http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum Any subject may be discussed here that does not fit into the other forums en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:34:19 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forum.goldclubasia.com/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5904&goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:07:54 GMT http://hnn.us/articles/60041.html http://hnn.us/articles/60041.html ]]> General Discussions solidsilver http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5904 http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5898&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:19:53 GMT *Especially charting of USD depreciation rates, versus gold and silver and commodities like oil...* will come out with an analysis soon. :D ... Especially charting of USD depreciation rates, versus gold and silver and commodities like oil...
will come out with an analysis soon. :D

http://www.goldprice.org/spot-gold.html

http://goldinfo.net/silver600.html

http://www.sharelynx.com/chartsfixed/600yeargold.gif

http://www.blanchardonline.com/beru/..._long_term.php

http://www.chartsrus.com/

http://www.sharelynx.com/chartsfixed/1SilverDeficit.gif

http://66.38.218.33/charts/historicalsilver.html

http://quotes.post1.org/historical-silver-price-chart/

http://www.coinnews.net/tools/automa...coin-valuator/

http://www.goldprice.org/forum/silve...07-2008-a.html

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
What cost $199 in 1974 would cost $856.10 in 2009.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2009 and 1974,
they would cost you $199 and $41.51 respectively.

Do you want to do another calculation?

If you liked the Inflation Calculator, you might enjoy my new web site, Smugopedia: Pretend you know better. I'd love to hear what you think of it!



http://silverstockreport.com/2009/tiny-silver.html


http://www.zealllc.com/2006/cpisilver.htm
http://www.zealllc.com/2008/cpisilver2.htm


http://www.goldcore.com/research/sil...r-it-did-1970s

http://www.24hgold.com/english/gold_...aspx?money=USD

http://www.goldensextant.com/SilverCommentary.html

http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/2684

http://www.wtrg.com/prices.htm

http://www.frbatlanta.org/dollarinde...chart_menu.cfm

http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/...d_the_dol.html

http://forex.wfstat.com/?midMenu=graph&from=AUD&to=USD


http://buy-forex-trading.blogspot.co...-currency.html

http://oiltradersblog.blogspot.com/2...istorical.html

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article14330.html

http://wallstreetpit.com/28907-what-...an-for-the-u-s



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http://www.exchange-rates.org/history/USD/EUR/G/30 ]]> General Discussions solidsilver http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5898 http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5893&goto=newpost Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:33:00 GMT Hi All,

Despite the "success" to "some extents":, some silver things needs to be highlighted in order to achieve gold for the silver minded althletes(it is not their fault in the mentality to achieve silver and below probably, but the nation including sg gov although maybe feel silver is more "precious" than gold when they could achieve gold at the future moments...

It is true that Silver is more precious than gold due to on the ground silver is less than gold five times, but currently gold price is about 1 : 60 times to silver, so shouldnt they focus on gold, at least 1...

Oh yes, they did not have much time to prepare as they only have 1 year plus silver time to prepare and not gold time like 3-4 years.., other nations have 2-3 times of gold times...

It seemed that the silver in table tennis women final is very precious, only reason is the reflexes in table tennis is very lacking as compared to the gold medalist, reflexes can be trained and should be the gold priority as it determines whether we can change our strategies easier(gold strategies)during each strokes without hesitation and during the whole matches..

Attacking strength(power in smashing) is lacking as gold medalist is fast as lighting due to reflexes also, whereas we are silver in power and reflexes, etc..

Stamina, techniques, power all are equal maybe, but reflexes can and must be trained, for example both balls serving machines and human trainers or human trainers alone can serve balls and let the players train reflexes, if they can return more than few hundred balls in minutes, they are getting better and better..

Example If in every 5 balls, they are losing or struggle in 3-4 balls, most likely that game they will have silver result...

Mental strength is definitely lacking where our athletes have silver mentality or below, dont waste taxpayers money if you just want to try in silver or bronze, must do the best.. pls.. This is very obvious in soccer and other games also...

