We have: wars that could go global, the big bond bust, inflation rising, and a bank bust coming due to commercial real estate. We’re running out of places to run.
There is no reason to expect geopolitical issues to have any measurable or lasting effect on the gold price unless the U.S. dollar is affected negatively.
We have to take complex geopolitics into consideration when attempting to determine the outlook for Precious Metals’ prices, as well as other commodities, in particular oil and gas.
Even though major gold miners are high-grading their reserves, mining all the best gold and leaving the rest, they still didn’t manage to satisfy global demand for the precious metal.
Gold shan’t become moon-bound until the current All-Time High (2089) is eclipsed; thus it remains for now range-bound. As of Friday, Gold's price rose +10.7% in 16 trading days.
About 2 in 3 Americans say their household expenses have risen over the last year, but only about 1 in 4 say their income has increased in the same period.
Neither voters nor investors should expect much to change in terms of the trajectory of spending, debt, and inflation. This week the gold market consolidated near the $2,000 level.
