Global economic situation for liveaboard cruising yachties

[masalai]

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/storie...06/2706358.htm This is an excellent speaker and should be listened to/watched - - your choice of podcast download - - The rest in the series are all interesting and challenging of the mind and your perceptions... http://www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/

Here is a good speaker (english is not his first language) http://www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/storie...23/2694610.htm and I think at one stage were both "recognised" by the same university...

[sabahcat]

Originally Posted by masalai

subscribe here and you will receive the likes of these pearls of wisdom in your email box... http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/

Are you serious

Pearls of wisdom like this crap that I am spammed with regularly.

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Well you certainly got that part right Bill Conner and Kris Sayce.

All I can say is that I'm glad your crap turns up at a throw a way gmail account.

[masalai]

The stories are interesting - The spam I was un-aware, (Sorry I am not a good liar), of as it is filtered out. - - enjoy it if you get it (spam that is) the other stuff just ensures you get to see the other side too I have been trying to find some "free stuff" I can post to show "fair and unbiased clippings" from Orstraliar, maybe I trawled a bit close to the rectum at the wrong time

If you have some rabid or otherwise stuff, please post links of whatever... Thanks..


http://www.gata.org/node/7905 "Fed's gold swap admission is another reason for audit, Paul says"

[sabahcat]

Originally Posted by masalai

If you have some rabid or otherwise stuff, please post links of whatever... Thanks..

Less Tin Hattery from me


Robert Gottliebsen and Alan Kohlers Eureka Report

Nouriel Roubini's RGE Monitor

Alan Kohlers's Business Spectator

Australasian Investment Review

Mining Australia

And

Mining News

Are my daily to weekly reads.

Plus a few news feeds by subject

[masalai]

Return of the living dead? - They did not see the resurrection of Goldman Sachs To be very un-PC, if the US-FED was God then GS is the, , 'Holy ****' the instrument that cannot die as it still has "work" to do... - - That is the nearest I can find that is not a 'motherhood statement' (I like my alfoil armour - - an effective 'faraday net' when earthed)... Nevertheless, good background that will placate the usanians and may induce some to invest here

I had to try at some sort of 'come-back' seeing how I got a couple of good kicks in the balls... Thanks... I am still reading them all...

Now a question? Hypothetically "I borrow cheap US$500,000.00 for say 2 years and purchase gold & silver bullion" - what are the downside risks?

http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubi...erging_markets - - These folk need and deserve a good 30minutes each or a substantial essay to present their feelings and views fully (well at least flesh them out better than a 30 second grab and a summary of the words said off camera)... They have something worthwhile listening to and need to be heard... Don your tin hat - - this info is needed and should be in the public domain... Please

http://financialsense.com/fsu/editor...2009/1015.html - - - has better analysis - Not all may agree with the views but views are made and evaluated for impact and can be accepted or put in "wait and see"

[masalai]

http://financialsense.com/fsu/editor...2009/1015.html - - - - from anecdotal information I am inclined toward the figure of "More than 21% unemployed in USA" and other "official figures" are likewise discounted...

http://financialsense.com/fsu/editor...2009/1015.html - - - - - I still feel the DOW needs to test 4000 or lower... but that is just my personal view

http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/2009/1015.html "Gold’s New Friends" - not sure if the intention was that...

http://financialsense.com/Market/wrapup.htm "IPO Nos - - Part 1 - - - by Richard A. Eckert, cfa | OCTOBER 15, 2009" - - WOW factor...

My Mexican family calls it "that German Disease" and Mas, I hate to tell you but you've got it (Alzheimer's). Sorry it took so long for me to catch on. Good luck with that one, buddy.

[Tcubed]

Just thought this might be of interest.
Some pretty level headed talk on where to invest, to safeguard one's assets.
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker...oo,xli,rja,rjn

[Tcubed]

This is bound to get someone worked up;

[masalai]

Ahhheeemmm - - on the cartoon, - - "too big to fail" bailouts - do they register or is that the disease?

http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/3163 - - This, in my view, is something with great potential
http://www.theaureport.com/cs/user/p...4?x-t=pub.view
http://www.theaureport.com/cs/user/p...8?x-t=pub.view

http://www.gata.org/node/7906 "Is gold market an accident waiting to happen or a crime scene?" (download the pdf)

http://www.caseyresearch.com/displayGsd.php - - I like the links near the end of the essay and the cartoon.... Is it fair to target the "runners" as they flee wallstreet? sort of like a duckshoot at a sideshow without the "cupie doll" but potentially with much satisfaction - sort of like seeing the nasty school bully hit by a passing truck

http://financialsense.com/index.html some 15 essays for you to read, and later, (in less than 8 hours), the audio podcasts of some 3 or more hours of listening pleasure aveagoodweekend...

http://financialsense.com/fsu/editor...2009/1016.html - - - - - - Ooooo the pain is getting more intense for some... time for tin-hats & alfoil - but then the truth is often carried by people who are ascribed the description of "nutter" - do your own analysis and research.... - Deepcaster is not often wrong....

