I tend to have problems with wearing gold clothing.  I just don’t know how to handle it, and in the wrong hands it can look tacky and cheap.

Please see Exhibit A:

Sweet mother of pearl!!!!

I must also mention my fear of gold purses.   It all began back in the 80s, when I would be forced to stay with my country grandparents.  You know what I’m talking about… ones that enjoy things like polka music, square dancing, and dominos.

Anywoooo, I still remember the gold mesh purse my grandmother would carry.  She would wear head-to-toe denim with matching gold accents and carry her gold mesh purse.  To this day I’m afraid of the gold mesh purse.  I was only about 7 at the time and I knew it was wrong.  It made sounds that a handbag just shouldn’t make!   I was always concerned that we were being followed through Walmart by a medieval knight.  Chang, chang, chang, with every step taken.  It looked very similar to this one below, but hers was all gold.

Please see Exhibit B:

Aaaah!

Through my therapist and psychiatric meds –JK– I have managed to find a couple of gold outfits that I actually really do like.  I’m going to continue working on my gold phobia since I don’t see this trend going away anytime soon.  After all, admitting you have a problem is the first step!

Robert Rodriguez

Milly

Marc Jacobs fabulous gold Grecian creation… available for pre-order

Missoni

Daughters of the Revolution (I would style this with leggings or skinny jeans)

A great vintage ebay find.  Bidding starting at 14.99!

Banana Republic Monogram

Mood – Golden

Song – Good Digger by Kanye West

by Eric deCarbonnel
Originally posted October 29, 2009

BACK IN JANUARY, I WROTE ABOUT the significance of gold breaking above $1000 again.

Gold
Rising demand for physical gold is a threat to the dollar because it signals a growing loss of confidence in the paper currency. It is also key to understand that gold prices aren’t rising because of the changing fundamentals of gold, but because of the changing fundamentals of the dollar. In other words, gold isn’t rallying, THE DOLLAR IS FALLING.

Gold is history’s oldest and most stable currency. Its utility is simply that it is rare, and for 5,000 years people have used it to store value for the future. All the gold that has ever been produced would fit in a solid cube of about 19 meters on each side, and this cube is only expanding by about 12 centimeters a year (2%). Since the value and supply of gold itself are fairly constant over long periods of time, the main driver of gold price fluctuations is the ebb and flow of confidence in paper currencies. Rising gold prices are, therefore, a signal of a weakening currency, which is why governments hate them and try to suppress them.

Right now, there is unprecedented worldwide demand for physical precious metals. As a result of this surging demand, gold futures have experiencing backwardation, a rare market condition where gold futures trade under spot prices. It is a signal that gold prices are headed higher and that confidence in our currency is fading quickly. When gold prices break above 1,000 again, the event should be recognized for what it is: the herald of a dollar collapse.

Gold is becoming money once again. The market for the standard gold one-ounce coin is no longer fragmented. Both the ugliest and the most beautiful gold coins are traded strictly by the quantity and quality of metal content, disregarding the outward appearance of the coin. Even Indian gold buyers, who, for years, considered buying jewellery to be the best investment option, are shifting from buying gold jewellery to gold coins.

China is increasing its gold reserves, and India has just bought 200 tons of gold from the IMF. Russia had publicly stated its intention to increase its ratio of gold reserves from 2% to 10%, and Brazil is also considering IMF purchases. Gold inflows into central bank vaults are increasing.

It has been more than 40 years since governments and individuals concerned themselves about physically holding gold, but confidence in the dollar is falling and investors are being “dragged kicking and screaming into the bullish camp” as gold continues to break to the upside.

Gold demand is exploding as investors turn to gold
Investors around the world are investing in gold bars for their safety. Big investors like David Einhorn are also turning to gold as an attractive alternative to cash, as falling interest rates on savings reduce the opportunity cost of holding gold, a non-interest bearing asset. As Mr. Einhorn put it, “Picking these currencies is like choosing my favorite dental procedure. And I decided holding gold is better than holding cash, especially now that both offer no yield.” Finally, a chaotic scramble to secure physical gold has also been unleashed by negative real interest rates (below inflation) which have upset the gold “leasing” machinery in the gold industry, creating a sustained market squeeze.

