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Dr Paul Roberts - All investment avenues are now rigged - 0 views

  • repeal of Glass-Steagall
  • prohibition of the Commodities Futures Trading Corporation from regulating over-the-counter derivatives
  • removal on limits on debt leverage
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  • without the offshoring of US jobs by US corporations and the offsetting growth in mortgage and consumer debt, there would have been no financial crisis as the Fed would not have created the credit and real estate bubble that led to the mortgage-backed derivatives.
  • substitute an expansion in consumer debt for the missing growth in consumer income in order to keep the economy growing
  • If gold and silver prices had been permitted to continue their 2011 rise, the corresponding decline in the value of the dollar would have affected the price of debt instruments, and the Fed would not have been able to keep bond prices high in the face of dollar decline. All indications of moves away from the dollar, whether stock market declines or rise in gold and silver prices, are offset by purchases of stock index futures or by shorts of bullion.
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Gold maintains its haven status in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic - 0 views

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    The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has kept everyone up on their toes and has instilled fear and anxiety globally. Following the lockdown, social distancing and quarantine, people are experiencing somewhat similar crises like The Great Depression of 1930 and the Financial crises of 2008....
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Some Answers to Doug Casey's Questions - 0 views

  • And extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
  • The banks don’t tie up capital because they operate in the paper-gold and paper-silver markets, creating various financial derivatives that are not regulated and carried off their balance sheet. They are contingent liabilities and do not require bank capital.
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