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Putting It In Perspective: In 2013 The Fed Will Conjure Enough Paper Money To Buy 11% Of All Existing Gold

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When people throw around "trillions" (and in the case of Yen-denominated Japanese debt and/or total outstanding gross derivatives, quadrillions) with the facility that mere billions was being dispensed with as recently as 5 years ago, it is easy to lose sight of the big picture.

So what is the big picture? Well, recall the following quote from Warren Buffet's letter to investors:

"Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce – gold’s price as I write this – its value would be $9.6 trillion....You can fondle the cube, but it will not respond."

Gold is now 7% lower, and even when netting incremental mining production in the interim since this letter was written, one can roughly say that the total value of all gold in the world is ~$9 trillion. In other words, in 2013 the Fed, alone, excluding all the other central banks, which as we pointed out earlier is vary naive, will conjure out of thin air enough 1s and 0s, equivalent to $1 trillion, or enough money to buy 11% of all the gold in existence in the world. Add all the other central banks, all of which are now engaged in "unlimited easing", and this number will likely rise to about 20% of total.

In 3 years of unlimited easing, which at this pace looks quite possible, after all all Chairmen have made it clear there will be no end to the global paper printing until 2015, enough electronic money will have been created to buy more than half of all god in existence.

In 5 years? All of it.

So, once again, which is the scarcer commodity?

 

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Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:21 | 3083191 Xibalba
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a million $billions$ to enslave us all

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:26 | 3083215 johnQpublic
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if the fed had any sense ,they would just buy ALL the gold

oh wait, fergot they were just gonna take it all by gunpoint later

my bad

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:28 | 3083227 Banksters
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A good defense is a strong offense- dr the bernank.

 

 

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:35 | 3083266 MillionDollarBonus_
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Interviews with average Americans 

What do average Americans want from their government?

John Dartwood, age 59, AL

America needs to start facing the hard reality of the threat of terroristic activity in this country. Terrorism is foreign AND domestic. There's terrorism everywhere, not just overseas. If somebody criticized our foreign policy, that's terrorism. If somebody threatened our government or the CYA, that's terrorism. It's a mindset - you got to see the threats to America before you can see it. Terrorism is serious business. We need to increase our national security and support our military. Terrorists are ruthless, and our national security measures need to be ruthless too. 

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:40 | 3083286 johnQpublic
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whats ruth got to do with anything?

ruth is a sweet old lady

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:20 | 3083435 TruthInSunshine
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My back of the envelope calculations have gold approaching $60,000 USD per ounce, if it weren't assaulted as the threat to sovereign toilet...oops...I mean fiat monopoly paper, precisely as Alan "I Was For Gold Before I Worked At The Fed And Was Against It" Greenspan wrote about several decades back.

And if anyone thinks this is "tinfoil-y," Paul Volcker said the exact same thing, using roughly the same estimate, in October of this year, while speaking to the NYU Stern School of Business with William L. Silber, after being asked about a gold standard. I will try and find a video clip and post it....WAIT, here it is:

VOLCKER: The Triumph of Persistence - YouTube

It's towards the end - I can't find the exact point (last 10 minutes, Q&A session)

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:46 | 3083521 Going Loco
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It wasn't Volcker who mentioned gold, it was Silber, at 1:16:00 and he just said he bought some gold, 3% of his portfolio. He never mentioned any future value. He said he hopes it goes to zero and he is worried about what would happen if it goes to 50% of his portfolio.

Might as well get these things right.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 15:06 | 3083600 TruthInSunshine
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You missed it, then. You're going to make me find it?

(Volcker definitely spoke of what I said he did)

 

edit - Found it: 49:30 "If the gold standard is re-instated, you have to ""fix"" the price of gold...replace all the dollars out there with gold, the price of gold would be ENORMOUS," etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rroSrQ-wUHc#t=2...

p.s. - At 0:50:40 Volcker destroys the "effectiveness" of Quantitative Easing.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 15:11 | 3083655 Bananamerican
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Isn't Cliffsterity nominally supportive of a stronger dollar?
Isn't that, along with CB manipulation of AU, also responsible for Gold's dip?

