Jeff Clark of Casey Research spoke with Vanessa Colette at the Vancouver Resource Investment conference hosted by Cambridge House International. Clark explained that gold has been performing exactly as it should in the past year by rising in the price of foreign currencies that have been experiencing inflation and economic trouble. Clark emphasized that there has never been a better time in history to own gold. On top of that, he reminds us that someday the East is going to take charge of the gold trade, and they’ll do that at much higher prices than we’re seeing now.
Precious metals naysayers often fail to keep a global perspective on the economics behind gold and silver. This past week has been a stark reminder that gold is an international asset whose real, fundamental value cannot be found in US dollar terms alone. When the Swiss franc’s peg to the euro was dropped, gold surged against global currencies.
A Kitco commentary by Frank Holmes featuring a variety of currency charts makes the point succinctly. First, here’s gold in euros. Gold is up 14.3% in the past month against the euro. It’s moved nearly 6% since Switzerland decided to abandon the euro.
David Asman interviewed Peter Schiff on Fox Business on Friday. They discussed why inflation created by central banks doesn’t actually create a strong economy, but rather serves to prop up irresponsible governments. Peter also explained why the price of gold is going up even while the US dollar is rising against other currencies.
In his first Schiff Report video of the year, Peter Schiff explains the Swiss news that rattled the foreign exchange markets this week. Peter had predicted that Switzerland would eventually be forced to drop its euro peg, just as he’s been warning that countries like China will be forced to abandon their ties to a weakening US dollar. If investors don’t want to experience even worse losses than Europeans were hit with this week, they need to start preparing for a dollar crisis. Gold has performed very well this year, even while the US dollar and stock market moved higher, which Peter sees as an indicator that a new bull trend has started in precious metals.
In his latest podcast, Peter Schiff provides more in-depth analysis of how the Swiss National Bank’s monetary policy could affect the US dollar in the long-term.
Markets are still reeling from yesterday’s news that the Swiss National Bank has removed the currency cap on the Swiss franc. Still wondering exactly what this means for European and American investors? Peter Schiff explains to RT what this means in the larger context of the international currency war. It’s good news for the Swiss people, but Americans still have a long way to go before losing confidence in the Federal Reserve.
Kitco News spoke with forecaster Gerald Celente about the grand manipulation of global markets by central banks. Celente argues that the only reason the gold price isn’t $2,000 is because of the low interest rates and quantitative easing of the Federal Reserve. He predicts a panic in US equity markets in 2015 and a resurgence in precious metals.
In yesterday’s podcast, Peter Schiff addressed the current stock market volatility, the United States housing market, retail sales numbers, and the American recovery fantasy.
The price of gold took off this morning when news broke that the Swiss National Bank has removed the euro cap on the Swiss franc. For three years, the franc has had a ceiling of 1.20 francs per euro. When the cap was removed, the currency surged 30% against the euro, sending currency traders scrambling into gold as a safe haven. Gold surged more than 2% and is currently hovering around $1,260.
Currency markets aren’t alone in their volatility this week.
Famed contrarian investor Marc Faber has predicted that gold will go up “substantially” in 2015, perhaps as much as 30%. Much like Peter Schiff, Faber sees 2015 as the year that the markets wake up and realize that central banks are no longer capable of artificially supporting asset prices.
Faber’s investment advice comes down to shorting central banks:
My belief is that the big surprise this year is that investor confidence in central banks collapses. And when that happens — I can’t short central banks, although I’d really like to, and the only way to short them is to go long gold, silver and platinum… That’s the only way. That’s something I will do.”
