Fear mongering on the net to promote gold to $2000 an ounce

People like Alex Jones, Glen Beck, and Rush as well as some on the political right are in the habit of promoting fear...

This is done for ratings, this is done to sell products advertises have and this is done to promote fear.   Fear drives voters, fear drive products.

In the case of someone like Alex Jones his advertisers make money off this fear and their fore so does he.

What happened when he promoted the swine flu outbreak as being a FEMA started conspiracy to round up Americans and place them into concentration camps?

Alleged FEMA camp to contain the American population and begin the mass killing of non essential civilian, obviously not located near New Orleans as FEMA has trouble locating that city.

Gold was $900

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Gold was $1000

Republican/tea party election wins 2010






Gold was $1350

What happens when Libya works on getting its freedom....?
The call is that they may be al QAEDA?
Gold is $1400



The new things he is pushing is that Al Qaeda is run by the CIA again to instil fear.
"Al-Qaeda 100% Pentagon Run
Infowars.com | Alex Jones addresses the multitude of evidence that al-Qaeda works for the Pentagon and the CIA [UPDATED]."
Today gold closed at $1439


Is it enough to put the rise in gold on one person and someone that has had almost every idea, every theory or every statement proven false?
No but him and his type are significant in the population do

Alex Jones Fear mongering tapes

From a gold website and 5 reasons why gold will rise.
Economy
Fear
"As the market does its daily job of balancing fear and greed, it becomes increasingly apparent that fear predominates. Investors are abandoning anything with the slightest hint of risk. The sovereign-debt crisis that started with Iceland and Greece is threatening to spread across the globe. Fearful investors are shifting assets from the euro and other weakening currencies into gold. Even the recently sagging US dollar has benefited, but given that the debt-laden federal government is about as bad off as Greece in every important economic metric, the world's reserve currency is living on borrowed time. The stock market rebounded from its 2008-09 depths, but some analysts say it's overbought and due for painful correction. And the Dow's 1,000-point plunge on May 6, 2010, showed investors just how breathtakingly vulnerable paper assets can be. Meanwhile, the winds of war continue to howl across the Middle East, Asia and elsewhere, exacting huge costs in American blood and treasure."
Demand
Reflation
the US Dollar
http://www.blanchardonline.com/gold_as_investment/gold_rise.php

Is there are reason for gold to go so high....?

I dont think so.

Now is the world imploding as we speak?  

Is the world economies collapsing or growing?  

Are advanced economies stagnating?  

As emerging economies begin to have more purchasing power will we see the results in the advanced economies?

Classic Mercedes in IndiaMercedes S Guard Limo in India, Mercedes sales up 81%

This is an interesting article that takes some of the numbers and breaks them done, I am not a pessimist when it comes to the emerging economies stepping up and buying quality products that the advanced countries are known for.

 Buick in China , car sales are up 35% to 2 million units
This for me is where the world will but products that we can offer and with the pedigree and quality they expect. 

 Bombardier High Speed Train for China HSR lines ($4 billion in sales)

"Great Financial Crisis? What Great Financial Crisis?

That seems to be the attitude in 2011. Which worries us at EconomyWatch.com, because we do not believe that the underlying problems have been solved? If anything, they have been exacerbated.

But first, the numbers, taken as ever from our Economic Statistics Database.

World Economic Statistics at a Glance - 2011 Forecast

World GDP (PPP): $78.092 trillion
GDP Growth Rate: 3.3%
GDP Per Capita (PPP): $11,100
GDP By Sector: Services 63.4%, Industry 30.8%, Agriculture 5.8%
Growth In Trade Volume: 6.953%
Industrial Production Growth Rate: 4.6%
Population: 6.768 billion
Population Growth Rate: 1.133%
Urban Population: 50.5%
Urbanization Rate: 1.85% (125 million people move to cities every year)
The Poor (Income below $2 per day): Approx 3.25 billion (~ 50%)
Millionaires: Approx 10 million (~ 0.15%)
Labor Force: 3.232 billion
Inflation Rate - Developed Countries: 2.5%
Inflation Rate - Developing Countries: 5.6%
Unemployment Rate: 8.8%
 Investment: 23.4% of GDP
Public Debt: 58.3% of GDP
Market Value of Publicly Traded Companies: $48.85 trillion, or 62.6% of World GDP
Sources: EconomyWatch.com Economic Statistics Database, CIA World Factbook, IMF, World Bank

The World Economy in 2010 was worth $74.007 trillion in GDP terms, using the Purchasing Price Parity (PPP) method of valuation. This is expected to grow to $78.092 trillion in 2011.