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 15:42 | 3083775 Lore
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The 'cliff' is a sham. The tax revenue numbers are a drop in the bucket. The GDP report is another lie. Private writers track real GDP as turning negative ~2008. Real problems are untouchable and unspeakable.

Gold got hit because the order was given. End of story. If you trade, you get stomped. If you buy physical, you put on your coat and head downtown.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 17:11 | 3084117 Going Loco
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You said it was in the last 10 minutes. I listened to the last 11 minutes, to be on the safe side. Only doing what you said.

Glad you listened to it right through though, because now we have it. He didn't say it is going to happen. He said what would be the result if it did happen. Ergo, it won't happen. Anyway, that's my take.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:48 | 3083522 Going Loco
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Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:26 | 3083451 Going Loco
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Ruth is a sweet old lady, therefore she is irrelevant and dispensable. Like the post said, we will be Ruthless.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:31 | 3083475 Bindar Dundat
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You are making it to complex!   The gold and stocks will go down until we the average investor pukes and gives up.  The banksters with all there low interest cash will buy up all they can and when they have filled their boots inflation will get underway and gold and stocks will skyrocket.  We will have all our wealth stolen from us , just like they did with housing.    It is not a plan but just an opportunity.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:47 | 3083306 A. Magnus
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Where the fuck did you pull this supposed 'interview' with an American, the Dick Cheney Chickenhawk Piece of Shit fan blog? I haven't read a piece of unconvincing propagandist tripe this bad since the whore presstitutes started talking about Assad's 'weapons of mass destruction' last week...

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:02 | 3083356 Eternal Complainer
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What a pile of brainwashed crap that is!
Geez, even though we know you're the most extreme shill & troll alive it's hard to believe that you are so easily duped by the propaganda.
It speaks even less of you bonehead!

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 16:39 | 3084027 Nobody For President
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Oh for God's sake Magnus and EC - he's trolling your ass! It's MDB - and this is a little better than some of his recent stuff, which was too obvious. Put a /sarc tag on it and read it again. MDB is one of the best writers of fiction on ZH, especially when he is on form, like today.

I'd give him a grennie, 'cept I don't want to encourage him - his stuff almost always takes us off topic to some extent. We're talkin' paper money and gold here.

And besides, there probably are assholes like the fictional guy MDB interviewed out there, which is scary enough that you got hooked. The old 'right or wrong, my country' crowd.

The NDAA is plenty scary enough...

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:29 | 3083235 Renewable Life
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I think the Chinese have other plans! We couldn't even take the gold in Iraq at gunpoint, you think the Bernank could get it done here or in China????

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:39 | 3083257 francis_sawyer
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 "In 2013 The Fed Will Conjure Enough Paper Money To Buy 11% Of All Existing Gold"

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I've pretty much been saying that IS, EXACTLY the plan [and has been since at least August 2010]... Since then, the only sight alteration to the plan is that the rest of the major central banks & wannabe reserve currencies have jumped on the bandwagon as well (so ~ all you mathemeticians better figure that one into the calculus when you start projecting out)...

This does not only apply to gold, it applies to anything...

- oil (especially if you don't have it)

- lumber

- Cu (nickles bitchez!... & copper sheets to make distilleries out of)

- while you're at it ~ might as well stock up on silver solder to combine rising silver prices along with practical value

- steel derivatives

In short ~ stock up on shit... Get rid of your joobux as fast as you can...

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:28 | 3083459 I Am Not a Copp...
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Joobux.  I don't know why I find that funny, but I do.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 16:59 | 3084080 francis_sawyer
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Some "junker" up there seems to think joobux are the cat's meow... I guess they're valuable because I've heard you could conjure them into existence out of thin air...

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 15:33 | 3083650 Anasteus
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Agree, that's most likely the plan. And what I believe it's going on under the hood is the following...

