Precious Metals Market Report – 4.12.12

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The Solari Report 2012-04-12

 

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1. Introduction & Theme – 0:00   – Theme: Tax Time in the US; ignore and celebrate the season!

Subscribers, have lunch with Catherine:

  • in Lisbon, Portugal – Sunday, April 22

You may bring one guest. RSVP to communicate@wordpressdevurl.com with the following information:

  • Luncheon you wish to attend
  • Date of the luncheon
  • Names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of those attending

Find more details at the Subscriber Luncheons with Catherine webpage.

2. Money & Markets – 01:59   – Bloomberg chart of the day this week reports that the value of APPLE is approaching the value of all the publicly traded companies of Spain, Portugal and Greece combined are; I see a lot more opportunity in Spain, Portugal and Greece than I do in Apple; worth noting DOJ took at anti-trust whack at Apple and other e-book publishers this week. As European debt squabbles continue, Financial stability under threat from lack of safe assets, IMF warns International Monetary Fund predicts drop in number of countries whose sovereign debt is considered safe could remove $9tn from supply of safe assets by 2016, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/apr/11/imf-safe-assets-threatens-financial-system; a sure sign that the cash flows are tightening. Reading Michael Schuman’s book: “Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity“; US presidential election… how dirty will it get? QE next? Student loan problem… the Supremes on Obamacare, and more …

Note Special Solari Report on the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act is up at the blog

3. Solari Hero – 10:05   – Ron Finley – Resident of south Los Angeles, see the blog post – Ron Finley: Food Forest

4. Ask Catherine – 11:15   — George Soros motives RE moveon.org; chemtrails in Phoenix …

5. Interview – 15:05   – Franklin Sanders updated current events in precious metals markets; he explained the seasonality of the metals market; Franklin, Catherine, and Chris Powell of GATA discussed the question: “Why invest in a managed market?” Chris explained ‘radical debasement’ and answered the question about gold and silver ETFs being created as a metals market control measure. Note the book: “The Debasement of World Currency: It Is Inflation, But Not As We Know It” by Peter Warburton…

6. Up Next & Closing – 1:05:51   – Apr 19, Kickstarter – Funding Platform for Creative Projects; May 3, Jim Norman on “The US Plays the Oil Card”; May 10, Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders …



Resources for this week’s Solari Report:

Gold-market Rigging Has Many Whistleblowers; They’re Just Always Ignored
GoldSeek (22 Jan 12)

Chris Powell: Nine Blows Against The Gold Price Suppression Scheme
GATA (26 Oct 11)

Chris Powell: There Are No Markets Anymore, Just Interventions
GATA (18 April 08)



Since central bank intervention in the currency, bond, equities, and commodity markets has exploded over the last few years, we don’t really know what the market price of anything is anymore. Thus the gold price suppression story is a story about the valuation of all capital and labor in the world — and whether those values will be set openly in free markets, the democratic way, or secretly by governments, the totalitarian way. ~ Chris Powell

By Catherine Austin Fitts

This Thursday, I will be talking to you from the San Francisco Bay area. Franklin will, of course, be in Tennessee enjoying home and hearth.

Franklin and I want to talk about “Why Invest in a Managed Market?” There is more than a little frustration these days with the nature of managing assets in financial and commodities markets that are experiencing ongoing intervention, manipulation and related volatility.

It’s time to sit back and look at our situation strategically. How do you invest in precious metals in such an environment.? And why do Franklin and I think you should continue to do so? What are the steps you need to take to protect yourself?

And a special treat! Franklin and I will be joined by Chris Powell, Treasurer of GATA who runs the GATA wire service. Chris is an seasoned editor and journalist who has done more to communicate the evidence regarding interventions in the precious metals markets than anyone I know.  Of all the people I have met as a gold investor, he is one of my very favorite. I will be posting some of my favorite Chris Powell speeches and links for subscribers.

I will start with Money and Markets and Ask Catherine. Please focus your questions on precious metals.

In Let’s Go to the Movies, check out Chris Powell’s tour de force speech at the GATA Washington conference in 2008:

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Talk to you Thursday!