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No Renewed Bull Phase for Metals Miners Just Yet

Dear Bill, the Gold and silver markets are absolutely manipulated. I know you dismiss it and don'
t wat to hear and talk about it - but they are, plain to see for evberyone who cares to really look at them. Surprisingly, for all your talk about the manipulative practices of the HB&B you go out of your way to dismiss the same manipulation in the much smaller, much tighter controled by the HB&B and hence much easier to manipulate precious metals markets. gop figure, something doesn't add up here.
@Georealist: I disagree with a couple of Mark's points but, he does some really thorough research and some of his observations are spot on. You, on the other hand, argue with bias and opinion, but very light on facts. The comes futures markets have almost ZERO relationship with real physical demand for gold, silver and palladium. Any major bullion bank can hammer and lift prices there at will - even more so if they compine theiur efforts, what they very often do.
or are you to tell me that all of a sudden, one August afternoon real demand for gold and silver fell so sharply to warrant a 30% haircut in prices? LOL!
btw, real silver dealers report very long delays in delivery, the us mint has suspended to issue silver coins(!!) the perth mint has hude tzime lags delivering silver to clients that supposedly had all been stored already - go figure.

Dollar and Oil Are Manipulated by ECB and Fed

sorry, but i don't quite get your point. if anyone is manipulating the price of oil, it's the big banks like goldman, large hedgefunds and Iran/saudi arabia. the Central banks have nothing to gain from that and contrary to what some believe they are not omnipotent to influence each and everything at will.

Five Ways To Ride Gold to $1500

hm u.s. monetary policy remains the wild card here, imho. contrary to popular belief and often published assumption, the fed seems not to have enginerred significant monetary expansion actually, over the past 5-7 years! I was stunned when discovering it in an article but the numbers are there and unless they are farged they at least warrant some caution. www.whiskeyandgunpowde...

that said, the growth in forex reserves seems a good measure though one probably must look a bit deeper into it to exclude artficially bloated numbers through derivatives positions