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This is the biggest story on planet Earth today.<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gold and Silver Explosion: Something Big Is Happening<\/h1>\n

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by\u00a0Brandon Smith<\/p>\n

Gold and silver prices, according to Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com, are signaling stress under the surface of the economy. From shrinking physical inventories to record central bank buying, precious metals warn that the underlying issues aren\u2019t resolved\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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In early 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic hysteria I noted that the covid panic seemed to perfectly coincide with the Federal Reserve\u2019s acceleration of interest rates and asset dumping. This trend, I argued, was a precursor to a Catch-22 scenario I have been warning about for some time.<\/p>\n

Since the crash of 2008, the central bank has used stimulus measures and near-zero interest rates to protect \u201ctoo big to fail\u201d corporations while keeping debt afloat globally. Doing this required the digital printing of tens of trillions of fiat dollars and, inevitably, a sharp devaluation in the greenback.<\/p>\n

I predicted that this would lead to\u00a0stagflation<\/a>ary conditions (which finally hit in 2022), and the conundrum of\u00a0inflation vs. deflation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Federal Reserve could continue to keep rates low and ignore inflationary pressures to avoid a collapse of debt.<\/p>\n

Or, they could\u00a0significantly<\/em>\u00a0raise interest rates, let the debt system take its medicine and tumble in price and squelch the effects of inflation by suppressing consumer demand.<\/p>\n

Either choice could cause an economic crisis.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s understandable that the Fed decided\u00a0not to choose<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Instead, they raised rates but\u00a0not enough<\/em>\u00a0to reverse stagflation. They took the middle road and refused to allow the economy to take its much-needed medicine, postponing a reckoning for badly-priced\u00a0malinvestments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Essentially, kicking the can down the road for the next administration to deal with.<\/p>\n

Consequences of the Fed\u2019s too-little-too-late strategy<\/h2>\n

This means we are still stuck with the\u00a0massive<\/em>\u00a0price increases we incurred during the Biden Administration.<\/p>\n

Granted, the rate of inflation has slowed. But the cost of living is significantly higher than just five years ago. (Remember, above-zero inflation doesn\u2019t mean prices\u00a0fall<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 it means they keep rising, but\u00a0more slowly.)<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2020 I wrote an article titled\u00a0Physical Gold Will Soon Break Free from the Paper Market in Spectacular Fashion<\/a><\/em>, predicting skyrocketing precious metals values once this Catch-22 situation became apparent to investors. I predicted that buyers would\u00a0increasingly<\/em>\u00a0drop financial derivatives (futures etc.) in favor of\u00a0physical delivery of gold and silver<\/strong>, causing physical prices to go parabolic.<\/p>\n

This is now happening.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since I wrote that article, the\u00a0price of gold<\/a>\u00a0per ounce jumped over 200%. Silver prices have exploded by\u00a0400%.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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