Gold Daily and Weekly Charts; Silver Weekly Chart; Bernanke's Bluff; Endgame

The Federal Reserve and its friends in the European central banks, the IMF, and BIS are running a bluff against the developing nations and the rest of the world, and to their shame, the majority of their own people.

They will have to engage in wider scale monetization and 'quantitative easing,' which is a polite euphemism for the debasement of the currency, to cover the collapse of their expansion of the money supply, the misprision of felony, and the subornation of perjury, to facilitate the mass transfer of wealth from the public to their friends. This is why they must operate in the dark. Ponzi schemes must always expand, and always in secret.

The increasing manipulation of gold, silver and the currency markets, and the monetization of the public debt, is a sign of the endgame for the sorcerer’s apprentices. These are the signs for our times.

In the short run things will be confusing, and difficult. In the longer term the outcome is as it has always been. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

Bernanke and his ilk will fail, not with a bang but a faltering failure, and a final whimper. But this will take time, and in the short term they will act with a con man's bravado, for con men they are, wielding power and using public funds unjustly, in secret, in an unconstitutional collaboration of financial institutions, the corporations that have risen around them, and the government.

"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."

Georges Clemenceau

The lifting of the veil from their scheme will be like the rising of the sun, as things long hidden become known. And we will look upon money and value in fresh ways.

Gold Daily Chart



Gold Weekly Chart



Silver Weekly Chart

"If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."

President Andrew Jackson, 1829

SP 500 September Futures Daily Chart

There are powerful cross currents at work in the US equities market.

A resolution, at least for the short term, should be forthcoming.

China Should Sell US Treasuries When the Market Is Strong (Like Now) and Diversify Its Reserves

If the Treasury market is robust, as it is now, China might be able to sell its Treasuries without disrupting the market, but it would also then have to sell dollars to diversify into other assets in constructing a portfolio. This might show up in the value of the dollar if not in the bonds.

I wonder how much of that BIS / IMF gold is being diverted to China in private sales in order to allow confidence to remain high in the fiat, and to not disrupt the public markets with large price fluctuations. The US banking system has a significant risk exposure to the gold and silver markets through a few of its banks who are leverage short to the hilt.

This same story prompted Max Keiser to write the following in Game Theory and Gold: Countdown to Meltup

"Soon enough, a G20 nation will announce a full or partial gold backed currency forcing every other country to either reply with their own gold backed currency – or equivalence – or risk 100% capital flight."

Reuters
China should cut U.S. Treasury holdings: economist
by Langi Chiang and Alan Wheatley
BEIJING Sun Jul 18, 2010 9:24pm EDT

(Reuters) - China should cut its holdings of U.S. Treasury securities when market demand is strong, a prominent economist said in remarks published on Monday.

Beijing reduced its Treasury holdings in May by $32.5 billion to $867.7 billion, but it actually bought a net $3 billion in long-term Treasuries and remained the largest single holder of U.S. government debt, the Treasury reported on Friday.

Yu Yongding, a former academic adviser to the central bank and now a professor with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said Beijing should invest in assets denominated in other currencies as well as other financial instruments and real goods.

"Although assets in other currencies and forms are not an ideal replacement for U.S. Treasury bonds, diversification should be a basic principle," Yu wrote in the China Securities Journal.

"When demand for U.S. Treasury securities is strong, it's a rare opportunity for us to gradually pull back. That way, it will not have a big impact on prices and China will not suffer too much," he said.

Zhang Monan, a researcher with the State Information Center, a think tank under the powerful National Development and Reform Commission, told the paper that China should invest more of its $2.5 trillion of foreign exchange reserves, the world's largest stockpile, in hard assets such as gold.

Maestro Redux: Bringing in the Sheep

This cartoon is from a few years ago. I remember running it on my old site at the time.

I think it is not only relevant today, but will likely strike a stronger chord with more people since things are progressing in this direction.