Surging demand is spurring a rush at Swiss gold refiners, who cannot work fast enough to meet demand. Mints are seeing a sharp rise in sales this year due to interest so strong that dealers are reported a shortage of products such as Krugerrands and one-ounce bullion coins. One German firm is even planning gold ATMs to meet growing demand, with 500 “Gold-to-Go” ATMs to be set up in Germany, Switzerland and Austria this year.

The rush to buy gold is also filling Swiss bank vaults. Swiss gold ETFs (ZKB Gold ETF – SWX and Julius Baer Physical Gold – SWX) are moving large quantities of gold out of London and into Zurich (70 tons as of last may), and they are running out of secure vaulting space (Why doesn’t GLD ever have any storage issues? Think about it). This shortage of secure storage extends across Swiss bank system with even gold clearing providers like SIS Clear (who only deals with banking counterparties) running out of space.

China is now the driving force in the gold market
China is now the fastest growing market for gold, with Beijing’s gold markets reporting record sales. As the Chinese economy rebounds from the global recession this year, China is overtaking India to become the world’s top gold consumer. The Chinese authorities are reinforcing this strong demand for precious metals by pushing their citizens to buy gold.

[China’s] main state-owned television company is promoting gold and silver as an investment. The government is telling its people to buy gold. What’s more, every bank will sell gold and silver bullion bars in four different sizes to individuals, and China’s largest bank, the ICBC, is setting up a precious metals department to handle growing investor demand.

And if the Chinese authorities are pushing gold as an investment to their citizens, it obliges them to ‘protect’ the gold price, as Lawrence Williams of Mineweb notes. It would be tantamount to a betrayal if it fell, never mind the loss of all-important face that would result. Just as the US and the UK stepped in to bail out its banks, so China will be duty bound to prop up gold.

But the surprising strength we have seen in gold over the summer – we never really got the summer low I was looking for – suggests that somebody is already ‘buying the dips’ anyway. Indeed, the gold price has this week repeatedly gone through $1,000 during overnight trading, only to fall back when the US markets open. That indicates that the buyers are out east somewhere. I have written about this before: Gold is shifting from West to East – along with the balance of power.

China is now the driving force in the gold market and can be counted on to buy whenever there is a price dip, putting a floor under any correction. So don’t expect to ever see prices beneath $900 again. With growing Chinese demand, Gold is never going back down.

Looking at graphs of the price of gold, it is easy to see Chinese buying drive the market higher. For example, it was Asian buying which drove gold over $1,000 on September 8.

Scary developments in gold
What is really scary about gold breaking the $1000 barrier is that it happened in the face of a flood short selling in US futures markets. So while gold was being driven up by Hong Kong buying, it has also been getting killed by unrelenting selling during COMEX hours. As can be seen in the chart below, the quantity of COMEX gold futures contracts has begun spiraling out of control since the end of August.

Open interest in gold futures is EXPLODING, yet gold prices have broken over $1000 and are STILL going up! Demand for gold is reaching a level that cannot be stop as faith in the dollar disintegrates.

Investors emptying COMEX warehouses
In order to secure gold at the lowest possible price, US investors are turning to the complex, lengthy process of taking delivery of gold futures contracts. By buying gold contracts in deliverable months and wait for them to expire, sophisticated investors are emptying COMEX warehouses. The incredible hassle of trying to pry gold out of Comex warehouses appeals to investors because no other place in the US offers a price equal to the Comex exchange. Nothing even comes close.

Guiding investors through the delivery process are gold and silver brokers like JB Slear who specialize in helping high net worth clients take delivery of gold and silver futures contracts. These advisors are necessary because, as investors are discovering, that there is trouble at Comex warehouses:

1) Delays and complications in the delivery process have become increasingly commonplace. It is taking weeks and possibly even months, and sometimes dozen of inquiries, for investors to get the gold they already own out of the warehouse.
2) More restrictions are being applied to overseas buyers requesting delivery.
3) Some brokerages will not help with the delivery process or refuse to help even after the commissions are paid.
4) The cost in just about everything “Comex” is increasing
5) Investors withdrawing their 100oz. bars from the Comex depositories are being given bars with incorrect serial numbers or weight.