[sabahcat]

http://www.news.com.au/business/mone...013953,00.html

Harrods now selling blocks of gold

From correspondents in London

Reuters

October 16, 2009 09:20am


LONDON luxury goods department store Harrods is moving into the precious metals market with the launch of a service to sell investment-grade gold bullion bars and coins to customers.

Malcolm McLean, general manager of Harrods Bank, told Reuters overnight that the company saw a gap in the market for a well-known retailer to enter the increasingly high-profile gold market.

"We have been very conscious of the fact that there has been an ever increasing amount of interest in the gold market, and in buying investment gold," he said.

"We became very conscious that there is no well-recognised name out there which the general public can turn to and say, I know that name, I trust it, I want to buy from them."

"That is not to say there are not reputable dealers out there - we know there are," he said. "But they don't carry the brand that we do."

Since Monday, Harrods has been selling Swiss-sourced investment grade bars and coins including sovereigns, South African Krugerrands and American Eagles, from the Harrods Bank premises on London's upscale Brompton Road.


Harrods would not be drawn on the sales volumes seen by the store so far, but Mr McLean said feedback for the service had been positive.

"We are very much looking to the Harrods customer, and the customers of Harrods bank itself," said Mr McLean.

"But we are open to the general public."

Prices vary according to the spot price of gold, the amount of bullion ordered, and the type of product selected.

The store offers a secure safety deposit service, with its smallest box capable of holding the largest investment product Harrods offers: the 12.5kg bar.

Based on yesterday's gold fixing price in London, a gold bar would cost more than US$420,000 ($456,078).

"The customer can take the gold away with them if they wish, or can arrange for it to be delivered to wherever they choose," Mr McLean said.

Investment in gold coins and bars rose sharply in late 2008 and early this year as the financial crisis boosted the appeal of physical gold as a safe store of value for consumers.

[Boston]

ya can't eat gold
and if things really get ugly
thats what it boils down to

I havn't day traded in a while since Ive been back at work
but at the end of each day
I want my money back
cause I just might need to buy supplies for the long term
.

[masalai]

sabahcat, that just indicates the devaluation of the US$ against Gold and the level of that manipulation to keep the US$ from falling off the cliff which it will do soon if you look at the US$index http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?c=$us...4,3!la12,26,9] which is determined and explained here http://www.akmos.com/forex/usdx/

The strength of the Au$ against the US$ is part US$ (not necessarily USA) investment in AU$ & Au stock & real markets and part US$ collapse as shown in the USDX...
The DOW breaking 10K is part of the fantasyland that is presented by 'main-stream-media' and the banking consortium controlling the US FED -

No conspiracy theory here, just do your reading of those who have been making the correct calls, - - like; Gerald Celente "The Trends Journal", (who writes like he talks with enthusiasm, charisma and credibility on his side), and the other two scholarly reports compiled for commercial interests... A reasonable reader cannot deny their voracity, and I feel should be able to conclude in acquiescence, as to the plausibility of the postulations presented...

Boston, Neither can one eat US$ - - greenbacks or coins, and if they get to Zimbabwean levels there will be no other choice... - - Gold is just a hedge against uncertainty and is as good as cash (why do the USA combat pilots have gold and silver coins in their survival kits?) and in many countries can be redeemed quite readily... I have had no difficulty in "en-cashing" volumes of 5 to 20 oz... and quite a few specialised shops, (pawn-brokers, jewellery shops who 'manufacture', numismatic dealers some money-changers etc.), would probably exchange gold coins for the fiat currency of the realm, regardless of origin...

[masalai]

http://www.gata.org/node/7907 "GATA's Ed Steer interviewed by King World News" http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingwor....html?812a9150

http://www.caseyresearch.com/displayCdd.php?id=252 "Drumbeats for the Dollar"

[masalai]

http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingwor...ls_Market.html

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/...ArticleId=8026

http://www.gata.org/node/7908 "Adrian Douglas: How much imaginary gold has been sold?" - - worrying state of affairs, wars have been started on less than this... These commitments are binding...