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Is the Euro Zone Headed for a Recession?

Published by Philippe Herlin | Aug 14, 2014

The United States has just announced a 4% (annualised) growth for the second quarter, following a disastrous first quarter showing (finally revised, for the third time, at -2.1% instead of -2.9%). Though this sounds like good news, we should wait for the official revision of this 4% number that l...

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Dow/Gold Ratio Trend Change

Published by Nick Laird | Aug 8, 2014

It is interesting to see gold rising while the global sharemarkets decline.   We can measure these moves with the Dow/Gold Ratio. Looking at the short term we see a trend reversal with a breaking of the wedge formation.         Looking at the larger pictur...

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Gold Manipulators are Desperate

Published by Egon Von Greyerz | Jul 17, 2014

With virtually empty gold vaults, the central banks and bullion banks are now becoming desperate. The action we are seeing in the paper gold market with the recent $50 takedown is yet more proof of the corner that the gold manipulators have put themselves into by having virtually no physical gol...

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