{"id":48426,"date":"2019-09-13T06:10:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48426"},"modified":"2019-09-13T06:10:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T11:10:18","slug":"the-silver-series-the-start-of-a-new-gold-silver-cycle-part-1-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48426","title":{"rendered":"The Silver Series: The Start of A New Gold-Silver Cycle (Part 1 of 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Silver Series: The Start of A New Gold-Silver Cycle (Part 1 of 3)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The world has experienced a decade of growth fueled by record-low interest rates, a burgeoning money supply, and historic debt levels \u2013 but the good times only last so long. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the global economy slows and eventually begins to retract, can precious metals offer a useful store of value to investors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 1: The Start of a New Cycle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s infographic comes to us from Endeavour Silver<\/a>, and it outlines some key indicators that precede a coming gold-silver cycle in which exposure to hard assets may help to protect wealth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bankers Blowing Bubbles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2008, central bankers around the world launched a historic market intervention by printing money and bailing out major banks. With cheap and abundant money, this strategy worked so well that it created a bull market in every sector \u2014 except for precious metals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stock markets, consumer lending, and property values surged. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve\u2019s assets ballooned, and so did corporate, government, and household debt. By 2018, total debt reached almost $250 trillion worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currency vs. Precious Metals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world awash in unprecedented amounts of currency, and these dollars chase a limited supply of goods. Historically speaking, it\u2019s only a matter of time before the price of goods increases or inflates \u2013 eroding the purchasing power of every dollar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gold and silver are some of the only assets unaffected by inflation, retaining their value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gold and silver are money\u2026 everything else is credit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 J.P. Morgan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Perfect Story for a Gold-Silver Cycle?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investors can use several indicators to gauge the beginning of the gold-silver cycle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Gold\/Silver Futures

    Most traders do not trade physical gold and silver, but paper contracts with the promise to buy at a future price. Every week, U.S. commodity exchanges publish the Commitment of Traders \u201cCOT\u201d report. This report summarizes the positions (long\/short) of traders for a particular commodity.\u00a0<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

     \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Silver Series: The Start of A New Gold-Silver Cycle (Part 1 of 3) The world has experienced a decade of growth fueled by record-low interest rates, a burgeoning money supply, and historic debt levels \u2013 but the good times only last so long.  As the global economy slows and eventually begins to retract, can […]<\/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":[195,374,391,3731,27158,730,12504],"class_list":["post-48426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-debt","tag-gold","tag-growth","tag-money-creation","tag-nicholas-lepan","tag-silver","tag-visual-capitalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48426","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=48426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48427,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48426\/revisions\/48427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}