Rickards: $10,000 - $50,000 Gold
This is an interesting article. I'm quite particular when posting other people's writings. But I think it's important that you read a lot more than just my opinion. Although, my position and opinions have been pretty accurate. Back in the first of the year, when silver was much lower, I predicted that by the end of June, that Silver would hit $20 an ounce. Now, to be honest, I was off by a couple of days. By the end of June, silver was in the high $19's. But I think that's pretty accurate. As such; such reads as this one by Chris Cambell; interviewing Jim Rickards, is a pretty good read. Check it out.
One comment on my part though. Even though this article is about gold, and the possibility of $10,000 - $50,000 per ounce prices, it is relative to Silver. (Which is my preference). Silver usually follows gold. Although recently, silver has actually been leading gold. But if gold could possibly reach $10,000 - $50,000; then imagine Silver being in the $150 - $750 an ounce arena. Pretty exciting; AND SCARY. While it sounds great, from an investment position. Imagine how bad of shape the economy would be in. Massive inflation. Currency devaluation. But that's why we buy silver and gold. FOR INSURANCE. I use the $750-$1000 per ounce silver as a bench mark. If silver truly got that high, then the stock market and currency would be in big trouble. So, use this number for your insurance. If you have $400,000 - $500,000 in savings, 401k, retirement, IRA, etc. And it's possible that they'd be totally crashed; then you'd want about 500 ounces of silver to offset the losses. And that's why I recommend about that much. (See; my recommendations are based on logic. I don't just make this stuff up). Anyway; enjoy the read.
CYA: SE:
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Yes, they are exciting. And, yes, some of them will be immensely disruptive. But there are a number of things that, in our shaky global environment, works against them.
If the lights go out, for example, your stash of Bitcoin, Siacoin and Synereo aren’t going to get you very far.
Strategically investing in cryptocurrencies now, in my opinion, is a vote for a better future. But self-reliance, as we’ve stated in previous episodes, is working loudly and together for Heaven and preparing silently and alone for Hell. And hoping that your future is somewhere in the middle.
The “surest-thing” safe haven asset hasn’t changed. It’s still gold. It’s a hold-in-your-hands form of insurance that will retain its value no matter what central bankers have to say about it.
The old adage is still true: If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it.
Gold will continue to serve this role. In a cryptographic world or a dust-bowl, gold will continue to be a store of value and stability outside of the system.
Only a fool would call you a fool for, as Jim Rickards advises, allocating 10% of your portfolio into gold. Because, as Jim will show us in a moment, there are a lot of things happening behind-the-scenes which could very well push the price of gold to the moon.
To show one example of why gold is a starter in our current economic environment, we’ll turn to a recent interview Jim did with Physical Gold Fund on June 22 — the day before the Brexit.
During the interview, Rickards recalled a recent chat he had with a gold dealer in London.
Upon arriving, Jim says, the dealer pulled a kilo bar of gold — worth, upon writing, nearly $45,000 — out of his pocket. He handed it to Jim and leaned in and said, “You know, Jim. For a couple million dollars, you could buy every 1 kilo bar in the UK.”
Jim’s eyes widened.
Trusting the source, but still wanting a second opinion, Jim asked another confidante about what the gold dealer told him. Confirmed. It was true, his second source said. Much of the gold flows to China and it doesn’t flow back.
More to the point: “That’s how short the supply situation is,” Rickards said. “We know that only means one thing: the price goes up. The shortage of supply is a vector pushing the price up. A weak dollar policy is a vector that will push the price up.”
And the Brexit, as Jim predicted the night the votes were being counted, was a vector which jacked the price of gold up instantaneously. As you’ll see in a moment, the Brexit — and other global “snowflakes” — will continue to have lasting effects on the price of gold.
Point blank: Gold isn’t finished quite yet. Not even close. It’s only getting started.
In fact, if you’ve been keeping up with Jim’s gold predictions, you know how Jim feels about gold long-term. It will go higher. Much higher. (See below to see how high.)
Jim’s not just throwing out wild estimations, either. If you look back, a lot of his predictions have been scarily accurate. It’s because he has a system not based on “educated guess,” but on, instead, a sophisticated method of calculating the statistical probabilities of risk.
To explain, we’ve invited Jim Rickards to the show today to talk shop about Brexit and its continuing influence on global markets — and, according to his indicators, why more earthquakes are on the way.
Load up. Hunker down. And read on.
