Gold will be the asset to beat in 2021, according to Bloomberg Intelligence, which sees the precious metal outperforming U.S. stocks.
“Gold may gain increasing reference as the performance benchmark to beat,” said Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone.
Gold’s price advance of 2020 appears to be sustainable, McGlone said on Tuesday, noting that the current resistance of $2,000 an ounce will become the metal’s support. Continue reading
Milk has been hovering right around $2.29 for most of this year, in the Murfreesboro, TN area. This week, it jumped to $3.26.
The Economic Collapse of March 16th 2020 was not the product of anything brought about by COVID. The collapse was well underway by September of 2019 and long before COVID-19 was even on anyone’s radar.
The COVID Virus has been used as cover for the bad results from years of Government Officials’ and the Federal Reserve Bankers’ YEARS Of RISKY FINANCIAL “DEALS” / SCHEMES AND CRIMINAL MALFEASANCE AS IT RELATES TO THEIR FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Continue reading
A run is a mass withdrawal of cash funds from a borrower. We are in the midst of a continuing worldwide credit crisis, punctuated by “runs” of varying prominence and publicity.
These runs are rational, not panics and not due to quirks of psychology. They occur when investors realize that their funds are endangered in an institution. They try to get them out before they lose them.
The danger comes when the institution no longer is getting cash inflows in sufficient amounts to pay off all its obligations. In businesses, this comes about through sour investments. In governments, it comes about through wasteful spending that fails to be recovered in tax revenues. Continue reading
“Take that copper!” ~ James Cagney, Angels With Dirty Faces,
Dir. Michael Curtiz; Warner Bros, 1938
In 2018, before the trade war between the US and China put the boots to copper demand, and covid-19 mine closures/ abandoned expansion plans crimped supply, we made a bold prediction: that copper supply is NOT going to be able to keep up with demand in the long-term. Here’s what we wrote, in The coming copper crunch:
Even with expansions at existing mines and the ramp-up of the relatively few new copper mines like Cobre Panama, Radomiro Tomic and Toquepalain, it will not be enough to meet the onslaught of demand that is coming from China as it continues to modernize and urbanize, and electric vehicles, which use three times as much copper as regular ones. In 2016 Chinese automakers sold 28 million cars. If China follows through on its promise to go 100% electric, that would mean 2,380,000,000 kilograms of copper. At the current production rate of 20 million tonnes a year, that’s 119 years worth of copper! Just to produce enough copper for electric cars in China.
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On June 30th, 2020, the Senate Banking Committee held a hearing on the future of the digital dollar. The pressures to create a digital USD are mounting as China recently began testing its own digital currency – the DCEP, which will be included in popular applications like WeChat and AliPay. Of particular concern is widespread adoption of a digital yuan in emerging markets and in international trade. Continue reading
Individual investors have never been more worried about a U.S. stock market crash. That’s great news. This counterintuitive reaction is because investor sentiment is a contrarian indicator. So it would be more worrying if investors thought there was a low probability of a crash. Continue reading
McDonald’s, 93rd Avenue and Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ, October 26, 2020:
Suddenly it seems that nearly all of The Banks and Bullion Banks are raising price forecasts and rallying around the precious metals. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
That’s the question, of course. Banks like Goldman Sachs have earned a reputation for leading their clients into taking the opposite side of whichever trade the firm prefers. Continue reading
…and YOU’ve bought into it and will not even be able to afford the bread!
It’s pretty much universally recognized that authorities use crises to impose “emergency powers” that become permanent. This erosion of civil and economic liberties is always sold as “necessary for your own good.” Of course the accretion of ever greater power in the hands of the few is for our own good. How could it be otherwise? (Irony off)
In this environment of “emergency powers“, it’s almost refreshing to find a power grab so blatant that its sheer boldness boggles the mind. I’m talking about the Federal Reserve’s FedNow, a proposed system of instant payments and digital dollars… Continue reading