Just few years ago the Western banks were net sellers but then they suddenly realized they had done a big mistake, likely by having noticed unexpected increasing demand from the East. Since then they've been net buyers and trying to recover as much gold as possible; in addition to inaction we can also suspect a pretty pile of gold to have been lost after numerous unsuccessful swap transactions. The value of gold seems to have been definitely recognized worldwide (once again) so only buying in competition with the Easterners is now possible. But how can they manage large deliveries at low prices? In Old Normal markets this would be impossible. But in the paper phantom market decoupled from physical demand running behind the scenes along with mutual silent agreement with the Easterners, the price of paper gold can be artificially screwed down for the sake of all parties. That's why China does not interfere in the paper market during nights like it did before. The price of gold exposed to the public must remain relatively low and confusing enough to deter both speculators and investors (which, for the Fed, is also necessary for keeping the dollar visually valuable) so that only absolute minimum of members can join the party, such as China and other BRICKS in the wall. For all the rest the paper farce must go on as usual... until the divide and conquer game is completed.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 15:34 | 3083762 francis_sawyer
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My theory is that there are [& have been] on-going backdoor deals which COLLUDE to help keep paper prices seemingly stable enough to not tip over the canoe until all the gold can be heisted...

For example:

Crude oil IS NOT the paper price of WTI or Brent... It's a 'backdoor' agreed upon gold transfer + an adjusted paper price on top of that which 'seemingly' keeps things looking like they're trading within a market range...

It's like the NFL or MLB [wrking with salary caps]... You work out some kind of salary structure which keeps you within the prescribed limitations...  

Fri, 12/21/2012 - 05:57 | 3086095 Anasteus
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I've just found this article.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:22 | 3083197 malikai
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This needs that rendered picture of what $1T is.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:28 | 3083224 Renewable Life
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Just wake me up when the rebellion begins! Until then, I'll be listening to good music, eating good food, and having good sex!

(Oh and when I'm not doing those things, I'll be buying silver, ammo, and ag land).

Happy Holidays!

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:34 | 3083265 caimen garou
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+100 R L,at least I'm not the only one with that plan!

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:44 | 3083299 youngman
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BAD sex is much more fun...

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:14 | 3083415 Clesthenes
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You wrote, “Just wake me up when the rebellion begins… [in the meantime] I’ll be buying silver, ammo, and ag land].”

I have bad news for you.

“When the rebellion begins”, you’d be lucky to survive five days.  When it begins, starving men will roam city and country like clouds of locusts searching for food, liquor and women to use.  If they suspect that you have any such resources, 1) word will spread like wildfire among the hungry, 2) huge crowds will camp around your cabin, and, when you can’t stay awake any longer, 3) they will march in, unopposed, and take everything you have, including your life.  American governments have been training these hordes of men for twenty years, at least; most people know them as “the homeless”.  Just a few experiences with the homeless and you’ll see the genesis of the next criminal organization.

And more, if you have made it to any list maintain by our “political officers” (CIA, FBI, Mossad) and, if the starving don’t take you out, death squads will.

Is there a solution?

Of course there is; but you won’t find it in that mental sewage known as indoctrination.  Briefly, you have to excise it and replace it with real facts of history; you have to learn lessons of American Founders.  One of those lessons pertains to the establishment of First-Amendment assemblies; among other things, these will give you the means to associate with others for the purpose of protecting what’s yours; another purpose is to make criminal and useful-idiot classes accountable for what they have done.

Here is a short account of how a few men, so very few, brought down judges and tax collectors, bishops and kings who thought they had a divine right to impose taxes on other men without the latter’s consent; the same men who, 150 years later, would guide American Founders.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:38 | 3083498 Raymond K Hessel
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At the end of the site the link in your post brings us is a pitch to trade membership for gold.

I don't see how scamming us out of gold will further the cause of liberty anymore than a carbon tax will stop hurricanes.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 17:41 | 3084183 Renewable Life
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Wow, you puked so much bullshit there partner, I'm not sure where to begin.....

