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mick silver
29th April 2011, 06:43 AM
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/thomson_s/thomson_s_042611.html ... Stewart Thomson
email: stewart@gracelandupdates.com
email: stewart@gracelandjuniors.com
Apr 26, 2011

1. There are many indications that America sits on the cusp of hyperinflation. Normal inflation is related to rising demand for goods and services. Hyperinflation, unfortunately for those who don’t understand it, is not a function of demand. It is created by increasing the supply of dollars.

2. During demand-related inflation, increases (or decreases) in your wealth are well measured with dollars. Gold is an asset to be bought and held, and the changes in value are well measured with government currency. This has been the case throughout history, with all government currencies.

3. During periods of hyperinflation, gold itself becomes a major currency in play. Citizens begin valuing items they need in terms of the weight of gold required to buy or sell those items.

4. In the 1970s demand-related gold bull market, interest rates worked as a tool to lower prices of goods against the dollar and end that mini-crisis. Unfortunately, interest rates are generally useless as a tool to stop the mass exodus from a hyper-inflating currency.

5. The risk of hyperinflation in the 1970s was miniscule. Now, the risk is astronomical. Public panic occurs in a major crisis like this one when people understand there is no government solution to the crisis.

6. In a crisis, do you want to focus on profit, survival, or both? Personally, I’m in the “both please!” camp, as perhaps you should be! Gold is the currency of survival and profit. The best of both worlds. As the crisis accelerates, you must accelerate your focus on increasing the amount of ounces you own, to survive and profit.

7. Use the dollar as a unit of account to measure gains in stocks, silver, oil, sugar, bonds, the stock market. I’m 100% in favour of you booking profits. Start going to at least some gold when you book profits on other items.

8. Let’s say you own a juicy gold junior, and it just leaped 40%. Your charts and discussions with the company tell you it is time to book profits. Put some of those dollar profits you make in the markets into gold bullion.

9. No daddy lawyer or mommy secret agent is going to save you from the banksters. Those with the gold make the rules. The central banksters control the most gold so they make the rules. Until the gold community starts buying more gold with profits you make in the market, you will make no rules, not even for yourself.

10. The dollar valuation of all you own is meaningless during a hyperinflation of the world’s reserve currency. If you get caught in dollars when such an event occurs, that is a lifetime error from which there is no recovery.

11. It is “beyond critical” to understand that when a currency hyper-inflates, no technical analysis works. There are no buy or sell signals. There is only total destruction of the currency.

12. Click here now to view the monthly crude oil chart. You can see support and resistance highlighted by the red horizontal lines (HSR lines). Oil has had a great move. From the lows near $30, oil has rallied to about $115. If you are in oil, but getting nervous, there is only one course of professional action, and that is, go for the gold! The risks of hyperinflation/collapse/general bad news make going to gold with some profits, rather than just 100% to dollars, a very prudent course of action. Oil is likely going to $200, but not in a straight line. Some oscillators suggest oil could move a bit lower, and some suggest it could go much higher. Going to gold provides you with the most solid course of action to manage yourself in oil when you think it is high. As you will see, it is the same for all commodities and even all stocks.

13. The risks are greater now that by selling oil for dollars you miss out another leg up to $147. If oil goes to $147, do you think gold is going higher, too? Let’s say oil gets to $147. Most energy investors lost a lot of money after oil fell to $30 from $147. That $147 number is ingrained in the financial heart of investors.

14. The problem for you is that oil could gyrate around $147 and then blast towards $200 without you on board in any way, shape, or form. If you sell oil and buy gold near $147, you can probably rebuy more oil as it gyrates lower briefly, but if instead it rockets higher, your gold almost certainly will rocket higher too. If you buy dollars at $147 and oil rockets higher, or worse, if the dollar collapses, do you really think you can handle that level of demoralization? I don’t believe you can.

15. Dollars are becoming a Model T car on an Indy500 gold currency track. This is 2011, not 1911. Are you aware?

16. Click here now to view the monthly silver chart. Look at the four red circles on the RSI indicator. This is the fourth major overbought situation for silver during the course of the bull market and it is spending more time in an overbought state than at any other point during the history of this bull market.

17. Fact: There is not a single person in the gold community who can look me in the eye and tell me that going to gold when silver has been high has been a bad strategy. I hate losing wealth. So I don’t. Do the same. If you think silver is high, go for the gold.

18. Some of you are operating trading programs on silver. There are two approaches you can take in a situation like this. First, you could simply cut the amount of dollars you have in the program. Second, you could switch to some gold trading.

19. I like the switch to gold. I believe the $1400 price on gold bullion marked the knocking on the hyperinflationary door by the grim reaper, for the dollar. Just as the drastically overbought situation on the Dow charts in 1995 marked the beginning of institutional investment into the general stock market on a massive scale, it is very possible that we are seeing the same thing in the gold market now.

20. Gyration of price will replace correction of price. I expect gold’s average true range (price range) to increase to $100 a day, making the gold price totally unpredictable. Only those who can respond professionally to gyration will survive, and prosper!

21. Click here now to view the gold explorers ETF chart.

22. The gold explorers fund is very good because it has a limited number of holdings compared to other funds, and the stocks tend to be closer to juniors than intermediates. Some holdings in other “juniors” funds are almost senior, and are certainly intermediates.

23. Note the blue horizontal line on the chart. I believe the GLDX is preparing to make a move much like you just saw in silver from $20 to almost $50.

