Kerry Lutz's--Financial Survival Network (general)

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Zerohedge, one of our favorite financial sites, because the proprietors are wired to the real insiders. They excerpted a piece by legendary investor and Goldman alum, Raoul Pal. He explains that at best there's six more months to go before the global financial reset takes place. He details the end of fractional reserve banking as we know it. There's no avoiding the ultimate crash because $70 trillion of Western Sovereign Debt is holding up over $700 trillion worth of derivatives. No wonder he likens all this to the eye of a hurricane, from which we are just emerging. We're not talking about any ordinary hurricane, like Katrina which was a category 4-5. Rather, we're talking about a category 10 storm that will leave no financial edifice standing in its path. But gold and silver will help get us through, and this nuclear economic winter will pass. 

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Friday, June 1, 2012, was National Donut Day, and why shouldn't we all celebrate a food/grease type that's put more inches on the nation's collective waist than just about any other food out there. While Nanny Michael Bloomberg, New York's anti-fun mayor, attempts to ban double gulp, super-sized, sugary, soft drinks, the real obesity war is being lost at Krispy Kremes and Dunkin Donuts stores in New York City and around the nation. But as Val Hughes and Mo Mentum explained, investing in obesity producers is a must win strategy. Will Rogers once said, "Invest in inflation, it's the only thing going up." Well things have changed greatly in the past 100 years. If Will were alive today, he'd be saying, "Invest in America's waist size, it's is only going up. 

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Mickey Fulp and I reviewed the May monthly market stats, and boy were they ugly. Virtually everything was down, except for natural gas, which couldn't go much lower anyway. Gold, silver, copper, oil, you name it, all down. But fear not--June is a time to enjoy the beginnings of summer. While often times, "Sell in May and Go Away" applies, this time could very well be different. June 1 was probably the start of something big, but it is extremely important to review market trends each month so you can get an insight into where things are heading. Don't miss the upcoming Fracking Roundtable next Friday, June 8. Mickey. This technology is literally the key to America's and the World's future. 

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David Morgan and I have been having too many precious metals panic reports, so we figured it was a good time to give a rally report. Today gold is up over $66 per ounce and silver's rallied over $0.80 per ounce. These are dramatic, sudden, and possibly significant moves. Gold's up over 4 percent in one day, an extremely rare occurrence, with silver following suit; silver's up at just around a three percent increase. There have been signs of a precious metals rally on the horizon. The volume at the downside was slowing dramatically. The volume today was incredibly robust. All things considered, this might just be the breakout we were waiting for, and the persistent and continual bad news about the Euro and the daily disastrous job numbers could be the catalyst for an upward resumption. A couple of days ago, Sell in May and Go Away, looked like very sound advice. But today, June 1, 2012, on National Donut Day, the skids could be greased for overweighted returns in the precious metals markets.

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Robert Ian, of conquerchange.com, joined us to discuss the crumbling financial system. Recoveries come and go, but foreclosures are still going up and food stamp usage continues to climb. A debt jubilee is becoming more and more likely as the keepers of the status quo run out of options. This is great if you owe money, but not so great if you're one of those rare and endangered species known as a Saver. While the meek will eventually inherit the earth, right now the banksters and their hoard of parasites are in complete control. You'll know they've become irrelevant when you see the price of gold and silver shooting up to new heights. But don't think you'll be willing and able to buy at higher prices. The opportunity is now, but most will no doubt neglect it!

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Ty Andros joined us for a mutual celebration of National Donut Day. It was largely a spiritual celebration as neither of us can afford the extra waist-room to indulge in such fatty treats. It's much more fun to watch the price of gold and silver slam through Da Boyz price roadblock, faster than Jim Cramer can say, "drachma." Is this the final blow out? Our hearts say yes, but experience has made us all caution. Once again, gold is over 1600 and silver is approaching 30 bucks, and this appears to be heralding in yet another financial crisis milestone. Betting against the metals at any time during this bull market has been extremely hazardous to your wealth, unless of course you're wired into the elites. In which case, you could sell in the morning and buy in the evening and retire after a year. But, as F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "The rich are different..."

