From Al Jazeera English

Published on Feb 28, 2014

Russian aircraft carrying nearly 2,000 suspected troops have landed at a military airbase near the regional capital of the restive Crimean peninsula, a top Ukrainian official has said, accusing Moscow of an "armed invasion".Al Jazeera's laurence Lee reports from Simferopol.

Although I don't know where the GLD are getting the 400oz bars to back the fund, as our Swiss mate and his refinery friends were refining all the outflowing GLD 400oz bars last year and recasting them into 1kg bars for the Chinese market.

LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters)

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The world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, New York's SPDR Gold Shares, is on track for its first monthly inflow of metal in more than a year after a run of weaker U.S. data boosted investment interest in gold.

The SPDR fund, which issues securities backed by physical metal and attracted big inflows in the wake of the financial crisis, has added 10.5 tonnes to its reserves so far this month.

That means that, barring a large outflow on Friday, February would be the first month to show an increase since December 2012.

Last year holdings of gold-backed ETFs fell by 881 tonnes, according to data from the World Gold Council and Thomson Reuters GMFS, as gold prices tumbled 28 percent. The SPDR alone saw its holdings drop by more than 550 tonnes.

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From Boom Bust

Part two of Erin's interview with Max Keiser, who provides a definition of financialization and explains all the problems surrounding it. He believes that as long as the Fed keeps interest rates at zero, we are heading in the direction of a collapse. He also gives his colorful view on a story we covered a couple of days ago: JP Morgan and their new business model.

From RT

Published on Feb 27, 2014

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the 'cling-ons' unable to afford to live in London, while in Texas, Rex Tillerson of Exxon, the man most responsible for pushing fracking across the nation, refuses to have it happen in his backyard. In the second half, Max interviews Andrew Spooner of AsiaProvocateur.blogspot.com about the economic reasons behind the ongoing protests in Thailand.

From Boom Bust

Published on Feb 26, 2014

Erin welcomes The Keiser Report's Max Keiser talks about Bitcoin, Mt. Gox, and a second generation crypto-currency alternative, his very own Maxcoin! Although Mt. Gox is facing trouble, Keiser doesn't believe that Bitcoin is going to lose its long term value, and he further explains why he thinks crypto-currencies have more intrinsic value than fiat currency. Watch to see what he thinks of the US dollar, the British pound, and the effect crypto-currencies have on the banking world.

Finally an intelligent and reasoned discussion about bitcoin and the fall of Mt. Gox.

From Stefan Molyneux

Published on Feb 26, 2014

Stefan Molyneux and Andreas Antonopoulos discuss the fall of Mt. Gox, the greatly exaggerated death of Bitcoin, the joy of failure within the Bitcoin economy, the incredible opportunity Bitcoin provides those without access to the modern banking system, and the difference between Bitcoin and the Federal Reserve System and fiat currencies worldwide.

Andreas Antonopoulos is the Chief Security Officer of Blockchain.info, a host on Let's Talk Bitcoin and an expert on Information Security and Cryptography.

From RT

Published on Feb 25, 2014

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the shriek factor in financial markets and the whirlpool of money death at MtGox.

In the second half, Max interviews Jan Skoyles of The Real Asset Company about the biggest gold heists in history, the Goldilocks year for the gold and silver markets and the crowd-funding campaign for Get REAL.

From Boom Bust

Erin Ade talks to Doug Casey his assessment of China and why he thinks that 21st Century is a Chinese century. In this segment, he explains why he thinks central banks will lead to greater higher inflation and economic volatility in the near future; extols gold and explains why you should buy it; and warns why economic nationalism by governments could threaten economies throughout the world. After the break, Casey talks about water scarcity, the rising price of oil extraction, and how financialization and militarization hurt the US economy.

From Bloomberg News