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Alchemical Weapons for Economic Wars

Originally posted at Dispatches From Reality – dfreality.substack.com

“In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken USURY and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.”

— Ezekiel 22:12 KJV

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Usury is a weapon; a pernicious and unrivaled weapon, capable of bringing even the mightiest foe to heel. The defining economic minds of the ages — from Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, to John Maynard Keynes — all viewed usury as a major vice if not an outright evil. It is a slow drip of venom in a civilization’s veins, inevitably bringing the borrower low in it’s alchemical grasp. Our enemy is keenly aware of this powerful weapon, particularly given that the Mystery religion’s temples — the pyramids and ziggurats — also served as banks & mints in which these ancient rites were practiced. The modern financial system is no less steeped in these philosophic and alchemical realities, as some of the most storied economists in history will attest to. Fiat currency is quite literally the Philosopher’s Stone made real: it is the ability to create something of value out of nothing.

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What Will Irresponsible Governments Do to Precious Metals?

Via Birch Gold Group

“Who is he calling irresponsible?”
Image CC BY 2.0 via Gage Skidmore

From Peter Reagan at Birch Gold Group

Programming note: I rescheduled my regular Your News to Know column this week due to two of the three biggest bank runs in U.S. history. I know you’re following this story closely – I am too, and I’ll keep you posted as the situation develops.

This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Don’t ignore silver; U.K. gold demand trends set records; and is Australia “de-dollarizing” its own dollar with gold investments?

Precious metals will surge “because governments are irresponsible”

Remember silver? In one of Dominic Frisby’s analyses, he referred to platinum as “the other precious metal.” It feels like silver has filled that role in recent weeks and months. Everyone’s obviously watching gold as the global economy crumbles. There was the big correction in platinum to the upside and palladium to the downside. For as volatile as silver is supposed to be, it’s done surprisingly little in comparison.

Rob McEwen, Executive Chairman of McEwen Mining, is here to remind us that silver isn’t to be ignored. In his recent interview with Kitco, the precious metals expert has a fresh and bullish take on silver. As opposed to merely touting the positive manufacturing demand picture, McEwen instead pointed out that silver is a hard asset in a period where people can’t get enough of the stability and security they offer:

Hard assets will increase in value as the dollar drops in relative value to other currencies, because governments are irresponsible. They steal from their citizens by printing excess money and borrowing in ways they shouldn’t… Look at the amount of the debt most of the Western world has right now, it’s enormous.

Based on economic factors alone, McEwen expects silver to hit $250 by 2027, trailing gold’s own path towards $5,000 in that timeframe. If both projections materialize, silver’s gain would be much greater relative to current prices than gold’s. (Gold/silver ratio reversion to the mean, in other words.) Continue reading “What Will Irresponsible Governments Do to Precious Metals?”