From a practical point of view, the answer is to build assets. Now. If that means cutting your consumption to a bare minimum and working two jobs, do it while the economy is still hanging together.
Prices on crude and at the pump are rising relentlessly. Contracts abolished. Tankers and refineries on fire. Putin threatening Russian fuel cutoff. China embargoing its own oil from exports.
Historically gold reacts powerfully to the economic consequences that follow wars: government spending, expanding public debt, and the policies that accompany prolonged geopolitical strain.
The recent selloff pushed prices down significantly, but they rebounded relatively quickly. In yuan terms, the price seems to have built support around ¥1,000 per gram.
Maharrey notes that gold and silver often decline alongside other assets in the early stages of market stress because investors liquidate positions to cover margin calls and other losses.
Have we ever seen an oil crisis lead to a severe recession with soaring prices at the same time—an unusual concurrence? We don’t have to look that far back to recall the years known as “stagflation.”
Billions of dollars have already been spent on this unprovoked attack, and when the smoke clears – if it does – we may see hundreds of billions or more wasted on yet another Middle East war.