But I'll start with, you don't know shit about "how long I'll last" or what I got to protect myself or my family, secondly, your reality of who you need to "worry" about, if so fucked up, I know your just some two bit salesmen, pedaling fear to the avg idiot on the street!!

So go piss off, the people I know and myself, wont be getting killed by "the govt trained homeless" or "death squads", you need to put down the crack pipe, and talk to people who have witnessed first hand, how societies collapse, before opening your mouth again!!

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:22 | 3083202 Godisanhftbot
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 at the rate of golds demise, make that 22%

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:25 | 3083212 grok
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What is that amount relative to all of the money in the world?

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:27 | 3083219 johnQpublic
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less than 1% by my math

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:27 | 3083220 scatterbrains
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hard to say, no one really knows what money's worth anymore.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:36 | 3083236 Mercury
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In 2013 The Fed Will Conjure Enough Paper Money To Buy 11% Of All Existing Gold

...only if they somehow bought it all in one transaction.

As soon as they started buying the price would go up and they'd never get half that amount in before they ran out of money.

If anything gold should be up 11% after the printing is done.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 15:01 | 3083302 Pseudo Anonym
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not necessarily

As soon as they started buying the price would go up and they'd never get half that amount

in fact, the opposite might be happening now:  hofjuden sell paper gold, momentum sells paper gold, price of paper gold goes down while hofjuden hoard and hide the phyz gold until there is no phyz to deliver (to you) and then the price of phyz explodes to infinity.  the outstanding paper gold contracts, to be fair,  are then settled by hofjuden conjured confetti aka frn.  can you follow that?

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:31 | 3083243 Polonius
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This article is as good as any to lead into the final solution: central banks bid for gold instead of MBS junk credit.  Why there isn't a hue and cry for the central banks to buy the liability-free ultimate asset is insane.  "Bid for gold!" should be a rally chant at the next Fed press conference.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:32 | 3083249 booboo
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"You can fondle the cube, but it will not respond."  Warren learned that from playing with himself.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:35 | 3083269 Clowns on Acid
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"You can fondle the cube, but it will not respond." - That's what Becky said....

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:39 | 3083279 Mercury
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...but she will.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:34 | 3083258 BigMike
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Hey will Eric King PLEASE put up some blog post and interviews so that I know everything is ok? I'm dying here man! 

James Turk where are you? Andrew McGuire, John Embry, Stephen Leeb -- I need to hear your soothing voices telling me this is all a bad dream!!! 

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:48 | 3083310 fats
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Only Louise Yamada can save us now.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:02 | 3083355 ParkAveFlasher
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It's true, I myself have been waiting for the most important. interview. EVAH. From legendary, fabled, expert, master of $1T fund, etc.

What is also true, is that if you dove under the table when $1,000/oz became $750/oz in 2008 (that's a 25% move), you'll jump through the window now. Do me a favor and leave your metal behind when you do.

Stackers will stack, and not miss the next big move up, which mightn't take as long as you think.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:54 | 3083323 SilverDoctors
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@BigMike:

James Turk just released a new 3 year gold outlook today: INCREASED his gold call to OVER $8,000/oz by 2015!

http://www.silverdoctors.com/james-turk-revises-his-8000-gold-target-i-n...

 

KWN just had Maguire on yesterday- documenting the massive amount of paper gold dumped on the market to induce this intervention. 

STACK THE SMACK!!

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:35 | 3083263 TheSilverJournal
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$1T is the base case for 2013. QE5 is just around the corner and who knows how big that round and the next round will be. By the end of 2013, there will probably be another addition to QE every month.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:39 | 3083272 Kaiser Sousa
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only morons would fall for this blatant "bananna in the tailpipe" cocksucker banker enginered phony paper price attack on the only 2 forms of REAL MONEY - GOLD AND SILVER....

aint nobody selling no physical Gold or Silver.....

 

FUCK YOU BERNANKE AND ALL UR BITCH ASS BANKER BRETHREN......