The overall global economy averaged a 3.2 per cent growth rate between 2000 and 2007, suffering a slight dip in 2001 - 2002 thanks to the Dot Com Crash, but continuing to grow throughout that period. In fact 2004 - 2007 were boom years. The Emerging Markets, led by the giants of China, India, Russia and Brazil (the BRIC countries) had been posting 7 per cent - 10 per cent growth rates for years. Property and stock market booms had brought consistent growth in North America and Europe. Investment was bringing economic development to much of the Middle East and Africa, and even Japan was recovering from its deflationary 'Lost Years'.
Theories were even circulating that thanks to the growth of the developing world, we might enjoy years of unfettered growth, as new markets would go through successive growth spurts and counter the effects of slowing growth elsewhere. It was suggested that Asia was 'decoupling' from the US and able to grow under its own steam thanks to its two 'Awakening Giants'.

Sadly, that turned out to be hogwash, as deregulation allowed western banks to build up unsustainable levels of debt that brought the global economy to the brink of depression.

As the 'Sub-Prime' Crisis morphed into a fully fledged crash then global Financial Crisis, 2008 started to bomb and 2009 became the first year that the world recorded a loss in GDP since World War II. 2.031% was wiped out of the global economy - or $3.3 trillion of value.

We are now in what the IMF calls a 'Two Speed Recovery Process'.

Advanced economies have now shrunk as much as feared, but they are either growing slowly or stagnating, with unsustainable debt levels and persistently high unemployment. The US is continuing to stimulate its economy - although it seems more like giving free money to banks who then horde it - which continues to raise debt levels, while the Europeans, thanks to the Eurozone Crisis of 2010, are more focused on budget cuts, helping to reduce debts but keeping unemployment high with a chance of a second recession hitting (the so-called W-shaped recovery). Japan continues to struggle with high debt, a strong currency and deflation.

There are exceptions, of course. Australia and Canada have both done well from rising commodity prices and well-managed banks, while the amazing German high-end export machine goes from strength to strength - putting further pressure on its Eurozone partners in the process.

Developing economies, on the other hand, are experiencing strong growth, as they continue to invest in their own infrastruccture, grow overall exports, and start to see increased levels of consumption from the hundreds of millions that they pull out of poverty every year, the tens of millions that join the middle class, and the millions that join the ranks of the rich.

India cars like the Tata Pixel are hitting the streets and are not tin cans but have style and are selling... what does that mean to oil and gas?

This emerging market growth process is also leading to an urbanized planet. For the first time in 2010, the majority of the world's population lived in cities (50.5% or 3.417 billion people), and that number is growing by over 125 million people a year.

This two-speed process has led to a rapid change of the political and economic power structure that has existed since the end of World War II.

During this period, we have seen China Overtake Japan as the world's second largest economy, and the replacement of the old G7/ G8 structure with the G20, bringing together the twenty most important economies from both the advanced and developing worlds.

But let us get back to why we now find ourselves in a world where the 'advanced' economies are in such a sluggish mood.

Yes, There Was a Great Financial Crisis. 

No, it Wasn't a 'Freak' Accident that No One Could Have Predicted.

 No, it Hasn't Been Solved.

De-regulation allowed banks to grow bigger and bigger by taking on ever greater leverage - i.e. betting with borrowed or engineered money - against ever smaller capital reserves.

When valuations were going up, leverage helped to fatten profits. Bankers and their shareholders didn't need to laugh all the way to the bank, since they already owned it.

But when markets turned (despite models that assumed that housing markets only ever went up) that leverage amplified losses. Vague concepts of 'moral hazard' quickly turned to a Too Big To Fail policy. The fear was that if one bank failed, the domino effect could take the whole system down.

