Kerry Lutz's--Financial Survival Network

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, we find out that Comrade DeBlasio dropped Groundhog Staten Island Charlotte on her head during the Groundhog Day festivities. A week later she was dead, a victim of internal injuries. Oh the humanity, PETA should be outraged! And the 8 month cover-up that kept this vital information from the public. We'll see if the voters take it out on the mayor in the next election, Lord knows they have so much to take out on him anyway.

Due to DeBlasio's liberal leanings, Stop and Frisk is gone and shootings are way up. Until New York City's residents have the right to defend themselves, they must rely upon the police as they have the monopoly on armed force. 

Finally, we talk about Zombie Government Programs. The kind that have long since outlived their puropse, but can never be struck from the budget. There are thousands of them that cost taxpayers many hundreds of billions every year. 

John writes that U.S. Mint American Eagle gold coin sales set to rise sharply in September. 

(Reuters) – The U.S. Mint has sold nearly 50,000 ounces of American Eagle gold coins so far in September, almost double its total in August, as a sharp pullback in gold prices and geopolitical tensions boosted interest for physical products from retail investors.

With only six business days left until the end of September, sales of American Eagle bullion gold coins made for investors were 46,000 ounces, up 84 percent from August sales of 25,000 ounces, the latest U.S. Mint data showed on Monday.

Record highs in U.S. equities also prompted some retail investors to buy precious metal products to diversify their portfolios, said David Beahm, vice president at New Orleans coin dealer Blanchard & Co.

Manipulation Mondays with Andrew Hoffman:

-Bottom calls by Russell, Sinclair, Polny, Nenner, Weir

-MacGuire expects first signs of PM derivatives break-up by year-end

-JPM lowest silver short position since it took over Bear Stearns' toxic position

  in 2008

-lowest PM sentiment since 2002

-prices way below production costs

-last week's "Cartel suicide" article

-economic, geopolitical strains exploding worldwide

-ongoing global currency crash - NOT "dollar strength" back in full force

-rates plunging in West due to manipulation, but not in unmanipulated East -

  which is seeing weak financial asset prices AND weak currencies

-even with Bill Gross resigning Friday, and $10 billion of PIMCO fund

  withdrawals this weekend!

-hence, historic anti-U.S. sentiment, especially with its roles in Ukraine,

 Iraq/Syria, etc.

-unprecedented market manipulation

- last week's "headline that says it all" article about the BOJ admitting to

  buying record amounts of Japanese stocks

                - damning Carmen Segarra whistleblower tapes -re: Fed/FOMC

                - desparte PPT, with new Chicago offices, fighting against a stock

                  market that clearly wants to fall

                - Euro QE to start Wednesday

-Friday's NFP report - last before mid-term elections