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04.02.26 - 15:06
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Gold Investors: Remember 1933 (ZeroHedge)
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Gold Investors: Remember 1933
Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times,
Investors have been rightly impressed by the remarkable run of gold, which in dollar terms has doubled in price over the past year.
This performance vastly outpaces the stock markets (which are also sitting near all-time highs) and bitcoin (trading sideways to down for months), the cryptocurrency challenger touted as a “digital gold” safe-haven alternative to depreciating fiat currencies such as the U.S. dollar.
The gold euphoria should be tempered by an uncomfortable recognition.
Gold's meteoric performance is a troubling sign that something is profoundly wrong—or at least brewing—in the global geopolitical, economic, and monetary environment.
Investors are reaching for safety at the same time that risky investments continue to rise in dollar-terms value. Central banks are accumulating and hoarding gold and reducing their U.S. dollar reserves, as all the while they prepare for economic, technologic, an...
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04.02.26 - 10:24
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Gold Giant Bundesbank Signals An Open Vote Of No Confidence in Global Monetary Stability (ZeroHedge)
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Gold Giant Bundesbank Signals An Open Vote Of No Confidence in Global Monetary Stability
Submitted by Thomas Kolbe
The German Bundesbank hoards the second-largest gold reserves among central banks. The precious metal serves as an insurance policy for both states and private individuals. Its massive price surge shows that the dice have already been cast: governments will attempt to inflate their debts.
Anyone acquiring precious metals in these weeks simultaneously casts a verdict on their currency. This may be a conscious portfolio decision or simply an undefined desire to have a monetary insurance policy at hand. One never knows what the future holds.
Gold jewelry or collectible silver coins are aesthetically appealing and trigger our instinct to collect. What private purchases and the massive hoarding of gold by central banks share is their monetary-policy background.
In honest moments, looking at the soaring global sovereign debts and escalating geopolitical conflicts, we know that our monet...
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