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Gold Set to Soar? Here’s What Coin Sales are Saying … | Uncommon Wisdom Daily

Gold Set to Soar? Here’s What Coin Sales are Saying … | Uncommon Wisdom Daily | Gold and What Moves it. | Scoop.it
With gold prices at a one-month low, is this a buying opportunity before the yellow metal takes off even higher? Gold (and silver!) buying that’s on the rise in the U.S.

 

by Sean Brodrick:

 

"... While money supply growth flattened and then declined in the earlier part of this year, it is now picking up again. If recent history repeats itself, that should be bullish for gold.

 

"The official inflation rate is 1.6%. That’s less than the Fed’s original target rate of 2%. So, I think this increase in money supply that we can see on the chart is just the start. In other words, the Fed has plenty of room to keep printing.

 

"Many investors are already betting that inflation is around the corner, or at least that the Fiscal Cliff could plunge us into financial uncertainty. And guess what they’re buying to protect themselves?

 

"Silver, Gold American Eagle Sales Soaring!

 

"November and December are historically strong months for gold sales — but January and February aren’t bad, either.

 

"The U.S. Mint recently reported that sales of Gold Eagle coins this November were TRIPLE the sales of a year earlier. Investors scooped up 131,000 ounces of American Eagles from the U.S. Mint in November. That marked the strongest November since 1998. ..."

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Charles Hugh Smith: Why the Innovation Premium Is Diminishing

Charles Hugh Smith: Why the Innovation Premium Is Diminishing | Gold and What Moves it. | Scoop.it

The acceleration of competition as high-tech tools and skills have dispersed throughout the global economy is an under-appreciated trend.


In the late 1980s, Apple famously reaped $1,000 in gross profit on each Macintosh computer sold: Apple was able to charge a very high premium for the innovations the Mac embodied. (Note: this was back when $1,000 was a substantial sum; that is over $2,000 in 2012 dollars.) This ability to reap a substantial premium for innovation is fundamentally what drives the technology marketplace: since competition arises in any high-profit space, the premium for innovation degrades as competitors enter the space. In the good old days, it took years for serious competition to arise. As the bumper sticker crowed, "Windows 95 = Mac 1985." (As I worked with both Mac 1985 and the crash-prone Windows 95, I would say Win95 was still substantially behind the Mac in stability.) The acceleration of competition as high-tech tools and skills have dispersed throughout the global economy is an under-appreciated trend. Apple has earned billions of dollars in profits over the decades as its innovations enabled the ...
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This is an interesting article. Will make you think.

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