With the difficulties and irregularities in the COMEX delivery process, many, including gold brokers like JB Slear, have doubts as to whether there is gold in inventory to match existing warehouse receipts.

Like others involved in the gold market, Slear believes that there are real shortages of precious metals that have yet to be exposed. But he recognises the futures market as a last resort for people who can’t buy metals at reasonable prices elsewhere: “If a buyer wants to buy a physical product and cannot find it locally, he or she can go to my firm’s web address to transact that business. My business model is a last resort purchase arena for those who need to protect their personal wealth.”

He says there is anecdotal evidence that this activity is widespread enough to be affecting warehouse stocks as high net worth clients remove metal from warehouses.

But, he [JB Slear] says that the activity has yet to show up on Comex warehouse stock data: “I find it interesting that the Comex numbers don’t show any movement at all as far as deliveries are concerned. I have spoken to three of the warehouses and each facility confirms the fact that the metals are being moved out, and in size. One of my clients says that when she went to “will call” her purchase, that the “will call” staging area for deliveries was stacked high and busy. Seems curious that the warehouse numbers reported through Comex, are not showing any reductions. In the Comex defence though, I don’t know how long it takes them to account for the movements. I just keep my head down and focus on the job allotted me. That is to get the gold into my clients’ hands as fast as possible.

It is absurd that, as gold pours out of the Comex, warehouse stock data shows nothing. The chart below shows gold inventory levels at COMEX warehouse over the last year. Notice, above all, the lack of change.

Although warehouse facilities themselves confirm large gold outflows every month, the activity does not show up on COMEX warehouse stock data. Over the last year, total gold in COMEX warehouses INCREASED 10% or 24 tons (868,000 oz). See for yourself:

COMEX Gold Stocks – October 30, 2008 (total=8.56 million oz)
COMEX Gold Stocks – October 27, 2009 (total=9.43 million oz)

(excel documents downloaded from NYMEX’s website)

The sad part is that, even if Comex warehouse data is to be believed, there is only 66 tons of registered gold backing 1465 tons of gold promised for future delivery. So according to official data, there only enough gold to cover 4.5% of outstanding Comex gold futures contracts.

London Vaults also being emptied
Like Comex warehouses, London gold vaults are being emptied. Hong Kong is pulling all its physical gold holdings from depositories in the UK and moving their $63 million worth of gold home to newly built vaults near the city’s airport. Dubai is also planning to withdraw its gold from London. Meanwhile, private investors and Swiss ETFs continue to move gold out of London.

On top of investor demand prying gold out London and COMEX vaults, Germany and Switzerland are reportedly demanding the return of their custodial gold from the US. In the face of this onslaught of demand, the US/UK gold markets are crumbling.

Widespread Abnormalities Across Gold Market
The strange activity in gold markets isn’t limited to out of control open interest on gold futures or fictitious Comex warehouse data. Things are going wrong across the gold market.

1) Early this year, The NYSE-Liffe futures exchange ran out of 1 kg bars of gold. Instead of receiving 1 kg bars as per mini-gold futures contracts, clearing members are now being allowed to hand out little slips of paper, called “warehouse depository receipts” (WDR), which gives the holder 1/3rd interest in a 100 ounce bar. Customers are not being allowed to take delivery, unless they can accumulate 3 WDRs. The NYSE effectively substituted the supply of 100 ounce bars for the supply of 1kg bars, which has run out. NYSE-Liffe mini-gold (YG) contract specifications were altered some time after December 31, 2008 to hide this default.

2) On March 19, the Fed announced its plan to purchase $300 billion long-term Treasuries, $750 billion (toxic) mortgage-backed securities, and $100 billion (toxic) debt issued by Fannie and Freddie. This announcement was INCREADIBLY BEARISH for the dollar and bullish for gold. In the following two days, someone increased open interest in gold futures by shorting 34 tons (1,209,600 ounces) of gold. Who in their right mind would short gold following the fed’s plan to go on a buying binge and load up its balance sheet with toxic debt?

