Come off it the money printing has not even started! This is just a correction in a long bear market (commodity bull markets are typically 14-17 years long). Just wait for QE3 and the soon to be scared to death ECB money printing. But this could be quite a rollercoaster - look at your own position in GLD, that is not a bear market view!
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This is 2008 all over again with high oil prices and a default situation. Then the market reached one bottom in October and the final one the next March. The pattern this year could well be very much the same,
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Vix is only at 21 so you can hardly say that fear is showing any sign of peaking. Indeed, the set-up is like June 2008 with high oil prices and a major default pending - it could be different this time but how often is that true
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Is it not simply that stocks are rather out of favor as an investment instrument while commodities and ETFs are in vogue. ETFs did not exist in the last precious metals boom and they have done much to attract the smaller (and bigger) investor with their low costs and ease of use. Stocks suffer from individual management decisions and mining is notorious for production problems. So we will most likely get a pop in physical prices far ahead of stocks
Martin Armstrong's 8.6-year cycle has this Monday as a repeat of the 1929 and 1987 crash. His math has impressed many professionals over time, though not his ranting writing style.
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Platinum is simply not a monetary metal. Gold and silver are money, and that is a big difference if you think monetary inflation is a prime driver of precious metals. Gold could reach $13,644 according to this new analysis from Jim Sinclair
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Well stocks are down for three weeks. But like many US investors you focus on your own charts while ignoring the obvious crisis brewing up in Europe which is the next Lehman
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It all depends on what inflation is in relation to interest rates. If we get high inflation and not quite so high interest rates then this is still a positive environment for gold. ONLY when rates are above inflation should gold be sold. It is a very important point for gold investors now. But we have more immediate problems with the crisis coming from Europe
Well then you should be investing in the oil producing countries and not the consumers! Strangely this is the opposite of what is happening with the S&P bubble while Arabian Gulf equities are no the floor. That said avoid all stocks until this storm has passed
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