This Has Only Happened Prior to the Plaza Accord & the Global Real Estate Bubble
As of Dec-15 the spread between the trailing 56 month (an objective reference point: gold peaked 56 months ago on a monthly closing basis in Aug-11) rates of change in the USD and gold reached in excess of 67% (i.e.,…...
CNY Cross vs. Gold Highly Informative, Signals Beginning of New Global Macro Regime
In the chart below I plot CNY vs. gold. The cross has been in a downward sloping channel b/t lines (1) and (2) dating back to 1996. Further, via the vertical blue lines, note that every major pivot in the prevailing…...
TIP Break-Out Confirms Reflation Thematic, Augers for More Equity, PM Upside
As intimated as an increasingly likely outcome in this post on 3/2/16, treasury inflation-protected securities, via the TIP ETF, are breaking out of a consolidation/flag pattern put in place b/t lines (1) and (2) over the past five years. This…...
Inflation Set to Expand?
The chart below shows TIP, or a vehicle that tracks inflation-protected treasury security prices, with a gold overlay. When TIP is rising in value inflation-protected securities are being bid up in anticipation of inflation rising; when TIP is declining it…...
Additional Signs of Reflation and Implications for Gold
Earlier today in this post I discussed that the Producer Price Index for all commodities, or the PCAC Index (Bloomberg ticker), was signaling the potential for a strong global reflationary event to occur in the intermediate-term. I wanted to build on…...
Does a Major Reflationary Event Stand on the Horizon?
The PCAC Index (US PPI for all commodities) is plotted on a monthly basis below dating back to the early 1900s. As of the last print (Jan-16) and following a significant multi-year decline, it was a hair away from reaching…...
Can Gold Rally Without Commodities in General Also Participating?
Short answer: yes. Below I’ve shown all of gold’s trough to peak rallies dating back to the early 70s, or when Nixon abandoned the gold standard. What you’ll find is that out of six major cyclical or secular rallies in gold’s history,…...