[FYI:Don’t miss Rickards’ unusual offer below to send not one, but TWO gold coins directly to your doorstep. You won’t believe why he’s willing to send out his gold to willing takers. Read on for more information.]
I was just across the Thames from the UK Houses of Parliament, standing with a film crew to record an urgent warning. I said that the Brexit vote, coming just three days later on June 23, could produce a financial earthquake.
I recommended the exact strategies to avoid losses and to profit from the catastrophe to come. These strategies included shorting sterling, buying gold, and increasing cash allocations so our readers could “go shopping among the ruins.”
As a result, my readers were prepared for what happened — unlike the elites and so-called “smart money” who were totally unprepared.
I wish that were the end of it, but it’s not. New earthquakes are coming soon as part of the Brexit aftershocks.
By now, you’re familiar with the basic outline of the Brexit story. On June 23, UK subjects voted by a 52% to 48% margin to leave the European Union. Markets had clearly priced for a “Remain” victory. The result was an instantaneous and violent repricing.
Gold gained over $40 per ounce, stock markets fell 4%, sterling crashed almost 10%, and the euro sank 4% all in a single day. These are large percentage moves for a full year. To happen in one day is the financial equivalent of a 7.0 earthquake on the Richter Scale.
The key question for investors is whether this is a one-time repricing of assets, or whether it’s the start of something with a long way to run. If the latter view is correct, then it’s not too late to profit from some of our favorite plays including long positions in gold, short positions in sterling, and long positions in U.S. Treasury notes.
Wall Street will tell you that you cannot foresee shocks and you cannot “beat the market.” Don’t believe it. While most market participants were shocked at the Brexit vote, we saw it coming a mile away using our proprietary models.
On March 2, 2016, almost four full months before the Brexit vote, I gave an interview to Bloomberg TV in which I predicted that “Leave” would win and recommended that investors short sterling, buy gold, and buy U.S.
Treasury notes. All of those trades have been huge winners.
In my publications, we don’t believe that markets are efficient or that forecasting is impossible. Quite the opposite. Our proprietary models allow us to make long-run and intermediate-run forecasts that give you time to profit ahead of the crowd.
In
plain English, this formula says that by updating our initial
understanding through unbiased new information, we improve our
understanding. I first learned this method while working at CIA, and we
apply it today.
The left side of the equation is an initial estimate of the probability of an event happening. New information goes into right hand side of the equation. If it’s consistent with our estimate, it goes into the numerator (which increases the odds of our expected outcome).
If it’s inconsistent, it goes into the denominator (which lowers the odds of our expected outcome). This is the method we used to correctly forecast the outcome of the Brexit vote.
Now we are using it again to forecast the aftermath of the Brexit earthquake. Our expectation is that sterling has much further to fall, perhaps to as low as $0.80, a full 40% drop from current levels.
We also expect gold to go much higher. Gold was already headed higher for reasons unrelated to Brexit, including the Fed’s new dovish stance on interest rate hikes. But Brexit uncertainty gives added impetus to the uptrend already underway.
What are some of the data points included in the equations behind our updated forecast?
Above all, these trends mean uncertainty. Markets have ways to price risk on a probabilistic basis, but markets have no way to price uncertainty where almost anything can happen. In these situations, markets go to the safest of safe havens and that means cash, U.S. Treasuries, and gold.
The slump in gold and gold related stocks from 2011 to 2015 is no mystery. It had to do with the Fed’s tightening policies and strong dollar policies after the dollar hit an all-time low in August 2011.
Now that the Fed is pursuing a dovish weak-dollar policy, gold is poised to go much higher.
[Ed. note: Whether it’s negative interest rates, currency wars, another Brexit-level shocker or beyond, Jim’s gold forecast stands strong: $10,000 – $50,000. To prove his confidence in this prediction, he’s doing something that’s going to terrify the “barbarous relic” crowd: He’s doubling down.
One comment on my part though. Even though this article is about gold, and the possibility of $10,000 - $50,000 per ounce prices, it is relative to Silver. (Which is my preference). Silver usually follows gold. Although recently, silver has actually been leading gold. But if gold could possibly reach $10,000 - $50,000; then imagine Silver being in the $150 - $750 an ounce arena. Pretty exciting; AND SCARY. While it sounds great, from an investment position. Imagine how bad of shape the economy would be in. Massive inflation. Currency devaluation. But that's why we buy silver and gold. FOR INSURANCE. I use the $750-$1000 per ounce silver as a bench mark. If silver truly got that high, then the stock market and currency would be in big trouble. So, use this number for your insurance. If you have $400,000 - $500,000 in savings, 401k, retirement, IRA, etc. And it's possible that they'd be totally crashed; then you'd want about 500 ounces of silver to offset the losses. And that's why I recommend about that much. (See; my recommendations are based on logic. I don't just make this stuff up). Anyway; enjoy the read.
