Does silver volatility indicate metals wekness or is this the beginning of the move?
*Dow Theory Letters, Richard Russell, April 21, 2006:
"As I see it, this is fated to be a very long period of inflation --
it may last for years, even decades. After all, we had a twenty-year
period from 1980 to 2000 when the markets were dealing with deflation
or lets call it disinflation. During that twenty year period, bonds
enjoyed a big bull market as interest rates declined, and declined
again. During those twenty years gold was caught in the grip of what
seemed like an endless bear market. Gold ended up either forgotten or
despised.
Many students of the markets and cycles believe that the era of
deflation or disinflation has ended -- it's over. The new era of
inflation has arrived. It was ushered in during the 2000-2001 period
when gold hit its bear market low at 250 -- and finally turned up.
What's behind the new inflation cycle? A number of items. The Chinese
and Indians and Russians are coming -- or rather they've arrived. A
third of the world's population has joined capitalism, and they need
oil, cement, steel, lumber, copper, well, you name it and they need it.
In fact, there's almost a worldwide panic now to tie up raw materials
and sources of raw materials.
Secondly, this is the era of fiat paper money, money that can be
churned out by the various cental banks -- money created at will. This
junk paper will be needed, and needed badly. It will be needed to pay
for raw materials, but most important -- it will be needed to carry the
unbelievable mountains of debt, mountains that never stop rising.
There's no way all this debt can ever be paid off or even carried by
stable economic systems. Forget that. This debt must be carried,
handled, by ever increasing amounts of paper. That alone is a basis for
perma-inflation. Maybe we've got a new word here -- 'permaflation.' "
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