Hugo Salinas Price
All the currencies of the world today are derivatives of the
dollar, including the Russian Ruble and the Chinese Yuan, and
even the miserable currencies of Venezuela and Argentina.
As long as they can be used to purchase dollars, either officially
or through the black market, they will continue in circulation.
The Mexican Peso circulates and has value, because Mexicans have
always been able to purchase dollars with pesos (except for a few
days during the “Mexdollar” crisis of the early ‘80s).
The price of the dollar in pesos has varied, but at any rate it
has (almost) always been possible to obtain dollars
in exchange for pesos.
If the new Islamic State “ISIS” ? ? ? should wish to have its own
currency, it would have to be possible for its currency to
acquire dollars, either directly or through some other currencies.
(Just by the way, a 1/10 ounce silver coin would be the equivalent
of the dirham, prescribed as money by Islam, and its value would
not depend on the dollar or any derivative of the dollar.
Maybe someone else will tell “ISIS” about this;
I do not want to get mixed up with these people.)
Even in the case of a fiat currency to be used exclusively within
national borders, with no plan for commercial purposes outside
of its own zone, such a currency would have to be issued with
a value that could not be other than an external reference
either to the dollar, or to some currency derived from the dollar,
which would amount to the same thing.
A fiat currency cannot be born out of nothing;
it has to have a “parent” and in our times,
that parent must be, in the last analysis,
the fiat dollar.
The same principle prevails in the case of the dollar.
The existence of fiat currencies depends on their ability to acquire dollars. In the case of the fiat dollar, the dollar will continue to exist as long as dollars can be used to acquire gold.
The condition under which no quantity of dollars can acquire a gram of gold, is known as “permanent backwardation”. (There will always be individuals who will be disposed to part with a small quantity of gold, in exchange for dollars or other fiat currencies. But the purchase of gold in quantity can only be done on world markets, and while “backwardation” is temporary. This possibility disappears when “backwardation” becomes permanent).
In “backwardation” – which has presented itself momentarily, in recent times – gold goes into hiding (its owners do not wish to part with it) and in the markets there has been no one willing to purchase gold for future delivery, even though its future price is lower than the price of physical gold for immediate delivery. So far, this condition has been temporary and not permanent.
When “backwardation” imposes itself permanently, the dollar is finished.
The process will be as follows: at some future date, gold for future delivery will cost less than gold for immediate physical delivery, that is to say, it will be in “backwardation”. However, the normal condition, which is called “contango” and which is the opposite of “backwardation”, will not be re-established. The price of gold for future delivery will stagnate at a low price – apparently very attractive – but the price of physical gold for immediate delivery (“spot” gold) will begin to rise. “Backwardation” will not disappear because the world wants physical gold, received in hand at the moment of payment, and not a promise of future delivery of gold.
When the price of physical gold for immediate delivery is superior to the price of gold for future delivery, and this condition becomes permanent, it will mean that the dollar is no longer acceptable: the price of future gold may be extremely cheap, but the market is not interested in that offer, because the market wants physical gold in hand, immediately.
The price of physical gold for immediate delivery – “spot” gold – will rise to the thousands and thousands of dollars, and the “backwardation” will remain permanently. Finally, the price of gold in dollars will be so high that there will be no further quote in dollars – or in any derivative of dollars, of course.
The dollar will have died.
When the economic and financial crisis in the world explodes – as it will have to explode – the reaction of States around the world will have to be to print up enormous quantities of fiat money, because that is all they know how to do.
This will give rise to a huge run into gold from the dollar and every derivative of it.
This will bring about “permanent backwardation” of gold and will put an end to the world-wide empire of the fiat dollar.
It will then not be possible to obtain gold except by the delivery of things or of services in exchange. In other words, gold will once again be the money of the world.
When will this happen? It is not possible to predict a date. All we can note is that the total of world debt calculated in fiat dollars is now astronomical; since the financial debacle of 2007-2008 world debt has not been paid down, on the contrary, it has been increasing by leaps and bounds and is absolutely unpayable. So the situation today is even more critical and unstable than it was six years ago, and an economic and financial collapse is inevitable, sooner or later.
http://www.plata.com.mx/mplata/articulos/articlesFilt.asp?fiidarticulo=246
HECLA COMMON STOCK DIVIDEND -
The Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend
of $0.0025 per share of common stock, payable on or about
September 5, 2014, to shareholders of record on
August 27, 2014.
The realized silver price was $19.62 in the second quarter and,
therefore, did not satisfy the criteria for a larger
dividend under the Company's dividend policy.
http://investors.hecla-mining.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=63202&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1953586&highlight=dividend
RE: Q about dividend above -
bought in today.. maybe I will get some more cheaper, but
if not it´s ok with me. longterm holder :)
cork or anyone can give me the expected Events for
the stock in a nutshell??
Outlook, pps in 1 year, Merger/acquisition/buyout??
thanks a lot -
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