CYA: SE:
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By Chris Campbell
Jul 8, 2016
“People around the world are losing
confidence in central bank money,” Jim Rickards said in a recent
interview. “When you lose confidence in central bank money, you look for
other forms of money and gold is the best.”
Despite all of
our talk about cryptocurrencies over the past couple of weeks, we must
point out, one more time, that investing in the cryptosphere — even
Bitcoin — is a gamble.Yes, they are exciting. And, yes, some of them will be immensely disruptive. But there are a number of things that, in our shaky global environment, works against them.
If the lights go out, for example, your stash of Bitcoin, Siacoin and Synereo aren’t going to get you very far.
Strategically investing in cryptocurrencies now, in my opinion, is a vote for a better future. But self-reliance, as we’ve stated in previous episodes, is working loudly and together for Heaven and preparing silently and alone for Hell. And hoping that your future is somewhere in the middle.
The “surest-thing” safe haven asset hasn’t changed. It’s still gold. It’s a hold-in-your-hands form of insurance that will retain its value no matter what central bankers have to say about it.
The old adage is still true: If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it.
Gold will continue to serve this role. In a cryptographic world or a dust-bowl, gold will continue to be a store of value and stability outside of the system.
Only a fool would call you a fool for, as Jim Rickards advises, allocating 10% of your portfolio into gold. Because, as Jim will show us in a moment, there are a lot of things happening behind-the-scenes which could very well push the price of gold to the moon.
To show one example of why gold is a starter in our current economic environment, we’ll turn to a recent interview Jim did with Physical Gold Fund on June 22 — the day before the Brexit.
During the interview, Rickards recalled a recent chat he had with a gold dealer in London.
Upon arriving, Jim says, the dealer pulled a kilo bar of gold — worth, upon writing, nearly $45,000 — out of his pocket. He handed it to Jim and leaned in and said, “You know, Jim. For a couple million dollars, you could buy every 1 kilo bar in the UK.”
Jim’s eyes widened.
Trusting the source, but still wanting a second opinion, Jim asked another confidante about what the gold dealer told him. Confirmed. It was true, his second source said. Much of the gold flows to China and it doesn’t flow back.
More to the point: “That’s how short the supply situation is,” Rickards said. “We know that only means one thing: the price goes up. The shortage of supply is a vector pushing the price up. A weak dollar policy is a vector that will push the price up.”
And the Brexit, as Jim predicted the night the votes were being counted, was a vector which jacked the price of gold up instantaneously. As you’ll see in a moment, the Brexit — and other global “snowflakes” — will continue to have lasting effects on the price of gold.
Point blank: Gold isn’t finished quite yet. Not even close. It’s only getting started.
In fact, if you’ve been keeping up with Jim’s gold predictions, you know how Jim feels about gold long-term. It will go higher. Much higher. (See below to see how high.)
Jim’s not just throwing out wild estimations, either. If you look back, a lot of his predictions have been scarily accurate. It’s because he has a system not based on “educated guess,” but on, instead, a sophisticated method of calculating the statistical probabilities of risk.
To explain, we’ve invited Jim Rickards to the show today to talk shop about Brexit and its continuing influence on global markets — and, according to his indicators, why more earthquakes are on the way.
Load up. Hunker down. And read on.
[FYI:Don’t miss Rickards’ unusual offer below to send not one, but TWO gold coins directly to your doorstep. You won’t believe why he’s willing to send out his gold to willing takers. Read on for more information.]
Beyond Brexit — More Earthquakes On The Way
By Jim Rickards
On Monday, June 20, 2016, I stood in the London Eye Ferris wheel.I was just across the Thames from the UK Houses of Parliament, standing with a film crew to record an urgent warning. I said that the Brexit vote, coming just three days later on June 23, could produce a financial earthquake.
I recommended the exact strategies to avoid losses and to profit from the catastrophe to come. These strategies included shorting sterling, buying gold, and increasing cash allocations so our readers could “go shopping among the ruins.”