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We spoke with Chris Duane aka The Silvershield late yesterday afternoon, before the awful job numbers came out. He's buying silver on a regular ongoing basis, completely undeterred by the hype and drone of the mainstream media and the mainstream investment/gambling consultants who concentrate on the stock market and other gaming venues. It's refreshing to find someone who's so confident in his beliefs and observations about the crumbling financial paradigm. Many others have jumped ship and probably jumped the shark as well. Chris has been a consistent voice and critic of the existing financial system for years. He's dedicated his life to helping you understand and come to terms with the bleak financial future that lies ahead. Today, gold is up around 50 bucks and silver's up 70 cents!

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Our favorite whipping boy Little Brother aka Nanny Bloomberg, formally known as Michael Bloomberg, is at it once again. Nanny Bloomberg wants to ban sugary drinks that are sold in containers larger than 16 ounces. As usual he knows better than you, and he wants you to retain your boyish or girlish figure. But don't be too upset, you can still get that 1,000 calorie milk shake from Mickey D's and as of yet refills don't seem to be on his radar. These out of control, wannabe dictators must stay up nights thinking up these looney ideas.

There's obviously no end in sight. So drink up, have a supersized 32 ounce Coke, compliments of the Financial Survival Network and wave hello to Little Brother as he watches you consume that life-threatening beverage on one of the many thousands of surveillance cameras around the Apple. The Eye-in-the-Sky is watching you. So behave yourself and obey! Or else you'll really be in trouble.

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Francis Cianfroccia is a CEO of an internet security corporation, an industry that's becoming more and more center stage. But when it comes to financial security and survival, he believes the US is using the declining living standards of the middle class to bolster the retirement/baby boomer generation. By sucking up all the excess capital in the markets, the US government is making it more and more difficult for people to invest in businesses and get real returns on their capital. Propping up the big zombie banks is not doing anything to improve the economy or to fuel economic growth. Francis and I both agreed that in the final analysis, these banks are not too-big-to-fail, and the government will have no choice but to let them fail in as orderly a manner as possible. The costs of keeping them on life support are increasing by the day, with absolutely no return. The financial wake-up call is coming, it's just a matter of when.

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Val Hughes and the effervescent Mo Mentum return from a lengthy Memorial Day Weekend. Evidently they didn't get their fill of adult beverages, and they're back for more. While they are veteran Wall Street Experts, they're the first ones to agree they don't know everything about the economy. So if you've still got some fiat dollars left that you don't want to convert into real money, they've got some great ideas. But always remember, take all government statistics with a grain of salt, especially those that emanate from the Fed. Of course always remember, you need to do your own due diligence when evaluating any investment opportunity, precious metals, stocks, or hog futures. 

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Wayne A. Root is a long-term, dyed in the wool libertarian who understands what it takes (or took) to succeed in America: hard work, the courage to take a risk, and the desire to make it. Unfortunately, confiscatory taxes, burdensome regulation and a built-in hostility towards entrepreneurs is making it much more difficult today. Wayne's got some answers in the book he wrote, The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts. Wayne refers to himself as a Capitalist Evangelist, which isn't such a bad thing. After all, he could be a wealth redistributionist, also known as a progressive.

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Debt elimination and repudiation is the only way the existing world's economic disaster can end. The world's central banks will not be able to print enough currency units to keep all of the losing enterprises afloat. Unfortunately, sacrifices will have to be made by all of the parties concerned, not just those least able to afford it. The too-small-to-save individuals and businesses have been left out of the bailout party, and they have suffered greatly during the current credit bust. Now, Spain, Italy and the rest of the economic basket-cases are approaching the moment when bailing them out will not be possible. Danielle Park believes cooler heads will prevail and accommodations will be made accordingly. FSN would like to believe that sanity will rule, but after four years of complete economic insanity, it's hard to accept. What's your opinion? Please let us know.

