Financial markets

This week, we'll look at gold and silver and see that each are at some very interesting inflection points. Silver closed the quarter at $31.14, its highest in 12 years, while gold hit historic resistance at $2,665, both showing bullish patterns with potential for significant future gains.

For years now, emerging countries have been enjoying stronger growth than Western nations. Globalization, combined with the rise of China, has enabled these countries to achieve dazzling growth. Whereas in the past, periods of international crisis severely affected their economies, the situation...

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This week, we'll look at a long-term chart of Silver/Euro with reasonable optimism that a very large move higher is in its future.

The price of gold in euros has just broken an all-time record! An ounce of gold is now worth €2,300, double the price it was five years ago. Gold is soaring while oil is plummeting. Meanwhile, the Chinese economy is slowing at a rate not seen since the last financial crisis.

With the acceleration of the dollar’s (and other currencies) debasement and shift in Central Bank reserves out of dollars into gold, the revaluation of gold in coming years will be by multiples.

Against the stagflationary backdrop and the start of a new cycle of defaults in the United States, gold is logically attracting new buyers.

It has been more than a year since we last looked at the Dow/Gold ratio, which at the time was threatening to break down from a very large bear flag. This week, we'll update those charts and see that the expected breakdown has indeed occurred as anticipated.

The gold price, with its string of record highs, tells us that we are on the verge of seeing the detonator of this new inflationary phase. Gold is warning us that we are on the brink of another Fed monetary policy error.

Quantitative easing (QE) stabilizes the economy during times of crisis but exacerbates inequalities by benefiting wealthier households more, while the purchasing power of the middle and lower classes stagnates or declines.