3) Two major events happened in the gold market at the end of March this year:

A) On March 31st, Deutsche Bank delivered 850,000 ounces of gold to Comex contract holders.
B) On March 31st, ECB announced it had “sold” 35.5 tons of gold (1,141,351 ounces).

Circumstantial evidence and common sense suggest that the European Central Bank sold its gold to Deutsche Bank and saved the bank and the Comex from default.

4) In the last three weeks, significant irregularities significant irregularities have appeared in the gold bar registry of GLD, with the length of the published GLD bar list going from 1,381 pages on September 25, to 208 pages on October 2, then back to 855 pages on October 14.

5) GFMS data on the volume of gold traded on the London market (about 90% of gold traded worldwide) does not tally with the estimated amount of gold bars which conform to “London Good Delivery” standard.

6) On October 29, 2008, the TOCOM added a ‘physically backed commodity ETF’ as a possible physical for EFP (Exchange of Futures for Physicals) transactions at the exchange. An exchange for physicals (EFP) transaction is when a client gives an IOU for a physical commodity to a broker and that broker opens a short position on the futures exchange in that commodity. Normally, Exchange for physicals is the legitimate process used by producers to sell futures against their future production. However, if the IOU portion of the EFP is not from a commodity producer (ie: borrowed a GLD Ishares), then you have a problem.]

In summary, New York and Tokyo commodity exchanges are now permitting their gold futures contracts to be settled not in real metal but in shares of gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This essentially allows those short gold (and the exchanges themselves, which guarantee futures contracts) the ability to transfer their obligations to third parties (commodity ETFs) that may not have the metal they claim to have.

7) Half a ton of gold has disappeared from the Royal Canadian Mint. An independent audit released on July 3rd found no accounting, bookkeeping, or other internal errors could account for about 17,500 troy ounces of gold missing from the mints inventory. Fearing a “run” on its gold, Royal Canadian Mint is reassuring customers their deposits are fully accounted for and in secure vaults. A RCMP investigation into the $15.3 million missing gold is “ongoing.” (If half a ton of gold could disappear from one of the most secure buildings in Canada, then Isn’t it about time for US gold reserves to be audited?)

Rob Kirby is reporting some VERY SERIOUS developments in the gold market, which, although I have no way to verify them, seem creditable in light of everything else that I KNOW is going):

A) During the week of Oct. 5, some large allocated physical transactions that were settled in London under VERY strange circumstances. Banks like JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank (who sold endless amounts of gold futures at prices of 950 to 1025) and then tried to make “side deals” with the folks they sold the futures to – offering them spot + 25 % (around 1,275 per ounce) to settle in fiat – after their counter parties demanded substantial tonnage of physical gold bullion.

B) A number of large interests have demanded audits of gold stored in London.

C) In an Asian depository, they’ve found “Good Delivery” bricks that had been gutted and filled with tungsten.

9) US-based clearing house CME Group Inc. is allowing physical gold to be used as collateral for margin requirements on all exchange products. This new CME policy is an act of desperation. The decision to “allow physical gold to be used as collateral for margin requirements on all exchange products”, against a backdrop of record prices and widespread abnormalities in gold markets, screams that something is wrong. The policy would never have been proposed unless JPMorgan really, really needed gold.

10) Statistics from United States Geological Survey show that the united states has exported 5000 metric tons of “Gold compounds” in last two years, and the US Census Bureau has assigned an astronomically high value to these exports. Until someone explains to me what these “gold compounds” are, I am going to assume that they were half the US gold reserves leaving the country.

The gold market is an accident waiting to happen
Basically, the gold market operates on a fractional reserve basis. On average there are several claims of ownership on each gold bar conforming to London Good Delivery (LGD) standard on the “pool” of gold which acts as liquidity for the massive OTC gold trade based in London. Similarly, there are several claims of ownership on the gold bars in Comex wherehouses. If a sufficient number of market participants become concerned about this (which is happening) and there is a stampede to take delivery of physical bullion, the entire gold market will come crashing down, taking most of the global financial system with it. Market failure isn’t a risk, it is a certainty. The unregulated gold market is an accident waiting to happen.

