Wednesday brings the conclusion of the first FOMC meeting in 2021. As usual, we'll get a summary at 2:00 pm EST followed by a press conference with Chairman Powell at 2:30 EST. What will he say, and what should we expect the impact to be on COMEX gold and silver prices?
Gold may have come off the boil after rising above $1,900 an ounce in the aftermath of the US election, but the precious metal, and its sister silver, will do very well under a Biden presidency, an Ahead of the Herd analysis has found.
I believe that there’s a relatively high probability of another big move in the precious metals sector is coming. The charts of gold and silver are starting to look bullish again after the sharp sell-off in the sector that started on January 5th.
But what has surged in price are assets valuations in the stock market, housing market and collectible market. The everything bubble. The K recovery as the rich get richer while upwards of 20 million Americans receive unemployment benefits all against a surging pandemic that is about to cross 100 million cases globally.
If Janet Yellen and Joe Biden get their way with Congress, then trillions of dollars in new taxes on businesses and investors could be coming down the pike. Yellen wants the Trump tax cuts repealed, which would revert the U.S. corporate tax rate to one of the highest in the developed world.
Remember, for Fed stimulus to work, the money has to be borrowed into existence. Under the circumstances, it is both predictable and inevitable that some change in our lives will make people suddenly shun borrowing.
Over the past year and a half, the biggest damage to the 8 big shorts has come from gold, but more recently silver has begun to add to the loss mix. At current prices, silver accounts for as much as $3 billion of their total losses
This will be a decade to focus on absolute returns as opposed to relative returns. Passive index investing is a relative return strategy and I think it will be a very poor choice in the coming years. As my dad used to say, every dog has its day. Passive investing had the last decade. Active investing is getting ready to take the lead.
COVID Games have devastated large sections of the economy, as well as state and federal budgets. Gold and silver prices will rise. A currency crisis is possible.
