, which likely will happen soon if Rajoy does not demand the bailout which has been priced in for about 3 months now, but on what a tiny Canadian ratings firm, which has most certainly not gotten any quid pro quo from Europe to keep Spain at is A-low level (for long-term debt, not so much short-term) says is the Spanish rating quality.So Much For "Sell Bonds, Buy Stocks": Net Long Positions In 10 Year Treasury Highest Since March 2008
Remember when back in March Goldman presented the "Long good buy: the case for equities", when they, and everyone else of course, said the once in a generation opportunity to short bonds and buy stocks is here (and when BlackRock chimed along, saying the time to go all in... BlackRock ETFs.... is here)... Or when in September, right after QEternity, Goldman, having blown up previously on said trade, reiterated its call to go long stocks and short bonds (and when BlackRock chimed along again, saying the time to go all in... BlackRock ETFs.... is here). Well, so much for that. Or rather, those. As of last week, the speculative long exposure in the 10-year Treasury more than doubled in the past week, soaring from 79,296 to 169,456 net contracts, the highest position since March 2008. Looks like Uncle Ben will need to come up with more creative and counterintuitive ways to get traders to stop frontrunning him in purchasing every bond in the open market, and herd them into buying stocks...
Gold And Silver Worth $1.4 Billion Carried In Baggage From Turkey To Iran, UAE And Middle East in September
Turkey’s trade deficit has been shrinking and the country has enjoyed the best bond rally in the emerging markets this year due in part to the contributions of airline passengers transporting gold in their baggage. Statistics from Istanbul’s 2 main airports show $1.4 billion of precious metals were registered for export in September. Iran is Turkey’s largest oil supplier and Turkey has been paying for the oil not only with liras but also with gold bullion. Turkey exported $11.7 billion of gold and precious metals since March, when Iran was barred from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, (Swift) making it nearly impossible for Iran to complete large international fund transfers. Of the $11.7 billion, $10.2 billion or 90% was to Iran and the United Arab Emirates, according to data on Turkey’s state statistics agency’s website. Turkey’s current account deficit is second in the world at $77.1 billion or 10% of GDP while the US currently holds the top spot. The problem with Turkey switching from a net importer to a net exporter of gold bullion this year is that the foreign trade data is misrepresented. Turkey’s use of precious metals is a key factor to help turn around its nation’s current junk bond rating status.Pre-election Frenzy Summary
When it all gets just so silly, only an xkcd cartoon can do it justice...
Daily US Opening News And Market Re-Cap: November 5
Equity markets kick started the week on a negative footing, with the troubled Iberian giant back in focus after it was reported that the ECB is checking whether it may have contravened its own strict rules by lending to Spanish banks on overly generous terms, an ECB spokesman said on Sunday. According to press reports, Spanish banks had borrowed funds from the ECB at a preferential interest rate of 0.5% even though the creditworthiness of the T-bills they provide as collateral should have required them to pay 5.5%. The never-ending Greek drama is another factor for the risk-averse sentiment, with only weeks before the country runs out of cash and still no evidence that lawmakers will find a solution to diffuse the situation, there is a risk of another speculative attack on weaker EU states. As a result, credit and bond yield spreads widened, led by Italian and Spanish bonds, both wider by around 9bps in 10s. Despite the evident distress in credit markets, EUR/GBP is essentially flat, with GBP underperforming following the lacklustre PMI report from the UK.Frontrunning: November 5
- Obama and Romney Deadlocked, Polls Show (WSJ)
- NYC Commuter Week Faces Uncharted Ground as Storm Brews (Bloomberg)
- New York region struggles to move on a week after Sandy (Reuters)
- Europe's Bank Reviews Collateral (WSJ)
- Less circuses to pay for the bread? Time Warner Cable misses on falling demand (Reuters)
- Spanish unemployment total jumps by 128,242 as recession continues to take its toll on economy (Independent)
- Goldman Sachs Partner List Drops 31 Since February, Filing Shows (Bloomberg)
- China's mission impossible - a date for Hu's military handover (Reuters)
- German-Iranian trade booming (Jerusalem Post)
- Russia supplying arms to Syria under old contracts: Lavrov (Reuters)
- Russia endorses Egyptian-led regional group on Syria (Reuters)
- Election Winner Must Win Over Wall Street (Bloomberg)
- On Google, a Political Mystery That's All Numbers (WSJ)
- Richard Koo: explain to Americans why $22 trillion in debt in 4 years is good for them.. or something (FT)
Today’s Items:
Over the weekend, finance chiefs of the world’s 20 leading economies, met in Mexico, and raised concerns over.
1. The U.S. fiscal cliff that no one is addressing.
2. The ongoing and escalating economic crisis that is destroying the EU.
3. Japan’s own fiscal cliff.
In short, they recognize the problems; however, a bunch of jaw flapping does not solve a thing.
1. The U.S. fiscal cliff that no one is addressing.
2. The ongoing and escalating economic crisis that is destroying the EU.
3. Japan’s own fiscal cliff.
In short, they recognize the problems; however, a bunch of jaw flapping does not solve a thing.
Secret documents reveal Obama has
gift-wrapped Libya and handed it over to Al-Qaeda. These documents
include evidence of highly sophisticated weaponry provided to jihadists
indirectly by Obama. It is high time that America learns about the
Libyan Islamist rebel regime, which is claimed by Obama to represent a
democratic and humanitarian alternative to Gaddafi; is a lie. No
wonder Obama does not want to use the term terrorism… He apparently uses it on other countries.
FEMA appears to have been completely
unprepared to distribute supplies, like bottled water, to Hurricane
Sandy victims when the storm hit. In fact, FEMA officials had to tap
private vendors for extra water until they can get supplied with water,
and other supplies, later. Perhaps, if FEMA administrators were more
interested in their mandate, than buying bullets, body bags, and setting up detention camps, they could have been ready. At any rate, this just goes to show how centralized authority will fail when it really counts.
Societies, in which individuals are more
responsible for themselves, grow more than those in which they are less
responsible for themselves. For example, many countries in Europe,
like Greece, Italy, Spain, and France rank at the very bottom of
self-sufficiency. On the other hand, Asian countries like Korea,
China, and India rank at the top. Easy welfare and social programs
make people lazy and non-productive, which drops the overall
productivity of a society. In short, if people have to earn money to
spend it, they have to be more productive.
Expecting to get 8.5% on returns for
fiscal year 2012, the Illinois Teacher Retirement System, or TRS. got
0.76% instead. Hell, if they had just purchased gold for the year,
they would have easily made over 8.5%. The TRS has less than 23% of
the money it should have in the bank today in order to make its pension
payments. In short, the Illinois TRS is broke and will most likely
soon be insolvent.
While many companies have abysmal earnings reports, the demand for personal weaponry has caused gun dealers, like Ruger
with sales of $118 million last quarter, to go through the roof. The
single largest determining factor as to why gun sales have surged since
early 2008 seems to be a collective fear surrounding the election of a
big government anti-gun socialist as the final arbiter and protector of
the U.S. Constitution. With this election, we have a choice of two
anti-gun candidates; thus, arm up with both guns and bullets while you
can.
Despite the recent paper sell-off, people,
brand new to gold and silver markets, are joining experienced investors
and adding aggressively to their physical holdings. Even though
central banks, like the Fed, are legally allowed to trade gold and silver,
they are only trading paper and will only settle in paper; however,
this house of cards will collapse. With that in mind, after
preparing, keep stacking physical.
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