I am pretty sure this is a E32 6 Series.

Excalibur Mining Limited (ASX: EXM) announces spectacular results for the first two diamond drill holes at Juno, at Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.

Highlights:

• 13m @ 42.84g/t Au from 160m, including 5m @ 102.38g/t Au
• 14m @ 1.24% Cu from 236m
• Further drilling underway

This drilling represents a new discovery of a high grade gold mineralised pod geologically similar to Juno, Nobles Nob, M10 and other deposits in the Tennant Creek region. A follow up RC drilling programme is planned to test the extent of this new discovery.

Click here to see the full announcement.

For further information, please contact:

Tim Lagdon
Managing Director
Ph: +61 8 9322 8000

Media enquiries:
Fortbridge
Ph: +61 2 9331 0655
Luke Dean
M: +61 414 535 433
E: luke.dean@fortbridge.com

sheesh, he basically gave them the green light today - we aren’t sure what to make of this rally in gold other than the HFs seem to be piling in.  There are simply too many Cash For Gold commercials on TV for this thing to be sustainable.  That said we can see it going on for a while longer.  The 1.382 extension of the previous move down looks to 1197.50 and the 1.618 puts it at 1282.50.  Since Gold is now priced higher than the S&P and we are looking for a top around 1230 there we see no reason why we can’t hit 1282.50 on a blow off.  Gold is very illiquid and there is a lot of dumb money chasing. 

Full Disclosure:  WE ARE NOT and WILL NEVER BE LONG GOLD

In describing Great Panther Resources Ltd. (TSX: GPR), cereal mogul Tony the Tiger would say “THEY’RE GR-R-REAT.”  I know it might not be realistic for a tiger (Tony) to sing the praises of a panther (Great Panther), but the point is the Company truly is great and thus aptly named.  I say this because earlier today, Great Panther announced results for the Company’s third quarter ended September 30, 2009, highights of which include the following:

• 34% increase in total quarterly production to 597,057 Ag eq oz in the third quarter 2009 from 444,686 Ag eq oz in the third quarter 2008. Year to date production increased by 20% to 1,577,169 Ag eq oz in 2009 compared to 1,312,397 Ag eq oz in 2008.
• 104% and 29% increase in revenue to $8.9 million and $21.9 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, respectively, from $4.4 million and $17.0 million for the same periods in 2008.
• $5.0 million and $7.0 million increase in earnings from mining operations(1) to $4.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2009 and $9.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 from $(0.8) million and $2.8 million for the corresponding periods in 2008.
• 62% decrease in overall cash operating cost per silver ounce(2) to US$5.48 for the third quarter 2009 from US$14.39 for the third quarter 2008. Cash operating cost per silver ounce decreased by 48% to US$5.86 for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 from US$11.34 for the same period in 2008.
• $6.0 million and $11.1 million increase in Adjusted EBITDA(3) to $1.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2009 and $3.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 from Adjusted EBITDA losses of $4.1 million and $7.2 million for the corresponding periods in 2008.
• Net cash provided by operating activities was $0.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2009. The same period in 2008 resulted in net cash used of $2.4 million. For the nine months ended September 30, 2009, net cash provided by operating activities was $2.0 million compared to $3.0 million used in operating activities for the same period in 2008.
• NI 43-101 compliant measured and indicated resources for Topia increased to 5.5 million Ag eq oz, plus inferred resources of 5.7 million Ag eq oz, sufficient to support a 10-year mine plan.
• New three-year strategy announced to accelerate annual production to 3.8 million Ag eq oz, increase NI 43-101 compliant resources to 40 million Ag eq oz, and invest $22 million in capital expenditures and $14 million in a 65,000-metre diamond drilling program for both mines.
• Continued underground development at Guanajuato was successful in identifying and delineating three new zones of silver-gold mineralization. The discovery of these zones within and adjacent to the areas where the Company is already mining emphasizes the potential to expand production and resources along the entire 4.2 kilometre strike length of the property.
• Repaid principal amount of $2.02 million, 8% interest per annum, unsecured convertible loan note due March 9, 2010 by the issuance of 3,740,741 fully paid common shares of the Company at $0.54 per common share.

