As Chavez Pulls Venezuela's Gold From JP Morgan, Is The Great Scramble For Physical Starting?

YES YES YES, It took a commie thug to finally begin to bring JUSTICE to the corrupt fed and JP Morgan, it's lapdog.

from Zerohedge

In addition to the nationalization of his gold insutry, Chavez earlier also announced that he would recover virtually all gold that Venezuela hold abroad, starting with 99 tons of gold at the Bank of England. As the WSJ reported earlier, "The Bank of England recently received a request from the Venezuelan government about transferring the 99 tons of gold Venezuela holds in the bank back to Venezuela, said a person familiar with the matter. A spokesman from the Bank of England declined to comment whether Venezuela had any gold on deposit at the bank." That's great, but not really a gamechanger. After all the BOE should have said gold. What could well be a gamechanger is that according to an update from Bloomberg, Venezuela has gold with, you guessed it, JP Morgan, Barclays, and Bank Of Nova Scotia. As most know, JPM is one of the 5 vault banks. The fun begins if Chavez demands physical delivery of more than 10.6 tons of physical because as today's CME update of metal depository statistics, JPM only has 338,303 ounces of registered gold in storage. Or roughly 10.6 tons. A modest deposit of this size would cause some serious white hair at JPM as the bank scrambles to find the replacement gold, which has already been pledged about 100 times across the various paper markets. Keep an eye on gold in the illiquid after hour market. The overdue scramble for delivery may be about to begin.

That was written yesterday 8/18/11. Gold and silver both have gone parabolic, with gold up forty four dollars just overnight.

There will be screaming from JPM. Look for O to cancel his vacay is my opinion. This is going to be VERY bad and when the truth of the short sales, the theft, the fraud, manipulation and dishonesty come out, I would not be surprised to see VERY ugly things happening.

The winners will be the people with hard gold and silver, as the paper markets will rise on this..... until they find out that the paper EVERYWHERE (like with JP Morgan) does not really represent any physical metals. Then you will see the paper investments in items like SLV and GLD and the COMEX futures go south like crazy, with the possible destruction of the Comex. Physical gold and silver will be the "honest" market, and will begin to trade for a substantial premium over paper.

Time to dust it off and watch it again, I think. Turn up your speakers.






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