Category: Economics & Investing

Welcome to SurvivalBlog’s Precious Metals Month in Review, where we take a look at “the month that was” in precious metals. Each month, we cover the price action of gold and silver and examine the “what” and “why” behind those numbers. Gold continued to sputter throughout the month of December, hitting a high of just 1,230 per troy ounce on the 10th, and slowly sinking to a low of 1,175 over the next two weeks, ending on the 25th. Market analysts are again attributing the weak performance of gold to continually sagging crude oil prices globally, lower than expected inflation, …

Why You Should Be Prepared for Both Inflation and Deflation o o o From the desk of SurvivalBlog’s Editor At Large, Mike Williamson: Corn ethanol is of no economic use o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Russia Says Ruble Crisis Over as Reserves Dive, Inflation Climbs Japan Struggles to Escape Recession as Production Drops U.S. Bond Sentiment Is Worst Since Disastrous ’09 – It is my opinion that the Fed won’t ever raise rates but will always pretend or let the markets believe they will, and use just use the excuse du’ jour to put it off. Perhaps I …

How Fear Around The World Influences The Stock market. – T.F. o o o When Fearmongering Goes Bad: Greece Scrambles To Prevent Deposit Run Goldman Warned About In Its “Worst Case” o o o In the Year 2024 o o o ‘Twas the Day After Christmas, etc.

If Prices Keep Falling, OPEC Must Act To Restore ‘Fair’ Rate Of $70-$80 o o o An Opportunity To Live Resiliently o o o Gold And Silver – Wall Street, aka United States, Pulls Off Another Destructive Coup

Iraq Could Be Oil Market Linchpin o o o ‘It’s Gonna Be a Bloodbath’: Expert Reveals the Economic Defects Under the Government’s Numbers o o o Exposed – Dangerous 2015 Ahead As Global Governments Plan To Steal Money o o o The Fed’s Santa Claus Rally

Tyler Durden: Game Over Japan: Real Wages Crash Most In 21st Century, Savings Rate Turns Negative o o o Gold Price 2015: Forecasts And Predictions o o o Video: Andy Hoffman of Miles Franklin’s 2014 Review and 2015 Predictions o o o Russia says rouble crisis over as reserves dive, inflation climbs

Low Oil Prices Pushing Venezuela Towards Default o o o Banksters’ Bullion-Crisis At New Extreme? o o o America’s Tax System Has Lost Coherence, No Longer Performing Efficiently or Effective o o o Crude Oil, US National Debt, and Silver

This article is a must-read: World in a Box by John Rubino. The article begins: “Of all the problems with fiat currency, the most basic is that it empowers the dark side of human nature. We’re potentially good but infinitely corruptible, and giving an unlimited monetary printing press to a government or group of banks is guaranteed to produce a dystopia of ever-greater debt and more centralized control, until the only remaining choice is between deflationary collapse or runaway inflation. The people in charge at that point are in a box with no painless exit.” o o o OPEC Calls …

Did The Saudis And The US Collude In Dropping Oil Prices? o o o Video: How to create your own Promissory Notes – Michael Tellinger. A.D. Hugh notes: I would be interested in a report from any who have attempted to use this in the United States. It seems to me that a promissory note can’t just be reneged on regardless if it sold or not. o o o The Destruction Of The Middle Class Is Nearing The Final Stages. – B.B.

Rumors That Russia Is Selling Its Gold Reserves Dispelled o o o 2015 Will Be A Year Of Surprise, Panic, Desperation & Radical Change o o o Crude Oil, US National Debt, and Silver o o o All Net Jobs Growth Since 2007 Has Gone to Immigrants. – P.M.

America’s Tax System Has Lost Coherence, No Longer Performing Efficiently or Effective o o o Why It Won’t Be a Good Year to Own Stocks o o o OPEC Ministers Decry Price War Conspiracy Theories o o o John Williams: A Downhill Run For The Dollar in 2015

Obamacare’s Christmas surprise. – G.G. o o o Texas job growth outpaces rest of U.S. combined. – G.G. o o o Putin: Battered, Bruised But Not Broken o o o Craig Roberts: Is Ruble Collapse Act Of War-Paul o o o Thinkgs that make you go Hmmmm. Signing Off.

Dollar Store Nation: Largest percentage of Americans on food stamps while stock market disconnects from working class Americans. o o o This Is What a Currency Collapse Looks Like: Shopping Frenzy: “We Have A Lot Of Rubles Losing Value Every Second” o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Switzerland Introduces Negative Interest Rates to Weaken Franc Russians Flock to Stores to Pre-Empt Price Rises

Northern Star Bank, Mankato, MN, Becomes 18th Bank Failure of 2014. – G.G. o o o Fewer US-Born Americans Have Jobs Now Than In 2007. – G.G. o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: David Stockman: The Fracturing Energy Bubble Is the New Housing Crash There Is Hope In Understanding That A Great Economic Collapse Is Coming WH Hails Economic Gains But Poll Finds Few Concur

U.S. Declares (Currency) War On Russia o o o Swiss Central Bank to Introduce Negative Interest Rates – G.G. o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Price of Gold in Russian Rubles – Just thought I would share this chart… Notice how fast things happen when they really make a move. Wouldn’t suspect it to be any different. A Full-Blown Economic Crisis Has Erupted In Russia Minimum Wage, Maximum Unemployment – This is for South Africa, but the economic principle is universal.