The unemployment rate also looks more serious when you realize that many groups are not experiencing this unemployment much, while others are taking the brunt of it.
The November CPI data came out much cooler than expected, but most analysts don’t seem to be putting much stock in the report due to the chaos created by the government shutdown.
Maharrey argues that if you save purely in dollars, those dollars will buy less in the future, and that the ongoing rise in gold and silver is a signal of continued currency devaluation.
Regulators in India have revised rules to allow pension funds to invest in gold and silver ETFs. This could further boost already booming investment demand in India.
The action is similar to the Fed’s aggressive acquisition of long-dated securities in the bond market at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, when credit markets imploded.
It’s also worth noting that Buffett has already invested in silver twice and when he described why in his 1998 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting, the reasons he cited sound familiar.