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"Ranting" Andy is getting fed up with the news because it is pure propaganda. All talk of recovery is unadulterated BS, as is the belief that it's normal for gold prices to be headed down. The western world is having a complete financial hemorrhage, and it shows the world has lost its collective sanity, as if it ever had any in the first place.  But at least we can still relish in the simple pleasures of life, like going to a Mets game at the new stadium, going to family get togethers on the holidays, or just enjoying a nice day and dusting off our gold and silver. Ah the little things that will once again mean the world to all us. Once again "Ranting" Andy is ahead of the pack. 

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Shawn Perger is from Vancouver Canada, and he has been involved with the mining industry his entire life. Canadians are much more in tune with the need for resources and the positive effect that such development has on economic activity. While he is certain that eventually gold and silver will reclaim their rightful place as real money, he also believes the efforts to save the existing fiat currency paradigm will stop at nothing to keep the system from imploding. Unfortunately, we are in a very perilous time for investors, and their unwillingness to accept the underlying reasons for monetary instability could be their undoing. As we've said numerous times before, no one can predict the exact moment of the global economic reboot, but it is certainly headed our way. 

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Yesterday I got to spend the day with Jay Taylor, a fellow radio guy, who's sites include www.MiningStocks.com and www.JayTaylorMedia.com. Jay's a former financial guy, who used to write a small newsletter as a hobby. Eventually, his hobby became his passion and he started writing full time and doing radio. He's as passionate as yours' truly and honest and completely authentic, which is why we hold him in such high esteem as the Financial Survival Network. We went to a Yukon Mining Presentation and there were a number of good companies presenting. This sector, is the casualty of the gold and silver manipulation scheme. Many of them are worth more dead than alive. But more importantly, the fund managers present had absolutely no concept of what's going to hit the US and World economies shortly. And that was truly alarming. 

Enjoy the holiday and we'll be back with more next week. 

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I bumped into an old friend the other day. Rick Freeman has always been an employee. Recently he became an entrepreneur and he's helping people who either don't have a banking relationship or refuse to have one. He cashes paychecks and provides a number of services to this group who don't have the benefit of a bank holding their money. Years ago, we used to make fun of people who distrusted banks and held their funds in the "mattress." Now adays, after the most recent financial crack-up, a large segment of the population has lost faith in the banking sector. While these parasitic institutions have taken trillions in government bailouts, they continue to milk their clients for every possible cent in fee income. It is this constant nickle and diming that has made the public extremely angry and resentful towards these crony capitlists. And it's why Rick's business is starting to take off 

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Chris Duane, the Silver Shield, joins us to discuss the unsustainable global economic system and the advent of the big break. Chris is very much in the silver market, and he, along with many others, feels the anxitey and tension building. Rumors of big silver orders being placed are running rampant, and according to Chris, the end of this summer seems like the most probable time for the big market break to happen. Chris knows this is the time to buy, and he has been frequently buying over the last week in a half, picking up all the bottoms as they've come aalong.

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Dana Meador is back with FSN today to discuss why your bank is insolvent and what the issue of collateral means in this day-and-age. With JP Morgan front and center of the economic meltdown, you should be aware that the little JP blowup is indicative of a much bigger problem that a lot of people are not aware of.  If you are not aware, cash is the new bubble; it is where everybody has parked their money. What are the banks doing with the cash sitting in accounts everywhere? 

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Ty Andros and I are doing the wrap a little earlier this week. Greece is playing chicken with a loaded gun to their heads. Spain's regulatory bankruptcy becomes more and more apparent. Their losses have doubled in the past two weeks, and they continue to escalate. Their banks have undergone multiple bank runs, which have of course been papererd over. Hollande, France's new socialist leader is attempting to get Euro Bonds to forestall the eventual day of reckoning and to continue to shift the obligations of today onto the generations of tomorrow, who will not pay the debts incurred anyway. The powers that be and the radical socialists that are running most of the governments around the world are in complete denial and will further diminsh the private sector and lead the world to bankrupty. Political solutions that don't address the underlying issue of a population that expects something for nothing, will accomplish nothing. 

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Trevor Bradley of Georgetown Trust joined us to discuss the worldwide move to internationalize assets in an effort to protect wealth from governmental confiscation. While moving assets overseas is still legal in the US, many laws have been passed to restrict and make the process more difficult. Now, Europeans in France, the UK, Greece, Spain and many others are moving assets away from their home countries in record numbers. Treavor explains how easy the process still is and why you need to get the guidance and legal assistance to be absolutely certain that you're in compliance with the laws and rules of your home country. While internationalization isn't for everyone, it can be a vital part of your retirement planning, especially if you're planning to move overseas. 