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Gold & Silver are on the march, along with stocks, as the inflation trade takes further hold. Gold, is still in real terms, well below it’s nominal highs.

Will it hit the $2000.00/oz mark? At this point, why the hell not. The Federal Reserve and Bernanke are determined to continue inflationary monetary policy until dollar death.

The Way I See It

by Chuck Madere

As I sit here at my computer, I think about my 60 plus years under the sun. I humor about the days of my youth and the love of my family that was felt by all my sisters and brother. I had a complete family until the day death paid us a visit and took my father at the age of thirty-four.

My mother never remarried but raised us kids five under the age of eight till she past away at the age of fifty-two. She and dad were reunited again only to see two of their daughters arrive there with them within three years of mom’s death. Two plus five equals seven minus four equals three. And three is what is left of our family today. My brother and his twin sister and me.

It sure was not easy growing up without a father back then. Mom had no money to speak of except what she got from Social Security and dad’s pension. We were considered poor but to us we were rich beyond measure. We were a family growing up in the sixties. I decided to go into the army at seventeen but was rejected because of blood found in my urine. 1Y was my classification which meant that they could call me back anytime they wanted to and re-test me, and that they did often for the war was on big time then.

I enlisted into the Army again and was rejected again. I got drafted twice and rejected those times as well. I guessed God didn’t want me to go to war but had other things planned for me. I wrote a letter to the draft board asking for a 4F classification which they then gave me. I was beginning to be a regular there and I saw hundreds pass through those lines on their way to battle.

As time past I found my place as an Industrial Maintenance Engineer. I did this type of work untilled I retired at fifty-five. I have three boys in their thirties now and they are building their lives with their wives. All during those years I could see that we as a people supposedly united for a common good were pitted against ourselves by a higher power. A power that cares nothing about us and cares only for power and money to control.

What happened to us?

Our nation is just over two hundred years old and we the people can’t get anything together for the good of all. We tell a good tale but when it come to deliver the goods we stumble and fall. The way I see it is if we don’t start doing what we came here for in the first place this great nation will come to an end. Do your history checking if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

How many of you wake to work to sleep to wake and do it all again waiting for a day off. The answer is we all do that and we have been led to believe this is the way of life. This is not living. The way I see it is we are paid for our work in fiat currency that the Federal Reserve System of banks give us and we gladly take them in lieu of real money not even knowing that there is a difference. We take what they give us like sheep being led to the slaughter.

The Federal Reserve is a privately own company with no ties to the government. They have as much Federal in them as Federal Express and we don’t know that. The banks have been raping us for just about one hundred years now and we go along with it.

Ever wonder where they get the money they lend out? Me too. I know that the moment you sign to repay them with the loans we take out, magically the money is created out of thin air. The only guarantee is your signature to repay. We all need to stay away from these banks and only deal in real assets like gold and silver. HUH you say. Yes, gold and silver is real money. The money that you work for everyday. Look at your paycheck before you take it to the bank. What does it say you are to be paid in? FRN or dollars? Dollars is what it says, but the bank give you their IOU because they don’t have any real dollars to give you. If they did they would not be in business very long. The way I see it.

Chuck Madere

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Have you ever stopped to think what a dollar is really worth? Maybe you’ve seen a fast food commercial so you know a dollar is worth a cheeseburger, or a parfait, or curly fries. At the end of the day, isn’t a dollar really worth whatever you can buy with it? Paper currency was created as a method of exchange, making it easier to trade and get the things we need – instead of figuring out how many apples it would cost to get a new bedroom set, we could trade apples for dollars and then trade dollars for the bedroom set.

Originally the US dollar was backed by gold, something of real value – you could go to a bank or the Federal Reserve and trade one dollar for its equivalent in gold bullion. The actual amount of gold you could trade for a dollar changed periodically until 1971, at which point President Nixon removed us from the gold standard completely. Since then, the dollar is essentially worth what it trades at on the open market and is not backed by anything other than the “full faith and credit of the United States government”. If you feel the way I do, it seems like the ”full faith and credit of the United States government” is worth less and less every year.

