Lyn Alden https://goldbroker.com/news/authors/lyn-alden Several of the major central banks are stuck in a trap of their own making. This includes the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, and others. The credit-based global financial system we have constructed and participated in over the past century has to continually grow or die. It’s like a game of musical chairs that we have to keep adding people and chairs to in order for it to never stop. This is because cumulative debts are far larger than the total currency supply, meaning there are more claims for currency than there is currency. As such, too many of those claims can never be allowed to be called in at once; the party must always go on. When debt is too big relative to currency and starts to get called in, new currency is created, since it costs nothing other than some keystrokes to produce. It’s like this for most major countries: Chart Source: St. Louis Fed In other words, claims for dollars (debt) grows far more quickly t... Sun, 26 Jun 2022 07:21:40 +0000 https://goldbroker.com/news/why-european-central-bank-is-trapped-2776 Stig Brodersen brings back one of our most popular guests, investment expert Lyn Alden. Together, they explore the role of gold and commodities investing in a period of inflation. Why Do Commodities Perform Well In Inflationary Periods? Commodities tend to do well in inflationary periods almost axiomatically because in a period of inflation, things are going up in prices, particularly commodities. Inflation is a result of issues on the money supply side, and then also something related to CapEx and under supply on the commodity side. Both stocks and bonds have in common that they do very well in disinflationary regimes, basically stable monetary conditions, good long-term planning and pricing power, whereas commodities are the best hedge in those more inflationary environments. And so, there's multiple ways to defend against inflation, but having commodities is one of the cleanest ways to do it. Lyn specifies that gold and commodities c... Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:30:17 +0000 https://goldbroker.com/news/role-gold-commodities-investing-period-inflation-2781 With gold and silver prices correcting, as they have been doing for several weeks, I like to reread this article by American analyst, Lyn Alden, which explains the four fundamental reasons to continue to own gold in 2020. As I explained in my previous article, the current downtrend does not mean the end of the bull market. It represents a healthy and temporary decline that calms the euphoric feeling in the market and will allow the next upward phase to be fully energized. As for the fundamentals that are pushing metals higher, here is an analysis of the four main ones. By Lyn Alden In my view, there’s still a good case for including gold and gold stocks in a portfolio, despite their recent period of outperformance. In other words, I still think we’re in the first half of this gold bull move from 2015/2016 lows, rather than the tail end. Chart Source: St. Louis Fed I added gold and gold stocks to my model newsletter portfolio in October 2018, and have d... Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:08:39 +0000 https://goldbroker.com/news/4-simple-reasons-to-buy-gold-1969