"Inevitability" vs. "Manipulation"

That the markets are controlled and manipulated is obvious to anyone who has fought in the pits or tried behind their telescreens to make completely rational, information-based predictions on how legitimate markets should move. In speaking of the coming financial meltdown, the very same people, however, will say that it is inevitable, and utter phrases like "they can't stop it". This is a confusing doublethink, for if the markets are truly controlled and manipulated then "they could stop it". An easy and perfunctory way out of this doublethink conundrum is to conveniently speculate that although the markets are manipulated and controlled, the people who control these markets will lose control and become ineffectual, and the meltdown therefore will be "inevitable". Although there is truth to the above, it is a bit superficial and not the stuff that leads to confidence in formulating more precise strategies.

To break from these conventional paradigms it is perhaps well to consider a speech given last year by the chief economist of Russia. Among other things, she estimated that the assets of the Rothschilds totaled around US 300 Trillion, and that the value of all property, factories, labor, real estate, and everything in the entire world could be estimated to total 600-700 trillion. Recently, it was estimated by others that the Rockefeller empire alone may be worth around 100 Trillion. The specific figures are unimportant, but the magnitude of the figures is important. Can anyone, in view of this enormous pyramidal economic structure of power and control, think for a moment that simply because the price of gold, or whatever, goes up, or the value of the dollar crumbles, or that stocks should go down to 1/10th their highs, that this entrenched power structure (set up over hundreds of years) will suddenly lose control and become impotent to where "they can't stop it".

Fat chance. "They can't stop it" ??? Hell, they cause it. Why? Because it is time to Foreclose.

The coming Great Foreclosure will witness the most enormous transfer of wealth to the banksters in the history of the world. Land, houses, businesses, factories, infrastructure, corporations. All the collateral on the non-performing loans, and all the debt gets called in. With the creation of unpayable and impossible-to-pay debt, the banksters have put a bucket under the financial system and are now going to pull the plug on the dollar and the economy and watch the trillions of dollars of "real" wealth flow into their hands. But will the banksters lose money or make money? They don't want money. They don't need money. They create it whenever they want, a simple computer entry. What they do want is stuff: your stuff, everybody's stuff, and your labor to work off your fictitious debts to them. We are now in the brief foreplay stage, and the banksters are saying "Roll over *censored*, it is time".

Although general, the foregoing concepts regarding the bigger picture and the coming Great Foreclosure are nonetheless very important for the individual and small investor to keep in mind and prepare for. When all is confusion, fear, and hysteria with another contrived 911-type of catastrophe, there is profit to be made by clear heads who realize that - in the bigger picture - all is not chaos but only a contrived chaos designed to rob you of your assets and your psychological underpinnings to resist those who are the real enemies. The power and control structure set up over hundreds of years is not going to let itself fall apart, but in fact has already set up legal, police, and military power to enforce its theft and globalist agenda. In confusion, however, there is profit potential for the individual and small investor, but as they say, the devil is in the details.

In the commodity markets, over long periods of time, about 7% of players stay even and eventually withdraw; about 90% lose and get out; and about 3% make money. Most of those 3% make money year after year, and their families have done the same for perhaps 150 years (CBOT). The novice enters the markets, analyzes supply /demand factors, knows all the fundamentals, and makes what he thinks is an informed decision on how the markets will move (usually up, he thinks). He thinks his chances are pretty good because markets can, after all, only move up or down. But he is wrong: markets move up AND down. The novice gets whipsawed, sucked dry, and cleaned out; and then sits by, demoralized, watching the market move as he had initially predicted it would. The novice does not realize that the markets are a game, largely fictional, having virtually nothing to do with fundamentals, and designed to transfer wealth from average Joe Blow's to the deep pockets of those who totally control and manipulate them.

In the commodities markets, for example, supply/demand fundamentals have virtually nothing to do with price - except in the very long term - and even then the relationship of fundamentals to price is tenuous at best. If there is an anticipated abundant supply, the deep pockets first goose the price and run the shorts and hedgers out of the markets by causing them paper losses; then the deep pockets reverse and sell the market short for a big move. If the future supply of a commodity is anticipated to be low (by, for example, the half-dozen insiders who dominate the commerce in world food supplies), the market price is knocked down and held down in the futures markets. Not only is the cash commodity bought up throughout the world at low prices, but the producers are bankrupted and their farms, mines, and factories are bought up. When the deep pockets then own the existing supplies and means of production, only then are the market prices goosed. The only time Joe Blow makes money is if he is lucky enough to be in the market when the manipulators decide to raise the price for their own profit or to effect some collateral purpose in the larger scheme of things.

If one has even a shred of doubt just how manipulated the commodity markets truly are, he need only look up parity prices and transitional parity prices at the USDA to find the government's own estimates for commodity prices which should exist and should represent fair value to producers in an economy that fairly rewards producers. According to them a while back, the legitimate fair price for wheat should be around $15 /bushel.

Investing in the markets is very treacherous for Joe Blow because he not only has to be right, he has to be lucky in reading the motives of the deep-pocket manipulators. Even normal market action can be confusing and costly. In recent months the EC said it was going to sell its holdings of US bonds. Clear-thinking people saw that this was very deleterious to the US dollar and sold dollars, but got whipsawed as the US dollar went up for some weeks. This sort of market action is not manipulation as much as normal process. The bonds were sold in exchange for dollars, causing a temporary relative shortage of dollars, and driving the price of the dollar up. When the dollars received for the bonds are sold and changed into other currencies, only then does the dollar fall. The moral, if any, is that it takes a great deal of knowledge to play the game, and unless one has years of experience, the only way to win is not to play the game but to try only to secure one's future in perilous times.

The "They can't stop it" kind of thinking can be hazardous to one's wealth. The markets have been around for a long time, and have honed the means to fleece the naive and serve the manipulators. If the price of something goes to a level they don't like, margins will be raised, limits will be expanded, volatility will be extreme, trading may be suspended, markets go into "liquidation only", etc. If those things don't work, the government moles will just pump in billions and billions of fiat dollars against which no small entity can stand. Anyone who was short the S&P's on October 18th, 1987, when trading was suspended and the FED guaranteed unlimited credit to the likes of Chase Manhattan to buy everything anyone in the world had to sell, knows what it is like to be screwed by the system that changes its own rules to suit its own needs. For the average Joe Blow, the best way to play the game is not to play it at all.

People may not remember, for example, that during WWII, trading on the CBOT was just stopped, and the price of the membership fell to $1800. In times soon to come, the markets may simply be closed (as they were after 911), and "excessive speculation" may be dealt with by cancellation of contracts. There may be no public markets for trading commodities, and cash commodities like silver may simply become totally "unavailable". The only thing that one can be reasonably certain of is that people's ability to protect themselves against the Great Foreclosure will be constrained.

All said, if one wants to play "their" games, it is best perhaps to get in now and try to hold on through those times when prices will be going not only limit up, but also and in the same day, come back down to unchanged, and then close limit down. A collapsing dollar means higher dollar prices for all commodities. Although silver is probably the premier investment of all time, other commodities which haven't yet moved (like sugar) may be easier to hold onto.