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		<title>Silver Is The Achilles Heel Of The Corrupt Rothschild Banker’s Paradigm</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buying physical silver is by far the greatest act of wisdom and rebellion any American can and should be doing right now. It is both a Silver Bullet to rebel against the Elite’s corrupt system and a Silver Shield to protect your family and wealth in a post-dollar world. Buying physical silver is non-violent, non-compliant resistance. Most importantly, it works outside of the system and it cannot be stopped.]]></description>
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<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p dir="ltr">Stop  relying on traditional media (CNBC, Bloomberg) to provide you with  financial information, and feeding you false information!!!</p>
<p>Dear Friend,<br />
We  are all interested in stopping what we see is going on in our daily  lives. But what makes this happen is the funding it receives from a  corrupt institution called the Federal Reserve.</p>
<p>Buying physical silver is by far the greatest act of wisdom and rebellion any American can and should be doing right now. It  is both a Silver Bullet to rebel against the Elite’s corrupt system and  a Silver Shield to protect your family and wealth in a post-dollar  world. Buying physical silver is non-violent, non-compliant resistance.  Most importantly, it works outside of the system and it cannot be  stopped.</p>
<p>“As long as you play by the Elite’s rules, the Elite will rule.” -Chris Duane If  everyone just bought one silver coin, then their manipulation ends!!  They will be forced to cover all “paper silver “ on the COMEX therefore  creating a chain of events that they can not be stopped. Watch for  further explan http://youtu.be/QHc4Vp4I9_I</p>
<p>But  Transitioning to this world Is NOT The Hard Part&#8230;It is simply taking  action. Why stop in just buying one coin? Buy enough for you to keep  yourself, friends, and family prepared.</p>
<p>But  without my knowledge and approach to the market, It could take you  years and can cost you a small fortune to figure out just the right  combinations that already make some experienced coin gurus 200% more  than the nominal return (Silver has already returned 700% since 2001)</p>
<p>But  instead of knocking yourself out trying to come up with just the right  approach and knowledge, you can now have it inside a new app called:</p>
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But don&#8217;t take my word for it, here&#8217;s what customers from all over the country are saying about this application:</p>
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<p>Amazing  what is not being taught to us in school, and our &#8220;financial services&#8221;  industry. I know understand the &#8220;real&#8221; game being played, and have now  ensured that I will have something of real value in the immediate  future. -Doug</p>
<p>I  know you&#8217;re probably still skeptical and a bit on the conservative  side, but think about this &#8211; if you keep doing the same things over and  over again &#8211; you&#8217;ll only succeed in getting the same results. That&#8217;s why  I want you to download the Hard Assets app (Apple and Android)-  completely and totally free!</p>
<p>Which Of These Powerful Secrets Could You Use To Maintain Wealth?<br />
• What type of Coin Is the Better Buy?<br />
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• How to Buy Gold at 60% of Spot<br />
• Using Mintage Totals To Determine Future Numismatic Potential<br />
• Using Ebay (to profit) in the Coin Market plus, lots more</p>
<p>Okay, So What&#8217;s The Cost For This Incredible Resource?</p>
<p>Well,  realize that this is great information to have before you make a  decision on what to buy and could easily increase your rate of return by  using these methods. . In fact if you asked a coin dealer , like  myself, to produce his industry knowledge for you, you wouldn’t get it  because it would threaten his livelihood.</p>
<p>(I  get a small percentage from what I sell, and I’m competitive with  everyone.) . So at bare bones minimum you&#8217;re getting thousands and  thousands of dollars worth of “the right information” at your disposal.</p>
<p>This app app helps user to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Find the latest information going on in the gold/silver market</li>
<li>Get current spot prices</li>
<li>Get current valuations on gold and silver bought in your portfolio</li>
<li>Find opportunities of coins that will appreciate in numismatic value also</li>
</ul>
<p>That  means you can try out all the insight at my risk, while you see if they  work for you or not. And if they don&#8217;t produce more than what most  people are doing and just buying a silver coin, you still made a return  on your money, over and beyond the average stock market follower.</p>
<p>There  is absolutely no risk, whatsoever on your part. The burden to deliver  is entirely on me. If you don&#8217;t produce immediate profits using the  information on this app then I&#8217;m the loser, not you.</p>
<p>Look  at it this way &#8212; This download is a painless drop in the bucket  compared to the money you&#8217;re going to waste by keeping your money in  depreciating dollars this year. That&#8217;s why&#8230;<br />
You Really Can&#8217;t Afford Not To Download This Application!</p>
<p>Download it now on the iTunes and Google App store by searching for “Hard Assets”. You can<br />
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<h6>For iphone or ipad:</h6>
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<p>For the droid device&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app_clang7.layout&amp;feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hcHBfY2xhbmc3LmxheW91dCJd">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app_clang7.layout&amp;feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hcHBfY2xhbmc3LmxheW91dCJd</a><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hard-assets/id510987166?ls=1&amp;mt=8"></a></p>
<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app_clang7.layout&amp;feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hcHBfY2xhbmc3LmxheW91dCJd"></a></p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />
Chad Lang<br />
Hard Assets of Houston</p>
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		<title>Using Ratios to Decide Cheapest Metal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Platinum:Gold Ratio While gold is trading near all-time highs, platinum is trading about $700 below its all-time high reached in 2008. Since 1972, platinum has*traded at about 1.35 times the price of Gold on average. Right now, however,*platinum is even cheaper than gold, trading at only 0.92 times the price of Gold. This is a [...]]]></description>
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<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Platinum:Gold Ratio</p>
<p>While gold is trading near all-time highs, platinum is trading about<br />
$700 below its all-time high reached in 2008. Since 1972, platinum<br />
has*traded at about 1.35 times the price of Gold on average. Right<br />
now, however,*platinum is even cheaper than gold, trading at only 0.92<br />
