Renowned author and investor Jim Rogers appeared on RT yesterday to share his thoughts about the end of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. In this short interview, he suggests that the Chinese renminbi might fill the void left by the dollar. This prediction shouldn’t be much of a surprise to our readers, as we’ve been following the ever-growing gap between the East and West. The big takeaway is this: Rogers is certain that by the end of this decade, the world will be well on its way to completely abandoning the dollar as a reserve currency.
The US thinks that they’re in charge and they don’t have to worry about anything. No, I hate to say it – I’m an American citizen – but you know, there’s a lot of arrogance still in the United States. Especially about the dollar.”
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Russia and China have signed a gas deal that would side-step Western markets. This agreement is just the latest development as the two countries continue to cement ties and diversify their holdings away from the United States. Reaching this agreement further removes the Chinese from dependence on oil purchased from OPEC and thereby puts another nail in the coffin for the petrodollar standard. Not only that, but its announcement comes just days after Mikhail Gorbachev warned that the world is nearing another Cold War.
Last week, an analyst for Bank of America predicted that gold could rise to $1,350 if Switzerland passed the “Save Our Swiss Gold” initiative at the end of November. That’s almost 17% higher than today’s gold price. The media is not just watching the price of gold in the weeks leading up to the Swiss Gold Initiative – the value of the Swiss franc in relation to the euro has also been closely eyed. Unfortunately, as you can see in this article from Bloomberg, the financial media generally makes it sound like the Swiss Gold Initiative would be terrible for the franc.
However, the Swiss Gold Initiative is more than just a referendum on returning to sound money policies in Switzerland.
A couple weeks ago, we reported on Alan Greenspan’s prediction that the price of gold would rise. He said this at the New Orleans Investment Conference. In an interview at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) the next week, Greenspan commented even more on gold, though the CFR did not publish his thoughts in the official transcript. Most notably, Greenspan explains what so-called “gold bugs” have been telling the skeptical financial media for years:
Gold is a currency. It is still by all evidences the premier currency, where no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it… Intrinsic currencies, like gold and silver for example, are acceptable without a third party guarantee…”
The latest jobs numbers were released today, and the financial media is making much of the drop in the unemployment rate – now 5.8% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Obviously, the economy must be getting better, just like Janet Yellen and Barack Obama have been telling us, right? Not so fast. The results from Tuesday’s elections tell a different story, as exit polls showed that the vast majority of voters were primarily concerned about the economy. Main Street Americans are waking up to the fact that this recovery is a hoax.
Even major news outlets like the LA Times are reporting on the new phenomenon of “secular stagnation,” which Peter Schiff addresses in his commentary below. ZeroHedge summarized how bogus the latest jobs numbers are, pointing out that most of the jobs gained are low-end service sector positions, while high-quality full-time work is dropping. Most alarmingly, it looks like there may soon be more waiters and bartenders in America than manufacturing workers:
SchiffGold and other major precious metals dealers have just received notice that the United States Mint has temporarily sold out of its Silver American Eagle bullion coins. There has been a huge surge in demand for silver bullion in the past week, as the price of the metal hit four year lows. Clearly investors are taking advantage of this buying opportunity.
We heard last week that US Mint sales of silver coins hit a 21-month high in October. The US Mint sold 5.79 million ounces of silver in October. This is the highest sales report since January 2013, when the Mint set a monthly record of 7.5 million ounces. As we reported last week, demand for silver coins has been on the rise across the globe, draining supplies from both private and national mints.
The price of silver has hit four-year lows. This isn’t because physical silver is no longer a valuable, safe-haven investment, but because mainstream economists and investors believe the Federal Reserve’s hype that the US economy is recovering. Peter Schiff explains why the economy isn’t recovering here.
Physical silver is not just an important investment asset, though. As this thoroughly fascinating infographic from the Visual Capitalist shows, silver is an essential linchpin in modern technology, health care, and medicine. Silver’s industrial demand and diminishing supply is just another reason to buy the white metal now, while prices are still low.
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The October issue of Silver News is now available from The Silver Institute. This edition begins with an interview with Ruth Crowell, Chief Executive of the London Bullion Market Association. Crowell talks mostly about the new silver pricing mechanism that replaced the London Silver Fix, which is begin administered by CME Group and Thomson Reuters. She described the main difference of the new system that was rolled out in August:
The major differences are that there is an independent third-party administrator as well as additional price participants and increased transparency. The information, which is displayed across multiple platforms, shows the live auction rounds, which mirrors what an actual participant sees while taking part.”
The October Silver News covers a variety of other developments in the silver industry, including:
- Silver is being used to mimic the camouflage capabilities of octopi.
Asia Maneuvering to Become World Gold Hub
Wall Street Journal – Two major Asian economic centers have launched gold trading contracts, and a third is planned for later this year. The Shanghai Gold Exchange started offering yuan-denominated gold contracts in September. In October, Singapore began offering a contract. Later in 2014, CME Group Inc. will offer a contract denominated in US dollars out of Hong Kong. Although most of the world’s gold is bought by Asians, the majority of gold contracts are currently traded in the West, with prices fixed in London. China and other Asian economic interests hope these new gold contracts will begin to have a greater influence on the global gold price, while boosting Asian gold demand.
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