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Pure Gold and Soggy Dollars

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We’re going to be introducing some new formats. One of them is quick article links, with the good ones labelled Pure Gold and the bad ones labelled Soggy Dollars. Pure Gold When a Fed-induced boom turns to bust: “In the lynch-mob atmosphere that inevitably follows the bust cycle of Fed-induced business cycles, it was not hard to convince Americans that the corporate bankruptcies and the subsequent recession were the handiwork of criminal executives.” Of course, this sentiment prevails today too. Look for the coming “corporate crime wave“. A Soggy Dollar The headline reads, “China Bought Gold With Proceeds From Record Sale Of US Treasurys”. It’s been in the news for a while: China is selling Treasurys (i.e. dollars). The PBoC is forced to sell dollars and buy yuan, to prevent a yuan crash as people are selling yuan. However, many mistake this for China “de-dollarizing” in favor gold. According to this article, China sold B of Treasurys (i.e. dollars). And how much gold did they buy? Less than 0M, or 0.7%. We are sponsoring a seminar in central London, this Friday Oct 2. If you want to attend please register here.

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We’re going to be introducing some new formats. One of them is quick article links, with the good ones labelled Pure Gold and the bad ones labelled Soggy Dollars.

Pure Gold

When a Fed-induced boom turns to bust: “In the lynch-mob atmosphere that inevitably follows the bust cycle of Fed-induced business cycles, it was not hard to convince Americans that the corporate bankruptcies and the subsequent recession were the handiwork of criminal executives.” Of course, this sentiment prevails today too. Look for the coming “corporate crime wave“.

A Soggy Dollar

The headline reads, “China Bought Gold With Proceeds From Record Sale Of US Treasurys”. It’s been in the news for a while: China is selling Treasurys (i.e. dollars). The PBoC is forced to sell dollars and buy yuan, to prevent a yuan crash as people are selling yuan. However, many mistake this for China “de-dollarizing” in favor gold.

According to this article, China sold $83B of Treasurys (i.e. dollars). And how much gold did they buy? Less than $600M, or 0.7%.

We are sponsoring a seminar in central London, this Friday Oct 2. If you want to attend please register here.

Keith Weiner
Keith Weiner is president of the Gold Standard Institute USA in Phoenix, Arizona, and CEO of the precious metals fund manager Monetary Metals. He created DiamondWare, a technology company that he sold to Nortel Networks in 2008. He writes about money, credit and gold. In March 2015 he moved his column from Forbes to SNBCHF.com

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