times the price of Gold. This is a rather “rare” situation as it only<br />
happened in the early 80?s and for a short time in 1974. In 1972, 2000<br />
and 2008 it even traded as much as 2.30 times the price of Gold<br />
(monthly basis). Based on this ratio over the last 40 years, we can<br />
say that Platinum is “cheap” relative to Gold.</p>
<p>Platinum:Silver Ratio</p>
<p>Over the last 40 years, platinum traded at about 76 times the price of<br />
silver (monthly average). Right now, it is trading at only 47.26 times<br />
the price of silver, far below the historical average ratio. In 2003,<br />
it even traded as high as 150 times the price of silver. In 1979<br />
however, it traded as little as 20 times the price of silver, but that<br />
was rather an “exception”, as silver jumped from $6/oz to $48.70/oz,<br />
as the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the silver market. Taking out<br />
this exception from the chart below, I think it’s fair to say that<br />
platinum is also cheap compared to silver:</p>
<p>Platinum:Palladium Ratio</p>
<p>Over the last 40 years, the average platinum-to-palladium ratio was<br />
3.17. Right now, it is 2.53. In 2001 however, it was a low as 0.60*<br />
because of rumours that the Russian stockpile of alladium was almost<br />
depleted. Leaving this “exception” of 2001 aside, I think it’s fair to<br />
say platinum is cheap relative to palladium, based on this ratio of<br />
the last 40 years:</p>
<p>Gold:Silver Ratio</p>
<p>Many argue that the gold-to-silver ratio is headed back to 15, a level<br />
not seen since 1979. However, as explained above, this move in silver<br />
was rather “exceptional”, as the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the<br />
market. When we look at the historical average of the gold-to-silver<br />
ratio over the last 40 years, we can see that the ratio now (51.60),<br />
is just slightly below the monthly average of the last 40 years<br />
(56.42). This means Gold is not cheap, nor expensive compared to<br />
Silver.</p>
<p>When we look at the daily gold-to-silver ratio going back to 1920, we<br />
can see that the daily average (52.32) doesn’t differ that much from<br />
the monthly average of the last 40 years (56.42). This tells me that<br />
55 is a good estimate of the average gold-to-silver ratio.</p>
<p>In the chart below, we can see that gold was expensive compared to<br />
silver when the gold-to-silver ratio was higher than 80, and that<br />
silver was expensive to gold when the ratio dropped below 30?ish. In<br />
April earlier this year, the ratio dropped towards 30, meaning silver<br />
was getting expensive relative to gold, and has now reversed sharply,<br />
back towards its 90 years average.</p>
<p>Conclusion</p>
<p>Based on the charts in this article, we can conclude that:</p>
<p>Platinum appears to be cheap relative to Gold<br />
Platinum appears to be cheap relative to Silver<br />
Platinum appears to be cheap relative to Palladium<br />
Platinum thus appears cheap relative to the other*Precious Metal<br />
discussed in this article.</p>
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If you are a stacker or collector of Silver coins you are probably already familiar with the Perth Mint Lunar Series. After the success of their first Lunar releases that began in 1999 the Perth Mint kicked off Series II with release of the 2008 Year of the Mouse coin. The most recent coin, 2011 [...]]]></description>
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<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>If you are a stacker or collector of Silver coins you are probably<br />
already familiar with the Perth Mint Lunar Series. After the success<br />
of their first Lunar releases that began in 1999 the Perth Mint kicked<br />
off Series II with release of the 2008 Year of the Mouse coin.</p>
<p>The most recent coin, 2011 Year of the Rabbit sold out within a week<br />
after the Chinese New Year (5 months after initial release) with the<br />
Perth Mint Blog noting they were sold out on February 9th. At that<br />
time the Tiger (2010) and Ox (2009) were also sold out, but the 2008<br />
Year of the Mouse was not, so the Perth Mint started minting and<br />
selling these again to reach the 300,000 coin limit (the mouse is also<br />
now sold out).</p>
<p>All the Series II 1 ounce Silver bullion coins have a 300,000 mintage<br />
limit. On a global scale this is quite a small number and allows the<br />
Lunar coins to achieve quite a nice premium compared to other Global<br />
coins as well as other Perth Mint series like the Koala (which have<br />
larger or no limits)</p>
<p>In comparison to the 300,000 limit on the Silver Lunar series, the<br />
Timberwolf and Grizzly Bear, both part of the Canadian Wildlife Series<br />
from the Royal Canadian Mint, both have a mintage of 1,000,000 (over 3<br />
times that of the Lunar Series). The 1 ounce Silver Panda (BU) from<br />
China had a mintage of 800,000 in 2010. It&#8217;s worth noting however that<br />
other variations of the Lunar coins are not limited to a specific<br />
mintage so the gilded &amp; coloured versions as well as sizes other than<br />
1 ounce (e.g. 1/2, 2, 5 or 10 ounce) could end up filling the void<br />
where the mintage limited 1 ounce bullion coin cannot.</p>
<p>The Lunar coins are especially popular in European countries and<br />
examples of the premiums fetched can be found on sites like<br />
Silber-Corner or eBay Germany. In fact there is a rumour doing the<br />
rounds that a European dealer approached the Perth Mint about buying<br />
the entire 2012 Year of the Dragon mintage!</p>
<p>Pre-orders are already being taken for the 2012 Dragon coin with Gold<br />
Stackers (sister site to the Silver Stackers forum) recently having<br />
sold out of their allocation and Bullion Bourse now taking orders well<br />
in advance of the expected September release. Even without having seen<br />
the design it would seem that enthusiasts are keen to get their orders<br />
in.</p>
<p>I suspect that demand for these coins is going to be astronomical. The<br />
Year 2000 Dragon coin is easily still the most popular of the first<br />
series and demands the highest premium even though it had the highest<br />
mintage of the 1 ounce bullion coins (as per this reference table).<br />
There is talk of these having instant premiums/being sold out on<br />
release, I suspect that this won&#8217;t be the case, but it can&#8217;t hurt to<br />
take precautions. I have placed a pre-order myself to both hedge<br />
against the possibility of a higher Silver price at the time of<br />
release as well as locking some in to avoid missing out. That said I<br />
am holding back and will be looking to order more with any large dips<br />
in the price of Silver (which I am expecting through the middle months<br />
of the year as QE2 ends and uncertainty takes over).</p>
<p>While it is predominantly a bullion coin, the 1 ounce Silver Lunar coins:</p>
<p>- Have a low mintage<br />
- Sport an aesthetically pleasing design<br />
- Are housed in individual capsules<br />
- Have a quality finish<br />
- Are produced by world renowned Perth Mint<br />
- Come with legal tender status<br />
