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[the bounty hunter] 24/12/2010 13:57

have great xmas everyone
On a lighter note Max should like this video:


and Gerald Celente this one:

[traderabc] 24/12/2010 11:45

Agri-Food Thoughts
Submitted by Ned W Schmidt C... on Thu, 23 Dec 2010



Hopefully, those of you celebrating Christmas included lots of clothing in your gift shopping. Reason for that is giving or buying clothing is likely to become considerably more expensive in 2011. Our first chart below portrays the rather dramatic move in U.S. cotton prices over the past 90 weeks. Most noticeable is the price burst since late Summer, when the world discovered that global demand for cotton exceeded the global supply of cotton.

[traderabc] 24/12/2010 11:43

Ten Economic and Investment Themes for 2011

[traderabc] 23/12/2010 20:37

"Commodity Super Cycle" Ripples into China

Gary Dorsch
Editor Global Money Trends magazine
Posted Dec 23, 2010

Exactly two-years ago, - the world's commodity and stock markets were caught in the grips of a death spiral. As revelations of the extreme magnitude of the sub-prime mortgage debt crisis began to surface, banks began cutting off funding to companies and other borrowers, despite efforts by governments and central banks to unlock jammed credit markets. Global cross-border lending by banks shrank $5-trillion in the last nine months of 2008, the sharpest fall ever recorded.

[traderabc] 23/12/2010 20:08

Keiser Report: Cables, Crises & Cyber Currencies (E106)

[traderabc] 23/12/2010 19:54

Thursday, December 23, 2010
Jim Rogers still bullish on China despite a possible real estate bubble

Legendary investor Jim Rogers on China

Legendary investor Jim Rogers remains bullish on China saying despite a real estate bubble, there are 'better thing to come' for the country.
Jim Rogers : yes I am very optimistic about the future of China , my children speak mandarin , there will be set backs in china , do not worry Felicia there will be many problems in China , there is probably a real estate bubble in urban coastal real estate in China , but that's not china , here we had a huge real estate problem which took us down for many reasons because it was very pervasive that's not China , China has many other things going for , China got a huge saving saving rate , they save and invest 35% of their income , they work from Dawn to Dusk , they are the largest creditor nation in the world .......etc....

[traderabc] 23/12/2010 15:31

An excellent plain speaking, contemporary documentary about the history of central banking and evolution of the monetary system. It's so well done that I managed to watch it without falling asleep.

The Secret of Oz

[traderabc] 23/12/2010 14:38

Financial Guru Jim Rogers covers Fed Funny Money on Freedom Watch 12/21/10

[traderabc] 23/12/2010 14:37

The Trend Journal

G. Celente
pdf

[contrarian2investor] 23/12/2010 13:53

traderabc,

No surprise then;

JP Morgan revealed as mystery trader that bought £1bn-worth of copper on LME




c2i

[contrarian2investor] 22/12/2010 17:48

traderabc,

YES I would agree. We know they like to play both side of the trades. So be alert when "they" decide to go short. c2i



If my premise is correct, not only has the CME looked the other way when examining the offsetting OTC swaps of JPMorgan, it means that they also looked the other way when Bear Stearns held the big concentrated COMEX silver short position and AIG Trading before them.

In other words, the CME got into a long term habit of looking the other way. It also explains why they are so opposed to any legitimate reform of the concentrated silver short position.

What makes manipulation the most serious market crime possible is because it distorts the law of supply and demand and misallocates capital resources. Were it not for the long-term silver manipulation and the distortion of the price, we would not be on the verge of a physical shortage

[traderabc] 22/12/2010 14:15

The great vampire squid comes to mind.

[contrarian2investor] 22/12/2010 14:12

Hi traderabc,

I wonder who the mystery trader/entity is?
Only one guess allowed?
----------------------------c2i


•Mystery trader corners copper market. A mystery trader has acquired ownership of 80-90% of the copper sitting in London Metal Exchange warehouses, equal to around half the world's exchange-registered copper stockpile and worth about $3B. The news came as copper prices reached a record high yesterday of $4.2705 per pound, and the metal has notched a 28% gain this year. As the price of copper, as well as other commodities, continues to climb, investors are growing increasingly wary of the ability of a few traders to dominate the markets.

