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CARTEL CAPITULATION WATCH
Well, what a surprise! With all that is going on in the world, the US stock market, led by the DOW, made one of its patented late day Hail Mary rallies again, just when it appeared it might really break down. "What great market action," will be the cry of the pundits on CNBC. I am not going to say too much on this – am too disgusted – except to say this Orwellian routine will end VERY badly. Nelson Hultberg is right. Our country is hurtling towards Mussolini's Economic Facism. Big business, big government, the money-center banks and the financial press are so intertwined, they have corrupted our formerly free financial markets and free financial market press.
The DOW finished the day at 12,201, up .13, while the DOG gained 4 to 1990.
Sep bonds closed at 104 15/32 down ¾.
GATA’s Mike Bolser:
Hi Bill:
The Federal reserve added $6.75 Billion to the repo pool today June 1st 2004, an action that upped the repo pool's size to $48.20 Billion. This is getting up in size and it will be interesting to see how much longer the DOW can resist going sharply up with this much pressure under it. The Fed has been busy adding liquidity to the overall M-3 aggregates as Dr. McHugh opines below:
Financial Markets Forecast and Analysis
by Robert McHugh
http://www.safehaven.com/showarticle.cfm?id=1597&pv=1
One can draw no other conclusion [From the Fed's massive 6 week add of $122 Billion to M-3 levels] except that the Fed is acting irresponsibly in its managing the money supply, in fulfilling its duty to "maintain a stable currency." I reject the notion that the Fed is acting irresponsibly. No, something is up, bigger than we have ever seen in the history of the United States. Let me ramble. Perhaps they simply see the ominous technical landscape we have been warning about in recent issues, and are attempting to pull out all the stops to avert the predicted crash. The recent rally in just about everything is similar to 2003's market behavior when the Fed pumped massive amounts of liquidity into the system during the first half of the year. This time seems different. The amount of liquidity is too large. The Fed is deflating the value of the monetary base by a fifth! Why are they willing to do this? Wisdom says something bad is up - big time.
The good doctor of economics is very jittery over the M-3 levels and we can’t blame him for noticing the obvious M-3 dislocations. However, if the Fed is deeply worried about a DOW "crash" they aren’t showing it in their repo pool activity. It’s just been business as usual with more and more repos in a gentle up slope of support (As shown by the pool’s 30-day ma). Dr. McHugh is ignoring the reality that the Fed can create a trillion dollars of repos in a few minutes to buy DOW futures. The idea of a DOW crash in today’s government manipulated "market" misses the mark. It won’t crash through an ocean of repo support.
What WILL happen is something the Fed hasn’t planned for, something they forgot in all their numerous "models" and in all probability that accident will surface in a rush to one or more of the strategic commodities. Because the stocks of the COMEX and LBMA commodities (Including the SPR-Strategic Petroleum Reserve) are limited, a large player can simply exhaust them in a single afternoon of trading. The resulting default in the commodity will wreak havoc in all the financial markets (Such a default would take several months to play out before the final announcement). All the M-3 liquidity in the universe can’t replace an exhausted stock of a "national security" commodity.
Such a default will occur (or more likely be announced) at the least expected moment. It is this default risk that today’s players on the COMEX aren’t paying enough attention to. They have been seduced by the past history (late 1970’s) of strong leverage in commodity squeezes but the Fed has invested an enormous body of research and manpower to thwart the price spikes of past history. We shouldn’t underestimate the Fed when they focus on a narrow target.
Where one wins against the Fed is to obtain the strategic commodity itself while you can and then bank of natural high leverage in the aftermath of the inevitable defaults.
Mike
The legendary Catherine Austin Fitts with a few thoughts:
Bill:
Just read Midas.
[B]Why don't you mention the fact that the US Treasury has to date refused to produce audited financial statements ever since the laws kicked in the mid 1990's requiring them and has over $3.3 trillion of undocumentable adjustments between 2001 and after 9-11 stopped reporting even that?
The cartel can not manipulate the gold market unless they can finance such manipulation. Financing such manipulation requires running the US Treasury operation illegally -- in a manner that could not continue if the laws regarding transparency are in effect. As long as the US Treasury apparatus can be used to spend very significant sums of money outside of the law and engage in ongoing accounting and securities fraud using agencies like FHA, Ginnie, Army, Navy, etc... they can finance a multitude of manipulations and other illegal activities. The gold manipulations are one of them. The manipulation of the gold market is an integral part of the sources and uses of the black budget.
Want to stop an army? Pull the plug on their gas supply. The gold cartel's primary gas supply is US Treasury accounting and securities fraud.
It's a lot easier to prove that the US government has refused to comply with the laws requiring audited financial statements than it is to prove that they are manipulating the gold market. That is because they provide the documentation to prove it. It is on the record -- Rubin, Summers, O'Neill, Snow. All of em.