And are priced as bullion coins on release.</p>
<p>They allow a simple entry into the Silver market. If you expect Silver<br />
to continue to appreciate over the medium term then they are a great<br />
option as a bullion purchase, but come with the potential for a<br />
numismatic premium once sold out at the Perth Mint.</p>
<p>Here is the mintage from the last 12 years of the Type 1 series…</p>
<p>Read more: <a href="http://www.cmi-gold-silver.com/Perth-Mint-Lunar-Series-mintages.html#ixzz1fa197V44" target="_blank">http://www.cmi-gold-silver.com/Perth-Mint-Lunar-Series-mintages.html#ixzz1fa197V44</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cmi-gold-silver.com/Perth-Mint-Lunar-Series-mintages.html" target="_blank">http://www.cmi-gold-silver.com/Perth-Mint-Lunar-Series-mintages.html</a></p>
<p>The  conclusion I draw is that the kilos have consistently been produced,  with the lowest mintage totals… I looked up where I can find previous  kilos with two in mind. From the first dragon kilo, the price is around  3200… Also, the ox that was done two years ago, they are retailing at  2800… Again the kilo will be produced based on demand, but when  production ends, price will begin to move up because of scarcity brought  on by many collectors unwilling to sell….</p>
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		<title>Wildlife Series Canadian Maples/ Future Numismatic Upside</title>
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I wanted to alert you to an opportunity I see taking place in a certain silver coin…. One year ago, the Canadian Mint began producing a “Wildlife Series” coin with a strict mintage of one million ounces with 5 future introductions of a different animal every 6 months…. First coin that was produced in the [...]]]></description>
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<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>I wanted to alert you to an opportunity I see taking place in a  certain silver coin…. One year ago, the Canadian Mint began producing a  “Wildlife Series” coin with a strict mintage of one million ounces with 5  future introductions of a different animal every 6 months….</p>
<p>First  coin that was produced in the Canadian Wildlife series was the Canadian  wolf, which when released in Sept of 2010, which at the time could be  bought for spot +6.00… After a few months I noticed that the major  dealers were able able to sell these for spot+ 20… Look below for  today’s google search of Canadian wolves…</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=canadian+silver+wolf&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=t8s&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;prmd=imvns&amp;source=univ&amp;tbm=shop&amp;tbo=u&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=4hGJTsDUFOrnsQL5vsS2Dw&amp;ved=0CHUQrQQ" target="_blank">Shopping results for <em>canadian silver wolf</em></a></h3>
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<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=canadian+silver+wolf&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;tbm=shop&amp;cid=12102043312808861704&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=4hGJTsDUFOrnsQL5vsS2Dw&amp;ved=0CGoQ8wIwAQ" target="_blank">2011 <em>Canadian Silver</em> Timber <em>Wolf</em> 1 Troy oz Coin</a></p>
<p>You +1&#8242;d this publicly. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=canadian+silver+wolf&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a" target="_blank">Undo</a></p>
<p>$57 &#8211; 2 stores</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/2011-Canadian-Silver-Wolf-Coins/dp/B004GWCTRK" target="_blank">2011 <em>canadian</em> 1 oz <em>silver wolf</em> coins &#8220;wild life series&#8221;</a></p>
<p>You +1&#8242;d this publicly. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=canadian+silver+wolf&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a" target="_blank">Undo</a></p>
<p>$72.95 &#8211; <cite>Amazon.com</cite></p>
<p><a href="http://www.blueproton.com/2011-Canadian-Silver-Wolf-Coins/dp/B004GWCTRK?traffic_src=froogle&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_source=froogle" target="_blank">Royal <em>Canadian</em> Mint 2011 <em>Canadian</em> 1 Oz <em>Silver Wolf</em> &#8230;</a></p>
<p>You +1&#8242;d this publicly. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=canadian+silver+wolf&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a" target="_blank">Undo</a></p>
<p>$64.95 &#8211; <cite>BlueProton</cite></td>
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<p>Then  I noticed the second series of the called the Canadian Silver Grizzlies  were bought for a spot +6.00 premium, but three months into it, they  show up as this on a google search….</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=canadian+silver+grizzlies&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=BWY&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=587&amp;prmd=imvns&amp;source=univ&amp;tbm=shop&amp;tbo=u&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=ghKJTufcFqWLsAKk5ZiWDw&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CFgQrQQ" target="_blank">Shopping results for <em>canadian silver grizzlies</em></a></h3>
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<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.montanararities.com/2011-canada-silver-grizzly-oz.html" target="_blank">2011 <em>Canada</em> Wildlife <em>Silver Grizzly</em> 1 Troy oz</a><br />
$43.25 &#8211; <cite>Montana Rarities</cite></p>
<p><a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-67261-24966-0/2?ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=263602&amp;mtid=691&amp;kwid=1&amp;crlp=1_263602&amp;icep_item_id=130545016402&amp;itemid=130545016402&amp;icep_meta_categ_id=11116&amp;icep_etrs=Y&amp;icep_epid=-999&amp;icep_ctlg=-999&amp;icep_cond=Used" target="_blank">2011 <em>Canada Silver Grizzly</em> 1 Oz .9999 Wildlife Coins Bu &#8230;</a><br />
$59.99 used &#8211; <cite>eBay</cite></p>
<p><a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-67261-24966-0/2?ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=263602&amp;mtid=691&amp;kwid=1&amp;crlp=1_263602&amp;icep_item_id=230624348851&amp;itemid=230624348851&amp;icep_meta_categ_id=11116&amp;icep_etrs=Y&amp;icep_epid=-999&amp;icep_ctlg=-999&amp;icep_cond=Used" target="_blank">2011 <em>Canada Silver Grizzly</em> Bear 1 Oz Coin</a><br />
$57.95 &#8211; <cite>eBay</cite></td>
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<p>What  is the reason for the explosion of price? Again they are minting only  one million of each coin… Looking at supply and demand of all other  silver coins, just this year of the 2011 Silver Eagles 40 million coins  have been produced. And probably another 20 million this year will be  produced which I believe will be a great investment because of where  silver will be in the future. But what if you have a coin that will go  up in value even if silver (hypothetically) does not go up? There is a  numismatic value that is immediately happening to these coins that will  outperform all major silver coins in the marketplace in seeing what is  happening to the previous two coins minted… Would an investment that  will go up two-fold (silver price and rarity premium) make sense? Buying  a coin slightly over the price of a silver eagle but with potential  significant upside is making sense… Below is more information on this  coin…</p>