COMMODITIES DECEMBER 21, 2010.Trader Holds $3 Billion of Copper in London .

[traderabc] 22/12/2010 10:48

NYSE:RJA looks very much like a break out.

[traderabc] 22/12/2010 08:53

A long and very unfavorable article about Soros, judging by what is said about the Quantum fund it becomes understandable why Jim Rogers doesn't discuss the NWO.



The Secret Financial Network Behind "Wizard" George Soros

by William Engdahl

EIR Investigation Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), November 1, 1996

The dossier that follows is based upon a report released on Oct. 1 by EIR's bureau in Wiesbaden, Germany, titled "A Profile of Mega-Speculator George

Soros." Research was contributed by Mark Burdman, Elisabeth Hellenbroich, Paolo Raimondi, and Scott Thompson.

............................................................................

Time magazine has characterized financier George Soros as a "modern-day Robin Hood," who robs from the rich to give to the poor countries of eastern Europe and Russia. It claimed that Soros makes huge financial gains by speculating against western central banks, in order to use his profits to help the emerging post-communist economies of eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, to assist them to create what he calls an "Open Society." The Time statement is entirely accurate in the first part, and entirely inaccurate in the second. He robs from rich western countries, and uses his profits to rob even more savagely from the East, under the cloak of "philanthropy." His goal is to loot wherever and however he can. Soros has been called the master manipulator of "hit-and-run capitalism."

[traderabc] 21/12/2010 15:28

Interesting, Canada is apparently going to have some big problems in the next few years.

Keiser Report: JP Morgue (E105)

[traderabc] 20/12/2010 20:46

'global undervalued commodity plays'


US Nat gas?

With oil creeping up to $100, nat gas appears too cheap, or oil is far too expensive. Most oil (diesel,petrol) driven machinery can be converted to gas, electric power generation can use gas, it's often taxed less then other fuels due to its greener emissions.

Modern innovation (ie Ceres power CWR) has brought forward products such as the fuel cell technology which can create huge quantities of electricity by utilizing gas.
Why aren't we hearing about this happening in the US? With its small army of fuel cell companies.

Maybe these things take time, perhaps the market will only be created after a few years of steady sub $5 price action. Having watched this market for the best part of a decade, I'd be very surprised to see that.

[traderabc] 20/12/2010 19:59

Commodities Report: December 20th, 2010

[contrarian2investor] 20/12/2010 14:43

Hi traderabc,

Most of the bloggers that I respect are extremely bullish. I remain neutral with a contrarian stance. Hence I am not taking any new positions at this time, other that global undervalued commodity plays. Which are as rare as hens teeth.

The article di not clarify what cause the Bangladesh stock market to plunge by 552 points or 6.72%.

IMHO If or/when CHINA and JAPAN markets fall by >1% will be the first of many potential wobbles in 2011.

c2i

[traderabc] 20/12/2010 14:30

Feel free, I'm plagiarizing from somewhere or another virtually everything I post.

I wonder what these people would do it their market falls 50%, which is something that could happen to any market in the World, anytime.

[contrarian2investor] 20/12/2010 14:25

traderabc,

If you don't mind I am going to share your last post on another thread.

c2i

[traderabc] 20/12/2010 14:15

Riots Erupt In Bangladesh After Stock Market Plunges 6.7%

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/19/2010 19:06 -0500



For what may be the best look at the future of the world's most recent Banana republic entrant (the U.S.S. of A. for the confused) has to look forward to, we need to merely shift our attention at another one, which has had the privilege of experimenting with its Banana status for far longer: Bangladesh. After the stock market plunged on Sunday by 552 points or 6.72%, hundreds of angry investors took to the streets, "threw bricks at police, marched in the streets shouting slogans, and staged a sit-down protest." These very same "investors" which have and always will be better known as momo investors, which chase returns only to end up with the live grenades, "chanted slogans against the government and the regulators, and marched through the busy roads in the Motijheel Commercial area, halting traffic. They also staged a sit-in at the SEC building." The reason for the recent mass hysteria in chasing stocks: pretty much the same as what the Fed is trying to do right here in the US: "The rising value of the stocks in recent years has attracted hundreds of thousands of small-scale or retail investors in Bangladesh, says the BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan in Dhaka. It became a popular investment for ordinary people, often providing higher returns than bank deposits and savings."