Commentaries

The US will eventually experience hyperinflation, but “eventually” could be long after we are all dead.

Thanks to the Fed’s tapering, a wider public is becoming aware of currency instability in diverse economies, from Turkey to Argentina, and India to Indonesia.

The second tapering reduction, a further $10bn per month, was announced this week. It was we are told by the news channels fully expected.

It seems as if all the major Wall Street institutions are bearish on gold, even after a 2+ year bear market and a major pullback.

t transpired last week that of the 43-odd tonnes per annum the Bundesbank expects to be returned from the New York Fed only 5 tonnes arrived in 2013.

By December, the most recent month for which statistics are available, the US dollar Fiat Money Quantity (FMQ) had grown to $12.48 trillion.

In short: Opening a speculative short position (half of the regular position) in gold, silver and mining stocks might be a good idea right now.

GoldMoney Business Analyst Maike Ahlstrom has become a member of FGI Training’s Elite club, after she was awarded 100% in her recent Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) exams.

The US monetary inflation rate continues its downward drift. As at the end of December the year-over-year (YOY) rate of growth in US True Money Supply (TMS) was 7.2%, its lowest level since November of 2008.

A number of readers and bloggers have recently suggested there must be collusion between America and China over the transfer of physical gold from Western capital markets.