One of the things I’ve talked about fairly regularly, and that you’re probably hearing a lot about in the news and such, is inflation. When governments print money, or there are too many dollars chasing too few goods and services, the price of hard assets as denominated in dollars goes up. In other words, when there are a lot more dollars floating around, it costs more dollars to buy an ounce of gold. In November 2000 gold was trading at about $275 per ounce. In November 2005 it was up to about $500 per ounce. Today gold trades at over $1,100 per ounce (!). The amount of gold in existence really hasn’t changed much in the last 9 years, but the amount of dollars sure has! And with the printing presses revved up and our government printing money like it’s going out of style, it’s hard to imagine that the price of gold could retreat in a major way any time soon.

An interesting side note – in the year 1900 the price of gold was approximately $25 per ounce. $25 (or the British pound equivalent) would get you a very nice suit on Savile Row in London. Today $25 wouldn’t even get you a handkerchief on Savile Row, BUT an ounce of gold is worth over $1,100 – still the price of a very nice suit.

What’s my point? In inflationary times like we’re in right now, how do you maintain and build the value of your portfolio? If you own dollars or are in cash, the value of your portfolio is essentially decreasing because the assets you can buy as measured in dollars is decreasing. The place to be is in hard assets – things like real estate trusts, commodities, precious metals and stones, producing oil wells, etc. If you’d like to know more about how to protect your portfolio from inflation, often called the “silent thief”, and invest in hard assets I’m here to help.

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Es war zauberhaft gestern am Fließ unten. Die Gräben waren nach all dem Regen so voll wie nie und spiegelten den tiefblauen Herbsthimmel. Kein Wind ging; die goldenen Blätter rieselten ganz lautlos und langsam zur Erde. Peter konnte auch mit, die Wege waren gerade trocken genug für den Rollstuhl, und auch warm genug, denn unter 5 Grad funktioniert er nicht richtig. Kostbar, so kostbar sind diese Tage…
Wer auch so empfindet, für den ist vielleicht das Jahreszeiten-Freu-Büchlein ein schönes Geschenk.

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Schiff, Forbers and Bloomberg Nail The Financial Crisis and Recession–Mistakes Were Made–Greed, Arrogance, Stupidity–Three Chinese Curses!

L. William Seidman on The Economic Crisis: Causes and Cures–Videos

Amity Shlaes–Videos

Julian Simon–Videos

Thomas Sowell and Conflict of Visions–Videos

Thomas E. Woods, Jr.–Videos

Banking Cartel’s Public Relations Campaign Continues:Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke On The Record

In addition to the jewelry website I’m director of a new business in Fishers. LadyJems Gold Exchange is a boutique jewelry store that specializes in buying gold and old jewelry (like classrings,etc…). It’s a lot of fun seeing people’s faces light up when they find out that old piece that was stuffed in the back of a drawer isn’t junk but actually a little treasure.

In a press release this morning, ECU Silver Mining Inc. (OTC: ECUXF; TSX: ECU) announced results for the third quarter of 2009.  During the third quarter, the Company produced 1,738 ounces of gold and 41,457 ounces of silver.  Using a gold price of $1,000 per ounce and a silver price of $16 per ounce, this represents more than $2.4 million of production for the quarter.

Looking ahead to Q4 2009, we expect production to continue to increase at (i) the Company’s oxide mill, to which a new circuit will be added that will permit the daily processing of 400 tonnes per day of pyrite/gold tailings in addition to the 500 tonnes per day of mineralized material it is currently processing and (ii) the Company’s sulphide mill, which was recently reactivated and will benefit from higher lead and zinc prices.

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Although “quantitative easing” (QE) may be propping up the U.S. economy for the time being, it solves nothing. That’s how Eric Sprott, Chief Executive Officer & Portfolio Manager of Sprott Asset Management and Chairman of Sprott Money Ltd., sees it. It’s not just that QE shoves problems from the private sector into the public sector. It’s worse than that, because as Eric tells us QE is “just debasing the currency which will eventually lead to hyperinflation.” One upside though: “You can just feel the momentum in gold-it’s picking up dramatically” and so too are prospects for a plethora of little-known small and mid-cap gold stocks.

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