John Ing

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• Gold's Obituary - Premature!

  Published 20 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Gold's pull back and failure to hold $1140 an ounce is a surprise. However the strength in the US greenback is more of a surprise.…

• Gold: The Long Good-Bye

  Published 29 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The world is topsy turvy. One branch of the State borrows money from another branch of the State and everyone cheers madly. Does this accounting…

• Gold: Deaf Prophets

  Published 24 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The United States needs a wake-up call and the loss of leadership and credibility on economic issues is exacerbated by the dysfunction and divisive nature…

• Gold: The Race To The Bottom

  Published 20 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Mr. Obama's Robin Hood $4 trillion budget was dependent on $320 billion of additional taxes just to keep the deficit at $474 billon. His stubborn…

• Gold: There is No Santa Clause

  Published 18 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Capital markets are supposed to be free of manipulation yet there is little wonder that investors question the integrity of the global banking sector when…

• Gold: Winter is Coming

  Published 13 November 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Winter is coming. Drilling deeper into the record market levels, the US is unlikely to fully escape the global headwinds. Namely, in the past six…

• Gold: The Money Printers vs Gold

  Published 05 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Were Mr. Obama to be judged by his golf games rather than legislative changes, he would be a roaring success. Mr. Obama has played golf…

• Gold: Comedy of Errors

  Published 20 June 2014 | viewed 0 times

  It is an immediate truth that timing is everything. And an almost immutable truth that no one gets it right. In 2008, the US economy…

• Gold: Inflation Is Dead, Long Live Inflation

  Published 08 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Seventy odd years ago, the US established the dominance of the dollar enshrined by the Bretton Woods Agreement. Since then, the US supplied the world…

• Gold: Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be

  Published 21 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The global financial system is highly levered, with no margin for safety. A leaking sound can be heard. So much for record highs and hopes…

• Gold: Who is Twerking Now?

  Published 16 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  New Proposals, Same Fault-lines Washington's political gridlock and President Obama's repeated retreat from "red lines" has eroded confidence in this president raising questions about the…

• Gold: The Audacity of Hypocrisy

  Published 26 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Unfortunately governments today wallow in the hypocrisy of politics, particularly when it suits them. America's foreign policy is symptomatic of this hypocrisy from branding Egypt's…

• Gold: Sequester: Part Deux?

  Published 22 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Although this is the first time in the Fed's 100 year history to use Quantitative Easing (QE), it is not the first time the Fed…

• Gold: 'Never Mind'

  Published 19 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  "Never mind" was how Gilda Radner's character, Emily Litella ended her rants on Saturday Night Live. Ben Bernanke should have said "never mind" after threatening…

• Gold: The Obituaries Are Premature

  Published 09 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Gold collapsed over 14 percent in two days in the sharpest tumble since 1983 raising fears that the twelve year bull market is over. Some…

• Gold: Been There, Done That And Bought The T-Shirt

  Published 22 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Gold collapsed over 14 percent in the sharpest tumble since 1983 raising fears that its twelve year bullion is over. Some blame the collapse on…

• Gold: Cyprus Contagion

  Published 04 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The Cyprus "bail-in" is like no other, due in part to the ineffectiveness of previous eurozone bailouts. To be sure Cyprus had debt obligations far…

• Gold: $10,000 Gold

  Published 17 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  "A government cannot become insolvent with respect to obligations in its own currency. A fiat money system, like the one we have today, can produce…

• Gold: To Infinity and Beyond

  Published 02 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  America is more bankrupt, leveraged and vulnerable than Europe. And to finance its debt, one branch of the state (Treasury) borrows money from another branch…

• Gold: Gaming the System

  Published 21 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Despite the $340 million settlement by Standard Chartered or MF Global's disappearance of $1 billion of customer funds that were somehow co-mingled with MF's proprietary…