And rather than set about cleaning up the system, western governments proceeded to save those banks with taxpayer money, while the commercial paper markets froze, the Baltic Dry Index went effectively to zero, and real unemployment started climbing to depression-era levels.

Bankers have since gone back to paying themselves billions in bonuses while their debts have effectively been nationlized and transferred to government debt. Meanwhile unemployment remains stubbornly high.

Dubai 1990 and in 2003

Dubai 2011

National Debt marked the second phase of the Great Financial Crisis, that started in 2009 with Dubai's defaults. While Dubai was saved by the oil wealth of Abu Dhabi, Europe in 2010 was a different story. The structural problem of the European Union, in which Monetary Policy has been centralized while Fiscal Policy remains national, was fully exposed by the soaring bond costs for the PIIGS countries. The Eurozone Crisis started in Greece, quickly spread through Portugal and Ireland, and even threatened the UK.

The response involves loans that (surprise surprise) lets European banks keep their money, while austerity measures throw yet more people on the breadline. At the start of 2011, one in eight working age Spaniards is out of a job, while cuts to government services budgets are reaching 40 per cent in instances.

With the exception of the incredible German export machine, powered by the mittelstand, Europe is lowing at a prolonged period of low growth and civil unrest.

Audi sales in India up 107%

That on its own would be bad enough, but combined with the next problem, it could be truly disasterous.

Inflation is Back - and Stagflation is Coming

During the Oil Crisis of the 1970s, oil spiked at a nominal peak of $38. In today's prices (adjusted for inflation), that is $106, a figure that we blew past in early 2008. Just before the dawn of the 21st century, oil averaged $16 a barrel. By July 2008, less than 10 years later, oil hit a high of $146 a barrel - a stunning rise of more than 800%. From early 2007 to mid 2008 alone the price has risen more than threefold from the mid $40s.

With uprisings and revolution sweeping the arab world, we are now back over $100 at the start of 2011. It seems unlikely they will stay here, despite the growth of natural gas supplies. As emerging markets drive ever greater resource demands, a set of Wikileaks documents confirm what many have suspected; that the Saudis have exaggerated their reserves and Peak Oil has already been reached.

Canada has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia and in unproven reserves it could have more than the world combined.  On this chart it has Canada in purple at 178 billion  barrels and the US at 21 billion barrels.   If the  Saudi's are lying about their oil Canada will be the biggest supplier and long term secure partner for US imports.

In fact there is a growing school of thought known as 'Peak Oil' that believes we have - or will soon - reach peak oil production capabilities. In the 1950s Dr M. King Hubbert correctly predicted peak oil and decline rates for the mainland US oil industry. His model came to be known as The Hubbert Peak Theory. It predicts that world peak oil production will be reached sometime between 2000 and 2010, and will decline thereafter.
The costs of commodities across the board are being driven up by the 3 billion inhabitants of the BRIC nations, whose wealth is growing at 8 per cent to 10 per cent a year, not to mention a further 2 billion or so in the other emerging markets.

As long as supply can't keep up with demand, and with all the cheap money that is flowing into markets from western central banks, inflation growth is likely.

India is looking to purchase more cars in its history which should only make commodity prices increase.  This is the new Mahindra FEV (diesel hybrid). Car sales jumped 28% in March 2010

This could challenge social stability in poorer countries - and could signal stagflation for the advanced economies.

Conversely, it has been powering a period of strong economic growth in Africa, with countries like Ghana now leading global growth figures.

Although it should be fuelling similar growth stories in the Middle East, something else has been growing - descent.

A younger generation of well-educated but Un-or under-employed youth are no longer ready to accept autocratic rule, corruption and a lack of civil society.

If they manage to bring real change to their countries, in the form of plural democracies and greater accountability, the world's political economy could be re-configured in unexpected ways."

http://www.economywatch.com/world_economy

Places like Dubai continue to grow while places like Oman take a much slower pace and city states like Abu Dhabi's takes the middle road

I placed pictures of today success stories within the article to show that economics always has two sides.