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China's gold reserves have grown every year for 15 consecutive years, reaching 14,727.16 tons by 2020, according to a yearbook issued by China Gold Association (CGA).

In today's interview about the commodities supercycle, Marc Friedrich talks with Ole Hansen, Head of Commodity Strategy at Saxo Bank, about a wide range of topics such as inflation, deflation, price targets for precious metals and the one asset of the commodity sector, where Hansen currently sees the best potential.

Gold and silver are yet to benefit from the rise in the prices of the other assets; they are thought of as a currency, and not as commodities. These low prices are a bargain.

Moral and ethical values are gone and crime is rampant. This is not new in history and regularly happens at the end of major eras or cycles. This happened for example at the end of the Roman Empire as Rome disintegrated economically and morally. Decadence was rampant then as it is today. So were debts and deficits.

Palantir Technologies Inc. said it’s preparing for another “black swan event” by stockpiling gold bars and inviting customers to pay for its data analysis software in gold.

Regardless of whether the new monetary system is tied to digital currencies or not, there is no escaping the spiral of money printing and deficits that has gripped most of the world, and so a disorderly collapse is likely.

Brazil’s central bank purchased over 62 tons of gold in three months through July 2021, raising the nation’s reserves to nearly 130 tons. The estimated growth of physical holdings reportedly amounted to 92.4%. The bulk purchase of 41.8 tons was recorded in June.

Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg address gold’s recent “flash crash” in the context of technicals, fundamentals, and good ol’ fashioned price manipulation from the bullion banks. Toward this end, Egon gives careful attention to the technical indicators and their bullish trends/confirmations while Matthew digs deeper under the hood to reveal the relationship between Basel III regs, bullion bank gold shortages and the motives behind gold’s recent price decline.

The Wold Gold Council publication is the newest edition of the Gold Market Commentary entitled "Equity yields support gold as investors position for historical September strength". The main thesis of the article is that “August could be the opportune time to position for the historically strong September gold performance”.

Acting straight away on the rates would have an even more devastating effect on the system as a whole. This is the impasse that the central banks have now got themselves into, in their interventionist policies. Acting straight away will break the engine. That’s what the math is telling us. Gold and silver directly owned in your name or held in an allocated account (and certainly not in an unallocated one) are the only insurance policies against the upcoming breaking or malfunctioning of the engine.

In a recent episode of The Keiser Report, Egon von Greyerz and Max Keiser discuss the 50th anniversary of the demise of Bretton Woods, Nixon suspending the dollar's convertibility into gold, "transitory" inflation, how stock and bond markets are pricing in inflation expectations, and the ominous future of the dollar and other fiat currencies.

Gold is a good investment at a time when the world is concerned about inflation, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris told CNBC. The precious metal is often touted as a hedge against rising prices and a safe-haven asset that should make up around 5% to 10% of an investor’s portfolio. But long-time gold investor Sawiris recommends allocating much more to gold.

What happened this morning very strongly looks like a “cleaning” of stop losses and “weak hands”. Another positive argument that militates for gold (and incidentally silver) is that real rates are diving.

The beginning of the end of the current monetary system started exactly 50 years ago. In the next few years the world will experience the end of the end of another failed experiment of unlimited debt creation and fake fiat money. Measured in collapsing paper money, gold and silver will reach unthinkable levels.

Ronnie Stoeferle and Egon von Greyerz question why, despite explosive money printing and obvious inflation, gold has not long since been quoted much, much higher. How long will it take for gold to reflect inflation and astronomical money creation and break through the long overdue price forecasts of well over USD 10,000 per ounce?