<p>The Royal Canadian Mint’s six-coin, three-year  Canadian Wildlife silver bullion series just started shipping the  Canadian cougar Sept.30<sup>th</sup>, and with the latest pullback of  silver this should present a good opportunity not only for the silver  “pullback” witnessed in the last couple weeks, but a multiple that will  be put on the coin because of the collector value being realized on this  coin being produced by the second largest minted coin….</p>
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<p>2012 Canadian Cougar Silver Bullion Coin &#8211; Click to Enlarge</p>
<p>Details  of the strike were recently announced by the Mint, including its  expected September 2011 release and 1,000,000 limited mintage.</p>
<p>&#8220;Issuing  products which stand out in the competitive bullion industry has helped  the Mint achieve a reputation as the source of the world’s purest and  most innovative bullion coins,&#8221; commented Ian E. Bennett, President and  CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint about the pending release.</p>
<p>Like the first two issues <a title="2011 Canadian Grizzly Silver Bullion Coin Available" href="http://www.coinnews.net/2011/02/28/2011-canadian-grizzly-silver-bullion-coin-available/" target="_blank">featuring a grizzly</a> and <a title="2011 Canadian Silver Wolf Bullion Coin Launches" href="http://www.coinnews.net/2010/09/10/2011-canadian-silver-wolf-bullion-coin/" target="_blank">depicting a wolf</a>,  the Cougar silver bullion coin is composed from .9999 fine silver. As a  comparison, the popular American Silver Eagle bullion coin from the  United States Mint is struck from .999 fine silver and has a much larger  mintage that is determined by demand (nearly 29 million in 2011 through  to August).</p>
<p><strong>2012 Silver Cougar Bullion Coin Designs and Specifications</strong></p>
<p>The  Canadian Wildlife silver bullion series features reverse designs  emblematic of the diverse array of wildlife that can be encountered in  the vast landscape of Canada. Among those creatures is the cougar which  is shown on the reverse of this one ounce silver strike. The cougar is  also known as puma, mountain lion, mountain cat, catamount or panther in  other regions of the world.</p>
<p>Senior Royal Canadian  Mint Engraver William Woodruff is responsible for the design of the  large cat. It depicts the Canadian cougar with its front paws grasped on  a fallen inclined tree limb baring its large teeth with an open mouth.  The inscriptions of <em>CANADA</em>, <em>9999</em>, <em>FINE SILVER</em>, <em>1 OZ</em>, <em>ARGENT PUR</em> and the initials <em>WW</em> for the designer are also shown on the reverse.</p>
<p>Canadian Wildlife silver bullion coins are struck as legal tender of Canada and feature face values of <em>5 DOLLARS</em> which is indicated on the obverse. That is joined by the Susanna Blunt  effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and additional inscriptions of <em>2011</em> and <em>ELIZABETH II</em>.</p>
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COMEX Registered Silver Bullion Inventories Fall Sharp 38.5% in Two Weeks – Risk of COMEX Silver Default Remains Spot gold and silver prices rose slightly again this morning after hitting a one-month high yesterday as equity markets internationally came under selling pressure. The Moody&#8217;s downgrade of Greece and worryingly poor US economic data again pushed [...]]]></description>
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<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><strong>COMEX Registered Silver Bullion Inventories Fall Sharp 38.5% in Two Weeks – Risk of COMEX Silver Default Remains</strong></p>
<p>Spot  gold and silver prices rose slightly again this morning after hitting a  one-month high yesterday as equity markets internationally came under  selling pressure. The Moody&#8217;s downgrade of Greece and worryingly poor US  economic data again pushed investors to seek the safe haven of bullion.  Gold reached new record nominal highs in sterling yesterday  (£945.62/oz) as the pound fell on concerns about the UK economy.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Silver Prices and Rates</em></strong></p>
<p>Markets  await key U.S. data on nonfarm payrolls Friday, while ongoing concerns  over Greek sovereign debt and contagion in the Eurozone also affected  market sentiment and supported the precious metals.</p>
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<strong><em>COMEX Silver Bullion Registered Inventories – January 1996 to May 31st 2011</em></strong></p>
<p>Friday&#8217;s  U.S. payrolls is likely to show that the world&#8217;s largest economy is  weakening and may be on the verge of a double dip which will likely lead  to further safe haven demand.</p>
<p>Seeing as the extent of the recovery was always exaggerated, this is not a surprise to us.</p>
<p>The supply situation in the silver market gets more interesting by the day.</p>
<p>Registered  COMEX  silver inventories have fallen to multiyear lows at 29,631,268  ounces. In the last 5 days they fell from 32,132,903 ounces to Tuesday’s  holdings of 29,631,268 ounces. As can be seen in the table below  registered silver inventories fell every single day last week leading to  a sharp fall of 8.4% in 5 days.</p>
<p>Registered metals are those  metals which meet the standards for delivery under the silver futures  contracts and for which a receipt from an Exchange-approved depository  or warehouse has been issued. Eligible metals are those which meet the  delivery standards as stated in the rules for which no receipt from an  Exchange-approved warehouse has been issued.</p>
<p>This is a long term  trend that has been seen since the early 1990’s when total COMEX silver  stockpiles were over 101.45 million ounces.</p>
<p>However, the scale of the drop in inventories since early 2008 is significant and the trend has accelerated in recent weeks.</p>
<p>Registered silver inventories are down a sharp 38.5% in just two weeks – from 41,044,280 to 29,631,268.</p>
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<strong><em>COMEX Silver Bullion Registered Inventories – June 2009 to May 31st 2011</em></strong></p>
<p>The  record nominal highs near $50/oz, seen 31 years ago and again at the  end of April, are likely to be seen again sooner rather than later due  to the increasingly delicate supply demand balance.</p>
<p>The scale of  current investment demand and industrial demand, especially from China  and the rest of Asia, is such that it is important to keep monitoring  COMEX warehouse stocks.</p>
<p>The Hunt Brothers were one of a few dozen  billionaires in the world in the late 1970’s when they attempted to  corner the market. Today there are thousands of billionaires in the  world, any number of whom could again attempt to corner the silver  market.</p>
<p>Also, today unlike in the 1970s, there are sovereign  wealth funds and hundreds of hedge funds with access to billions in  capital.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/images/GC%204.jpg"><img src="http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/images/GC%204_0.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="205" /></a></p>