As a result, my readers were prepared for what happened — unlike the elites and so-called “smart money” who were totally unprepared.
By now, you’re familiar with the basic outline of the Brexit story. On June 23, UK subjects voted by a 52% to 48% margin to leave the European Union. Markets had clearly priced for a “Remain” victory. The result was an instantaneous and violent repricing.
Gold gained over $40 per ounce, stock markets fell 4%, sterling crashed almost 10%, and the euro sank 4% all in a single day. These are large percentage moves for a full year. To happen in one day is the financial equivalent of a 7.0 earthquake on the Richter Scale.
The key question for investors is whether this is a one-time repricing of assets, or whether it’s the start of something with a long way to run. If the latter view is correct, then it’s not too late to profit from some of our favorite plays including long positions in gold, short positions in sterling, and long positions in U.S. Treasury notes.
Wall Street will tell you that you cannot foresee shocks and you cannot “beat the market.” Don’t believe it. While most market participants were shocked at the Brexit vote, we saw it coming a mile away using our proprietary models.
On March 2, 2016, almost four full months before the Brexit vote, I gave an interview to Bloomberg TV in which I predicted that “Leave” would win and recommended that investors short sterling, buy gold, and buy U.S.
Treasury notes. All of those trades have been huge winners.
In my publications, we don’t believe that markets are efficient or that forecasting is impossible. Quite the opposite. Our proprietary models allow us to make long-run and intermediate-run forecasts that give you time to profit ahead of the crowd.
The left side of the equation is an initial estimate of the probability of an event happening. New information goes into right hand side of the equation. If it’s consistent with our estimate, it goes into the numerator (which increases the odds of our expected outcome).
If it’s inconsistent, it goes into the denominator (which lowers the odds of our expected outcome). This is the method we used to correctly forecast the outcome of the Brexit vote.
Now we are using it again to forecast the aftermath of the Brexit earthquake. Our expectation is that sterling has much further to fall, perhaps to as low as $0.80, a full 40% drop from current levels.
We also expect gold to go much higher. Gold was already headed higher for reasons unrelated to Brexit, including the Fed’s new dovish stance on interest rate hikes. But Brexit uncertainty gives added impetus to the uptrend already underway.
What are some of the data points included in the equations behind our updated forecast?
- Brexit is just the beginning. No sooner were the votes counted than the Scottish National Party began calls for a new referendum for Scotland to leave the UK and remain in the EU. A logical result of this would be for Scotland to adopt the euro as its currency and abandon the pound sterling. This will put more downward pressure on sterling.
- All of the political parties in the UK are in turmoil. A fight has broken out in the Conservative Party to replace the current Prime Minister David Cameron, who announced his coming resignation after the Brexit defeat. The Labour Party is in disarray because front benchers who wanted to remain feel that Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, did not do enough to lead the Remain forces. Finally, the leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, has been excluded from the Brexit negotiations with the EU. Farage vows to take revenge in Brussels where he is a member of the European Parliament and can have a say on Brexit from the other side of the table.
- The EU is likely to take a punitive approach to the Brexit negotiations. This will be done as “an example to the rest” in order to head off other nationalist movements that want to quit the EU. By showing that there are high costs to leaving the EU, the core EU leadership (Germany, France, Italy) hope to dissuade others from leaving.
- With the UK out of the EU, the European Central Bank will ban the settlement and clearance of euro-denominated transactions in London. These transactions will have to be settled and cleared inside EU member nations in centers like Paris, Amsterdam and Milan. The result will be a diminution in London’s role as a financial center beyond what even the pessimists are currently predicting.
Above all, these trends mean uncertainty. Markets have ways to price risk on a probabilistic basis, but markets have no way to price uncertainty where almost anything can happen. In these situations, markets go to the safest of safe havens and that means cash, U.S. Treasuries, and gold.
The slump in gold and gold related stocks from 2011 to 2015 is no mystery. It had to do with the Fed’s tightening policies and strong dollar policies after the dollar hit an all-time low in August 2011.
Now that the Fed is pursuing a dovish weak-dollar policy, gold is poised to go much higher.
[Ed. note: Whether it’s negative interest rates, currency wars, another Brexit-level shocker or beyond, Jim’s gold forecast stands strong: $10,000 – $50,000. To prove his confidence in this prediction, he’s doing something that’s going to terrify the “barbarous relic” crowd: He’s doubling down.
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