Dedollarization

2017 has just started but some longer-term trend changes already seem to develop.

At the beginning of a new year it would be totally natural to forecast what the likely events and trends will be for 2017. A lot of experts around the world will predict a number of “new” events as if a lot of things will change just because we are entering a new year.

We are now approaching the final mania in markets. The Dow seems to be on its last swansong. Investors have been determined to take it up to 20,000. So far, the market has been twelve points from this magic level. At the same time treasury bonds are crashing.

We will see in-flation, stag-flation, hyperinflation and de-flation. Many of these flations will happen simultaneously.

Here's the gold version of the Manipulation Timeline.

Here's the silver version of the Manipulation Timeline.

A cache of documents from Deutsche Bank AG include what a group of silver investors claim is a “smoking gun”: private electronic chats showing traders from numerous banks conspiring to rig prices from 2007 to 2013, according to a court filing in New York last week. The bank provided the document...

With a very limited downside and an upside of many thousand dollars, at current levels of $1,175 physical gold is an absolute bargain.

Traders and submitters were captured coordinating trades in advance of a daily phone call, manipulating the spot market for silver, conspiring to fix the spread on silver offered to customers and using illegal strategies to rig prices.

Few people realise the coming bargains in all asset markets within the next five years or so. Stocks, bonds and property will be fractions of current prices.