<p><em><strong>COMEX Silver Bullion Stockpiles – 05/31/11</strong></em></p>
<p>The  possibility of an attempted cornering of the silver market through  buying and taking delivery of physical bullion remains real. However it  would be very difficult to corner the silver market due to the very  small nature of the silver bullion market.</p>
<p>A COMEX default  remains a risk as does a massive short squeeze which could see silver  surge as it did in the 1970s and again recently leading to silver  targeting the inflation adjusted record high of $140/oz.</p>
<p>As ever price predictions from gurus should be take with a pinch of salt and diversification remains of paramount importance.</p>
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		<title>Banking Cartel is the Cause of Humanity&#8217;s Woe</title>
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Taken from henrymakow.com &#8220;The Secrets of the Federal Reserve&#8221; by Eustace Mullins &#8220;I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.&#8221; &#8212;Thomas Jefferson In November 1949, Eustace Mullins, 25, was a researcher in Washington DC when friends invited him to visit the famous American poet Ezra Pound, who was confined [...]]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;The Secrets of the Federal Reserve&#8221; by Eustace Mullins</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.&#8221; &#8212;Thomas Jefferson</p></blockquote>
<p>In November 1949, Eustace Mullins, 25, was a researcher in  Washington DC when friends invited him to visit the famous American poet  Ezra Pound, who was confined at St. Elizabeth&#8217;s Mental Hospital and  listed as a &#8220;political prisoner.&#8221;</p>
<p>A leading figure in Modern English literature, Pound was the editor  and critic who introduced the world to James Joyce, W.B. Yeats and T.S.  Eliot. During the Second World War, he was charged with treason for  broadcasts on Rome Radio that questioned the motives behind America&#8217;s  involvement.</p>
<p>Pound commissioned Mullins to examine the influence of the banking  establishment on U.S. policy. Mullins spent every morning for two years  in the Library of Congress and met with Pound every afternoon. The  resulting manuscript, &#8220;The Secrets of the Federal Reserve&#8221; proved too  hot for any American publisher to handle. Nineteen rejected it. One  said, &#8220;you&#8217;ll never get this published in New York.&#8221; When it finally  appeared in Germany in 1955, the U.S. Military Government confiscated  all 10,000 copies and burned them.</p>
<p>Thanks to the American Patriot Friends Network,<a href="http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm" target="_blank"> this book is freely available on line</a>. (I recommend you save it on your desktop, as I did.) Why is it so (excuse the pun) inflammatory?</p>
<p>Essentially it paints a picture of the world, and the role of the  United States, which is radically different from the one we are given in  school or in the media.</p>
<p>&#8220;Notwithstanding the war of independence against England,&#8221; writes  Mullins, &#8220;we remained an economic and financial colony of Great  Britain.&#8221; Between 1865 and 1913, he says London bankers led by the  Rothschilds used agents such as J.P. Morgan and J.D. Rockefeller to gain  control of American industry and organize it into cartels.</p>
<p>Where did these bankers get the money? For over 200 years, European  bankers have been able to draw on the credit of their host countries to  print it!</p>
<p>In the Seventeenth Century, the moneylenders and the aristocracy  made a pact. If the king would make paper currency a liability of the  state, the moneylenders would print as much as he liked! Thus the Banks  of England, France and the Reichsbank came into being but they were all  private corporations and remain so today.</p>
<p>According to this nefarious pact, the moneylenders got to charge  interest on assets they created out of thin air. The aristocracy all  took shares in the central banks plus they got to finance a burgeoning  government and to wage costly wars.</p>
<p>This piece of chicanery is at the heart what plagues humanity.</p>
<p>The bankers have a vested interest in the state (i.e. the people)  incurring as much debt as possible. They are behind the Marxist,  socialist and liberal movements which call for big government and social  spending. They are behind the catastrophic wars of the last century.  The Warburgs financed the Bolshevik Revolution. The Bank of England  financed the rise of Hitler. Prescott Bush (W&#8217;s grandfather) was head of  Brown Brothers Harriman, which financed the construction of the Nazi  war machine.</p>
<p>Naturally if you can create money out of thin air, your first  instinct is to buy tangible assets with it. There is a powerful impulse  to use debt to control nations and take over their real assets. This is  the essence of the so-called Third World Debt crisis. Dedicated to  owning all wealth and enslaving humanity, an irresistible vampire has  been unleashed uponthe world</p>
<p>Much of Mullins book is devoted to the subterfuge by which the  United States was drawn into its lethal embrace. In 1913, the Owen-Glass  Bill gave mostly foreign-controlled banks (posing as &#8220;the Federal  Reserve&#8221;) the right to create currency based on the credit of the United  States government and to charge it interest for doing it!</p>
<p>To accomplish this, the bankers had to rig the election of 1913 in  order to get Woodrow Wilson elected. Then their stooges in Congress  passed the legislation on December 22 after their opponents had gone  home for Christmas.</p>
<p>&#8220;This act establishes the most gigantic trust [cartel] on earth,&#8221;  Congressman Charles Lindbergh said at the time. &#8220;When the President  signs this bill; the invisible government by the Monetary Power will be  legalized. The people may not know it immediately but the day of  reckoning is only a few years removed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mullins explains that the legislation passed just in time for the  American people to finance World War One. After maintaining standing  armies for 50 years, European powers no longer could afford the luxury  of another war. But the U.S. was relatively debt free and made the whole  thing possible.</p>
<p>What would WWI have been without Germany? Apparently Germany was not  self-sufficient in food and would have had to sit out this war. In the  nick of time, the bankers organized something called &#8220;The Belgium Relief  Committee&#8221; which channeled billions of dollars worth of U.S. meat and  potatoes not to Belgium but to Germany. When Edith Cavell, an American  working in a Belgium hospital pointed this out, British intelligence had  the Germans arrest and execute her.</p>
<p>Mullins makes a convincing case that every U.S. President since  Wilson has been a lackey of the bankers. J.F. Kennedy was assassinated  because he started to print his own U.S. government-backed currency.  This is also the transgression that led to the murders of Presidents  Abraham Lincoln and James Garfield.</p>
