-- Posted Friday, 8 February 2013 | | Disqus
“There is no paper money in 2014 or 2015 that will be worth much of anything.”
“You can’t get [silver coins]. They sell out….Several mints have run out of coins because everybody’s worried about the future of the world.”
“Gold has been up 12 years in a row which is extremely unusual for anything.”
“Don’t Sell Your Gold and Silver Coins: Jim Rogers
The Daily Ticker, 02/07/2013
Investors are increasingly concerned, understandably, about the Reliability of Official or Quasi-Official (e.g., those emanating from Too-Big-To-Fail Banks and Ratings Agencies) Statistics and other Financial and Economic News.
Understandably so, given that the actions of Participant Mega-Financial Institutions in the LIBOR Scandal cost Borrowers Billions.
Understandably so, if the allegations in the Ratings Agency litigation are proven true, Investors in deceptively “Rated” Mortgage-Backed Securities, and other commercial Paper have taken a Financial Bath there also.
Understandingly so, given the continuing Flood of Bogus Official Economic Statsitics (See Note 1).
But the Mismatch between Bogus “Statistics” and “News” on one hand and the Real Numbers and Real News on the other provides Opportunities to Profit and Protect. This is because Bogus Statistics and Disinformation give rise to inherently Unsustainable Trends and misallocation of Capital.
As Jim Rogers points out, Investors aree fleeing Fiat Currencies for the safety of Real Assets going forward, and especially into Real Money, Gold and Silver.
That this is a Trend with “legs” going forward is virtually indisputable.
Why?
Consider what China, The Major Power With Assets, is doing.
“China's gold production rose for a sixth consecutive year and hit a record 403 tonnes in 2012…the Shanghai Securities News said on Thursday.
Compared to a year ago, gold production was up 11.7 percent, the paper said, citing data from China's Gold Association…
China has said that it aims to produce between 420 and 450 tonnes of the precious metal in 2015”
JBGJ continues to find China’s ability to increase gold production so smoothly by these huge amounts – over 40 tonnes in 2012 – without any particular geological news, very odd. It speaks of course to the massive degree of undervaluation of the yuan, possibly to China’s peculiar energy pricing policies as well. Consequently if those policies change, China may be forced into the world gold market in an even more dramatic way.
“China's 2012 gold output up 12 percent – paper”
http://in.reuters.com, 02/07/2013 and thanks to JBGJ
Clearly, China’s Acquisition of Physical Gold (and indeed Real Assets around the World) is not likely to stop any time soon.
Consider The Trend reflected on the Chart “Chinese Gold Production plus Net Imports since 2000”.
In sum, the Chinese are trading Fiat Currencies (and Securities denominated therein) whose Purchasing Power is decreasing, for Gold.
A related Trend (“Related” because Fiat Currency purchasing Power Degradation generates Price Inflation) which is not honestly reported by Officialdom and Quasi-Officialdom is Inflation.
Real and Serious Price Inflation (and indeed Threshold Hyperinflation) is already with us as Tyler Durden points out
“While every central banker and policy-leech spews forth the government-supplied statistics on inflation - noting that all is well, carry on - we recently pointed out that Gas Prices are their highest ever for this time of year. Of course, the standard supply constraints (or technical) reasoning was applied to dismiss this as transitory (even though it has continued to rise since); but what is perhaps more worrisome is the broad-based nature of the real inflation that is leaking into our global supply chain. The 24-commodity heavy S&P GSCI index (widely recognized as a leading measure of general price movements and inflation in the world economy) has never been as high in early February as it is currently - ever. And with global growth stagnating at best, it seems a tough call to blame 'recovery' for this inflating (fastest pace in 8 years) raw material price leaking cost-push inflation (and margin-compression) into the real economy.”
“No Inflation? Commodities Highest Ever For This Time of Year,” Tyler Durden
Zerohedge.com, 02/05/2013
This presents an opportunity to be Profitably Long Commodities if the specific commodities selected and the timing are right. (Regarding Specific Recommendations see Notes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 below.)
This Commodities Inflation is reflected in the Real Numbers (as opposed to the Bogus Official Ones) conveniently provided to us by shadowstats.com
Shadowstats.com calculates Key Statistics the way they were calculated in the 1980s before Official Data Manipulation began in earnest. Consider
Bogus Official Numbers vs. Real Numbers (per Shadowstats.com)
Annual U.S. Consumer Price Inflation reported January 16, 2013
1.74% / 9.36%
U.S. Unemployment reported January 4, 2013
7.8% / 23.0%
U.S. GDP Annual Growth/Decline reported January 30, 2013
1.54% / -2.20% (i.e., a Negative 2.20%)
U.S. M3 reported January 24, 2013 (Month of December, Y.O.Y.)
No Official Report / 4.38%
The Threshold Hyperinflation which we already experience is mainly caused, it is widely and correctly acknowledged, by increased Central Bank-provided Liquidity. And most of the Liquidity has been employed to Monetize Debt.
This has resulted in Interest Rates being held artificially low, temporarily.
And resulted in Equities being boosted artificially, but understandably, high, temporarily (a “short” Opportunity when the time is right).
The recent near record highs in the Equities Markets have, finally, resulted in “Retail” (i.e., small) investors coming back into the market ($77.9 billion in January, 2013 highest since February, 2000) late, as usual.
But “late” enterers historically signal the approach of Market Tops, as they did in the 2000-2001 Period when the Internet bubble burst. Another Short Opportunity when the time is right.
