Saturday, January 26, 2013

xageur -3.02 xagchf -2.78 eurcad 2.55%

Friday, January 18, 2013

xagchf: 6.97 xaggbp: 6.29 xagjpy: 5.62%

Monday, January 14, 2013

Long suffering German gold, all official 3,396 tons of it, is about to be moved. Specifically, it is about to be partially moved out of the New York Fed, where the majority, or 45% of it is currently stored, as well as the entirety of the 11% of German gold held with the Banque de France, and repatriated back home to Buba in Frankfurt, where just 31% of it is held as of this moment. And while it is one thing for a  Hugo Chavez to pull his gold out of the Bank of England, it is something different, and far less dismissible, when the bank with the second most official gold reserves in the world proceeds to formally pull some of its gold from the bank with the most.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

eurjpy 3.28 chfjpy 2.44 xagjpy 2.10%

Friday, January 4, 2013

NZDJPY 4.16 AUDJPY 3.75 CADJPY 3.65%

Thursday, January 3, 2013

1-12 2013

Quotation, n.: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
The real source of inner strength and self-confidence is warm-heartedness.
Dalai Lama
If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.
Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
Homer (900 BC-800 BC)
 Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Congratulation, n.: The civility of envy.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
 Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
 Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)
The world is full of willing people: some willing to work, the others willing to let them.
Poet Robert Frost
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin  
It is the stillest words which bring the storm. Thoughts that come with doves' footsteps guide the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
 "There's an old saying: If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. But given today's out-of-control change "inflation,' if you keep doing what you've always done, you'll get less than you have now."
Winning in the Game of Life. Tom Gegax
 Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"—which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and—watch that basket!"
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble ... Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
There are not more than five cardinal tastes (sour, acrid, salt, sweet, bitter), yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared ... You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues—faith and hope.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)
Virtue never has been as respectable as money.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file of soldiers ... marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Despite the fact that myself and everyone else acting like they know what lays ahead are proven wrong time and time again, we continue to make predictions about the future. It makes us feel like we have some control, when we don’t. The world is too complex, too big, too corrupt, too lost in theories and delusions, and too dependent upon too many leaders with too few brains to be able to predict what will happen next. Jim Quinn

Friday, December 28, 2012

Prize winners of the
 week:
CHFJPY 2.44  EURJPY 2.43 XAGJPY  2.37%
month:
EURXAG 13.80 CHFXAG 13.58 GBPXAG 12.91%
and drum rolls ... winners of the year 2012 are:
XAGJPY 21.46 XAUJPY 18.59 NZDJPY 17.76%

Saturday, December 22, 2012

XAGCHF: - 7.22  XAGEUR: - 7.21 NZDCHF: - 2.77%

Saturday, December 15, 2012

XAGCHF: -4.18 XAGEUR: -4.18  XAGNZD: - 4.01 %.

Saturday, December 8, 2012

NZDCAD: 2.48  NZDCHF: 2.19  CADXAG:  1.64%

Saturday, December 1, 2012

EURXAU: 2.26 CHFXAU: 2.20 EURXAG: 2.08 %

Friday, November 23, 2012

XAGJPY: 6.82   XAGUSD: 5.42  XAGCAD: 4.42%

Saturday, November 17, 2012

CHFJPY:  2.59  XAUCHF:  -1.34  XAGCHF: -1.20

Saturday, November 10, 2012

10.11.12 XAGNZD: 6.69%

3.11.12 XAGAUD:  -9.22%

27 oct NZDCHF.  1.59%

13.10 XAGAUD  -3.51% 

Sunday, September 23, 2012

in gold he trusted

Reclusive 69-year-old Walter Samasko Jr died in May and was found one month later, alongside a hoard of gold bars
When 69-year-old Walter Samasko Jr died in May he left behind just $200 in the bank and no friends or family to lay claim to the meager inheritance. 
He hadn’t worked since 1968 and was living off stock accounts of $140,000 and $25,000.
But the real treasure was found at his Nevada home, along with his decaying body, one month later after neighbours complained of a foul smell.
There officials discovered box upon box of gold coins and bars stowed away in Samasko’s garage, valued at a staggering $7 million or more.
The 69-year-old had died from heart problems, a coroner found, at least one month before he was discovered.

Monday, September 10, 2012

The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

In May 2010, Rolling Stone compiled an updated list  which was published in a special issue and in digital form. The list differs only slightly from the 2004 version, with almost all of the new additions being songs from the 2000s . While a total of 26 new songs were added, the entire top 25 remained unchanged.
The number of songs from each decade in this updated version is as follows:
Decade Number of songs Percentage
1940s 2 0.4%
1950s 69 13.8%
1960s 195 39%
1970s 131 26.2%
1980s 55 11%
1990s 22 4.4%
2000s 26 5.2%

Thursday, March 1, 2012

03-12 12

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
 Lois Hector Berlioz
The nations of the earth are mostly swayed by fear—fear of the sort that a little cheap oratory turns easily to rage, hate, and violence.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!
John Milton (1608-1674)
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Prognostication is difficult... especially as regards the future
Mark Twain
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
Habits change into character.
Ovid
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.
 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
 I gave enough to my children so that they could do anything, but not so much as they could do nothing  
Warren Buffet  
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
 No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
Capitalisation is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
Prognostication is difficult, especially as regards the future.
Mark Twain
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist
Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in.
Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)
We have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason.
Anna Sewell (1820-1878)
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)



Wednesday, February 1, 2012

0212

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
Friendless, adj.: Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
The fortunes of war more than any other are liable to frequent fluctuations.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them.
American poet Robert Frost