 

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:42 | 3083292 realtick
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Can some please explain to me how a precious metals blogger who is consistently wrong and who instructs his followers to "do the opposite" of what he says has any followers at all?

http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/blog/4395/some-charts

Nevermind, just remembered there's a sucker born every minute.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:43 | 3083294 A. Magnus
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I'm starting to think the Fed is going to use a significant portion of QE4 to suppress the PMs in order to bail out dipshits at JP Morgan from their underwater short positions. As those fucktards have a shit-ton of shorts piled onto silver I fear that the PM dick-downs may continue for a while...

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:56 | 3083298 JustObserving
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All the gold bullion in the world is about 2 billion ounces (best estimate).  Some say 3 trillion ounces.  Others say 1 billion ounces.

2 billion ounces are worth $3.28 billion at current prices.  So the Fed printing $1.02 trillion a year can buy 31.4% of all the available gold bullion in this world.

US debts and unfunded liabilities rise at $8.37 trillion a year - fast enough to buy all the gold bullion in this world every 143 days

 

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:01 | 3083351 buzzsaw99
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god your figures suck

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:04 | 3083361 ParkAveFlasher
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Hey BS, you were right.  I'm begging YOU to sell me your metal.  Name your price.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:15 | 3083378 JustObserving
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Perhaps. you can cite a reference instead of pulling out figures out of your ass ("arse" for the english english fans)?  Everyone agrees that about 5.3 billion ounces (upper limit) mined in world history and 40% available as bullion.  That is about 2 billion ounces.  Cite your reference or shut up.

"Official estimates indicate that total world gold production since the beginning of civilization has been 4.97 billion troy ounces"

Wiki says under 5 billion ounces of gold produced in human history

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:45 | 3083303 Clowns on Acid
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No worries The Fed is going to rehypthecate inflation. Carry on young man, carry on.

That tingle you feel in your legs is just the "Chris Mathews" syndrome. Go buy a can of Obama solar kool aid and it will feel better.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:52 | 3083316 Glass Seagull
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Well, that is the plan isn't it? 

 

Alchemy:  gold produced from something of relatively little value.

Fed conjures digital currency (at almost no cost) to buy gold.

Thus, Fed is an alchemist.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:01 | 3083320 Bastiat009
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Soon, buying all existing gold won't requite much money printing. Gold is getting cheaper by the minute and when priced in euro it is getting really really cheap.

The irony is that gold is now cheaper than it was before QE3, let alone QE4 was announced.

And funny how the "media" are only keen on talking about the future, which is by definition unknown, but are totally unable to understand the present of analyze the past.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:55 | 3083325 ekm
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I've been saying over and over:

The central banks are CONFISCATING GOLD by buying it.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:57 | 3083334 A. Magnus
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Interesting point...and they're also manipulating the price down so they can stack their PMs at will. Where's Ted Bulter with a RICO lawsuit against the Fed when you need him?

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 13:58 | 3083337 mdtrader
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It's a shame they will be buying MBS instead.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:11 | 3083390 F. Bastiat
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Currency, not money.  Slovenly language leads to slovenly thinking.  Break out - use precise words.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:23 | 3083443 Winston of Oceania
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Worthless script?

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 16:05 | 3083893 F. Bastiat
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Indeed.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:10 | 3083392 youngman
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I think the "they" is the Chinese.....I don´t trust em...they have computers too..they have government backing...they want gold and silver...

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:13 | 3083409 fresno dan
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The matrix -

Oracle: I'd ask you to sit down, but, you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about the vase.
Neo: What vase?
[Neo turns to look for a vase, and as he does, he knocks over a vase of flowers, which shatters on the floor]
Oracle: That vase.
Neo: I'm sorry...
Oracle: I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to fix it.
Neo: How did you know?
Oracle: Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?

The FED can conjure enough money to buy ALL THE GOLD.  At that time, the FED will not be able TO BUY ANY GOLD...

