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Central Banks’ Balance Sheets vs. Gold

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(Editor’s note – Gary Tanashian gives us the post below, which is timely given my newfound love of gold. Just to be clear, particularly for the miners, I am long precious metals as a bounce play; I am as bearish on miners as ever – – I don’t feel nearly as strongly about the metals themselves – – and have every intention of shorting the bejesus out of miners once they’ve bounced; however, some of the battered miners might spring 50% higher from current levels, so it pays to wait – Tim)

The noise of the day includes much hand-wringing about gold
manipulation, gold’s precarious technical situation, the end of gold as a
useful tool for protection against inflation and even the end of its
bull market.  But maybe a simple look at the facts works better.

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Central Banks’ Balance Sheets vs. Gold. Source: DoubleLine Funds

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Riddle Me This? (by Bob Kudla)

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A couple of weeks ago I posted that the Fed ran out of suckers and conduits to keep the equity markets rising higher.  Last week we saw our first pullback, as oil, gasoline, Natural gas, the Yen, volatility, bonds and the precious metals were all squeezed or rotated out of to try and creating, the all is good, wealth creating, perpetual motion machine, capital gain generating, equity market.

The boyz ran out of runway, and had to throttle back for another try. 

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Crazed Kamikaze Counterfeiters…….Evil Plan 105.0 (by BDI)

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Well, my fellow Slope-a-Dopes, your selfless Idiotic Savant servant, whom is securely chained to his desk, has spent a significant part of the long weekend, perusing nearly every finance blog on the world wide web for you.  Therefore, I can reliably report to the SOH, that the overwhelming consensus out there in the financial blogosphere, which has now reached a nearly universal feverish pitch, is boldly & proudly heralding that a most encouraging new economic dawn is finally upon us.  It seems, a pristine permanent plateau of prosperity has been patently perfected.
                                                                                                                                              

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CCI-Gold Ratio Will Tell the Story

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The story referenced in the title being whether or not global policy
makers can cook up an inflationary up phase in the global economy.  I
had used the term ‘i2k12′ early last year referring to the prospects for
what might ultimately be an inflationary 2012.  Well, they came with
the QE at year-end and now the theme shifts forward to the prospects for
i2k13.

A subscriber forwarded to me an audio of Don Coxe talking
about the changes coming out of Global Policy Central in “Basel
Greenlights Banks Big Time” and it turned out to be a good starter for a
post in which I would like to try to delineate some things.

You may have heard me belly ache in the past about the raving
inflation bulls who lump gold and gold stocks in with the entire
inflation trade?  Gold is copper is oil is hogs?

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