Let the players achieveable silver like soccer where send players to good leagues in overseas for 1 to 3 years, govs must not have bronze and silver support and mentality in fundings, but have gold and beyond support from gov, although silver is more precious than gold they would perceive..

sports is gold thingy in other countries, in singapore it is not maybe as govs does not see the huge potential like sports manager, sports scout, sports leagues, sports management, sports injury, sports etc opportunities(yes singapore pools which supports currency not gold and silver, maybe bronze they support plus Charity hehe), the plan from govs is maybe silver and bronze plan, not long term gold and beyond plan...

our guys are also not that good in stamina and power, stamina and endurance and power is also equally important. Wake up trainers and govs, we need to change our strategies and training methods..

Silver Silver Bronze Bronze Bronze Bronze Bronze(2 silvers 5 bronzes) asking, when the "gold" will come. Conclusion, maybe maybe maybe, cos we dont know how to train for success or we only have silver and below silver mentality..

The bronze standard and below food for yog volunteered, then they quickly upgraded to gold and silver good...

The silver or bronze filled "Only" capacity in some stadiums or competition venues should after certain match timing like 15 minutes into the competition after start time, allow gold capacity crowd to come in to watch. only resulted still stupidly queuing up only failing to buy tickets as it is fully booked by authority for schools where children might have to study or have something on. yes, not to overfill, but at least filled to more percentage surely can be done and achieved? It showed our law by law mentality system is gold in inflexibility and rigidness. Law by Law, pay and pay, rules and rules... without the human touch...

Silver is good, if you know from silver you would learned how to get "gold".. Without defeat, how to feel the silver and gold if you finally got the "gold"...

hopefully, with many silver and bronzes, we can final the score Goals(GOLDs) out of them..

you have worked hard sg volunteers, gold, silver and bronze tribute to you(unfortunately, initially bronze and below standard food, once complained silver and gold food maybe, hopefully).. :)

you have worked hard sg althletes, but hopefully in future you have the gold support, gold mentality to win or even multiple gold, gold strategies, gold training especially reflexes, stamina and flexibilities, not silver and bronze standard...:):D ]]> General Discussions silvergold http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5893 http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5890&goto=newpost Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:49:18 GMT SILVER not much reserves left (but they should audit also) Gold reserve audit : http://www.kitco.com/reports/KitcoNews20100824DC.html ... SILVER not much reserves left (but they should audit also)


Gold reserve audit :

http://www.kitco.com/reports/KitcoNews20100824DC.html


Ron Paul Calls for Audit of US Gold Reserves : Kitco News Exclusive

24 August 2010, 5:24 a.m.
By Daniela Cambone
Of Kitco News
http://www.kitco.com/


"If there was no question about the gold being there, you think they would be anxious to prove gold is there," said U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of the Federal Reserve.


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Texas (Kitco News) -- U.S. Rep. Ron Paul , R-Tex., plans to introduce a new bill next year that will allow for an audit of US gold reserves, he told Kitco News in an exclusive interview.

Paul dropped the news in the interview, indicating that the bill still does not have an official name yet but will be unveiled at the start of the new U.S. Congress.

“If there was no question about the gold being there, you think they would be anxious to prove gold is there,” he said of the Federal Reserve.

This is not the first time the congressman has made his pitch. “In the early 1980s when I was on the gold commission, I asked them to recommend to the Congress that they audit the gold reserves – we had 17 members of the commission and 15 voted not to the audit,” said Paul. “I think there was only one decent audit done 50 years ago,” he said.

Though Paul did not say whether there is any truth to claims that there is no gold in Fort Knox or the New York Federal Reserve, he said, “I think it is a possibility.”

“If we ever get around to deciding we should use gold in relationship to our currency we ought to know how much is there,” said Paul. “Our Federal Reserve admits to nothing and they should prove all the gold is there. There is a reason to be suspicious and even if you are not suspicious why wouldn’t you have an audit?” he said.

The gold audit follows his crusade last year looking to audit the Federal Reserve, which he says is the chief culprit behind the economic crisis.

“I don’t think the Federal Reserve should exist – it would be best for congress to exert their responsibilities and that is find out what they are doing”' said Paul. "It is an ominous amount of power they have to create money out of thin air and being the reserve currency of the world and be able to finance runaway spending whether it is for welfare or warfare; it seems so strange that we have been so complacent not to even look at the books. If we knew exactly what they were doing, who they were taking care of, there would be a growing momentum to reassess the whole system,” he told Kitco News.