See Kelly's O'Meara's latest
http://www.insightmag.com/news…d.Unbalances-658744.shtml
Or all the articles and background:
Where is the Money?
http://www.whereisthemoney.org
Missing Money -- Links and Articles
http://www.solari.com/learn/missingmoney.htm
Lots of love,
Catherine
**Catherine Austin Fitts is the President of Solari, Inc. ( http://solari.com), a former Assistant Secretary of Housing – Federal Housing Commissioner in the first Bush Administration and a former Managing Director and member, Board of Directors, of Dillon, Read & Co. Inc.
Speaking of audits – isn’t it about time Fort Knox and the US gold reserves be independently audited:
Hi Bill,
Not that it is all that big a deal, but I thought you would be amused to know that last night at our dinner party for my wife's sister and her husband and cousin, my dear brother-in-law, a delightful man who drives a truck, piped up out of the blue with the remark, "All the military guys know there is no gold in Fort Knox."
I nearly fell out of my chair.
We weren't even talking about investments, let alone gold. I think the subject of the conversation was more along the lines of things the public is not generally aware of.
Anyway, this morning I asked Jack again about his remark, and he told me that he completed his tour of duty in 1990, but he insisted at that time, "among the the sergeants", it was well known and common knowledge that the gold supposedly in Fort Knox was long gone.
Now that, if true, certainly puts the lie to the idea that gold just sits there collecting dust.
Whoever said it doesn't earn interest?
Maybe it doesn't earn monetary interest obviously, because it doesn't have to, but certainly gold earns much OWNERSHIP interest. It earns LOTS of that kind of interest, and IT MUST BE SOMEWHERE if it is not in Fort Knox and OWNED BY SOMEONE, but the taxpayers are purposely kept in the dark about WHO represents that considerable ownership interest.
Shall we assume that the gold really has been moving all along, only surreptitiously? One then doesn't have to wonder why all the secrecy and obfuscation if it should turn out that the transfer of ownership from the American people to ?? whoever?? has been illegal.
My best
Phil
Silent Gold Cartel associate is pulling back:
LONDON, June 1 (Reuters) - AIG International Limited, part of American International Group Inc (NYSE:AIG - News), will no longer be a London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) market maker in gold and silver, the LBMA said on Tuesday.
LBMA Chief Executive Stewart Murray told Reuters AIG had been reclassified as a member and so would still trade, with effect from close of business on Friday May 28.
AIG (XETRA:IREG.DE - News) was a first-tier market maker and dealer in over-the-counter spot, forward, option and swap markets in precious metals. Murray said the company requested to be reclassified….. –END-
Crude oil commentary this morning from AD:
Bill,
The bond market is in a spectacular decline today. Crude oil, as I predicted, has recovered from its temporary pull back. As a result of these two factors it looks as if the ESF was actively rescuing the dollar today.
Spot tanker rates do not indicate that anyone is actively looking for a significant amount of extra tonnage. Saudi has done the jawboning that they can produce more but there are no takers. The world needs light, sweet crude not the heavier higher sulfur contents that are typical of Saudi production. So the Saudis are not looking to ship any more because no one wants it. World demand for refined products is now greater than world refining capacity. At this point the refiners have to be very particular about what quality of crude they buy. OPEC does not have any spare capacity to produce the grades of crude that the world needs right now. They have spare capacity in what the world doesn't need. Non-OPEC meanwhile is pumping all they can.
The world doesn't have very much spare capacity in the tanker fleets, particularly with the new European rules requiring double hull vessels. The oil industry has production bottlenecks, transportation bottlenecks and refining bottlenecks. Anyone hoping that the oil price is going to significantly correct downwards is doing exactly that...hoping. The oil crisis of 1973 is generally attributed to the Arab Oil Embargo as protest against the US support of Israel. In fact that was just the catalyst. At that time oil demand and supply were balanced on a knife-edge...it just needed a disruption of any nature to spark the crisis. Today we are in the same position of being finely balanced. Any major disruption today from strikes, civil unrest, terrorism etc will be the catalyst that will spark a major oil crisis where the oil price will not only make new records in nominal dollars but in 1973 dollar terms too....which would be a number north of $80.
I hear the Federal Reserve is sponsoring research on alternative energy source engine that is fueled by out of the money derivative contracts. Apparently this energy source is expected to be huge and perhaps even renewable!
For anyone who thinks the Cabal's $6 rule in Gold is an unbreakable rule I would remind him or her that gold HAS BEFORE and CAN AGAIN go up $100 in a single day. The Nobel Prize Laureates of LTCM made the catastrophic error of thinking that market prices move in a continuum where equilibrium between supply and demand is continuously adjusting itself...markets will from time to time deliver a discontinuity, a catastrophic event. And contrary to popular belief they are not totally unpredictable, the forces can be seen to be building for some time, the failure point timing, however, is almost impossible to predict.
Oil is high on my choice of possible catalysts that will trigger a discontinuity in markets.
