12-10-2009, 11:32 AM
The more I think about these reports, the more I ponder their veracity. As a fully ordained cynic, I start to wonder if there is a deeper purpose to this.
Leaking reports to internet Goldbugs and pressure groups of Chinese insisting on physical delivery (when they must know there isn't any), smacks of a sly market LBMA manipulation.
Begin with a 1-2 month lead period where you arrange to buy cheap jewelry gold, make it fit for London Delivery and then leak reports of shortages of physical to create a price spike. Sell.
It's a flavour of Private Eye's perennial law firm: Sue, Grabbit & Runne - or the metal market equivalent: Sowe, Reape & Prosper.
Leaking reports to internet Goldbugs and pressure groups of Chinese insisting on physical delivery (when they must know there isn't any), smacks of a sly market LBMA manipulation.
Begin with a 1-2 month lead period where you arrange to buy cheap jewelry gold, make it fit for London Delivery and then leak reports of shortages of physical to create a price spike. Sell.
It's a flavour of Private Eye's perennial law firm: Sue, Grabbit & Runne - or the metal market equivalent: Sowe, Reape & Prosper.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
