As I have said many times there is a great effort to keep the price of gold and silver not only contained but greatly suppressed. There are many reasons but the most important one at this time is to keep many unaware of just how fragile our US dollar and economy actually are.

In the last 60 days gold has risen from $2900.00 to $3300.00. There is barely any mention of this in the mainstream media. I have also noticed that there is hardly any mention of the ongoing war in the Middle East that we are involved in. How much is that costing in new debt and lives?

All of the supposed reporting seems to be aligned to keep our eyes off of what is actually happening that will likely affect us all in one way or another and keep us worrying about meaningless nonsense that will have virtually no effect on us.

While our minds are kept far away from reality gold is giving us some ominous signs. Historically, gold rises when there is economic or geopolitical instability. We now have both.

The fact that gold has blasted higher is even more interesting when I look at the charts and notice that there are still multiple attempts daily- sometimes as many as 9 or 10 to keep the price contained. This is done by selling paper gold into the “market” and having the algorithms notice and compound the selling. For years, this scheme worked. Today, because of our economic problems and geopolitical instability the game appears to be running out of steam.

It is important to keep in mind that only the PRICE is changing. The VALUE is always there.

The world is shunning the US dollar and even though there is massive selling of US stocks and bonds- which should be bullish for the dollar (when something is SOLD it moves to- CASH) the dollar is continuing to fall. The selling of US dollars going on around the world is overwhelming the demand produced by selling stocks and bonds.

Keep in mind that gold rising is just a reflection of the dollar losing its purchasing power.

In a Zerohedge article I noticed that India and the USA are negotiating on ways to reduce our trade deficit. It was reported that all India is interested in is our gold, silver, or commodities. In other words, they are not interested in our products- just hard assets.

This is an ominous sign since we don’t seem to produce products that the rest of the world wants to buy.

I am also VERY concerned about bringing manufacturing back to the USA. There are many reasons but the fact that it could take 20 years to accomplish it is just the beginning.

A perfect example to me is the story of Adidas. In 2015 they opened their first “Speed Factory” in Germany. This allowed them to downsize their workforce in Viet Nam by 20,000 employees. While many may have the idea that this was a boom for the German workforce you may want to think again. All of the manufacturing in the Speed Factory is done by robotics. The only jobs created by this move was for maintenance of the facility and the robots.

I believe that many have the illusion that moving production back to the USA will bring back great middle-class jobs that allowed us to have a great lifestyle even if we did not have great expertise in any particular area.

Personally, I believe this is a pipe dream and that the only beneficiaries of this move will be those that own the robots and those that have the expertise to maintain them. To me, it appears that everything being rolled out around the world is being done to enrich those at the top.

It is a nice story that, in my opinion, has no bearing on reality.

Another thing that has no bearing on reality is the “reporting” that we see day after day.

Even though we have not declared a war- as our constitution mandates, we have been in unending wars for at least 50 years. (We haven’t won one since World War 2!)

We are spending TRILLIONS “off the books” while going deeper and deeper into recognized debt.

Who is reporting any of this?

The reason our founders put the declaration of war on congress was so the American people would have a say before they spent TRILLIONS of our dollars on what they assumed would be national defense. Instead, it has become a money-making scheme to enrich the VERY few. This is likely the reason that Congress has not declared any wars- they do not want us to have any say because most of us would say -NO WAY!

We are being directed away from the fact that our economy has been contracting at an increasing pace and is being propped up by massively increasing DEBT that is being counted as GROWTH to keep everyone unaware of our current SAD economic situation. Contrary to the propaganda and popular manipulated belief- we are heading headlong into instability globally and possibly into the worst economic downturn of our lifetimes.

Even though we- the public seem unaware of how weak our economy is- the rest of the world is noticing and acting.

It also appears that after years of running our “defense” industry by giving contracts to those with the best contacts and lobbyists we are seeing that countries like Russia, China and others are outpacing us in missile technology and missile defense systems. That is what happens when the best and brightest get shut out because they do not know the right people.

It also appears that Russia has been preparing to defend themselves while we have been using “defense” as a pretense to enrich the military industrial complex.

It appears to me that we are on the wrong path here and gold is giving me a sign that I am on the right track.

Be Prepared!

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