Dow futures are sitting at -418, or nearly -5% from their close yesterday. SNP futures are in equally bad shape.
The world markets are having an even worse time of it.
I now raise the prospects of a banking holiday to being a world-wide event. I will not be even the slightest bit surprised if Monday is the beginning of a market holiday. Followed quite possibly by a banking holiday.
What I think is happening here is that a derivative nightmare, long fretted about on these pages, has finally arrived. It is impossible under current market conditions to know who is bankrupt and who is merely illiquid.
Through it all I have to give a golf clap to the central banks, who have done their very best to keep the price of gold and silver capped in an attempt to keep people from fleeing their defective paper currencies.
Rumors are swirling across Europe that the central banks/banks are considering banning the sale and/or ownership of gold. We know that physical shortages exist for retail gold and silver in the US, Canada, France, and Germany.
Some banks have already said that they do not have any more for sale...yet the "official" price comes under continued attack.
If you can find any, and have not yet gotten any, your window is rapidly closing. I checked all my favorite gold dealers here in the US and I've never seen such a pronounced shortage of supplies.
Good luck to the banks in their attempt to hide the ugly truth - their paper promises are built on sand and their currencies horribly mismanaged. Too many people have already figured that out and are not fooled by their attempts to suppress the price.
Consider these attempts at price suppression one last subsidy to the alert. Thanks!
If this continues towards the destruction of the dollar, how long would it take to go to an all American/ North American currency? How quickly could something like that occur? How could we get Canada to go along?
Here in my
country, the Netherlands, is a not much talked law which gives the minister of
finance absolute power in a financial crisis. This law was actualised in 1997.
This law
states that the state can issue emergency currency. Force everybody to accept
it, outlaw the use of euros or any other currency (gold?). In the same
paragraph it states that he can seize all assets held by the Dutch in foreign
accounts. And seize all privately owned gold. It doesn’t mention silver though.
I am so
glad I found Chris’ site last spring. Most of our assets are outside the
system. And we can stay indoors for months if needed. And we are telling the people we love and care about to get at least some money out of the banks.
The US stock markets opened down hundreds of points and then, in a classic move, spent approximately 1 minute down there before violently reversing the other direction.
Solid green candles the whole way with enormous premium spreads in the futures pits for index contracts.
Another "V-bottom" which is a classic sign of official intervention which, truth be told, was probably necessary to prevent a more serious market collapse.
The only problem with that is it means we now live in a centrally mismanaged economy and I don’t have a lot of faith in the current crop of interveners…more likely than not they couldn’t resist tipping their friends off and this all translates into most of the intervention money ending up in a few pockets.
Second, V-bottoms are not real bottoms and they tend to not last because they prevent real price discovery and the sort of market-clearing event that signals to true investors that it might be time to wade back in.
Lastly, intervention just assures that the pain lasts for a longer period of time than it would if the markets simply cleared.
But I understand that politicians and Fed bureaucrats feel the need to "do something" and that’s what I think is going on here…
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Gold fell impulsively from $930 to $830 on Friday morning, with no bottom showing yet, as expected. This is probably not a manipulation, but a product of margin calls for hedge funds, forced to de-leverage their bad (and good) assets for redemptions.The fall is expected in 5 classic impulsive waves down before a bottom is reached, a good target can be measured after the first wave down is complete near or below $800.
Since the peak of gold on March 17th, my charts indicated a large 3 wave correction would take place, with a target bottom close to $600. Personally, I will sit on my hands until the low $600 range, it takes patience to avoid panic buying during a deflationary collapse, but consider gold is not immune to a correction, and it will be the ideal time to load up and let those fiat dollars go.
