The Numbers

As the numbers roll by from black Friday and cyber Monday

the foot traffic is slowing down and the online retailing is expanding monstrously as the tensions increase from the squeeze of the rise in income taxes the decrease in jobs and full time employment with the people going through a cold winter starting earlier this season.

do we have a long winter ahead of us or do we have the emergence of warmer weather coming our way earlier in 2014 much needed.

While china is buying an extra 25% of the gold market world wide with a combined purchase for both 2011 and 2012 already purchased in 2013

there is a confirming shortage brewing as we wind down an amazing year of 2013 we embark on the last great buying opportunity of the year for precious metals January the 1st 2014 is right around the corner. it is as plain as day to be prepared for winter and prepared to be the best in 2014

GNS+RESEARCH




http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-30/black-friday-traffic-seen-thinning-as-stores-open-early.html
U.S. retailers eked out a 2.3 percent sales gain on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, in line with a prediction for the weakest holiday results since 2009.
Sales at brick-and-mortar stores on Thanksgiving and Black Friday rose to $12.3 billion, according to a report yesterday from ShopperTrak. The Chicago-based researcher reiterated its prediction that sales for the entire holiday season will gain 2.4 percent, the smallest increase since the last recession.


http://goldsilver.com/article/china-imports-more-gold-via-hk-in-2013-than-2011-and-2012-combined/


147.922 metric tons (mt) was the take in October. 233.519 mt was the GLD-cracking high, set in March.
Technicals: A Massive Trade Opportunity In Silver? By: Michael Kilbach - Friday, December 6, 2013
Fundamentals: Congress handed the checkbook from the legislative to the executive (ex-congressional supermajority), under cover of the rising noise as the deadline for raising the debt ceiling loomed, by means of the McConnell Provision, now the law. Fiscal conservatives got punked.
From the link, Timothy Geither explains [our bracket]:
"And the way that works is the President would have the obligation periodically of requesting an increase in the debt limit, and then Congress would have the chance, then, to express its views on the merits of that proposal by disapproving that. And then the President would have to decide, if a bill [of disapproval] came to his desk, about whether to veto that or sign it.  Of course, he’d veto it in that context. ... It’s a very good idea.”