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Iraq may dictate the metals markets for a few weeks.

Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
Ukraine is history.
"It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson

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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Should have read..."oil price"..... unlikely that it will make much of a difference in Gold or Silver pricing.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    11 years & how many American lives. So much for "nation building".
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gotta have a fresh war ready for white house Jeb.
  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,193 ✭✭✭✭✭


    The Iraq of today is what the Ukraine of a decade from now will be
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Oil price spike will help give Japan the inflation that they so wisely desire.

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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Should have read..."oil price"..... unlikely that it will make much of a difference in Gold or Silver pricing. >>



    Check Kitco, both gold and silver turned around in the last few days; it was a direct effect of the ISIS takeovers in Iraq.
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Should have read..."oil price"..... unlikely that it will make much of a difference in Gold or Silver pricing. >>



    Check Kitco, both gold and silver turned around in the last few days; it was a direct effect of the ISIS takeovers in Iraq. >>



    That and we don't have a precious petroleum forum.......yet.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,080 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This foreign policy failure is just another nail in the democrat coffin. The midterm election this November will be very interesting.image

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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oil spike is normally a positive for PM prices

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,118 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Should have read..."oil price"..... unlikely that it will make much of a difference in Gold or Silver pricing. >>



    Check Kitco, both gold and silver turned around in the last few days; it was a direct effect of the ISIS takeovers in Iraq. >>



    The turn around began before the publicized issues in Iraq. Since the media got hold of the issue, it has moved gold & silver up less than 5%....no biggy.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,193 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,535 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Uh, Afghanistan is going to be the next big problem.

    Who would have thunk it... The USA, Iran and Syria are all united against these ISIS people. Guess Assad will be around a while longer since he is the lesser of two evils.
    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Equities are taking it all in stride. Equities take everything in stride.

    Iraq is an important oil producer. I would expect at least Iran type sanctions.



    ....eh, maybe not.

    All hat and no cattle....
  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭
    Artic is the next Middle East. Trillions in oil reserves and Russia has already claimed the North Pole as its own. Putin wants Russia's self respect back after the break up of the Soviet Union and is using the Ukraine as a testing ground to see the reaction by the U.S. and NATO. Global warming has numerous consequences one of which may be the start of WWIII. Unlike the Middle East, The Artic is is in everyone's own backyard.

    Obvious that the U.S. has no money to keep fighting a war in the Middle East. If ISIS becomes a threat to the U.S. would we use tactical nuclear weapons to target the threat. Drones will not do the job. The military already accepts civilian casualties with the drone strikes. My guess is we would use these weapons once a nuclear device is detonated in the U.S. because Pandora's box would have been opened. Tactical Nuclear Weapons are different than Strategic Nuclear Weapons. BTW such a scenario does not end well for anyone.

    As far as the NSA spying on U.S. citizens and the world I would like to say you have my blessing if it has a chance of stopping a nuclear weapon from being detonated in the U.S.
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Aircraft carrier is headed in to the theatre.



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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,490 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It wont be long before we start non stop air strikes killing hundreds of these scumbags.
  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It wont be long before we start non stop air strikes killing hundreds of these scumbags. >>



    To which scumbags do you refer? The region is lousy with them, every direction you look.

    Let Iran indulge in its own Viet Nam this time around (getting bogged down in Iraq and Syria), and let us be the ones for once to shake our heads with moral superiority at the folly of "imperialists."
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,490 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>It wont be long before we start non stop air strikes killing hundreds of these scumbags. >>



    To which scumbags do you refer? The region is lousy with them, every direction you look.

    Let Iran indulge in its own Viet Nam this time around (getting bogged down in Iraq and Syria), and let us be the ones for once to shake our heads with moral superiority at the folly of "imperialists." >>




    Honestly Im talking ALL OF THEM

    And yes I would absolutely love to see Iran get bogged down in there, however air strikes from the US puts hardly any US sevicemen in harms way and we get to vaporize various types of varments image
  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,193 ✭✭✭✭✭


    For real time updates on the situation in Iraq
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Considering the influence that Putin has over Syria and Iran, we may be merging this thread with the Ukraine one before long.
  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭
    ISIS now has over $400 million from robbing all the Iraqi banks. Iraq should have secured all their money when the first city fell. They stole it in dinars. Time for Iraq to issue a new currency but probably too late. Could be laundered now in a new currency.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This disaster (which was totally avoidable), was predictable a year ago. Baghdad is likely to fall within the next two to three weeks. Prices at the pump are already starting to rise.... This is a very sad state of affairs.... Cheers, RickO
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭


    << <i>This disaster (which was totally avoidable), was predictable a year ago. Baghdad is likely to fall within the next two to three weeks. Prices at the pump are already starting to rise.... This is a very sad state of affairs.... Cheers, RickO >>



    Amazingly, it's Joe Biden's prediction from a decade ago, which appears to be coming true. The country is splitting into three countries along sectarian lines, with the Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the middle, and Shiites in the south. Baghdad is quite safe, and the big concern there is from car bombs (i.e. not being overrun by ISIS).
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • I got an idea! LEVEL THE WHOLE DAM MIDDLE EAST!!!!!! to many American lives lost over this bs!
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Isis swipes 90 pounds of Uranium.

    Israel getting hit by shells from Lebanon.

    ....as usual the markets take it all in stride. Guess that the world has gone to the brink and then returned so many times that the metals and equities yawn. With the stakes so I high, I hope that they are correct.

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,193 ✭✭✭✭✭


    An interesting write up about what is going on in Iraq. House of Saud creates a Frankenstien monster in the middle east




  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭
    Civil war will result in Iraq being divided into three countries is my bet.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,118 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Civil war will result in Iraq being divided into three countries is my bet. >>



    The way it probably should have been divided in the first place almost 100 years ago. Blame the old Colonial Powers in drawing up the borders and creating new Countries after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,772 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>An interesting write up about what is going on in Iraq. House of Saud creates a Frankenstien monster in the middle east >>


    House of Saud has created many monsters in the middle east and is not the US ally that many believe it to be. Look for Putin to court the Saudis and win their alligance adding more damage to the petrodollar.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,069 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What would happen to the dollar if oil was no longer used as a primary energy source?
    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

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