Before the creation of the Federal Reserve however, the US saw 16 recessions from 1850 to 1910; they averaged 22 months long. During this time, the U.S. was in recession 60 out of 91 months. Many would argue that the severity of these recessions led to the creation of the Federal Reserve System.

“I think they would be exaggerating what happened before 1913,” Paul responds. “We had some panics …they were usually short and there were no long depressions,” he said. “The Fed creates the bubbles and they are much worse since 1913, if you think of the size of the government and the valuation of the dollar, we are down to about a 2 cent dollar from the 1913 dollar.”

Paul said everyone accuses him of wanting the gold standard but he said he doesn't accept that. “I accept the idea of a gold coin standard and I think we can do much better than what we had," he said. "There was a lot that they did pre-Fed that was not exactly right but we never had a disastrous loss of purchasing power long-term, we didn’t have a great depression, we didn’t have the 1970s with stagflation and we wouldn’t have what we have right now.”

Since the Fed’s creation in 1913 the dollar has lost more than 96% of its value, and by inflating the money supply the Fed continues to distort interest rates and intentionally erodes the value of the dollar said Paul.

Paul’s solution is to not replace the Fed with anything. “It would make the dollar strong… who wants money to be devalued? I want a strong dollar and if it were equivalent to gold it would remain strong.”

Paul also said he wants to legalize the freedom for people to choose. “My proposal for now is to legalize the constitution to use gold and silver as legal tender in a parallel standard and have it compete with paper money. If people get tired of using the paper standard they can deal in gold or silver,” he said.

On the topic of gold price manipulation, Paul said, “I think it is probably true.”

“I am not the one to lay out proof of this, others have done a lot of investigation. One of the reasons I don’t dwell on that is they are not going to listen to us" he said. "But I think it is very important somebody talks about it and emphasizes it just as a warning to be careful; you don’t have to only anticipate what the markets are doing, but you have to anticipate what the government is doing.”

The best example of manipulating the ratio of gold to paper would have been from the late 1950s to 1971, said Paul. “We printed money like currency, we printed too many dollars against the gold, so they said, ‘we will take your gold.’ …if they are capable of that they are capable of doing this as well, because they don’t want their cover blown, ” said Paul. If the markets are saying not to trust paper money, they have to do everything they can to “destroy gold,” said Paul.

Recounting a visit with Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Fed Reserve, Rep. Paul said the Chairman walked straight into the room, went immediately to his staffer and asked what the price of gold was. “They know gold is important. I think they are quite willing to manipulate it. That is the only way they can maintain this false illusion about gold.”

“If they are involved isn’t it pretty amazing what has happened in past year? What will happen if they throw in the towel?” said Paul.

The current economic situation is very healthy for gold, said Paul. “You see people rushing just to put their money in any place …they don’t even care about making money.”

New Regulations

When asked what regulations the Congressman is currently worried about, he said, “All of them.” However, Paul specifically points to the 1099 provision, a portion of the health-care act, passed earlier in the year. “For every transaction of over $600, gold dealers have to fill out a form, it is a lot of paperwork,” said the congressman. Entities must file a Form 1099 with the Internal Revenue Service whenever they make transactions paying out $600 a year to another party.

US economy

It is going to continue to go downhill said Paul on the US economy. “I don’t believe in a double dip, I believe we have single-dip and it has been continuous.”

“The only reason it doesn’t look so bad is if you spend $2 trillion dollars and you have a $5 hundred billion increase in some GDP figures, you didn’t get much for your trillion dollars but it might improve your statistics, so it was a fake recovery.”

As for another presidency run, Paul says it is too early to tell.

By Daniela Cambone dcambone@kitco.com ]]> General Discussions solidsilver http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5890 http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5875&goto=newpost Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:09:24 GMT a) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aYUeBnitz7nU

March 22 (Bloomberg) -- The bond market is saying that it’s safer to lend to Warren Buffett than Barack Obama.

Two-year notes sold by the billionaire’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in February yield 3.5 basis points less than Treasuries of similar maturity, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Procter & Gamble Co., Johnson & Johnson and Lowe’s Cos. debt also traded at lower yields in recent weeks, a situation former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. chief fixed-income strategist Jack Malvey calls an “exceedingly rare” event in the history of the bond market.

continued in the a) link


b) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/af2219cc-7...44feabdc0.html

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