Real Regulatory Reform

[webmaster]

Subject:Real Regulatory Reform
By: Theodore Butler and Carl Loeb

Overview: Record demand, no increase in supply and sharp price sell-offs? Your head should be spinning. That cannot occur in a free market. It can only occur in a rigged or manipulated market. That this is clearly a case of the COMEX futures markets dictating and setting the price to the cash market is as blatant a violation of basic commodity law as is possible.

Link: http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1207068209.php

[Holidaysilver]

I have been following Ted Butler's advice since Silver was $6.00 an ounce.

Sometimes he asks us to write to regulators ourselves. This time he did not. I'm not sure what can be done.

The only thing I can think of is to keep talking Silver up, read everything we can to stay informed, and keep the faith.

Anyone have any new ideas?

[silver1000]

Be right, sit tight. Thanks to Ted and many others I've been in silver since $5 or so and have not sold a single ounce yet. The fundamentals have not yet changed. They've only gotten better actually. Until they change I will continue to hold my silver and gold and mining stocks. There are things you can do to help the process, but ultimately it will happen on its own too. I remain patient while doing what I can to help others learn the fundamentals too.

[Holidaysilver]

Well said!

[elixer]

Good article, as always, Ted.

The only thing that was ever going to change this situation was a physical silver shortage arising - whether by a large long trader moving in or simply by the 'death by a thousand cuts' of the small traders buying up the supply.

The shortage is here now at last, and I mean even here in Australia, so now the blood is in the water. This means that all those who have been on the sidelines looking on with mild interest will be moving to the trading table. A fresh carcass is about to be dismembered, and the carcass is the body of the short silver traders.

Or we can hope!

[Daveman]

Ha, where are the Hunt brothers when you need them?

If we have the Hunts cornering silver today, or Buffett, it be game over in a year.

[biba]

Can the ETF's buy futures and stand for delivery to get their silver? The Casey Research Plus article said that some gold contracts took delivery.

[elixer]

Originally Posted by Daveman

Ha, where are the Hunt brothers when you need them?

If we have the Hunts cornering silver today, or Buffett, it be game over in a year.

Do we even need the Hunts? If the punters who have bought paper silver simply went down and asked for physical silver for their paper they would double the price of silver quick time.

For a 1-2% fabrication fee they would increase their holdings by 100%. Sounds like a no brainer to me - why isn't there a campaign amongst the silver community to do this patriotic act. We have the power - why are we not using it? And I want to emphasis this for the Ted Butler's and Jason Hommel's of the world. Why are we not raising the awareness for this grass roots movement?

If you own paper silver you are just suckering yourself.

[mls56]

Originally Posted by silver1000

Be right, sit tight. Thanks to Ted and many others I've been in silver since $5 or so and have not sold a single ounce yet. The fundamentals have not yet changed. They've only gotten better actually. Until they change I will continue to hold my silver and gold and mining stocks. There are things you can do to help the process, but ultimately it will happen on its own too. I remain patient while doing what I can to help others learn the fundamentals too.

We all have remained patient, why the FED is gaining more power, 4/3/08 will be a time for all of to watch, as Bear Sterns,JP Morgan Chase, the rep from the SEC, all that had ties to the FEDs dealing , as JP Morgan rip off BS ! This will be a formal inquiry by the Senate , it will start early! This will be the talk of the biz & MSM. Fox biz will cover it.
Also, I follow the work of GATA. Go to there web site for there lastest news. www.GATA.org . It may be timeing, but April 17-19 GATA Goes to Washington -- Anybody Seen Our Gold? will be the theme. This may be perfect timeing to put more pressure on the Regulators to do there job, as Ted would say. I think it is time to contact local TV, radio, they will jump at anything to get there rateings up. I will start with the Memphis Fox & NBC , what the hell, you never know unless you try! Memphis has a large goverment depot, the U.S. Mint ships coins from there, it is also a major bullion holding area.
What Ted gave us, was a way to reach out to all of the small investors, to come out in numbers, accross the nation, to fight for a equal chance, for a fair market, free from price surpression. Look how the shortage of silver news stired the pot!!

[prahudka]

Originally Posted by mls56

We all have remained patient, why the FED is gaining more power, 4/3/08 will be a time for all of to watch, as Bear Sterns,JP Morgan Chase, the rep from the SEC, all that had ties to the FEDs dealing , as JP Morgan rip off BS ! This will be a formal inquiry by the Senate , it will start early! This will be the talk of the biz & MSM. Fox biz will cover it.
Also, I follow the work of GATA. Go to there web site for there lastest news. www.GATA.org . It may be timeing, but April 17-19 GATA Goes to Washington -- Anybody Seen Our Gold? will be the theme. This may be perfect timeing to put more pressure on the Regulators to do there job, as Ted would say. I think it is time to contact local TV, radio, they will jump at anything to get there rateings up. I will start with the Memphis Fox & NBC , what the hell, you never know unless you try! Memphis has a large goverment depot, the U.S. Mint ships coins from there, it is also a major bullion holding area.
What Ted gave us, was a way to reach out to all of the small investors, to come out in numbers, accross the nation, to fight for a equal chance, for a fair market, free from price surpression. Look how the shortage of silver news stired the pot!!

All this talk of paper in the Morgan article makes me think of the comparison to the mortgage/subprime mess.

To mess the essence of that mess is a shortage of real equity in properties. The short sellers were generating these mortgages and peddling them, though they had FNMA backing. It was a paper transaction, not actual delivery, because the physical asset was in the equity, which was inflated by too many short sellers encouraged by the FEd.

However, it created a flow of paper and the bankers dipped in for their percentages along the way. The more transactions, the more commissions.

Buy and hold, real estate wise, was not encouraged by Fed policy.

Now look where we are.

However, the markets always tend toward the exposure of shortages with time. Morgan mentions rice, etc. The equity short is causing panic.

So, the idea that regulators will bail out the silver pigs is real. To some extent. Maybe an FDR/1933 maneuver helps to generate the missing physical commodity. After all, as FDR said, this is a matter of national security.