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Between antique-shopping and getting his hair done, Tom Lee of the ceaselessly-televised firm FundStrat boldly called for a “face-ripping rally” on March 25th, which is just about the millisecond that things started plunging again. What a stud!
My long-held opinion is that gold does little aside from anchor a sound monetary view in a Keynesian debt world gone mad. For decades, as the Keynesian way (credit/debt leveraged for growth) has been THE way, it has come to be taken for granted by the masses.
Hence, the pervasively accepted notion of a centralized monetary authority that manipulates interest rates – thereby manipulating money – in service to micro-managing an economy that should be left to its own natural devices (a quaint and seemingly out of touch notion, I grant you).
(more…)Following the inauguration of a new Christ-focused federal administration, the U.S. dollar has been headed in a fairly consistent direction, including during trading this evening as the dollar continues to plunge against other currencies, such as the Yen, below:
These six ratio charts show the enormous shifts that have taken place recently with respect to precious metals strength and equity weakness.
