I was just looking at Apmex, and it looks like they still have a lot of silver in stock.

Could someone with Chrome run the numbers on their site so we can get a more complete view?

This is great news from a demand perspective. Also, nice post, that is a lot of very pertinent information condensed into one post, something you a very adept a doing. This forum is really fun Turd. The collective "Turdville" knowledge is something to watch roll through on a daily basis. Really something very unique and special you have here. Iron sharpens iron here at the "ville", and everyday that passes my convictions about PMs grow stronger (although they were never weak to begin with) Thanks Turd! Thanks All!

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recent discussions with Canadian suppliers indicate supplies are low and restocking is a daily/weekly challenge. Physical is going mainstream.

Watched the show; Metzger is a bit too uptight. While riding in a van to scout out Ft. Knox, they freak when a Suburban with smoked windows and a large antenna flashed its lights behind them...WHILE THEY WERE IN THE PASSING LANE! The truck then passes without incident.

Nonetheless, it would have been nice to have mingled their show with Pisani's recent "visit".

Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list'

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111005/ts_nm/us_cia_killlist

Is it on youtube yet?

Turd, 

thank you for digging out the statistics. That's what underpins a bull market: strong increase in demand based on fundamentals (negative real interest rates) and undervalued  price (compared to monetary base which has increased 3.5x vs. 2008). 

We need to have courage to buy Silver at $30. Suppose the final price is $150. If we buy now, it will quintuple. If we wait until it goes back to $40, it will only quadrupled. If we wait until it goes even more to $50, it will only tripled. Be greedy at low prices, and skeptical at high prices. 

Here is what happens to the economy if politicians keep on expecting government spending to stimulate it (rather than addressing debt level, economic competitiveness, and disparity of wealth): 

Makes me want to order a couple more tubes of ASE's.

A tube of AGE's would be awesome to order. Someday maybe.

Former Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra T. Benson made this assessment back in 1976.  Forgive the lengthy quote, but it has some citations about the role of silver, hyperinflation, etc. and seems eerily relevant to today's events:

"The pending economic crisis that now faces America is painfully obvious. If even a fraction of potential foreign claims against our gold supply were presented to the Treasury, we would have to renege on our promise. We would be forced to repudiate our own currency on the world market. Foreign investors, who would be left holding the bag with American dollars, would dump them at tremendous discounts in return for more stable currencies, or for gold itself. The American dollar both abroad and at home would suffer the loss of public confidence. If the government can renege on its international monetary promises, what is to prevent it from doing the same on its domestic promises? How really secure would be government guarantees behind Federal Housing Administration loans, Savings and Loan Insurance, government bonds, or even social security?

"Even though American citizens would still be forced by law to honor the same pieces of paper as though they were real money, instinctively they would rush and convert their paper currency into tangible material goods which could be used as barter. As in Germany and other nations that have previously traveled this road, the rush to get rid of dollars and acquire tangibles would rapidly accelerate the visible effects of inflation to where it might cost one hundred dollars or more for a single loaf of bread. Hoarded silver coins would begin to reappear as a separate monetary system which, since they have intrinsic value would remain firm, while printed paper money finally would become worth exactly it's proper value--the paper it is printed on! Everyone's savings would be wiped out totally. No one could escape.

"One can only imagine what such conditions would do to the stock market and to industry. Uncertainty over the future would cause the consumer to halt all spending except for the barest necessities. Market for such items as television sets, automobiles, furniture, new homes, and entertainment would dry up almost overnight. With no one buying, firms would have to close down and lay off their employees. Unemployment would further aggravate the buying freeze, and the nation would plunge into a depression that would make the 1930s look like prosperity. At least the dollar was sound in those days. In fact, since it was a firm currency, its value actually went up as related to the amount of goods, which declined through reduced production. Next time around, however, the problems of unemployment and low production will be compounded by a monetary system that will be utterly worthless. All the government controls and so-called guarantees in the world will not be able to prevent it, because every one of them is based on the assumption that the people will continue to honor printing press money. But once the government itself openly refuses to honor it--as it must if foreign demands for gold continue--it is likely that the American people will soon follow suit. This in a nutshell is the so-called 'gold problem.”

I never watch the show( I swear ). He interviewed Sanders about how ineffectual the CFTC was in regards to the evil oil speculators who are responsible for the high price of gasoline. They said if it wasn't for lax regulation oil would be much lower due to excess supply and lower demand.

Also alluded that the price of other commodities (corn,wheat) would be lower as well, if Gensler and the CFTC would do their job. Cramer said Obama should order Gensler to regulate them. GMAFB!

There's an old saying that whatever a banker says is a lie and the opposite is true. Well this whole interview was exactly back asswards.

No mention of gold/silver/copper margin hikes. No mention of margin decreases on financials. Whatever they say just flip it around and you have the truth. Not news to those in T-Ville, but I  had to vent.

BTW, ditto Benroberts accolades for all those posts today.

i didn't know it was news that the CIA kills people

@DPH - Little by little, pal. Then you can buy an empty AGE tube on EBay and pretend you bought them all at once!

Being a Gen-Xer, I heard a lot of talks looking down at our Gen-Y youth, such as they are too lazy, too easy to use credit cards and get into debts, too embedded in the virtual world and not enough real world, too entitled, etc.

Recently I have grown more symptathetic toward them. Some of the complaints about them are true. But we must also consider that the recent economic hardship falls especially hard on them. Their true unemployment rate is close to 25%, due to recession and also due to competing for jobs with boomers. They are saddled with massive student loans that they have to repay, courtesyof financialization of our economy which they didn't cause.

​Looking at the OWS movement, quite a few of them get what's wrong with our country. I think some of them are bright and well informed. Certainly I didn't know as much when I was their age.

