On November 30, the major governments, central banks, and major multinational banks blatantly declared war against the people of the world!
By my analysis, the US government is the ringleader.
No matter how I look at the events, I just cannot come to any other conclusion.
I think there were two triggering events. First, on November 29 Standard & Poor's reduced the credit rating of 37 global banks, including 14 of the largest banks and brokerage firms in the US. Second, the price of Bank of America’s common stock that day closed at $5.07 per share. The Bank’s shares actually dipped below $5.00 during evening trading.
Had Bank of America’s shares settled below $5.00 the next day, that would have triggered two events. First, many investment funds will not own any companies whose stock is valued below $5.00. Second, companies whose shares are trading for less than $5.00 cannot be owned in leveraged accounts. Therefore, had the Bank’s stock closed the next day under $5.00 there would have been a double flood of shares being liquidated. That could have forced Bank of America into bankruptcy, starting a domino chain of other major bank failures.
That horrible scenario did not develop last Wednesday. Instead, overnight Tuesday and before markets opened Wednesday, central bankers created a coordinated plan to flood the world with paper money.
First, the People’s Bank of China reduced its reserve requirement ratio by 0.5% for financial institutions. Then the Federal Reserve Bank, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Swiss National Bank, the Bank of Japan, and the Canadian Central Bank all reduced the interest rate at which they would loan US dollars by 0.5%.
This was global inflation of paper currencies on the scale of trillions of dollars.
In effect, the governments, central banks, and major multinational banks have elected to reduce values of most paper currencies, with the result that it will take wealth away from the people of the world.
Citizens around the world are so worried about the declining values of their local currencies that they are aggressively converting their money into US dollars. Foreign banks have paid up to 1.6% above the exchange rate to acquire more US dollars for their customers. Other banks are in such shaky financial condition that no other bank will sell them US dollars, no matter the price. As a result, the value of the US dollar has been generally rising for the past few weeks.
Yet, when these coordinated actions were taken last Wednesday, the US dollar index fell almost 1%.
Even though the wealth of the citizens of the world fell, the governments, central banks, and multinational banks enjoyed enormous benefits. All of them were able to borrow funds at lower interest rates than before. It looks like the multinational banks with major short positions in the gold and silver markets were able to cover some of these shorts. The governments and central banks bought themselves a bit more time to try to come up with new ideas on how to cure their cumulative fiscal mismanagement.
The world’s financial problems have deteriorated to such an extent that it is no longer a matter of resolving issues in one, two, or a few nations. Literally, every paper currency is going to fall in value against silver and gold even faster than they have in the past eleven years. Consequently, it now takes a concerted joint effort by the major governments, central banks and private banks to try to accomplish any appearance of stability.
These actions are also effectively an admission that these huge quantities of government debts will never be repaid in currencies that have anywhere close to current purchasing power.
Take this move as your warning that you have very little time left before a financial catastrophe cripples a major swath of the global economy. It simply isn’t possible to now predict when the dominos will start to fall. You may have a year or more, or just months, or maybe only a few days.
Before these calamities hit, it is time to think like a survivalist. The public unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Greece, Italy, and Spain this year could be just a sample of what could develop around the world, including cities, towns, and villages in the US.
Take action now. That means stock up on food, medical supplies, water filters, and other necessities. It may make sense to acquire a generator or weapons and ammunition (though make sure to get proper training with weapons if you chose to own them). I have seen some people advocating barter goods like cigarettes and liquor. Those would not suit me, but they might be worth considering.
Above all, make sure to buy silver and buy gold! Specifically I mean buy bullion-priced physical forms of gold and silver and take immediate possession of them. Buy them is small size units to be more divisible, such as one ounce or smaller for gold or ten ounces or smaller for silver. Gold and silver are almost universal forms of barter goods because of their multi-thousand year history being used as money.
As long as the gold/silver ratio is above 40, I recommend purchasing a higher proportion of silver than gold. With the ratio between 25 and 40, I suggest spending about an equal amount on both metals. At a gold/silver ration below 25, I urge you to acquire a higher proportion of gold.
I don’t want to come across as an alarmist. But the desperate actions taken by major governments, central banks, and multinational banks on November 30 require immediate attention and action to protect yourself. I wish you well.
Patrick A. Heller owns Liberty Coin Service in Lansing, Michigan and writes "Liberty's Outlook," a monthly newsletter covering rare coins and precious metals. Past issues can be found online at http://www.libertycoinservice.com/ Pat Heller is also the gold market commentator for Numismatic News. Past columns online at http://numismaster.com/ under “News & Articles". His bimonthly columns on collectibles can also be read at http://www.lansingbusinessmonthly.com under “Articles” and “Department Columns.”His radio show “Things You ‘Know’ That Just Aren’t So, And Important News You Need To Know” can be heard at 8:45 AM Wednesday mornings on 1320-AM WILS in Lansing (which streams live and becomes part of the audio and text archives posted at http://www.1320wils.com.
why are you scaring people?
it seems you are promoting your own self interest and anarky . please fellow readers, yes, you should have about 10%-20% in precious metals, but only if you are able to do this and you are comfortable in doing this. this guy is promoting himself and trying to tell you the world is coming to an end as we know it. yes, i believe things will be very harsh very soon, maybe a couple of years or so, but stocking up on weapons, c,mon. and you should always have enough water and food put away in case of disaster. if you are in the rural area and you have a well, you are ok. i have had 40 caese of water in my basement for the last 20 years or so, always replacing the oldest first with fresh cases. that’s a no-brainer. we are in for some very harsh times,( Obama’s spending one of them), during the next 20 years or so. so save your money.
So, then Pat, In Dec of 1979, we all should have run out to buy gold at $800+ an ounce because it was selling for a multiple of 20:1? The only reason gold so cheap relative to silver is because the Hunt brothers were trying to corner the market on silver. Gold was pulled along, not because of its own fundamentals but because of silver’s rise. BTW, gold has never come close to recapturing those Dec 79/Jan 80 levels in real dollar terms. Buying gold then would require the current price to be well over $2400.
The ration of gold to silver is utterly irrelevant unless one is dealing with market fundamentals first and relying on the ratio only secondarily. Each metal has its own fundamentals. At any given time the market may get into a frenzy that pushes one into an uncharacteristically high price relative to the other. That rarely indicates that the other will catch up to the high flyer. While sometimes the laggard will catch up, in most cases the high flyer backs up to restore some semblance of a “normal” ratio.
BTW, the dominant market issues today are pretty simple and by now should be obvious: 1. the poor “recovery”/lingering recession in the US that is bleeding into the global economy and 2. the Eurozone self-induced crisis leading into an austerity recession over the sovereign debt fiasco arising from Wall Street’s derivatives and the absurd constraints written into the Lisbon Treaty which prevent the ECB from taking central bank counter-cyclical actions.
The resulting flight to safety has primarily been to US dollars and Treasuries with gold and silver, at best, as secondary hedges.