24. Your key to non-stop profits from here on in for GLDX, and for everything traded in any market, is going to be acceptance of the new hyperinflationary possibilities that require you to book profits, then put some of those profits into gold bullion. In terms of strategies, I’ll dare to suggest, you’ve tried the rest, now try the best. Go gold!

Thanks!
Cheers
St

April

SLV^GLD
29th April 2011, 07:38 AM
17. Fact: There is not a single person in the gold community who can look me in the eye and tell me that going to gold when silver has been high has been a bad strategy. I hate losing wealth. So I don’t. Do the same. If you think silver is high, go for the gold.

I don't think silver is high, I think it is just getting started.

Otherwise, very nice article.
I may send it to my friend who keeps flirting with buying gold but keeps saying it is too high. He was saying that $1000 gold, though. I tried to get him to buy into the usmoneyreserve deal floating out there right now. He told me it is stupid to buy gold when it is more expensive than it ever has been. I told him gold maintains the same value it is just the dollar that is devaluing in relation. He told me he's heard me say that before. He wanted to know why gold collapsed in price in the 80's with Regan's monetary reform. I explained that the dollars became stronger so they effectively bought more gold. He just laughed and refuses to buy gold but doesn't know where to park his money since he got out of stocks since they crashed and burned.

Sparky
29th April 2011, 08:08 AM
All valid points, but these articles never seem to define hyperinflation, as compared to "high" inflation (5%-15%), nor give a reason why the result needs to be hyperinflation. I don't think hyperinflation happens to the currency of the world, and I keep going back to the British Pound Sterling as the prime example. World power, world reserve currency, economic bust due to war and debt, but the fiat never hyperinflated, and it's still around 100 years later.

gunDriller
29th April 2011, 08:29 AM
I figure the current price of gas is between $.12 and $.13 cents per gallon. I have never seen it this low before.

This is based upon a roll of 90% silver dimes (50 coins .. face value $5) now selling for $140 or close to $3 per dime.


just like in the early 60's when the US used real money.

it's interesting that the transition away from silver-as-money occurred in 1964 - right after JFK's death.

i wonder if that might be related to reason #5 for his assassination - he wanted to stick with silver money ?

Hatha Sunahara
29th April 2011, 08:58 AM
I tend to look at PM prices now not as increases in the value of PMs, but as a measure of the falling value of the dollar, and all other paper currencies.

This of course is the exact opposite of how most people see it because they use the dollar as the measure of value, as if the value of the dollar was constant. For me, selling PMs is like jumping off the lifeboat. I'm sure that is the predominant view in this forum.


Hatha

Plastic
29th April 2011, 09:01 AM
just like in the early 60's when the US used real money.

it's interesting that the transition away from silver-as-money occurred in 1964 - right after JFK's death.

i wonder if that might be related to reason #5 for his assassination - he wanted to stick with silver money ?



He was killed soon after signing that executive order to issue silver certificates. Then of course, as they always do, they made his image into a message placing his head on the largest circulating silver coin. Kinda the same as they did with Jackson on the 20.00 note in relation to the 20 year thingy the central bank has.

Horn
29th April 2011, 09:45 AM
I don't think hyperinflation happens to the currency of the world, and I keep going back to the British Pound Sterling as the prime example. World power, world reserve currency, economic bust due to war and debt, but the fiat never hyperinflated, and it's still around 100 years later.


Britain is royalty, Sparky.

Other lesser Monarchies & kingdoms were subject to do its laundering into eg: the golden dollar.

Unless you can find some other currency the dollar can now be devauled into it by 30%?

Until then its just bomb everyone into submission, until it becomes a hyperinflated barbarous relic Mark.

That reminds me, did all go well with The wedding? :)

Nomoss
29th April 2011, 11:32 AM
I figure the current price of gas is between $.12 and $.13 cents per gallon. I have never seen it this low before.

This is based upon a roll of 90% silver dimes (50 coins .. face value $5) now selling for $140 or close to $3 per dime.

The value of a silver dime based at 48.57/oz is 3.51.
A good read is the featured article at www.coinflation.com
I can't. post the links from my phone so would one of you do it?

Ponce
29th April 2011, 11:48 AM
Gold might rule but silver will be pulling the strings from behind the curstain....... hummmm Jewish silver?

Libertarian_Guard
29th April 2011, 12:15 PM
Today’s action is likely a one day (or short term trend) anomaly.



http://i53.tinypic.com/5m0p6h.jpg


TPTB have a harder time suppressing the price of silver!

mick silver
29th April 2011, 02:37 PM
http://www.coinflation.com/

mrnhtbr2232
29th April 2011, 04:30 PM
I tend to look at PM prices now not as increases in the value of PMs, but as a measure of the falling value of the dollar, and all other paper currencies.

This of course is the exact opposite of how most people see it because they use the dollar as the measure of value, as if the value of the dollar was constant. For me, selling PMs is like jumping off the lifeboat. I'm sure that is the predominant view in this forum.


Hatha


It's always been an interesting dilemma - how do you denominate an equivalent value for metals when the metric is tanking? As an aside the lifeboat theory can still be holed by government proclamation. Not that any of us would have anything, but criminalizing ownership or enacting seizure-level taxation is out there and can still change the whole dynamic. Look at this forum and all the things we discuss - the whole ball of wax is going to hell and no one should underestimate their resolve. The only response is resolve of our own.