<p>Last year alone, the American people paid $360 billion in interest  to the bankers. To maintain this massive fraud, the bankers enforce an  iron grip on the political and cultural organs of the nation. According  to Mullins, &#8220;The New York Times&#8221; is owned by the Kuhn Loeb while &#8220;The  Washington Post&#8221; is owned by Lazard Freres. In Europe the Rothschilds  own Reuters as well as the French and German news services.</p>
<p>I presume US publishers, TV networks and movie producers are  similarly beholden. Rockefellers, Carnegies and the Fords endow the  nations&#8217; libraries and universities. Journalists and professors  dutifully parrot fantasies about democracy and freedom. Mind control  laboratories run by the CIA and the British army (TheTavistock  Institute) dream up ways to manipulate and undermine the population. The  psychological sterilization of the human female (&#8220;feminism&#8221;) is an  example.</p>
<p>The &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; is part of the banking cabal&#8217;s plan to  consolidate its grip on humanity in a friendly (or not so friendly)  fascist &#8220;New World Order.&#8221; They want to secure their political, economic  and social grip on the obstreperous Muslim world, as well as build up a  security apparatus in case the docile populations of the West become  restive.</p>
<p>Well, at least the cosmic battle between Good and Evil is out in the open at last!</p>
<p>June 26, 2002</p>
<p>&#8220;The Secrets of the Federal Reserve&#8221; by Eustace Mullins</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.&#8221; &#8212;Thomas Jefferson</p></blockquote>
<p>In November 1949, Eustace Mullins, 25, was a researcher in  Washington DC when friends invited him to visit the famous American poet  Ezra Pound, who was confined at St. Elizabeth&#8217;s Mental Hospital and  listed as a &#8220;political prisoner.&#8221;</p>
<p>A leading figure in Modern English literature, Pound was the editor  and critic who introduced the world to James Joyce, W.B. Yeats and T.S.  Eliot. During the Second World War, he was charged with treason for  broadcasts on Rome Radio that questioned the motives behind America&#8217;s  involvement.</p>
<p>Pound commissioned Mullins to examine the influence of the banking  establishment on U.S. policy. Mullins spent every morning for two years  in the Library of Congress and met with Pound every afternoon. The  resulting manuscript, &#8220;The Secrets of the Federal Reserve&#8221; proved too  hot for any American publisher to handle. Nineteen rejected it. One  said, &#8220;you&#8217;ll never get this published in New York.&#8221; When it finally  appeared in Germany in 1955, the U.S. Military Government confiscated  all 10,000 copies and burned them.</p>
<p>Thanks to the American Patriot Friends Network,<a href="http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm" target="_blank"> this book is freely available on line</a>. (I recommend you save it on your desktop, as I did.) Why is it so (excuse the pun) inflammatory?</p>
<p>Essentially it paints a picture of the world, and the role of the  United States, which is radically different from the one we are given in  school or in the media.</p>
<p>&#8220;Notwithstanding the war of independence against England,&#8221; writes  Mullins, &#8220;we remained an economic and financial colony of Great  Britain.&#8221; Between 1865 and 1913, he says London bankers led by the  Rothschilds used agents such as J.P. Morgan and J.D. Rockefeller to gain  control of American industry and organize it into cartels.</p>
<p>Where did these bankers get the money? For over 200 years, European  bankers have been able to draw on the credit of their host countries to  print it!</p>
<p>In the Seventeenth Century, the moneylenders and the aristocracy  made a pact. If the king would make paper currency a liability of the  state, the moneylenders would print as much as he liked! Thus the Banks  of England, France and the Reichsbank came into being but they were all  private corporations and remain so today.</p>
<p>According to this nefarious pact, the moneylenders got to charge  interest on assets they created out of thin air. The aristocracy all  took shares in the central banks plus they got to finance a burgeoning  government and to wage costly wars.</p>
<p>This piece of chicanery is at the heart what plagues humanity.</p>
<p>The bankers have a vested interest in the state (i.e. the people)  incurring as much debt as possible. They are behind the Marxist,  socialist and liberal movements which call for big government and social  spending. They are behind the catastrophic wars of the last century.  The Warburgs financed the Bolshevik Revolution. The Bank of England  financed the rise of Hitler. Prescott Bush (W&#8217;s grandfather) was head of  Brown Brothers Harriman, which financed the construction of the Nazi  war machine.</p>
<p>Naturally if you can create money out of thin air, your first  instinct is to buy tangible assets with it. There is a powerful impulse  to use debt to control nations and take over their real assets. This is  the essence of the so-called Third World Debt crisis. Dedicated to  owning all wealth and enslaving humanity, an irresistible vampire has  been unleashed uponthe world</p>
<p>Much of Mullins book is devoted to the subterfuge by which the  United States was drawn into its lethal embrace. In 1913, the Owen-Glass  Bill gave mostly foreign-controlled banks (posing as &#8220;the Federal  Reserve&#8221;) the right to create currency based on the credit of the United  States government and to charge it interest for doing it!</p>
<p>To accomplish this, the bankers had to rig the election of 1913 in  order to get Woodrow Wilson elected. Then their stooges in Congress  passed the legislation on December 22 after their opponents had gone  home for Christmas.</p>
<p>&#8220;This act establishes the most gigantic trust [cartel] on earth,&#8221;  Congressman Charles Lindbergh said at the time. &#8220;When the President  signs this bill; the invisible government by the Monetary Power will be  legalized. The people may not know it immediately but the day of  reckoning is only a few years removed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mullins explains that the legislation passed just in time for the  American people to finance World War One. After maintaining standing  armies for 50 years, European powers no longer could afford the luxury  of another war. But the U.S. was relatively debt free and made the whole  thing possible.</p>
<p>What would WWI have been without Germany? Apparently Germany was not  self-sufficient in food and would have had to sit out this war. In the  nick of time, the bankers organized something called &#8220;The Belgium Relief  Committee&#8221; which channeled billions of dollars worth of U.S. meat and  potatoes not to Belgium but to Germany. When Edith Cavell, an American  working in a Belgium hospital pointed this out, British intelligence had  the Germans arrest and execute her.</p>
<p>Mullins makes a convincing case that every U.S. President since  Wilson has been a lackey of the bankers. J.F. Kennedy was assassinated  because he started to print his own U.S. government-backed currency.  This is also the transgression that led to the murders of Presidents  Abraham Lincoln and James Garfield.</p>
