Thursday, January 26, 2012

Steen Jakobsen on Maximum Intervention "Now is the Time You Need Metals – Particularly Gold and Gold Stocks"; Fool in the Shower

"...My good colleague Peter Garnry kindly provided me with this chart(which is now part of Stress Indicators) on key central bank’ balance sheet in percentage of their countries GDP. Simple stuff, scary stuff:




Note how Europe or rather ECB in the space of six month have done more expansion than the FED has done in three years in terms of printing money(relative to GDP) – again – buy some paper producers! The world could run out of paper to print those debasing currencies on pretty soon!

Now is the time where you need your metals – particularly gold and gold stocks. The above issues shows you clearly and forcefully that we have moved from a ‘Maximum Intervention’ period into a ‘Maximum printing’ phase – this will give the policy makers a false sense of “improvement” and hope for a turning point not dissimilar to the comments seen exactly one year ago in Davos..."