Some of them face enormous challenges to start a career. For example, some want to start farming, but it just takes so much money to be a farmer these days. Take a look at the following piece

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/23/140631752/high-costs-make-it-harder-to-gro...

It's not that they do not have idea or are not creative. But things are stacked against them. I saw the following project on Solar Decathlon's competition, and came away impressed with the ingenuity of our youngsters. 

There are a lot more projects  like this. Very impressive. 

My main point is that as an older generation (be it Gen-X or boomers), we need to help our youngsters to succeed in the economy, and help shape the economic structure that is more accommodative to them to start with a good career. This blog may be about precious metals, but either we succeed or fail as society and as an economy, it is going to be beyond PM stacking. It will depend on us working together with Gen-Y to get our hands dirty and produce something useful.  

On the other side of the Wynter coin is SC from Cyclical Market Analysis, who was calling for $4 silver next year (revised I believe to $6.50).  Interestingly enough if you average both of these outlying predictions you get $25.75, which seems to be about what everyone else is expecting and where we'd likely see massive buying and possibly shortages in coin stores as well as the major websites.

http://cyclicalmarketanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/09/silver-collapse-resumes-2012-target-650.html

I track 100 oz bars every 12 hours. Not seeing anything unusual. September 25th - the recent low - they were down to 548 bars. Right now, over 1,000 bars available of 100 oz.

5-Oct 9:31pm Current - 762 Backorder - 256 Total - 1018 Silver Price - 30.27

Occupy Wall Street: Video Allegedly Shows NYPD Officer Striking Protesters With Baton

"Just before 8 p.m. Wednesday, reportedly at the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, a New York Police Department officer appeared to turn on a throng of activists with the Occupy Wall Street movement, hitting them with a baton. A video posted hours later to YouTube shows the officer wielding the baton with two hands -- like a baseball bat -- as he swings at and strikes the demonstrators. At one point, a woman can be heard shrieking in the background.

The white-shirt cop, most likely a supervisor, had stood next to at least a half-dozen other officers, including other department brass. The video shows the officer appearing to nudge a spectator out of the way, back up and raise his baton. He then gets off three swings before the crowd appears to surge toward him -- digital cameras and video recorders held high.

Queue the Honorable Richard J Daley - "Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all – the policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder."

. I saw this also and more specifically that it will commence at 3:30 PM.  Best..

I don't think Gen-Xers were exactly paragons of fiscal discipline. Although the early '90s for the recent college grad was a nightmare that I never forgot. I never ever ran up a credit card and I never ever spent much on anything. Didn't take many vacations, I knew this time that's upon us was coming.

I imagine if the economy had collapsed in early 90s like it looked like it was going to (it really did look like for a brief time that it was all going to go down the drain), we'd be protesting like the Gen-Yers are now. Then the Fed got scared and firehosed the system with credit in 1995 and never really stopped since. It's at the point now where the credit doesn't work anymore. It has been a good what? 16 years? Party's over.

It just happened to catch them now, and if I was their age at this time, I'd probably be doing the same stuff. When you've got nothing to lose, why not?

Hammer, thanks for the good quotes you posted. Here is my favorite: 

7 Deadly Sins (Mahatma Gandhi):

1. Wealth Without Work

2. Pleasure Without Conscience

3. Knowledge Without Character

4. Commerce (Business) Without Morality (Ethics)

5. Science Without Humanity

6. Religion Without Sacrifice

7. Politics Without Principle

The first Apple computer went on sale in July 1976.

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Retail cost - $666.66. Sounded like a hell of a deal at the time.

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RIP Mr. Jobs (However, if just in case you are one of 'them', then i take it back)

Fried(e)

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"We're already creating the superior beings, I think we lost the battle to the machines long ago,"

"We're going to become the pets, the dogs of the house."

"Every time we create new technology we're creating stuff to do the work we used to do and we're making ourselves less meaningful, less relevant.

"Why are we going to need ourselves so much in the future? -Wozniak

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Eggs says - Then why are you making these mostly *useless* bulshit products to make US -people - HUMANS - less relevant you asshole? Dont create 'that' technology then; we WANT! to be *meaningful* thank you very fuckin much.

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The big things he had was the Reality Distortion Field and a knack for knowing what the public was ready for, when it was ready for it and how much he could gouge the public for it.

AAPL won't die immediately, but they have booked passage on the SS Mediocrity, with a cabin next door to MSFT. It takes a long time for a megacorp to die, anything a megacorp does, it does it sloooooowwwwwwwllllllllyyyyyyyyyyy.

Funny how Jobs dies right when it looks like the whole stock market is teetering on the edge. 

I first found it at Jesse's. It's been picked up everywhere.

US exposure to Europe approx 2.7 trillion.

The domino effect.

Chocked full of sobering info. Worth the read.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/europe-debt-crisis_b_996528.html

I caught the gold at fort knox special, along with the episode before about the freemasons and alien encounters.  Interesting stuff to be making its way into the collective conscious in these times...

If this is airing on the history channel, with the type of information that was revealed on it, namely the gold manipulation by western banking cartel.... GATA interview,  and the financial engineer interview....

My opinion is that TPTB are prepping the public for an audit/gold mania.... as gold will be on the mind of the public again in this next leg-up.... with rising price brings rising attention.

Will they show tungsten?  Will they show nothing?  Interesting days ahead.

Why is this on the history channel?  Or is this legitimate investigation (I may doubt it, as the history channel's perspectives seem to offer explanations, but many seem a bit construed).... I don't know what to think after watching it... but seems like interesting timing given the days.  Maybe it is just on the mind of others.

Interesting chart comparing stock and apple products.  Mind blowing, actually... Over a year old, so add roughly 35%..?  

http://kyleconroy.com/2010/04/apple-stock