{"id":2708,"date":"2014-12-10T07:01:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2014-12-10T07:01:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:01:32","slug":"7-questions-gold-bears-must-answer-casey-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2708","title":{"rendered":"7 Questions Gold Bears Must Answer | Casey Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caseyresearch.com\/cdd\/7-questions-gold-bears-must-answer\">7 Questions Gold Bears Must Answer | Casey Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">A glance at any gold price chart reveals the severity of the bear mauling it has endured over the last three years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">More alarming, even for die-hard gold investors, is that some of the fundamental drivers that would normally push gold higher, like a weak US dollar, have reversed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">Throw in a correction-defying Wall Street stock market and the never-ending rain of disdain for gold from the mainstream, and it may seem that there\u2019s no reason to buy gold; the bear is here to stay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">If so, then I have a question. Actually, a whole bunch of questions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">If we\u2019re in a bear market, then\u2026<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 24px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">Why Is China Accumulating Record Amounts of Gold?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">Mainstream reports will tell you Chinese imports through Hong Kong are down. They are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">But total gold imports are up. Most journalists continue to overlook the fact that China imports gold directly into Beijing and Shanghai now. There are at least 12 importing banks\u2014that we know of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">Counting these \u201cunreported\u201d sources, imports have risen sharply. How do we know? From other countries\u2019 export data. Take Switzerland, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin\/>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: LucidaGrande; color: #282828;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\"><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 Questions Gold Bears Must Answer | Casey Research. A glance at any gold price chart reveals the severity of the bear mauling it has endured over the last three years. More alarming, even for die-hard gold investors, is that some of the fundamental drivers that would normally push gold higher, like a weak US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[374,1785,647,1786,860],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-gold","tag-gold-bears","tag-precious-metals","tag-repatriation","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}