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Dave Banister joins us today for an interesting chat regarding just how fast the global economy is crumbling. We talk about wave cycles and patterns and how you can figure out exactly where you fit into these current cycles and patterns. There are no signs of an economic recovery in sight. The true unemployment rate has gone done, while the food stamp and disability rates continue to climb.  As the unemployment numbers have been quoted as decreasing, the realistic reason for what's happening here is people are falling off the labor force. This decline has been matched by increasing claims for disability, and the trends are alarming. If you look at the charts for disability claims relative to history, there's quite an alarming uptrend in the last three or so years.  

While Dave and I discuss how the economy is getting worse, we also note that the fundamentals for gold are not getting worse; we know they are getting better. What we're seeing in the gold market is a lot of paper trading along with a human, behavioral response to a prior huge gold cycle. Over 34 months, gold went from $680 an ounce to $1900 an once, and last fall, gold reached a parabolic peak. So what we're seeing now is the corrective cycle of the price of gold, and the next couple months will mark the tail end of the corrective cycle. 

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Peter Grandich, well known mining stock investor, is having some bad days. The price of gold and the stocks are under attack with no let up in sight. What seemed like major bargains a few weeks ago, now seem like the buys of a lifetime. No one knows where the price of gold and silver will wind up, however, what we do know is that none of the fundamentals have changed. Governments are still behaving irresponsibly, spending way more money than they have, and printing more and more dollars out of thin air. Unemployment is up, food stamps are up, and lots of other disheartening news is on the horizon. Add to this, the weakened state of the world's major banks, and you have a prescription for political and financial chaos which will eventually boost the prices of gold and silver dramatically. So understand that the elitists are playing upon your fear, trying to get you to do the wrong thing. Peter and the Financial Survival Network are all about trying to get you to do the right thing. 

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Dr. Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute joins us once again for an update on the latest European elections, the assault on private equity firms, private enterprise, and much more. We discussed movies about capitalism, Other People's Money and Head Office. Yaron also taked a bit about environmentalism, which he believes is often anti-humanistic and usually opposes beneficial human technological developments. The problem with today's socialists is they really don't care about people or their happiness.

In the good old days socialists believed in the common good and the individual's desire to attain happiness. That's why we saw Francois Mitterand, an avowed socialist, wind up embracing capitalism after he saw his collectivist agenda steer France over the cliff. Today's collectivists care nothing about the individual. They are nihilists who revel in their own power over others and simply view the populace or the electorate as a means to that end. Unfortunately, the electorate keeps falling for it over and over again. However, there is hope because the latest round of socialists will fail just like all their predecessors and once again, free market capitalism will rise.  

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The Silver Futurist, someone who we met at Hard Assets NY, and his lovely companion Jackie "O" appeared live today on our radio show on 1490WGCH in Greenwich, CT. We talked extensively about using new media to reach people who wouldn't ordinarily be concerned about such lofty matters. His YouTube channel has gotten over 2.5 million views, and it's growing every month. We also talked about money: what it is, and what's happening to it, as well as the best way to acquire metals. We hope you find their take on things as interesting as we did.

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"Ranting" Andy Hoffman joins us for another fun filled wrap up of all the wonderful things that aren't happening in the world. He sees Facebook as further confirmation of a completely corrupt financial system careening out of control. When the elites deliberately overprice and overhype the biggest tech IPO in history and then see it crash and burn, then you know something important is happening. Combine that with the obvious rise in nationalism across Europe and you know the seeds have been sewn for something truly cataclysmic. With flocks of "black swans" circling the world's financial centers, waiting to descend at the exact worst moment, it's time to buckle our seat belts and get ready. It's important to understand the crisis, which began in late 2007, has not ended. It was perhaps dormant for a couple of years, but it has reared its ugly head and once it takes its course, nothing will be the same, except "Ranting" Andy that is. 

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