In sum, it looks like the “Smart Money” is selling and the “Retail” Money is buying, which is not a reflection of Sustainable Highs as John Hussman points out
“It’s fine to argue that perhaps investors are momentum chasers, and with profit margins now about 70% above historical norms (making stocks seem both ‘safe’ and misleadingly cheap), with stock prices up, and with low returns on cash, investors not holding stocks will be the greater fools that allow investors who do hold stocks to get out. [...] But the problem with the ‘great rotation’ argument is that somebody has to hold the debt. Somebody has to hold the cash. It cannot go anywhere, and it is impossible – in aggregate – for the markets to ‘rotate’ out of it.”
“Capitulation Everywhere”, John Hussman,
HussmanFunds.com, 01/28/2013
Be Alert to the Consequences of and Opportunities flowing from the aforementioned Trends, Be Very Alert.
And bear in mind the Longest Trend:
“Five thousand years of history show us that Gold is always money and paper always fails.”
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tx)
Bloomsberg News, 02/08/2013
Best regards,
Deepcaster
February 8, 2013
Note 1: The Equities Market has been Rallying up since Mid-November, as we earlier forecast, with only a few down days at end-December over Fiscal Cliff concerns.
Now we have surmounted the Psychological 14,000 Marker on the Dow, and despite the little pullback this week, the all-time 14,129 High appears dead ahead.
So what is the likely Upside High and when, will it likely occur? And what then?
We evaluate the Competing forces which will determine this Top, and Forecast that Top and the Time it is likely to hit it, and make Forecasts for other Major Sectors in our latest Alert, “Rally Targets; Buy Reco; Forecasts: U.S. Dollar/Euro, U.S. T-Notes, T- Bonds, & Interest Rates, Gold, Silver, Equities, & Crude Oil” just posted in ‘Alerts Cache’ at www.deepcaster.com.
As well, we make a Buy Recommendation aimed at Profiting from the Intensifying Flood of Liquidity from The Fed, BOJ, ECB, and other Central Banks.
And we warn of two increasingly likely Major Sell-Offs in two Key Sectors likely coming Very Soon.
Note 2: Deepcaster and a few others have been warning about the Biggest One for many months!
The Biggest One is drawing ever nearer. It will make those who are prepared, rich. It will devastate the unprepared.
And one does not have to look solely at the logical consequences of The Fed’s, ECB’s, and BOJ’s destructive QE to Infinity to see that The Biggest One is coming. One has only to look at what various Market Sectors are telling us.
The following Market Signals communicate the same message:
- The DJ Utility average is topping out... stalled around its 200 day Moving Average.
- The Equities Markets are hitting record highs on a surge of Central Bank provided liquidity, certainly not on fundamentals.
- The $US weakens on higher rates, not strengthens as is typical, a telling warning.
- Certain indices are going parabolic, a probable precursor to collapse in One Sector.
The Biggest One is coming, and it will dramatically affect all markets.
To consider The Biggest One and its prospective Effects, check out our forecasts in our recent Alert, “The Biggest One Impending; Forecasts: U.S. Dollar/Euro, U.S. T-Notes, T- Bonds, & Interest Rates, Gold, Silver, Equities, & Crude Oil,” recently posted in ‘Alerts Cache,’ at deepcaster.com
Note 3: The Market Price of virtually any Asset is arguably always primarily a result of Competing Forces.
But 2013 is unique in that there are especially Strong Forces impelling many markets up. And there are especially Strong Forces impelling markets Down, Catastrophically Down. Regarding Forecasting Force Predominance in 2013, forecasting Timing is critical.
So we evaluate the prospective results of this “competition” and forecast Timing accordingly in our February Letter entitled “2013 Profit Primer; Buy Reco; Forecasts: Equities, U.S. Dollar/Euro, U.S. T-Notes, T- Bonds, & Interest Rates, Gold, Silver, & Crude Oil” recently posted at deepcaster.com in ‘Latest Letter and Archives.’
And we offer a Buy Recommendation aimed at a Substantial Profit in just the next two months in our February Letter.
Note 4: A little over two weeks ago we issued a “Take 83% Profit” notice on a stock we recommended just 111 days before in a “Fortress” Asset Sector.
Just two days after that we made another Buy Recommendation in that same Sector – a Sector whose Superb Profit Potential will remain Relatively Undiminished by Economic Conditions, whatever they may be.
And we expect to make several more Recommendations in that Fortress Asset Sector in the Next Few Months.
The Economic Forces which were temporarily displaced by the Fiscal Cliff Fight are coming to the Fore again. And those Forces telegraph the next likely Market Moves, which we Forecast in last week’s Alert.
To see our Fortress Asset Sector Buy Recommendation and our Forecasts for U.S. Dollar/Euro, & U.S. T-Notes, T- Bonds, & Interest Rates, Gold, Silver, Equities, & Crude Oil, go to deepcaster.com and click on ‘Alerts Cache.’
Note 5: There are Magnificent Opportunities in the Ongoing Crises of Debt Saturation, Rising Unemployment, Negative Real GDP growth, over 9.0% Real U.S. Inflation (per Shadowstats.com) and prospective Sovereign and other Defaults.
One Sector full of Opportunities is the High-Yield Sector. Deepcaster’s High Yield Portfolio is aimed at generating Total Return (Gain + Yield) well in excess of Real Consumer Price Inflation (9.41% per year in the U.S. per Shadowstats.com).
To consider our High-Yield Stocks Portfolio recommendations with Recent Yields of 10.6%, 18.5%, 26%, 15.6%, 8%, 6.7%, 8.6%, 10%, 14.9%, 8.8%, 10.4%, 15.4%, and 10.7% when added to the portfolio; go to www.deepcaster.com and click on ‘High Yield Portfolio.’
DEEPCASTER LLC
www.deepcaster.com
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