ArbyH

Gold / Euro Connection: Another Nail in the USD Coffin?

What occurs tomorrow does not always correlate with what we see today.
There are many factors that could affect gold and silver prices moving forward:

1. Technology and industry creating specific usage additional demand for all metals, especially as we seek less oil dependence.

2. Mining output of silver, although increasing, barely able to meet current demand. While China produces more gold, it has also encouraged their own populace to buy it, and China’s government is buying 80 billion in gold for national reserves. They know they are caught up in the dollar currency game and seek to come out on top.

3. International Trade debt, Government debt. Corporate debt, and last but not least Consumer DEBT!!!! > Collapse? Where does the relief come from? Who taxes who and gets what from the other at what cost?
I saw a guy at the WSOP making huge houses of cards. How often do they fall under any kind of stress? First one part crashes and then the rest crash too.

4. International consumer purchasing increases for both gold and silver jewelry, and due to wealth protection of monetary risk aversion. If any serious confidence hic-ups occur anywhere, there will be a world-wide collective mad dash to acquire precious metals, a serious a bum rush to gold and silver.
The reason Obama got the job is because of our people's faith in his confidence, but deep down we all know what a bugger bear we have created for poor him to solve. I hope he can maintain the clarity of mind and the leadership presence to pull it off. He is a busy man, but I would like to talk with him, smoke a bowl.

5. There is never peace in the valley. It doesn't have to be "win or die" even though the world is getting smaller and it feels like we are all in each other's back yard.
a. The Korean peninsula. Will North Korea continue to sell arms to our potential adversaries, and saber rattle us into a conflict?
We have sold more weapons then they have though... so who is the culprit? Were our actions more sound, or predictable?
b. Iraq, will we leave when the time comes? They are more than tired of us, but Sunni (smarter minority) vs. Shia (herdish majority) tribalism conflict runs deep and chaos could erupt as we leave. Saudi Arabia supports the Sunni's and that is the only reason we are still there. Honestly, a democracy was the last thing they needed there. It was social Darwinism that had put the Sunnis on top.
Tito held Yugoslavia together until his death, the same strength in leadership is required in Iraq. The Mid-Eastern culture respects a charismatic person, not a faceless rule of democratic vote. For a hundred generations they have been conditioned to listen to their clerics and follow their guidance in all things.
c. Afghanistan religious tribalism; backward, zealous and unconquered as far back as anyone can say. We are going to exhaust our country's military and financial reserves trying to change that rock? For what? A foothold in the region? Who cares? The culture clash, both ours and theirs, in the Mid-East is beyond our comprehension and insurmountable. Need I give examples?
d. Who's next? Where is the next zealous nut ball who wants to poke the bear's nose, or catch the eagle's eye? That Dragon is starting to stand up too. “Who is that trying to start an oil bourse, or talking about the dollar no longer being the world reserve currency? That would upset the whole applecart. We can have none of that. Do we fight you, or maybe we can bribe you to keep our game intact?”
Restraint is a good course of action if you can get away with it. Our foreign relations should resemble a pot luck dinner. In that everyone brings some good food, all eat, share some pleasant conversation, let the kids play, play some music, and then sincerely wish everyone well and leave until next time. They don't reveal, or ask us to solve their problems. We don't pry into their affairs, and we certainly don't offer to beat up their neighbors. Respect all around is maintained.
"Trade with all, entangling alliances with none" Thomas Jefferson and more recently Ron Paul.
e. Iran; Election fraud (?) and civil discontent; nuclear development, peaceful or diabolical?; oil and the Strait of Hormuz; arch enemy of Arab Sunni tribe’s and Isreal. contemplate for yourself on all the ways that could go wrong... ...and with Isreali guided missile boats on the way?
How is it that Pakistan, North Korea, India, and that little fire plug country of Israel have nuclear weapons? That was some how more allowable, or is it that we are running nothing but our mouths these days?

Yes, we have bought too many F-22s that have critical flight failures every 2 hours. The military industrial complex tail can stop wagging the dog anytime.
Let us take all the profit out of the criminal justice system, and the military mission and requirements.
If we have to have a draft then that should tell us that the empire BS has gone too far.
Any military action not in our own direct defense is a waste of finite resources, and plays on our people's patriotism.

6. Wherever the economic situation becomes dire, there will be domestic unrest, crime and suffering that might lead to detention centers to control large groups of dissidents. Civil rights are lost as governments preserve themselves at any cost, maintain order, and control the populace. Isn't that what makes them so dangerous?
"Gated community" takes on a whole new level and meaning in an extremely security conscious world.
In preventing terrorism it becomes easy to justify the personal RFID chip and total immersion onto the grid giving one access to health, financial, travel passport, employment, and all government services. Never forget that the access to the grid can be switched off at the government's desire and that the RFID comes with the GPS locator beacon for them to come find you.
I now can hear you say "Not me! I won't allow them to RFID me!!!" Well, if that is so then that takes you off the grid and you are going to need plenty of gold and silver where you are going.

(Homeland Security chief promotes cheaper, secure driver's licenses
The country needs more secure driver's licenses to thwart terrorists, and a new Obama administration program supported by governors ...
www.usatoday.com/news/... )

opinion & speculation: The current powers that be will do everything in their power to keep gold/silver from being seen as traditional money, which it is. They will manipulate scarce commodity real gold/silver prices downward by shorting the commodity using unlimited printable paper money in paper markets. That is the only game they can play to try to prop up the dollar and maintain their advantage - smoke and mirrors.

Why do you suppose that most of the bailout money is unaccountable in a giant furball of finance? Is one reason that the banking minions (goldman sachs, etc.) acted on the government's behalf shorting gold and silver to prop up the dollar, and lost money as a result and want to be made whole? Would the secrecy of this allow the Federal Reserve to blackmail the government to secure more power? Are these billions upon billions of dollars sitting there waiting for a collapse, so that elite banking interests can buy up assets into whatever game comes next, thereby securing their own perpetual power for generations?

There are many eventualities that could cause gold and silver to rise moving forward. How much of this falls into the Bilderberg globalist plan of a New World Order?
Change is a certainty. Where that change will take you is the question.