Cheers
Adrian
Another good reason for gold not to rise, which was released before today’s substantial move in the grains:
May 28, 2004
April Farm Prices Received Index Up 7 Points
Index Reaches Record High
The US Department of Agriculture announced that the All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers in May stood at 132 (1990-92=100), up 7 points (2.5%) above April's upward revised index.
Agricultural prices are an indicator that BTM closely watches for signs of inflation. May's farm prices received level of 132 was the highest level since the index began in 1910. The largest contribution to the increase came from livestock products (up 9 pts. or 7.1%), also at a record high. Year-over-year the prices received index is up 26.0 percent.
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The Elephant Hiding In The Corner
I would like to discuss the notion that J.P. Morgan overtly acts as the Fed's de facto agent in financial markets. My best guess is that there are few market watchers who would dispute this notion. Now I would like everyone to consider the size of J.P. Morgan’s derivatives book – which stood at 36 and change Trillion at the end of Q4 2003. These statistics are public knowledge and are lodged with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States. I remember reading in a recent Midas commentary the size of Morgan’s derivatives book and it got me thinking. The last time I looked up the same statistics regarding Morgan was early January 2004. At that point in time the latest available reporting was at Sept. 30 2003 (end of Q3) when ‘the book’ was only 33.654 Trillion. I didn’t think too much of this at first but now I’ve gotta admit I’m really scratching my head about the increase.
Just for fun I reviewed my trusty GDP figures from Q3/03 at 8.2% versus Q4/03 at 4.1%. The thinking here was perhaps if the economy ‘exploded’ with growth in Q4/03 it might account for some of the roughly 3 TRILLION GAIN IN 3 MONTHS. But low and behold GDP actually decelerated over this time frame? Now I know the guys at Morgan are supposed to be the best and the brightest but surely to heavens they didn’t discover the wheel in Q4/03 – and the whole U.S. economy is 11 Trillion/yr. So how would anyone possibly offer an explanation as to how Morgan’s derivatives book bloated 3 TRILLION in 3 MONTHS?
If you think like me and read the same kind of stuff, you remember that Alan Greenspan has ‘lobbied hard’ to keep derivatives in the realm of the unregulated – meaning away from public scrutiny. Many academic papers have been written on the adverse consequences derivatives might have on the global financial system. By some accounts we have even had near brushes with financial Armageddon in the case of a couple of loose cannon Nobel-laureates in the LTCM crisis (sound familiar Al?). There have even been muted cries in some vestiges of sanity that derivatives trading must be regulated. But not easy Al – nope, to hell with the prying eyes of regulators in J.P. Morgan’s wonderful derivatives book. The man must be a true free trader right to the bone. Gotta wonder what regulators might find if they ever did an independent audit of Morgan’s derivatives book?
Since one of my favorite things in life is connecting dots, I now draw your attention to a recent Sol Pahla offering (The Perfect Storm) where Sol stated, "The feds will attempt to try to save the economy by trying to monetize the debt as no sane nation is going to keep buying this toilet paper forever. By doing so they will keep driving energy prices higher." Now I ask you dear reader, "As expressed by the recent bulge in the Morgan Chase derivatives book - what if they already have?"
By Rob Kirby
Gold share news:
Wheaton, Iamgold reject rival bids
Both move ahead with merger plans Shareholders meeting to be held June 8
The boards of Wheaton River Minerals and Iamgold Corp. say they believe their proposed merger is still a better opportunity than rival bids last week by two American companies, which are seeking to prevent a marriage of the two mid-sized Canadian gold producers.
Vancouver-based Wheaton River was first to reject an unsolicited shares-and-cash offer from U.S. silver producer Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp., valued at $2.5 billion when it was made last Thursday.
Toronto-based Iamgold followed suit yesterday, rejecting an all-stock bid from Golden Star Resources Ltd. of Denver that was worth $1.2 billion….
The XAU fell 1.43 to 88.38 and the HUI dropped 3.89 to 196.35, down 3.58.
The Gold Cartel made its usual points today:
*Don’t invest in gold in days of crisis/market stress, or we will hurt you.
*No reason to stress out investing public – if there were real problems in the financial markets gold would soar – look - it is down on the day.
The cabal has huffed and puffed once again and aggravated us all in the process. At some point in the not too distant future, they are going to run out of breath. They will have huff and puff one time too much and it is going to bury them. With the US money supply doing what it is doing, oil soaring, commodity prices readying to move into new high ground, Iraq becoming more of a horror show by the day, the US deficits out of control, gold demand on the rise, and their gold short position an untenable one in the long term, The Gold Cartel will vaporize one day. POOF! Gold is likely to rally $100 in a week out of nowhere as sheer panic sets in when the cabal loses control of this too obvious rigging operation. What goes around, comes around.
Those not long gold, or invested in the shares, may have little opportunity for decent risk market entry, which is why it is so important to keep in mind:
GATA BE IN IT TO WIN IT!
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