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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Western central banks are running out of gold to deliver into the system


William Kaye is back on KWN. Emphasis is mine. This is a must read interview:

Kaye:  “Investors need to be focused on the numbers that are involved in the gold market.  The available feedstock of gold and other precious metals that is necessary to prevent the paper market from being bifurcated from the physical market is being rapidly depleted.

This gets no attention in any of the mainstream media.  It’s absolutely amazing.  You are not going to read about this in the Financial Times or the Wall Street Journal or any bank sell-side reports for that matter..
“But the people who do serious work, whether it’s Grant Williams or Andrew Maguire, people like us and a handful of others, the numbers speak for themselves.  Mine production is plummeting rapidly.  If metals prices were, for some bizarre reason, to stay where they are today, roughly 25% of mine production would be taken out of the market.  That’s a staggering number.

2,600 tons of gold were produced and sold into the market in 2012.  At current run-rates, we believe that only 2,200 tons of gold will be sold into the market.  The production numbers have gone down rapidly because of depressed prices.  Those numbers will continue to fall if gold prices don’t rise dramatically from where they are today.

At existing prices, as I said, roughly 25% of production or what is equivalent to the entire junior mining industry today would cease to exist by this time next year.  So, to be clear, this would be an additional 25% reduction from the already reduced 2,200 ton number.  This is potentially a very, very serious situation for the Western price manipulators because supply would continue to disappear at a rapid pace.

You also have the World Gold Council weighing in with scrap production falling on their estimates.  Scrap production has declined 25% alone in 2013.  Well, that’s pretty interesting because none of our contacts in the scrap industry report that their numbers are down anywhere close to that.  So the only way you can arrive at that conclusion, Eric, is, as so many insiders have been telling us, the scrap number is just a ‘plug’ for what the central banks do (in terms of supplying physical gold from Western vaults).

You have to remember that if you look at the World Gold Council reports, there is no line item for gold which is sold into the system that was leased from central banks.  Now this is amazing because we know this occurs.  The central banks themselves have admitted it.

The central banks control more gold than any other entity in the world, so how can the World Gold Council ignore such an important factor in the market?  But they do.  So central bank gold supply into the market is concealed through the scrap side of the business.

Interestingly, Thomson Reuters confirms the World Gold Council’s scrap numbers.  But Thomson Reuters will not share, and neither will the World Gold Council, their numbers with us.  They won’t tell us where their sources are.  They won’t document the numbers.  They will just say, ‘take it or leave it.’  Well, I prefer to leave it.  When someone says, ‘take it or leave it,’ and I’m paying for their service, I’ll leave it.

I just don’t trust people that won’t come clean.  We said, ‘Prove to us that you didn’t just make them up,’ and they refused to do it.  So I am very suspicious of those (scrap) numbers.  And I now side entirely with our sources, and we have more than one, who have said for some time now that ‘They just make this stuff up.’

So this is how they attempt to camouflage what the central banks are doing in the physical gold market.  Well, the Western central banks, as you and I have discussed in several interviews, are running out of gold.  So, naturally the (scrap) number is going to drop markedly because the central banks are cutting back on their delivery of gold into the system because they are simply running out of gold. 

The Western central banks are running out of gold to deliver into the system, and the Eastern central banks and the emerging market central banks are net-buyers and they have no interest in selling.  Take a look at India:  India has a crisis going on.  They bitch about having a current account deficit and their currency being attacked, but you don’t see the Indian Reserve Bank selling their gold, do you?  The Reserve Bank of India only buys gold.

The Indians could mount a very powerful defense of the rupee if they wanted to by simply selling central bank gold.  But they refuse to do that.  India is trying very hard to keep their citizens from buying gold, but all the central bank does is buy.  They never sell.

My advice to the KWN readers around the world is they should take their cue from what powerful entities like the Reserve Bank of India, which is one of the ultimate insiders in this game, are doing.  Don’t pay attention to what they are saying.  They are saying, and in particular to 1.1 billion Indians, to ‘Sell gold.  And whatever you do, don’t buy gold.’  But meanwhile, all they do is buy gold and they don’t sell a single ounce.  They won’t even do it to defend the currency.  To me that’s a very powerful message about where they know the price of gold is headed.”

Monday, August 12, 2013

William Kaye Explains Gold Suppression & How it Works (And Ends)


Excerpts of the interview are below but I highly suggest listening to the entire interview yourself.

You can listen to the 24 minute interview here. 

Kaye brings together all of the elements that I knew were there but just wasn't sure how they all fit together, from the Federal Reserve, JP Morgan, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and the GLD exchange traded fund and its true purpose (hint: its not for the benefits of retail investors). In this one interview Kaye, essentially explains everything I've written about for the last few years and provides everything you need to know about protecting your wealth (And maybe even making a lot of money) investing in gold.

And here is the original interview with KWN that prompted the follow up interview (Also an amazing interview).


Below is a partial transcript:

JP Morgan is Scrambling for Gold


Via Zerohedge:

 The Color-Coded Comex Crunch: Behind The JPMorgan Golden "Musical Chairs" Scramble
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First, it was JPM asking HSBC for assistance and getting a handout of over 6k ounces of gold.
The next day, following a shut out by HSBC, JPM had no choice but to go to the second largest vault, that of Scotia Mocatta and get more than triple times that, or just over 20k ounces.
Today, the Comex gold crunch has gotten so confusing, nothing short of a color-coded schematic can do it justice.

Sunday, August 11, 2013

How Central Banks Manipulate Gold Markets


Watch from 2:25 to 11:20.

Though many people are aware that central banks intervene in currency markets, far less are aware that central banks consider gold as just another currency and regularly intervene to cap gold's price relative to a currency.

It should be obvious as to why. Since the end of Bretton Woods the USD, along with other major currencies, is not directly backed by gold. The "exchange rate" between gold and other currencies now floats rather than being fixed. If the US dollar or other currencies were declining in value relative to gold (i.e. the price of gold goes up in that currency) then people may choose to hold gold as a store of value rather than a paper currency. Fiat currency only has value if people believe it does.

Friday, August 9, 2013

The Bank Run on Gold Continues


JP Morgan especially seems to be scrambling:

Yesterday, it was HSBC. Today, the lucky respondent to JPM's polite gold 'procurement' request, is the second "fullest" New York commercial gold vault: Scotia Mocatta.
As ZH reported previously, following the announcement of an imminent withdrawal of 63.5k ounces of its gold (16% of the total), JPM's vault operations team promptly called around and to its disappointment was only able to procure a tiny 6.4k ounces: not nearly enough to preserve the impression that it is well-stocked. We then said, "None of which changes the fact that in a few days, the inventory in JPM's gold vault will drop to another record low of only 380K ounces and the JPM "rescue" pleas from HSBC and other Comex members will become ever louder and more desperate until one day they may just go straight to voicemail."
Today, as we predicted, the calls into HSBC indeed appear to have gone straight to voicemail (perhaps HSBC did not have any more unencumbered gold to share, perhaps it just didn't want to) which left JPM with just one option: go down the list.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Peter is Right


And this:
StreetTalkLive via Zerohedge