1984 was supposed to be a warning. It has become an instruction manual. Here’s are recent examples of how the manual has been put to use in the US… by Simon Black of Sovereign Man “Sometimes [two and two are four], Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.” One of the key themes from George Orwell’s dystopic novel 1984 is that the party can do and say whatever it wants. And more importan...

Dave says the globalists are petrified, and buying into the idea that the US is done is beyond unpatriotic, so walk away, and Dave says you do this… Dave Janda interviewed by Greg Hunter on USA Watchdog Dr. Dave Janda from the popular radio show “Operation Freedom” says, “The worst thing people can do is walk. If they walk, they are walking away on the future of this country—period. The globalists absolutely win if you walk away, and that is what they want. The globalists are petrified. . . . Th...

2p ET Monday, February 18, 2019 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Venezuela's gold isn't the only monetary metal raising questions about the custodianship afforded by the Bank of England, Bullion Star gold researcher Ronan Manly writes today. According to Manly, Australia's gold reserves were largely packed off to London years ago and leased into the market and then sealed off from audits and freedom-of-information requests. Indeed, Manly writes, there's no verifying the true location of the Austra...

Gold is likely to surprise a bunch of people with a break-out above $1400, and then gold is expected to accelerate dramatically. Here’s why…  by Clive Maund via Streetwise Reports Gold has been turned back so many times in recent years from the strong resistance approaching the $1,400 level, that most investors have now been well trained, like Pavlov’s dog, to expect it like clockwork, and as we know, it is just when this mindset prevails that gold is likely to surprise the majority by actually ...

There’s a problem with Fed policy going forward – the Fed is in a box. What does a boxed-in Fed mean for the economy & the markets? John explains… by John Rubino of Dollar Collapse People who assumed the Fed, along with the rest of the government, would cave the minute the financial markets got a little choppy turned out to be right. A couple of bad months and the “normalization” of both interest rates and the Fed’s balance sheet have stopped cold. Now the markets expect falling rates and (a...

SD Outlook: We have deteriorating fundamentals, and gold & silver know this. In fact, gold & silver got dibs on the bacon. Here’s why… I was dragged to the mall over the weekend. I actually don’t mind going to the mall once every few months. It is, after all, amusing to watch people dressed in what look like brand new clothes, shopping for, well, you guessed it – brand new clothes. As if Americans don’t have enough brand new freakin’ clothes. I also enjoy looking for signs of the retail ...

Here’s a detailed look at why the gold-stock mega-mergers are bad news for everyone in the sector… by Adam Hamilton of Zeal LLC The world’s two biggest gold miners both announced mega-mergers over the past 5 months or so.  These huge deals briefly garnered some interest in the usually-forgotten gold-stock sector, and fleeting praise from Wall Street analysts.  But gold-stock mega-mergers are bad news for gold-miner shareholders on all sides.  They reveal the serious struggles of major gold miner...

“…more interesting is where said delay will be implemented…the speed bump will be first used on exchange’s gold and silver futures contracts…” from Zero Hedge Now that it’s a widely accepted “conspiracy theory” that the next time markets crash, the blame will be laid squarely on algos and HFTs (as December demonstrated so vividly) if only to divert attention from the true central bank culprits for the biggest asset bubble in history, it is no longer perceived as a conflict of interest by exchang...

The smart money is liquidating assets, paying off debt and moving capital into collateral that isn’t impaired by debt or speculative valuations… by Charles Hugh Smith via Of Two Minds The smart money is liquidating assets, paying off debt and moving capital into collateral that isn’t impaired by debt or speculative valuations. The Federal Reserve’s sudden return to “accommodative” dovishness in response to the stock market’s swoon telegraphs its intent to fire up QE once the recession kicks int...

The United States largest oil company, ExxonMobil, is facing a financial train-wreck in its domestic oil and gas sector.  And, the majority of the blame can be attributed to Exxon’s move into shale.  After Exxon acquired XTO Energy in 2009, a U.S. shale oil and gas producer, it has seriously begun to ramp up shale oil production in the Permian.ExxonMobil plans on expanding Permian shale oil production to 600,000 barrels a day (bd) by 2025, up from the 115,000 bd as of October (thanks to the data...

