Pete, I am intrigued by your picking up on t'physical vs paper theme.
Pete asks: Could you give us a quick summary of why "bugs" think that stocks must rally before gold? Seems obvious to me that your stock is going to rise after your product's price rises, but so many sophisticated folks think otherwise that I tend to think there is something to it. Just haven't figured out what, yet.
First of all, your request for it to be a "brief" summary, leads me to putting my thoughts into simpliest terms. But then I find expressing my thoughts in simplist terms seems to require more words to explain 'what I mean.' Here goes :)
There are two kinds of people in the world: A)Those that make things happen B)Those that watch things happen My Scientifically Observed Conclusion: There are more B's
In this simplistic postulation, I submit: I unequivocally place the Rothschilds at the top o'the World of Gold, WITH their concretized creation, Bank of International Settlements, aka BIS, and its intricate web of relationships, personnel and influence at Central Banks, woven over decades and decades and DECADES, as its chosen policy/implementation vehicle.
It is precisely because of the Rothschild's PERSONAL holdings of untold millions of ounces of refined gold, that they are able to impute & thereby trickle down their influence to & through the LBMA, COMEX, Hong Kong, Zurich, etc.
They and others, sheiks, kings, queens, captains of industry, yes even despots, unmistakably ALL holders of real physical gold, these A's use ALL B's to megaphone their agendae i.e., impose their views upon others.
A's influence B's by the creation of contracts, i.e., paper gold if you please, to borrow the term "ANOTHER" uses, equities, which if you stop and think about it is also paper...(that is until the gold is brought up and refined and then safely tucked away again,, and derivatives, both relatively simple Comex kind to archane derivatives, which, for all practical purposes, is a sophisticated "paper entry." Electronically traceable or jotted on linen table napkins...makes no dif. Derivatives are still one or several paper steps removed from physical gold holdings.
Therefore, since there are so damn few A's and multiplied millions upon millons of B's in this world... the only thing B's can do, is devine the paper runes of A's.
To this end, primarily, in my view, great efforts at mastering paper runes' nuances via charting equities, has been the B's only method, and why they defend it so vociferously! Yes, even the "sophisticated" B's you noted. Tis also the reason why I believe B's continue to promulgate their myth --that paper appreciations or depreciation leads gold prices---a myth so illogical, it is absurd!!!!
Now, make NO mistake... I DO believe that A's telegraph, and quite effectively the A's financial, political, yes even religious agendae by forebearance in and manipulation of the world of paper gold.
But to chart/track the results of the A's is NOT my agenda. It is like trying to determine the actual presence of the dreaded garden slug outhere in the Great Northwest, by observing only the slimy trail across the patio or paved driveway after his disappearance into the night.
To emulate A's modus operandi by accumulation and distribution of physical gold, even though NOT in proportionate amounts is my personal financial goal.
For it is in what one truly physically possesses that one can truly find the financial security, NOT in what paper one holds that TALKS about physical possesion or manufacture/mining thereof.
Philosophically, I differ from the B's of this world, that are seeking to ferret out what the A's are doing by tracking their paper shards, i.e. tracking paper "slime."
While a profitable game to many, and yes, also to me upon occasional exercise therein, I prefer to accumulate the physical.
Therein lies the beneovlent power to exercise my agendae as I interact w/other B's of this world.
Not very egalitarian, I grant you. But damned effective, esp. since physical gold permits unlimited printing of Paper Gold which the B's seem to ignominiously scramble with limitless paper contango schemes much like little children under a broken pinata
It is only pendulumatic swings of opinions by the B's of this world who chart/track/devine/interpret paper slime, who think otherwise.
Ole A- /49r
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