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To: Rarebird who wrote (48791)	4/20/2009 11:10:52 AM
From: TobagoJack	2 Recommendations Respond to of 217623

while the cure for what ails us is prudence and thrift, the economy and the maddened crowd will continue to scream for more 'circulating medium', 'quantitative easing', 'negative interest rate', as had japan from early 90s to now, and usa 1929 until end of wwii, saved by the war should money flow let up, its pump priming officialdom realize the evil of their way of wastrel ways, then interest rate shoot up, and earlier borrowings would exact punishing demand on fiscal means so as to fund rising nominal as well as real rates, with the absolute amount going mathematically exponential, towards kaboom i am optimistic that i know the end-game, even if i must be fogged in regarding the all-important mid-games

To: Rarebird who wrote (48791)	1/31/2019 1:56:36 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217623

Re <<All of the schemes being implemented by the Fed and the Administration/Congress use injections of more debt to fix the problems which were caused by too much debt in the first place ... At some point, the "end game to bubbles" is inevitably going to appear and the whole fabric of the financial system will come apart ... There is no will in Washington or New York or any world capital to actually fix the system ... >> ... you were right back in 2009. It may be the case that there is a fix, but only for a few. just in in-tray, gold.org <<Annual gold demand gained 4% on highest central bank buying in 50 yearsGold demand in 2018 reached 4,345.1t, up from 4,159.9t in 2017 and in line with the five-year average of 4,347.5t. A multi-decade high in central bank buying (651.5t) drove growth. Demand was bumped up in Q4 by 112.4t of ETF inflows, but annual inflows into these products (of 68.9t) were 67% lower than 2017. Investment in bars and coins accelerated in the second half of the year, up 4% to 1,090.2t in 2018. Full year jewellery demand was steady at 2,200t. Gold used in technology climbed marginally to 334.6t in 2018, although growth ran out of steam in Q4. Annual gold supply firmed slightly to 4,490.2t, with mine production inching up to a new high of 3,364.9t. Central banks’ demand for gold soared to a multi-decade high of 651t in 2018 Net central bank purchases totalled 651t in 2018, the highest level since the dissolution of Bretton Woods Russia, Turkey and Kazakhstan remained key buyers throughout the year… …and were joined by greater numbers of central banks purchasing gold>>