“I preface the analysis I am about to share by saying that Gold is going to new highs later this year, but we are very likely to get a sizeable pullback first…” by David Brady via Sprott Money News I preface the analysis I am about to share by saying that Gold is going to new highs later this year, but we are very likely to get a sizeable pullback first. There are several possible routes to those new highs, which I will summarize here, but all end up at the same destination. TECHNICAL ANALYSIS G...

As the world edges closer to the next crisis, today the man who has become legendary for his predictions on QE and historic moves in currencies told King World News that this man’s predictions for the world are absolutely terrifying. One Of The Most Critical Crossroads In HistoryFebruary 17 (King World News) – Egon von Greyerz:  Is a total collapse of the financial system next or will we see the globalists taking control of the world? Either way, the world is now at one of the most critical cros...

Many of today’s perpetually dividend-less companies traded on the public market are, by definition, operating as ponzi schemes. Here’s how… Tan Liu interviewed by Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity Stocks provide a return to today’s investors via two mechanisms: dividends and capital gains. Dividends provide and income stream which can be qualitatively values. Capital gains result from speculation — an expectation that future dividends will be higher than the market currently expects. But what’s...

11:28a ET Sunday, February 17, 2019 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: London metals trader Andrew Maguire tells King World News this week that physical demand from central banks and other big traders is building outside public view and becoming more important than trader reports from the futures market, which are always discouraging for longs. As a result, Maguire says, price dips have been and will continue to be shallow and short, but he adds that ordinary investors should avoid futures and just ...

By Tatiana VoronovaReutersSunday, February 17, 2019 MOSCOW -- Russian lender Gazprombank has decided to freeze the accounts of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and halted transactions with the firm to reduce the risk of the bank falling under U.S. sanctions, a Gazprombank source told Reuters today. While many foreign firms have been cutting their exposure to PDVSA since the sanctions were imposed, that a lender closely aligned with the Russian state is following suit is significant because the...

Deal Between Washington and Daesh to Smuggle Stolen Gold from Syria By Hazem SabbaghSyrian Arab News Agency, DamascusSaturday, February 16, 2019 https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=158759 DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria -- As it is trying to convince the world of its imaginary victory over Daesh (ISIS), Washington is still cooperating with the terrorist organization, with the latest and possibly last chapter of this cooperation involving a deal involving stolen gold. Local sources reported that the U.S. forces that ar...

Incontrovertible evidence from yesterday indicates serious violations of monopoly and restraint of trade issues in COMEX silver futures. Ted explains… by Ted Butler via Silver Seek It’s now been four months since the US Department of Justice secured a criminal guilty plea from the former trader from JPMorgan for spoofing and manipulating precious metals prices on the COMEX and three months since that plea was unsealed. In its announcement on Nov 6, the Justice Department made it clear that it wa...

“…the trader-in-me still hates writing a bullish piece…But the gold decline refuses to materialize…” by Kevin Muir of The Macro Tourist I’ll warn you right off the bat, I have been waiting to write this piece for the past few days. You see, it’s a gold post, and as much as I try to take a bigger picture view, the trader-in-me still hates writing a bullish piece just as the market is about to have a minor correction. So I often get cute and wait for a dip before I publish. But the gold decline r...

The only way to achieve sustainable increases in earnings and standards of living—is to allow markets to work… by Mark Hendrickson via Mises Wire Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has proposed raising the legal minimum wage to $12 per hour on July 1, 2019, and then an additional 50 cents per year until the minimum wage reaches $15 per hour in 2025. Laws mandating a minimum wage have existed without interruption since the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. So habituated have we become to this...

The miners offer a rare opportunity as a contrarian investment. Many good, well run companies trade at significant discounts. Here’s how to find them… by John Newell via Streetwise Reports In the larger picture, the first chart shows the CDNX Index, which represents many of the junior mining companies we follow (but not perfectly). They tried to breakout in early 2018 after moving sideways for more than a year and half from the late summer highs of 2016. They then slipped back into a downtrend i...