<p>Last year alone, the American people paid $360 billion in interest  to the bankers. To maintain this massive fraud, the bankers enforce an  iron grip on the political and cultural organs of the nation. According  to Mullins, &#8220;The New York Times&#8221; is owned by the Kuhn Loeb while &#8220;The  Washington Post&#8221; is owned by Lazard Freres. In Europe the Rothschilds  own Reuters as well as the French and German news services.</p>
<p>I presume US publishers, TV networks and movie producers are  similarly beholden. Rockefellers, Carnegies and the Fords endow the  nations&#8217; libraries and universities. Journalists and professors  dutifully parrot fantasies about democracy and freedom. Mind control  laboratories run by the CIA and the British army (TheTavistock  Institute) dream up ways to manipulate and undermine the population. The  psychological sterilization of the human female (&#8220;feminism&#8221;) is an  example.</p>
<p>The &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; is part of the banking cabal&#8217;s plan to  consolidate its grip on humanity in a friendly (or not so friendly)  fascist &#8220;New World Order.&#8221; They want to secure their political, economic  and social grip on the obstreperous Muslim world, as well as build up a  security apparatus in case the docile populations of the West become  restive.</p>
<p>Well, at least the cosmic battle between Good and Evil is out in the open at last!</p>
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The US National Debt Level Spirals Out of Control in 2011 by Sandy Thompson (guest author) As political squabbling continues over ways to bring a restrain on public spending, The US gradually takes steps to avoid crossing the government’s legal debt ceiling in the first week of February, 2011. The US Treasury is roughly $279 [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>by Sandy Thompson (guest author)</em><br />
As political squabbling continues over ways to bring a restrain on public spending, The<br />
US gradually takes steps to avoid crossing the government’s legal debt ceiling in the first<br />
week of February, 2011. The US Treasury is roughly $279 billion away from reaching<br />
the US debt ceiling that is $14.294 trillion. With the rising US national debt level, more<br />
and more people are running towards debt help companies but despite their efforts, the<br />
debtors can’t meet their monthly payments. According to the predictions of the Treasury<br />
Secretary, US would cross the debt ceiling by March, 2011. The Treasury has taken its<br />
first financial step of cutting the balance of a financial lending program from $200 billion<br />
to $5 billion.</p>
<p>However, compared to the day-to-day borrowing needs of the Treasury, the cut off<br />
balance is like a drop in the bucket. The Federal government has also taken certain<br />
measures like come to terms with the debt crisis in the nation. The government is issuing<br />
short term bills and dismissing all payments to government employee pension funds.<br />
There is mounting pressure on the US government to come up with some efficient deficit-<br />
reduction strategy that could help the nation boost its economic state. Since there is a<br />
danger of the US government defaulting on the loans, there arises a need of raising the<br />
debt ceiling immediately so that there arises no turmoil in the global investment market.</p>
<p>Why the Federal government requires paying its bills</p>
<p>If the debt ceiling is raised in the US, the federal government will again get a chance<br />
to pay off its bills and borrow more money. Those who hold debt of our nation would<br />
feel more confident by this step but this would not address the national fiscal woes. The<br />
individuals also need to be concerned about handling their credit card bills and must not<br />
default on his minimum monthly payments in order to keep a balance in the economy.<br />
Therefore, along with the federal government, the US consumers also require being<br />
careful about their credit cards so that there is a return of balance in the US economy.</p>
<p><strong>The Controversial Debate Regarding the US Debt Ceiling</strong></p>
<p>While the Republicans are threatening to vote against the rising debt ceiling, the<br />
Democratic lawmakers and the White House has agreed to introduce serious spending<br />
cuts in order to witness some positive change in the US economic condition. According<br />
to the Congressional Budget Office, it has been predicted that the government budget<br />
deficit will reach 40% of the GDP under the tax cut deal that is struck by the Republican<br />
lawmakers.</p>
<p>Both the White House and the Republicans are using edgy financial markets to back their<br />
arguments on the raising debt ceiling. The Congressional Republicans are of the opinion<br />
that investors are going to flee from the US market if the debt ceiling is not raised and if<br />
the national debt grows in this level.</p>
<p>Therefore, the US government and the consumers must pledge to get out of debt as<br />
soon as possible. If needed, they must resort to the government and private debt help<br />
companies so that they seek professional help while coming out of their financial<br />
obligations in 2011.</p>
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		<title>Tracing the Fed&#8217;s Vital Role in the Decline of the Dollar</title>
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By Eric Fry 02/02/11 Laguna Beach, California – In 2013, we Americans will commemorate a century of wealth destruction in the United States – the Federal Reserve will be 100 years old. In 1913, the Federal Reserve Act became law – granting sole authority to the Federal Reserve to “issue legal tender.” Armed with its [...]]]></description>
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<p><abbr title="2011-02-02T15:19:43+0000">02/02/11</abbr> Laguna Beach, California –  In  2013, we Americans will commemorate a century of wealth destruction in  the United States – the Federal Reserve will be 100 years old.</p>
<p>In 1913, the Federal Reserve Act became law – granting sole authority  to the Federal Reserve to “issue legal tender.” Armed with its new  power and its good intentions, the Fed embarked on a 98-year process of  currency debasement. That’s not what the Fed set out to do; it’s just  what it <em>did</em> do.</p>
<p>In the early days of the Federal Reserve, this monetary authority  enjoyed the support of a gold standard. Few Americans doubted that the  Fed’s new greenbacks would be as good as gold. As such, gold coinage and  paper dollars intermingled effortlessly in the US economy for most of  the Fed’s first two decades.</p>
<p>But as the wheels of progress roared ahead, America’s “hard money”  coinage disappeared and soft promises took its place – soft promises and  lots of chatter about hard money. As it turns out, chattering about  hard money does not preserve wealth as well as hard money itself.</p>
<p>The purchasing power of a one dollar bill has plummeted more than 95%  since the Federal Reserve first began printing its legal tender in  1914. Although the dollar’s epic decline began glacially, it has  gathered luge-like momentum.</p>
