Comex Gold Inventories Collapse by Largest Amount Ever on Record

This article comes from Patrick MontesDeOca on SeekingAlpha.com

For the last few months, I have been warning my subscriber base to take a serious look at the reality of the unfolding collapse in the monetary system as we know it. It's happening in front of our eyes and you need to be aware and prepare for what is coming. I've published numerous articles, particularly for the gold and silver markets, on this subject matter.

The past couple of years have been a real test and challenge to my personal convictions and my skills based on the evidence and research I have done. One of the most difficult skills to accomplish in trading is the ability to break away from the herd. It's human nature, and most of us want somebody else to take the responsibility to deal with the challenges and find the solutions to our problems.

In a previous report I commented,

U.S. debt continues to increase. In the first two months of the current fiscal year that began on October 1st, the U.S. national debt has grown $320 billion. That is $21 billion more than the same two-month period last year, which illustrates that the growth of the national debt continues to accelerate. The reason of course is the federal government's huge operating deficit, which is not getting any smaller.

That is exactly what the general consensus seems to have adjusted to. Or, I should say, addicted to - the idea that our government is going to solve our problems and find the solutions through its distribution of wealth template - which has proven to be the formula to destroy the middle class and in doing so the old American Dream. I am not a gloom and doom person or an extremist. But I have been around the block enough times, and as a student of the market for more than 30 years I personally can tell you, I have never seen this set of circumstances come together as they are currently unfolding in the world financial markets.

The Cyprus situation is the canary in the coal mine. The fact is that this action has never been taken by any central bank previously - to essentially steal money from depositors - will have serious socio-economic consequences and sets the stage for the last act of this financial crisis. The collapse of the monetary system (U.S. dollar) as we know it, and the resumption of the long-term secular bull market in gold and silver.

On a recent phone interview, I asked Eric Sprott (Sprott Asset management) if the Cyprus crisis was the "Black Swan" of the eurozone? He said, "This is a Black Swan."

This is a template that is going to be applied on a global basis. The general consensus by the central bank leaders is to unleash the most aggressive monetary policies ever. Which is to print as much fiat currency necessary to band aid the system, with severe long-term inflationary if not hyperinflation consequences globally. .

There has never been a more profound reason to shift back to real money like gold and silver in order to weather the storm or the economic tsunami that's under way. The problem is that it may not be enough of the real thing to go around (Comex Gold Inventories Collapse By Largest Amount Ever On Record).

Over the last 90 days without any announcement, stocks of gold held at Comex warehouses plunged by the largest figure ever on record during a single quarter since record keeping began in 2001 (roughly the beginning of the bull market). See chart below.



Total drainage of physical inventories reached nearly 2 million ounces of gold, which at today's prices represent roughly $3,000,000,000.

Large speculators have the biggest short position on record. Interest by speculators in silver has waned in the past few months, as reflected by Commodity Futures Trading Commission data. In the March 26 weekly commitments of traders report, the most recent data, money managers' net-long position for silver sits at a mere 632 contracts for futures and options combined in the disaggregated report.

This is a dramatic fall from this year's high of 29,580 net-long contracts reached on February 5. Since reaching that high, the net long position for silver speculators fell each week. Meanwhile, the gross short position for speculators has risen to 22,382 as of March 26, from 2,922 as of February 5.

Extreme lows for the managed money net long positions are "usually associated with important bottoms for the price of Silver," said Karl Schott, a bullion specialist with EMA. I urgently recommend you to open your eyes and see that this is a life changing opportunity to accumulate gold and silver at current levels and buy as much as you can, converting fiat currency to old and real money like gold and silver in order to protect and maintain purchasing power. Don't wait, act now before it's too late. This is an explosive set of unusual circumstances for gold and silver markets.

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Mike Maloney's 2005 Warnings

I am not a genius but i am smart enough to follow someones track record and label them accordingly.
This is a man worth listening to.

Ron Pauls Urgent Warnings

These are very serious times with very serious consequences. It is important for people to become educated about events like those transpiring around us; and they are not isolated. Simply open the pages of a history book and you can find that situations like these have played out in almost every major civilization dating back to ancient times. Most notably, because of its recency, is pre-WW2 Germany.

A nation whose currency had been inflated to the point of worthlessness in an attempt to pay off their enormous debts. Peoples lives were destroyed, their savings evaporated into thin air. Simple necessities like food and water and heat were unattainable for most. The fear of uncertainty gripped the nation; the people were desperate for help and answers. Then, during a meeting in Munich on November 8, 1923 the hall was over run by militants and a man took the stage and delivered a speech, to a literally captive audience, that would change the world. He gave the people a scapegoat for the tragedy they had suffered and promised a way out.    That man was Adolf Hitler.

