This represents open PAPER interest in Gold and Silver at the COMEX.

It has dropped since Nov and stays low even with the tech signals it has given yesterday and the FOMC news.

This is exactly what it did in the run-up to the '08 crash.

This is the system protecting itself from giving a larger signal.

Keep the open interest low by suppressing the price at any cost.

In the run-up after 2009 the margin, or borrowing requirements to maintain open positions, were raised constantly. This made sure that if the requirements were not made the open positions were liquidated thus removing additional delivery demand.

See the Hunt Brother's in late 70's-early 80's

They tried to corner the physical market however the big mistake they made was using COMEX paper to put moar pressure on the system and force delivery.

The COMEX just kept raising the maintenance cost to carry the paper contracts and eventually the Hunt brother's were forced to liquidate physical. It cleaned them out of the delivery aspect of the paper they held.

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saving 3rd..nice

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that's what im talkin' about

Quake evacuation measures to be boosted

Jiji Press TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry amended Tuesday a response package for a feared earthquake just beneath Tokyo, including plans to step up evacuation measures for visitors to the country.

In the amended package, the ministry focused on beefing up information delivery systems and measures on evacuation guidance so that foreigners, including tourists, will be able to take shelter smoothly if a quake strikes during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

The ministry revised the package, which was drawn up in 2014, for the first time.

As part of the package, the ministry plans to add more languages to disaster response information websites, which provide people with information on the locations of evacuation shelters and on transportation, and improve the websites’ content, as well as prepare information signs in multiple languages at train stations closest to airports by 2020.

The package includes a total of 47 policies, such as emergency measures for seven to 10 days after the earthquake.

In response to the collapse of a concrete block wall during an earthquake that shook the northern part of Osaka Prefecture last year, the package features safety measures, including mandatory earthquake resistance checks on walls along evacuation routes and a plan to announce key points for safety inspections of walls for owners.

Meanwhile, the ministry reviewed a response package for a predicted massive earthquake originating in the Nankai Trough off the central-western Pacific coast.

The ministry estimated that a wide area between the Kanto eastern and the Kyushu southwestern regions will experience a powerful jolt registering lower 6 or the highest level of 7 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale. It predicted that some areas may see tsunami measuring over 30 meters tall.

The ministry plans to implement measures to delay the arrival of tsunami through a combination of seawalls and coastal levees.Speech

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005510760

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