<p>The greenback’s value dropped <em>only</em> 50% during the first 33  years of the Fed’s stewardship – i.e. between 1913 and 1946. But the  1946 dollar would lose half its value in just 24 years, while the 1970  dollar would lose half its value in just nine years. The rate of decay  slowed somewhat during the Volcker years, as the 1979 dollar did not  lose half its value until 14 years later.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the dollar’s progression toward zero since 1913 feels more geometric than arithmetic.</p>
<p>In 1914, the year the Federal Reserve began conjuring dollar bills  into existence, 700,000 shimmering new $10 Indian Head Gold Eagles  rolled out of the Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver Mints. Once in  the hands of a working stiff, each $10 coin would buy $10 worth of goods  and services. Likewise, the Fed’s crisp, new McKinley $10 bill would  also buy $10 worth of goods and services.</p>
<p>Over the ensuing 98 years, a succession of Federal Reserve Chairmen  labored to “preserve” the purchasing power of their McKinleys,  Washingtons and Lincolns. The Gold Eagles had to take care of  themselves. The results are in; the unprotected Gold Eagles flourished,  while the “protected” Mckinleys withered. Based on its metal content, a  1914 $10 Indian Head Gold Eagle is worth $643.45. A 1914 $10 bill is  still worth ten dollars.</p>
<p>To examine this contrast from a slightly different perspective,  consider the divergent paths of the two $50 bills pictured below.</p>
<p><img title="2 Different 50 Dollar Bills" src="http://dailyreckoning.com/files/2011/02/DRUS02-02-11-1.jpg" alt="2 Different 50 Dollar Bills" width="470" height="442" /></p>
<p>The first $50 bill is a 1913 “Gold Certificate,” issued directly by  the US Treasury and fully convertible into gold. The second $50 bill was  issued by the Federal Reserve in 1914 and was convertible into nothing.  Both versions of this $50 bill circulated freely in American commerce.</p>
<p>Any holder of the $50 Gold Certificate held title to 2.41896 troy oz.  of Gold – at the fixed rate of $US20.67 per troy oz. These certificates  could be redeemed at any bank or from the US Treasury itself at any  time…until 1933, when FDR outlawed gold ownership.</p>
<p><img title="Executive Order Outlawing Gold Ownership" src="http://dailyreckoning.com/files/2011/02/DRUS02-02-11-2.jpg" alt="Executive Order Outlawing Gold Ownership" width="470" height="658" /></p>
<p>Notwithstanding this little nuance, let’s consider the plight of two  hypothetical buddies from 1914. The first buddy, Caleb, stashes a $500  “rainy day” fund under the floorboards of his house – a roll of ten $50  Ulysses S. Grant dollar bills. The second buddy, Josiah, also stashes  $500 under the floorboards – he walks into the neighborhood bank with  ten $50 Ulysses S. Grant Gold Certificates and exchanges them for gold.  Josiah then takes his gold and hides it under his floorboards.</p>
<p>Both buddies forget about their hidden stashes. Eventually, let’s say  2010, the respective heirs of these two long-deceased buddies happen to  conduct simultaneous renovations of their respective residences.  Caleb’s heirs find the ten ancient $50 bills. “How quaint,” they think  to themselves. Josiah’s heirs find $32,172 worth of gold!</p>
<p>Thus, 98 years of history demonstrates conclusively that a blind  monkey could have preserved the dollar’s purchasing power better than a  Federal Reserve Chairman. Unfortunately, it’s tough to find a blind  monkey who will take the job.</p>
<p><a title="Eric Fry" href="http://dailyreckoning.com/author/ericfry/" target="_blank">Eric Fry</a><br />
for <a title="The Daily Reckoning" href="http://dailyreckoning.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Daily Reckoning</em></a></p>
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		<title>Silver Eagle Sales Hit Their Highest Ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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02/02/11 Baltimore, Maryland – We knew it would be a record… But the question remained: by how much? The US Mint sold 6,422,000 Silver Eagles in January 2011 – half as many as were sold in the previous record-setting month of November 2010. There are a few nattering nabobs who say the figures are skewed [...]]]></description>
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<p><abbr title="2011-02-02T15:09:00+0000">02/02/11</abbr> Baltimore, Maryland –  We knew it would be a record… But the question remained: by how much?</p>
<p>The US Mint sold 6,422,000 Silver Eagles in January 2011 – half as  many as were sold in the previous record-setting month of November 2010.</p>
<p>There are a few nattering nabobs who say the figures are skewed  because the Mint credited some December sales to January. So what? If  you add up December and January sales and average them, you still get  the second-highest monthly total ever…right behind November 2010.</p>
<p>Fact is demand is intense.</p>
<p>After just one week, Canada’s biggest bullion bank sold out its  limited stock of 100-ounce silver bars. Now ScotiaMocatta has no silver  bars to sell in any size. One ounce, 5 ounces, 100 ounces and the  kilobars – all gone.</p>
<p>For its part, the spot price of silver remains in “consolidation  mode” – down this morning to $28.35. Gold is fetching $1,337 this  morning.</p>
<p>For the second time this year, we’re hearing reports of high premiums  for gold bars in Hong Kong – the highest since 1994, by one account.</p>
<p>Dealers attribute it to the advent of Lunar New Year in China and  wedding season in India. “There’s a lot of interest from India,” a  Singapore-based dealer tells Reuters, “but it’s just that we can’t meet  their demand. Everybody is snatching the available stocks.”</p>
<p>That’s what Vancouver favorite <a title="Frank Holmes" href="http://dailyreckoning.com/author/frankholmes/" target="_blank">Frank Holmes</a> calls “the love trade” in gold – the traditional affinity for gold in emerging-market cultures. Then there’s the “fear trade.”</p>
<p>“The fear trade drivers,” says Frank, “are negative real interest  rates and deficit spending to support social welfare programs. The  Federal Reserve reaffirmed last week that real interest rates will  remain negative for the long haul.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Frank reminds us that at $14.13 trillion dollars, we’re  getting perilously close to the congressionally mandated national debt  ceiling of $14.29 trillion.</p>
<p>“Since the mid-1980s, the US has raised its debt ceiling hand in hand  with the country’s economic growth, even faster, in some cases.”</p>
<p><img title="US Debt Ceiling Higher than GDP" src="http://dailyreckoning.com/files/2011/02/DRUS02-02-11-1.gif" alt="US Debt Ceiling Higher than GDP" width="470" height="462" /></p>
<p>Bottom line: “The only thing keeping gold prices from skyrocketing  has been money supply, which has been slow to rise. The correction in  gold appears to be over for the reasons cited above. We’re near the  200-day moving average, which is a key psychological support level.</p>
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