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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Peter Schiff: Lots of Upside Left in the Gold Bull Market
4 Canadian Value Stocks : CNI, LULU, POT, SLW
by J. Royden Ward, editor Benjamin Graham Value Letter, 
We believe many outstanding buying opportunities exist among undervalued Canadian stocks. We believe the following four offer excellent appreciation potential during the next six to 12 month.
Canada is an excellent place to invest right now because the economy is growing, banks are solid and the national debt is under control.
Canadian banks were not allowed to sell risky loans or buy unsafe investments. The housing market in Canada remains solid, economic growth continues to climb, and the nation’s debt remains low.
Canadian National Railway (CNI) operates Canada’s largest railroad system covering Canada from east to west and the central U.S. south to the Gulf of Mexico.
Canadian National is the most efficient rail operator in North America with high profits and low costs.
The company hauls a wide variety of goods including forest products, intermodal shipping containers, farm products, petroleum and chemicals.
It’s $1.7 billion capital improvement program to expand port facilities, add track, and purchase freight cars and fuel-efficient locomotives will help EPS to roll along at a good clip.
CNI currently trades at just 12.1 times forward 12-month earnings per share, with a dividend yield of 2.0%. CNI is a solid long term investment.
Lululemon Athletica (LULU), founded in 1998 in Vancouver, British Columbia, makes long-lasting athletic clothing for running, dancing, practicing yoga and other active endeavors.
The company sells women’s pants, shorts, tops and jackets in 138 company-owned and four franchised stores in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Hong Kong.
The company will likely increase sales and earnings by 19% during the next 12 months. The stock, as measured by P/E, is expensive at 38.6 times our forward EPS estimate of 1.26, but far less than its 50.0 times EPS of a few months ago.
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT) is a leading producer of potash, nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers.
Critical demand for food in places like China and Africa will require more and more fertilizer to maximize crop production.
The company is spending $7.5 billion to enlarge its facilities, which will increase its fertilizer production more than 50% by 2015.
Larger global grain crops are boosting fertilizer demand, evidenced by Potash’s sales rise of 54% and EPS jump of 85% during the past 12-month period.
We expect strong sales and EPS growth in 2011 and 2012 as well. POT shares sell at a reasonable 11.3 times forward 12-month EPS.
Silver Wheaton (SLW), based in British Columbia, purchases silver from mines in Greece, Mexico, Peru and Sweden.
The company does not own or operate any silver mines, but purchases silver produced as a by-product of gold mining companies.
Silver Wheaton pays less than $4.00 per ounce of silver from gold miners such as Barrick Gold. Its contracts are immensely profitable and will produce rapid revenue and earnings growth well into the future.
The price of silver has dropped significantly during the past several weeks, but we expect higher prices in 2012. The recent decline in the stock price offers an excellent buying opportunity.
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Foreign Central Banks Selling US Treasuries at Unprecendented Levels
Two weeks ago I began to report to subscribers of the Wall Street Examiner Professional Edition Fed Report that foreign central banks (FCBs) had begun to engage in unprecedented levels of disgorgement of their massive holdings of US Treasury and Agency paper. Prior to this year, the FCBs had typically absorbed the equivalent of 25% of new US Treasury issuance month in and month out. That was effectively a subsidy of US financial markets. It lowered long term interest rates artificially and injected cash into the US markets and banking system. Then about a year ago the FCBs began to slack off in their buying. In reality, that is what necessitated the Fed's program of Quantitative Easing. The Fed had to step in and fill the demand gap left by the FCBs gradually reducing their rate of purchases. Had the Fed not acted when it did, long term Treasury yields would have started to rise and along with them mortgage rates and other long term rates, something that the US economy and the US Government simply could not afford.
When the negative unintended consequences of the Fed's QE money printing, primarily skyrocketing commodity prices, exploded in Bernanke's face, he was forced to discontinue the program and allow the Treasury market to fend for itself. The Fed had convinced itself through its self-congratulatory in-house research, that there would be more than enough demand for Treasuries for the market to stand on its own without the Fed propping it up.
Ironically, the US bond market was rescued by the European sovereign debt and bank meltdown, so it appeared for a while that Dr. Bernankenstein might be right and his monster experiment would be vivified on its own. The European panic triggered massive capital flight that ended up, where else, flooding into the US, mostly into purchases of Treasuries. Not only could the monster walk on its own, it could actually fly! Once again the Treasury market benefited from an unusual subsidy, this one driven by fear. Bond prices flew into the stratosphere with yields sinking to record lows. (more)
How bankrupt governments will confiscate your gold
About two weeks ago, GoldMoney sent out an apologetic email to all of its Dutch customers. The email explained how the Dutch financial regulator (AFM) considered GoldMoney to be in violation of various licensing rules and compliance requirements.
Among other things, AFM indicated that GoldMoney was selling ‘investment objects’ without a license… something that they consider a heinous breach of their silly bureaucracy.
Now, there are so many technicalities involved here– whether physical metal constitutes ‘investment objects’ anymore than a collection of 80s action figures or a cellar of fine Bordeaux. Then there’s the jurisdictional issue– GoldMoney doesn’t even operate in the Netherlands, nor does the company sell its own inventory. Etc., etc.
