Posts Tagged ‘ Euro ’

Interview with Dave Skarica

Interview with Dave Skarica

It has been a while since we interviewed Dave- and anyone, so we might sound a bit rusty. The sound gets better after the start. Dave gives his views and outlook on stocks, inflation, currencies, US policy and the potential transition from deflation to inflation.
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Paper Short Gold Positions Hit Fresh Record, As EUR Reshorting Persists In Early Part Of Week

07/04/2010
Paper Short Gold Positions Hit Fresh Record, As EUR Reshorting Persists In Early Part Of Week

This week’s CFTC report indicates that commercial shorts on the CFTC, both gross and net (excluding commercial longs) have hit another fresh all time record, at -482k and -290k. Should the ongoing asset liquidation squeeze forcing gold prices to decline, fizzle out, and should gold prices resume their trajectory...
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Deflationary Crisis Part 2, Will This Time Be Different For Gold and Silver?

Deflationary Crisis Part 2, Will This Time Be Different For Gold and Silver?

Stocks went down sharply yesterday on concerns over consumer confidence and indications that show that the economy is stalling in China. China has been a leading market in this recovery and its bull market has helped the price of industrial metals and base metals. Over the past few weeks I...
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Facing the Music. Buying Gold In Jobs Report Week

1. “We are scary, scary owners of euros,” – John Taylor, lead manager for world’s largest currency fund, Bloomberg News, June 28.  The number one Bloomberg heading this morning says, “…Dollar Rally Buckles..”.  I mentioned the bankster game of pumping the news with the other side of their trade.  Read that...
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EUR Shorts Return, As Commercial Gold Net Short Positions Hit All Time Record

06/26/2010
EUR Shorts Return, As Commercial Gold Net Short Positions Hit All Time Record

A week after the EUR posted the biggest short covering rally in history, expunging every single weak hand after a move wiped out 44% of all net shorts, the bearish speculative bets on the EUR are once again rising, according to just released CFTC Commitment of Traders data. After dropping...
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SDR Strawman and Gold-Backed Euro

SDR Strawman and Gold-Backed Euro

The world faces challenges and uncertainty these days like perhaps never before in modern history. Broken insolvent banking systems match the insolvent homeowners living in despair but with newfound hope from simply not paying home mortgages in large numbers.....
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The Flight to Safety

The Flight to Safety

U.S. Dollar bulls have been correct as long as the scoreboard they use to claim victory is the stock market. T-Bills have indeed outperformed the stock market over the past decade. However, U.S. Dollar bulls have ignored a better asset class in their flight to safety – Gold. It takes ...
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The Euro Index and Gold – The Most Important Pair?

The Euro Index and Gold – The Most Important Pair?

This essay is based on the Premium Update posted on June 8th, 2010 Markets are skittish and the pace and force of financial crises has taken a frightening turn for the worse. It seems like the fuse gets shorter between each crisis. We barely catch our breath from one when confronted...
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Debt Default ‘Deferral’ of Greece a Dangerous Precedent – Got Gold?

06/05/2010

If the implications of the recent Greek tragedy were not so serious it would have been seen more as a Greek comedy (of fiscal errors). In fact, however, to deploy another metaphor, Greece's sovereign debt is seen as the proverbial....
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Piigs-Less Euro at the Door

Piigs-Less Euro at the Door

Natural forces are at work in Europe, powerful forces, in fact forces that are not evident. It is amazing how little the financial analysts notice the forces at all. Since the year 2007, a hidden force began to put pressure on the European Union financial underpinning.....
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