Japan Is Signalling The End-Game For The U.S. EconomyBy Dave Kranzler This leads us to Japan. Curiously, Japan announced announced last week that its TOCOM commodity exchange (Japans less corrupted CME-equivalent) would begin trading physical gold like the Shanghai Gold Exchange on July 25th TOCOM Physical Gold. It also announced that it would be introducing a delivery-at-settlement option for its current-month gold futures contract. That is, TOCOM gold futures buyers will now have the ability to take delivery of physical gold via TOCOMs paper gold. The news of this event was largely muted in the Western financial media and even the alternative media blogosphere largely seems to have overlooked the news release. But this is a highly significant development because it signals a subtle shift in Japans economic and monetary focus from west to east. It will also create an big upward price-readjustment in gold and silver. The significance of Japans TOCOM exchange shifting from all fiat paper contracts to a physical gold trading and settlement operation is reinforced by the fact that two days ahead of the announcement it was reported that Tanaka Kikinzoku Group Japans leading precious metals trader, refiner and manufacturer acquired Swiss-based Metalor Group, one of the worlds largest refiners and supplier of precious metals-related products Tanaka Buys Metalor. Furthermore, in March2015, Japans Asahi Holdings a collector and refiner of precious metals closed its acquisition ofJohnson Mattheys gold and silver refining business. JM is one of the leading producers of refined precious metals products, including LBMA-quality 400 oz gold bars. Now that Asia and Russia are no longer funding the U.S. Treasury debt printing press, the Fed will be forced to begin hyperinflating the money supply to keep the Government funded. This fact is underscored by the Cleveland Fed Presidents Loretta Mester, a voting member of the FOMC recent comment about helicopter money. While the Japanese continue to endorsethe U.S. Governments use of the yen as a de facto printing press which enables the Fedto manipulate the U.S. stock market and to fund U.S. Treasurys unrestricted issuance of debt, they see the proverbial writing on the wall for the Western monetary and financial system. Japan has been quietly pivoting economically toward China for a couple years. This abrupttransitioninto the physical precious metals market signals Japans move to integrate its financial markets and economic system into the developing eastern bloc monetary system, which appears as if it might eventually be seeded in gold. It likely signals the end-game for the United States. You can read more from Dave Kranzler at his site InvestmentResearchDynamics.com, where this article first appeared. The sooner the zentral banks fail the sooner a thousand years of peace will commence. 