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This Is The Year The Chinese Let Gold & Silver Prices Fly

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Today acclaimed money manager Stephen Leeb told King World News this is going to be the year in which the Chinese really begin to let gold and silver prices fly.  He also believes that when the Chinese eventually have gold underlying their currency the game is over.  Here is what Leeb had to say:  “I believe that gold, silver, gold stocks, and silver stocks especially, because they are so scarce, are an exceptionally good place to be.  The only way individuals can protect themselves at this point is through purchases of precious metals.

 

“What more could you want than a quote from the Finance Minister of Japan, Taro Aso, ‘Foreign countries have no right to lecture us ... The US should have a stronger dollar.’  And he questions whether a major group of 20 nations have stuck to pledges from 2009, to avoid competitive currency devaluations.

 

Of course they haven’t stuck to those pledges.  We can’t get our currency low enough....

Hal's insight:

It will be interesting if they do. I'm not so sure, but Leeb is certainly better positioned than I am. The question is, which central bank is best positioned with the greatest quantity of the stuff?

Tom Luongo's comment, January 2, 3:38 PM
The E.C.B. is the short answer, Hal. Both of them want Gold to thrive going forward.
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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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