 

Think about what happened.... There was an entire middle class of people who were going through hard times because their government was in debt. Jobs and incomes began to slip away. The quality of life they had grown accustomed to began to fade. They began to lean more and more on their government while trading their liberties for perceived safety. Their government inflated their currency to worthlessness. The middle class (largest portion of the population) lost everything; savings, jobs, homes, etc. They were scared and looking for help. The fingers were pointed at the Wealthiest citizens who had planned ahead (who at that time happened to be the Jews), and the new governmental leaders promised to even things out. They imprisoned the wealthy, took the remaining liberties from the population and followed their own private adjenda. The middle class was never given the opportunity to rebuild itself, all of the promises were false, the people were herded up like sheep because they were to scared to take control themselves.

 

The early stages sound strangely familiar dont they?

 

we are entrenched within the same story line unless we as a nation decide, at this pivitol point, that we would rather change for the better and retake the reins of responsibility and freedom.

 

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/putsch.htm

Whats so hard to Believe?

Why is it that the huge majority of Americans have absolutely no idea whats looming ahead, and what is actually going on? Is it because they dont know any better, or because they follow blindly what they hear on tv, or maybe because they just dont ever change the channel from sportscenter? Whatever the reason is, its hard for me to wrap my head around.....

Perhaps it has to do with what science deems the 'normalcy bias'. This title refers to a state of mind that most people naturally enter when facing disaster. It causes them to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and the possible effects of the disaster. I think it also might have to do with a sense of arrogance that tends to surround us and our nation. We have this mindset that the rest of the world needs us and depends on us so its to all of their best advantage to make sure nothing bad happens here, as it will most likely have negative effects on them as well. We have this 'it cant happen here' kind of attitude which makes us extremely vulnerable. The remainder of the delusional state can be accounted for by a serious lack of economic and financial understanding which some how the Board of Education doesnt feel is a worthy teaching, so people just absorb what they hear, from a young age, on tv and from their friends and family. This is also the reason that the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class struggles with debt.

BUT....... for those who are prepared these times of great crisis and upheaval will be also times of great opportunity. The world has seen this many times before, yet never on such a large scale. If you simply look back in history at all the times these same events have played out you can see the outcomes. In order to survive financially and physically you must be prepared, you must protect yourself. A few weeks ago the northeast was hit by Hurricane Sandy and all of the water, batteries, candles, jugs and pails, bread, and other necessities were cleaned off the shelves. So what will happen when a world-wide currency crisis occurs? do you think the stores will remain open and full of food and water? even if they did would they except your money if it were worthless? These are all scenarios that are not only possible but, at this point, almost guaranteed. What will you do when your savings accounts and retirement funds cant buy you anything? or even prior to that what if you cant withdraw them from your bank? Sounds crazy huh? well all of these events have occurred all over the world time and time again, most recently in Greece, Ireland and Spain; but also in Germany in the 1920's, Zimbabwe, twice during the French revolution, a couple times in England, Japan, Russia, Turkey, even here during the civil war, and countless other nations dating back to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Do you not think the Romans were a high and mighty civilization? Well the downfall of the roman empire can be partly blamed on a currency collapse. If the currency of a nation, or in this case many nations, begins a freefall to worthlessness what do you think the people of that nation will all be trying to do simultaneously? Thats right, they will be trying to convert their cash and savings accounts into some sort of tangible asset, whether it be wheat, or cattle or water, or gold, or silver, etc. because at least the value of the money will remain in tact although in a different form. The cattle can then be traded for bread and water or gold and silver. But all commodities are not created equal, you see most commodities are consumables like wheat and water and beef, there are only a couple of commodities that we can see throughout 5000 years of history have fit the bill as money. The attributes that make them suitable for money are that they are a medium of exchange, a unit of account, they are portable, durable, divisible, fungible, and they are a store of value. The only two commodities that have been used consistently throughout history as money are Gold and Silver, so if you wish to protect your purchasing power you should at this time be converting your savings and retirement funds into precious metals; as the masses begin to hysterically pile into them down the road you will not only protect your purchasing power but you will magnify it, and then later you can trade accordingly for whatever you might need.

The FHA, whats the plan?

...and the winner of our next huge bailout is..... The FHA!
Lets ask ourselves for a second HOW our broke government is going to bail out the FHA?
Thats absolutely right, their going to use tax payer money to do it. Their going to use our hard earned tax payer money to bail out a Federal agency that somehow couldnt figure out that a few billion dollars wasnt enough to cover the losses on $1.1Trillion of insured mortgages.
The real underlying question here should be why the hell is the government insuring mortgages?
Their creating a false sense of security which props up prices that would otherwise continue to fall. People who shouldnt be purchasing homes are able to do it with almost no money down, so ofcourse when they lose their job or things get tight the easiest thing to do is walk away from it, they have nothing to lose.
Well in the end it just means the printing press will continue to run and the savings of the middle class will be quietly swept away. If your not converting your savings and retirement funds to precious metals then you'll have no one else to blame when they dissappear.

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