None of these points seem to matter; the regulators have spoken, and as a consequence, GoldMoney is now closing the accounts of every customer living in the Netherlands.
It’s always troubling when governments go after firms like GoldMoney. The more signs I see, the more I’m starting to believe that we’re heading down a path where precious metals are once again confiscated, outlawed, or at least severely restricted in many countries.
Let’s start with the why. What possible sense would it make to reduce or restrict gold ownership?
Simple. The modern financial system is a complete joke. Money is conjured from thin air, backed by false promises from bankrupt governments. Then there’s the fractional reserve swindle, centrally planned interest rates, government-produced inflation, manufactured statistics, insane credit and sovereign debt bubbles, etc.
It’s a total fraud… and like any good con, it depends on just that: confidence.
In order for a system based on -nothing- to perpetuate, it’s imperative that it commands the confidence of the people within it. And people in rich western countries have been programmed since birth to believe that the colored pieces of paper circulating around in their economies are intrinsically ‘valuable’.
It’s funny, because developing countries already know it’s a scam. They don’t trust their governments, and they don’t trust those silly pieces of paper either. Out here in Asia is a great example– most of the region is very gold-oriented. They use paper as a medium of exchange, but it’s a cultural norm to save with gold.
In fact, when I walked into an Internet cafe earlier today here in Thailand, I noticed quite a few people at the computers checking out live gold charts (from Kitco).
People in western countries are just starting to get it… and as more people peek behind the curtain to see the true crimes being committed, the system will be finished.
The gold price is a constant reminder that the fiat financial system is a con job. And the higher the gold price becomes, the more people become aware. The political establishment will do whatever it takes to maintain the status quo, and it’s possible that precious metals restrictions will become a tactic:
Step 1: Just make gold ‘harder’. To buy. To transport. To own.
Think about the changes we’ve seen over the last two years; government-regulated exchanges are continually hiking their gold margin requirements, increasing investors’ burden to buy.
On the physical side, the US government buried some insane regulations deep within last year’s healthcare bill. The new rules required a mountain of paperwork such that anyone who purchased a single ounce of gold from a coin shop would have to submit a special 1099 form to the IRS.
(The rule was later modified under intense pressure from various lobby groups, but it still gives you a good idea of what these people are thinking…)
Then there’s the new Dodd-Frank legislation that makes it nearly impossible for US citizens to trade securities and commodities from overseas accounts beyond the reach of the federal government.
Then there’s the Liberty Dollar debacle in which the US government used obscure counterfeit laws to seize millions of dollars of silver coins that were owned by the firm’s customers!
Then earlier this year, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued new guidance requiring that US taxpayers who hold gold in certain offshore financial accounts report such holdings on their annual FBAR. Conveniently, this ruling put up a barrier for Americans to use GoldMoney.
GoldMoney’s battle with the Dutch regulators is just another example of governments making gold ownership more cumbersome.
Step 2: Plant seeds of doubt
We’re seeing signs of this as well. “Prominent” economists have been pounding the table against precious metals with vigor, and the propaganda ministry is focusing its efforts on gold’s recent price drop to make people believe that it’s dangerous to buy.
This recent media clip in which a reporter extols the virtues of the US dollar being backed by the federal government says it all. It’s already begun, and we should expect more.
Step 3: Tie gold to terrorism. Plant evidence.
Here are two incontrovertible facts: Westerners are petrified of Arab terrorists. The Arab world is a very gold-oriented society. It wouldn’t take much effort to link the two by suggesting (and planting evidence) that terrorists use gold to move money and finance their operations.
This will be surely be the next step… and if we start seeing this, you can bet your last ounce that restrictive controls are coming.
So what to do…?
If you live in a broke western nation, whatever you do, don’t store your gold in a bank safety deposit box. Bankers are unpaid government spies, so you might as well hang a sign up that says “please seize my assets”.
Ideally you want to move your gold out of the country. We’ve talked about anonymous boxes in Vienna’s Das Safe facility in the past, as well as Hong Kong’s The Storage. Both of these are great options to buy and store gold.
Rick Rule: Expect Higher Gold & A Wave of Mining Takeovers
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Crisis Chartbook
Everybody is asking where to now with the global financial markets. I thought it was worthwhile comparing the current behavior of the financial markets with the two recent crises, namely the great financial crisis of 2008/2009 and the minor one in 2010 when the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone developed.
I have charted the series starting with two months before each crisis developed and ended the series 11 months later. The respective series are as follows:
- 2008 crisis: July 2008 to July 2009
- 2010 crisis: February 2010 to February 2011
- 2011 crisis: from May 2011
CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index
The VIX is following the same trend as in the 2008 crisis. It is likely to rise again before stabilizing.
S&P 500 Index
The trend is similar to that of the 2008 and 2010 crises but milder and in line with 2010. The Index is likely to dip again in November, with a major threat of a deep sell-off in December.
Shiller S&P 500 PE10
The declining trend follows that of the 2010 crisis and is about to stabilize. There is a major threat of a drop in December if 2008’s trend repeats itself.
MSCI Emerging Market Index
The declining trend follows that of the 2008 crisis but is milder. Further weakening is possible over the next two months. (more)
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