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Commodities / Gold & Silver Stocks Jul 15, 2008 - 08:28 PM GMT

By: Alex_Wallenwein

Commodities

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleMama, Papa, and Baby Bear are back from their walk in the woods. They find the goldilocks economy sitting on their gold stocks and unceremoniously decide to eat her. End of story.

The bears are on the loose in goldilocks country, the place where fairy tales of a “new economy” were once sold to unsuspecting investors. As usual, stories change, depending on whoever gets to live to tell them. Alas, Goldilocks will not be among those.


Funny that the people who christened the final years of the Clinton administration the “goldilocks economy” somehow didn’t remember how the story ends. Depending on which version you read, the cute little blonde girl ends up either fleeing in terror – or being reduced to bear-porridge protein supplement..

Reality, however, has a way of making sure she is not ignored for very long, and that goes just the same for reality's younger sister, economic reality. That younger one is now mad as hell and won’t take it lying down any longer. The deluded, deaf and dumb American public has finally gotten to her. She is currently inhaling, preparing to let out an ear-piercing howl that will rattle even the most fiat-deluded investor’s ear-drums to the core.

Yet, there are still those who think they can simply "sit" on the bubbling volcano that the major gold stocks have now turned into. They think they can just fan away the revealing wisps of smoke that emerge around their buttocks, hoping no one will guess at what's building up in the magma chambers just below. When mother earth gets done with her buildup, the goldilocks brigade will wish there were really only a couple of hungry bears chasing them down.

Recent Daily XAU Action

Recent action in the XAU confirms that someone has indeed been doing some sitting on them, and the tracks left behind are suspiciously looking like the butt-prints of the goldilocks camp.

The XAU had a huge breakout, just as predicted, only to be brought back down nearly to its origin where the blue 50-day moving average has simultaneously touched and bounced back from the red 200-day MA:

By the time this is published (Tuesday, July 15th), the XAU has already pierced its head deep into the heavy resistance zone between 198 and 205, which is not shown on the chart above and was repelled again, this time as the result of Bernie talking tough on inflation again, temporarily boosting the dollar as a result of ditching commodities.

XAU Intra-Day Action:

Similarly, during intra-day action late last week and including the earlier part of today, obvious butt-prints are discernible. On the days in question, gold rose, and the XAU and HUI either initially rose and then got capped, or got knocked back down.


There are more instances of this kind of action, but we won’t show them all here to save space.

It just makes no sense at all for the gold stock indexes to follow the dollar down while gold is rising. The suspicion accordingly arises that the same ravenous crowd of naked short-selling predators has been unleashed on gold stocks at a critical time when mainstream investors are getting squeezed out of their favorite paper-toys because they keep falling and falling.

For the gang wearing the naked shorts, it’s so easy to fool retail investors: just buy interest rate futures to create an illusion of demand for US treasuries that makes the brain-dead mainstream traders and fund managers follow suit and go long treasuries, so that retail investors think there is a “flight to safety” happening while the Dow and NYSE are tanking. Thus, they predictably follow the crowd. Simultaneously call up your friends in the financial press assigned to the “rates and bonds” beat to sell them the story so they in turn can re-sell it to Mr. Retail Investor, and – voila! The flight to safety is diverted away from what is really safe toward that which has unfounded liabilities of $54 trillion hanging over its head, namely long term US treasuries.

For, even though gold is going up, those who are just waking up from their investment-opium stupor are not ready to go out and buy physical gold. Not yet. They are staying in circles familiar to them. Stocks are stocks. Most other companies are going down, but gold stocks are going up alongside the metal, so hey, all it takes is a call to their broker or a few familiar mouse clicks in already familiar online places, and the remaining wealth is parked in precious metal stocks.

That, more than anything, is to be avoided at all cost for those who hold sway over our managed markets: mainstream investors fleeing to precious metals stocks. If that happens in large numbers, it will be their end.

Hindquarters in Frantic Action

Well, the end is coming anyway, and the handlers of the naked short sellers are too busy putting out other fires they have inadvertently started elsewhere. No more time for sitting on anything, much less gold stocks.

On Monday, July 14th, they had no time to mind the gold stocks. All hands were required on deck to keep the banking-failure dam from breaking. The priority of the day now is to assure twitchy investors with twitchy mouse-clicking fingers that the hair-trigger by which their life’s savings are now dangling over the abyss is "perfectly sound."

If the quoted upper range of the number of billions by which the FDIC is now into the IndyMac deal is correct ($8 billion), then there are only 44 of the FDIC’s original $53 billion of assets left. And that’s only one failure!

Talk prevails regarding the possible coming failures of WaMu and Wachovia Bank. Wachovia’s total consumer real estate net charge offs exploded from 70 million in 2006 to 250 million in 2007. The amount of its non-performing commercial assets more than quintupled during that time span from 319 million in 06 to 1.661 billion in 2007.

