This article has been contributed by Lior Gantz, the founder of WealthResearchGroup.com, who SHTFPlan.com considers to be one of the top 4 experts on alternative investments, globally.
What a daylight slaughter that was. In one day, the price of silver went down by a full $1, a 5% correction. At the same time, the cartel slayed gold by $33, a 2.1% drop.
Even after all of this, silver is STILL above the critical $18.22/ounce level, which marks the support for its bull market and gold is just over its support line of $1,475. You don’t want to see either of these break to the downside.
The Competitive Devaluation process, which I’ve highlighted on multiple occasions, must be managed in baby steps by government and their central banks, not uncontrollably, or fiat currencies will face panics.
On Friday, my wife and I drove two and half hours from Milano to the foothills of the Matterhorn, the most famous mountain in Europe, and hiked from Breuil-Cervinia to the waterfalls that are running this time of year. In town, a local guide told me about the movement of the glacier we saw up high. It is so slow that you’ll never notice it with the naked eye, but if you monitor it for a decade, you won’t believe the difference that water underneath the glacier is making; it is MOVING.
This is exactly what central banks want to achieve with fiat currencies: a slow, almost boring decline of 2%-3% a year for a whole decade. By 2029, your savings will buy 20%-30% less. If you could afford a $200K home today, you’ll only be able to purchase a $140K house in ten years. John Maynard-Keynes called it the greatest form of theft since you don’t really notice it. This is a hidden tax.
There will be many more of these orchestrated attacks on precious metals, going forward. The price has run high too quickly to just get left alone.
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Here in Europe, the central bank isn’t hiding its intention whatsoever to lower the Euro. Since it is not owned by any one government, its policies are favorable to some and damaging to others.
Now, with Mario Draghi leaving office and Christine Lagarde taking over, it is probable that the escalation in the devaluation of Europe’s currency will become a top priority for the union.
The endgame is clear and Trump wants to reach a similar phase in America: zero rates and more government policy.
Fiscal policies, such as deregulation, corporate incentives, tax reform, infrastructure spending, and government-induced work training programs, impact many more segments of the population base than low interest rates do.
The general population, across the globe, has subconsciously given up on the idea of small government and has passed the baton of their fate to elected officials.
People want the government to give them direction, provide them with work, train them, fund their retirements, support them in difficult times and navigate their lives.
They may complain about corruption or about mistreatment, but if any government announces austerity measures, you’ll see PROTESTERS in the street in no-time.
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In the past 20 years, most of the population in America and in Europe have barely made any headway. In the western world, people get paid to THINK, not to PRODUCE anymore.
Brains and heart can’t be replaced that easily, but manual labor can.
In general, the future belongs to thinkers much more than to skilled laborers.
Life isn’t getting more simplified; it is becoming more complex and more specialized.
In just the next decade, around 350 million people – about 1-in-4 working individuals – will make a career change.
The more complex, the more people will beg for help, cry for assistance and DEMAND that governments fix things.
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We are living in a time that historians will call the Nixon Scam. With one decision, he created this monopoly on credit.
Trump will NOT be entertained by the FED that quickly; they will NOT drop rates aggressively in an election year and I expect the feud between them to intensify.
One thing I can tell you is that while the elites don’t care who gets elected, as long as they can control him (Bush, Clinton, and Obama), the wealthy LOVE Trump and will vote for him. When I say wealthy, I mean America’s millionaires, not the connected bloodsucking billionaires that represent the old aristocracy.
The wealthy in your city, genuine Americans, who are living the dream, but have no political aspiration or connection, know that more socialism means more regulations, fewer profits, and more of what caused the evaporation of the middle class.
This will be a rocky year for the markets, because the Chinese will also look to stall on the trade deal as much as they can, in order to see who gets to sit in the Oval Office until 2024.
The dollar will suffer from this uncertainty and precious metals will continue heading higher.
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Brass and copper seem to be a better buy, especially if it is backed by gun powder. With these threats on our Bill of Rights even owning gold and silver will become a crime.
The media is under-reporting the bombing of the Saudi oil facilities because they don’t want to create mass panic with a move from investment assets to gold.
Buy! Buy! Buy! Silver! Then buy more bullets! Then, Buy more Food! War is comin’! Buy come fuel ! ‘Cause my magic eight ball says so.
Damn auto correct! Buy some fuel!
Meh, I need to buy some new yeast 😛 I will buy more fuel after the price goes up lol 😀
Invest time! Bullion Exchanges have some pretty darn good prices for gold and silver. Check it out. https://bullionexchanges.com/
There is no future for the majority of Americans that is worth living all by design. The people are so pitifully dumbed down to even begin to enact change beneficial to their future. The Constitution is trashed, global warming ignored, gmo in everything and endless war the driving force. Telling the truth is fought tooth and nail and doing so is strictly forbidden. Nibbling around the edges is easily overcome as the ravings of a lunatic by the compromised media.
“In general, the future belongs to thinkers much more than to skilled laborers.”
“Life isn’t getting more simplified; it is becoming more complex and more specialized.”
“The more complex, the more people will beg for help, cry for assistance and DEMAND that governments fix things.”
You can’t fix stupid things.
Unfortunately stupid things vote.
NWO Ten billion useless eaters,
robots replace round-butts.
I can imagine a time before the year 2050 where ten billion obese people have no purpose other than to consume food, drugs, entertainment and seek medical treatments, the cost directly billed to the world national debt.
One billion workers will be forced to keep ten billion useless eaters on entitlements. Strange thing, the workers will get just slightly more than what those that do absolutely nothing, because the workers will have to make the interest payments on the futureworld national debt.
For all you PM lovers,
check this out;
“ht tps://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/current-and-former-precious-metals-traders-charged-multi-year-market-manipulation
Due to my location, I’m not a big precious metals guy, not much local demand and if SHTF no way of selling it to the mainland. I maintain that it is also a market that is as much of a gamble as stocks. Where manipulation by the “big boys” makes them rich, you not so much, and it can crash at any time they see fit.
Like a Casino, the “house” always wins.
Aloha.
Oh dear relik, Stocks can go to 0 unlike metals and you can’t have a crash in metals prices if it’s already at the bottom. Metal is real and useful, stocks are just paper promises. Take some of your paper satans and trade them for .99999 fine silver wire. That way you can have a lifetime of colliodial silver cheap. 🙂
A couple of weeks ago I sold some silver and silver went up a couple of bucks,. I sold some more today so silver should go back up again. You’re welcome!
I knew the “Invisible Boogermann Destroys the Metal Price” story was coming.
Even with Henny Penny screaming WWIII, the metals prices are falling.
And all the bids dry up when the once fat lady dies from starvation.
What a time for this article just when 3 JPMorgan employees get indicted for fixing precious metal prices.