Ahab

Why Isn't the Market Seeking Safety in Gold?

The market is seeking safety in gold. All over the world investors are paying substantial premiums over Comex to own the real thing. Demand has been soaring. On the other side of the coin leveraged funds are puking up everything they can turn into cash to make margin calls and cover their cds and other big time losing trades.
The fed needs an exponential number of bunnies to fund an exponential bailout/deficit. Where will they be if gold takes off now and who are the two big comex shorts for the 'million dollar question'?

How Will We Know When the Markets Hit Bottom?

The best, patented, sure fire test for the bottom is when you don't care any more.

U.S. Dollar Reached a 2.5 Year High Friday: What Does It Mean for the Economy?

This isn't about the world recognizing relative value. It is about hedge fund redemptions, margin calls, repatriation and related short covering and a flight to cash; a disconnect due to FEAR in short that isn't going to be around long enough to translate into re-establishing gross imbalances in terms of trade and consumption with the rest of the world.

Silver: Gap Between Paper and Physical Prices Widening Daily

That's the notorious forgery 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' I presume. Last I saw that was 45 years ago being waved in social science class by the son of an (ex) nazi migrant. Ironically it was a fairly accurate account of national czarist and later Nazi party modus operandi, and attributing it to their powerless victims was the great 20th century triumph of the absurd.