The FDIC Feels "the Burn"

What’s more, as a result of the IndyMac debacle, the FDIC has already burned through almost its entire portfolio of "available for sale" assets of $8.5 billion, as per its 2007 annual report. The rest of the bulk of its assets ($38 billion worth) is in the form of “held to maturity securities, i.e., treasury obligations. As the next few banks go rowing down the River Styx, these treasuries will have to be liquidated. Unless a couple of large enough buyers can be found who will buy this at an agreed-upon price, in strict confidence, a good chunk of that load will have to hit the open markets, and that will do a tremendous number on treasuries prices, making their yields jump.

And here comes the death ray:

Unless I completely misread the 2007 annual report, Wachovia’s FDIC insured, non-interest bearing deposits alone totaled $60.89 billion in 2007. That amount by itself will more than evaporate the FDIC’s remaining balance sheet, if Wachovia were to fail.

Of course, there is no evidence at this point that Wachovia or any other bank of its size will indeed fail, but who knows what US Senator Chuckie Schumer is going to say next? His big blabbermouth has single-handedly brought down IndyMac. Before he opened his trap, IndyMac wasn't even on the FDIC's list of the 90 most troubled banks. Is he going to be slammed by the SEC for "rumor-mongering" - or is that honor reserved for regular pukes like you and me?

The Real Culprit: The American Taxpayer

Once the FDIC has burned through its paltry asset base, the Fed will have to step in, courtesy of the US taxpayer, of course – and why not? That taxpayer may have been paying taxes, but he obviously hasn’t paid any attention for the last several decades. The taxpayer’s servants have taken over the household and are holding him at gunpoint while they’re raiding the family's sock drawers. Worse, he even handed them the guns they are now pointing down his gullet.

As the saying goes, "you snooze, you loose!"

Mr. Taxpayer can blame only himself. Maybe this tightening economic stranglehold will do its part in waking him up. Maybe not. Fact is, however, that nothing in this government and economy happens without his tacit consent.

The Federal Reserve Act was passed by Congress. Congress continues to be re-elected with an 85 to 95 percent incumbency rate, including people like Chuckie Schumer. And who keeps on re-electing these guys? Take a look in the mirror.

Owning gold and silver only works if you are allowed to buy, own, and spend it. Congress makes the laws that determine whether or not you can buy, own, or spend these metals. Are you afraid of another gold confiscation? Has your Congressman/woman supported Ron Paul’s Honest Money Act? That may be a good start in making your voting decisions this November.

In the end, whoever is doing the sitting on gold stocks is doing it with the tacit consent of Americans who fail to inform themselves – as well as the consent of those who are informed, but who fail to act.

Got gold?

Alex Wallenwein
Editor, Publisher
The EURO VS DOLLAR MONITOR

Copyright © 2008 Alex Wallenwein - All Rights Reserved

Alex holds a B.A. degree in Economics and a juris doctorate in Law. His forte is research. In late 1996, he began to research how money is used by some to exert political and economic control over others' lives. In the process, he discovered that gold (along with silver) is the common man's antidote to this effort. In writing and publishing the Euro vs Dollar Monitor, he explains the dynamics of this process and how individuals can harness the power of gold in their efforts to regain their political and financial autonomy.

Just like driving your car, investing only makes sense if you can see where you are going. The Euro vs Dollar Monitor is the golden windshield wiper that removes the media's greasy film of financial misinformation from your investment outlook. Don't drive your investment vehicle without it!

Alex Wallenwein Archive

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Comments

jason hill
17 Jul 08, 09:06
IndyMac Bank Run - schuer's illegal act

New York Times reported that hedge fund managers have a new champion in their effort to keep legally dodging the taxes the rest of us pay: none other than New York Senator Charles Schumer. Now you know who is Schumer's friend and why he caused the bank run on Indymac. He truly support hedge fund and private equity because they truly support him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/washington/30schumer.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

"Large Investor decided to pay a few bucks to a Senator in New York to force the issue."(Prospect Mortgage Backed By Sterling Fund--Private Equity Acquired The Mortgage Branches from Indymac before FDIC takeover)

http://www.housingwire.com/2008/07/03/regulators-to-schumer-weve-got-a-whole-bag-of-shhh-with-your-name-on-it/

"And do remember that there are many investment bankers located in New York, making them pretty influential constituents of Sen. Schumer."

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/opinions/ci_9783402

"In a Sunday news conference, he said everything in his letter was already known to the public."

If it was already known to the public, what is the reason for his public letter? It is contradict to what he said previouly :"I just bring private message to the public. Do not kill the messanger." What a great liar from time to time!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/13/indymac.schumer/?iref=mpstoryview

Same thing he did for FRE and FNM, he forced FRE and FNM to buy $145 billion bad loans last September. So his hedge fund friend could short the stock, then his private equity friend could take huge discount to acquire the properties. So obvious criminal acts, but he is still out law and do whatever to harm the American and benefit himself and his friends.


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