 

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:38 | 3083499 ProtectiveFather
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"more than half of all god in existence." Paging Dr. Freud.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:52 | 3083560 Going Loco
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He just slipped out

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 15:15 | 3083675 cranky-old-geezer
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So the Fed could print enouch "money" in one year (one month, or one day), to buy all the above-ground gold in existence. 

Forget the printing press, they could do it in one minute with a few computer keystrokes, and poof, $9 trilllion added to somebody's account.

What do they give the Fed for that $9 trillion?  Just a promise to repay it.  Or some so-called "securities" they printed up on THEIR printing press.

It's just like Monopoly now.  The bank can print "money" and each player can print "securities" to exchange for "money" from the bank.

Ok, not every player, just certain "primary" players. They can print "securities" on their printing press, "sell" them to the bank for freshly printed "money", then go buy real stuff  with it, like all the gold in existence.

The monetary system of the world's #1 superpower is just a game now.  Make-believe "securities" printed on a printing press exchanged for make-believe "money" printed on a printing press, used to buy real things.

Americans might not be able to do anything about it, but it amazes me the rest of the world has put up with it this long. 

 

 

 

 

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 15:36 | 3083763 Radical Marijuana
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Another way of seeing the magnitude of fiat money creation is to ask how many other smaller countries could that buy. For instance, during the last five years, the Fed has created enough money out of nothing to buy everything that could be sold in Canada a few of times. Enough fiat money was made out of nothing to buy a couple of Canadas. Privatized fiat money is simply symbolic robbery. Being able to legally make money out of nothing, while the government forces everyone else to accept that, is astronomically sized fraud. This is a runaway process of the best organized gangs of criminals taking over the government, and using that power to rob and defraud everyone else of everything.

This will probably end in genocidal world war, along with democidal martial law, because the international banksters are systematically destroying every country that has not already been assimilated into their system. To finish that process, it appears they would finally have to try to destroy Russia, etc. ...

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 22:07 | 3084947 cranky-old-geezer
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To finish that process, it appears they would finally have to try to destroy Russia, etc. ...

America's make-believe monetary game will come to a sudden embarrassing (and catastrophic) end when east Asia introduces a gold and sliver backed currency.

Or better yet, declares gold & silver as official money.  Currency would still be allowed as long as it's fully redeemable for gold and silver on demand.

That's where America started out.  Gold and silver were the official money.  Currency was allowed as long as it was redeemable for gold and silver on demand.   It was called gold and silver certificates.

East Asia will go back to that system.  When they do, America's make-believe money game will be over, suddenly, embarrassingly, and catastrophically.

And yes they have plenty of thermonuclear backup to thumb their noses at America's make-believe money supporting military (mercenaries).

Look for China (and Japan?) to start selling US treasury holdings for gold and silver.  That's your que to get out of US dollars.

And you China-bashers here on ZH can give it a rest.  They'll help bring an end to the gigantic monetary scam you also bitch about.

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 15:32 | 3083751 Antifederalist
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I am just waiting for the music to stop.  I don't see a lot of golden chairs hanging around.

How can people be so easily brainwashed?

 

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 18:09 | 3084276 Stuck on Zero
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The total amount of gold in the world corresponds to about 1/4 ounce per person.  If you own more than a quarter ounce you are a horder.

 

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 18:48 | 3084382 DowTheorist
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Today a primary bear market signal has been signaled for paper gold:

 

http://www.dowtheoryinvestment.com/2012/12/dow-theory-update-for-dec-20-...

 

Of course, such primary bear signal only affects paper gold. Secular investors in physical gold heeding the advice of FOFOA will sleep peacefully tonight:

 

http://www.dowtheoryinvestment.com/2012/10/not-all-gold-is-born-equal-go...

 

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 19:05 | 3084446 TrulyStupid
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Sorry, I can't conceptualize a baseball infield any more than the euro bedwetting 20.5 metres... could you convert to the good old USA NWO unit of measure.. the football field... how many cubic football fields are we talking about here?

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