Fund Manager, Author of "In Gold we Trust report" & "Austrian School for Investors", Proud father of 3. Suffering fan of Rapid Wien
Tweets ≠ investment advice
.
@MarkValek
and I always held the view that a flexible combination of
#BTC
📷 and
#GOLD
is a prudent investment strategy. Let's briefly expand on our reasoning. A little
#Thread
about the combination of the two goods with the highest
#stocktoflow
:
It always amazes me that the majority of the public focuses primarily on the turmoil in the stock market...
What is happening in the bond market this year is even more striking: This is the fourth worst year (after 1721, 1865 and 1920) in the last 322 years!
ht
#BOFA
As previously noted, i really read everything that
#ZoltanPozsar
puts out...His Aug 24th piece was terrific again. In this
#thread
I summarize the most important takeaways: 🧵
Dave Rosenberg just made a great point:
The economy faces 5 shocks, not just one:
-A global demand shock
-A global supply shock
-A negative wealth shock
-An oil shock
-A credit shock
I'm reading everything that
#ZoltanPozsar
puts out for many years...His latest piece "War and Interest Rates" (August 1st) was a true masterpiece...Here are some highlights in a
#thread
🧵:
World oil demand is back to pre-covid levels and continues to grow. Seems that renewables are not (yet) making a noticeable economic difference on a global scale. ht
@topdowncharts
Folks, you know that I enjoy reading every piece that
#ZoltanPozsar
at
#CS
writes. His latest piece "War and Commodity Encumbrance" (Dec. 27th) was particularly worth reading. Here's a little
#thread
with the most important parts:
Gold is making new alltime-highs.
Calls that Ronnie received from journalists, media and ex-girlfriends: ZERO
Great sign!
#breakout
#showdown
#IGWT
#IGWT24
Interesting take by Ken Moelis, saying that Germany is in big trouble bc it has
1. Outsourced military to U.S.
2. Outsourced their finances to the EU.
3. Outsourced their energy to Russia and
4. Outsourced their end market to China.
Folks, 9 days after feeling my first COV-symptoms, i am still faaar from full recovery.
Do me a favour and don't take
#Covid19
too lightly. For me it's def. much worse than "just a flu".
Stay safe and have a happy, healthy and prosperous new year!
Thanks for all your support!
Interesting: Gold is close to its ATH and I do see no interest from journalists at all...neither are friends, ex-colleagues calling me up and call for "hot mining ideas"...
#goodsign
#waytogo
"A bull market is when you check your stocks every day to see how much they went up. A bear market is when you don't bother to look anymore."
John Hammerslough
"When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the
“Don’t buy gold. Own gold. When you buy something, it’s usually a trade. When you own something, it’s a very different mindset and, we are entering a period where you and I, like every central bank in the world these days, are going to want to own gold.
Unlike treasuries, which
Alright, i just learned that there's a "VEGAN CLIMATE ETF"....
Biggest positions? Tesla, Apple, Microsoft and Mastercard.
This basically says it all... over and out...
"A surprisingly large % of US income tax receipts are tied to a rise in US stock prices. When the US stock market just stops rising…not falls, but just stops rising, that will put pressure on the receipt side of the US fiscal picture, which no one is talking about."
A. Greenspan
It seems that
#Zoltan
has been quite busy lately!
The newest, already 5th part of his "War"-series, was published on January 6th.
In this little
#thread
i've summarized some of the highlights of his piece "War and Peace:
🧵
Just finished reading the brandew "Gold Investing Handbook for Asset Managers" by the World Bank.
The 72 pages report is indeed well worth reading and can be downloaded here:
For your convenience, I have created a little
#thread
to sum up the highlights
"Possibly the most robust indicator of an impending recession is when the Fed dismisses the inverting yield curve as a predictor of an impending recession."
ht
@albertedwards99
Fabulous chart by
@TaviCosta
"Panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works."
John Mills 1867
Very, very important article!
The biggest misconception with regard to gold – High stock-to-flow ratio is the most important characteristic of gold
ht
@RobertBlumen
Stuff that you want to see at a
#goldbottom
:
"Mad Money host Jim Cramer, a long-term gold proponent, says that gold has let him down. He has become more bullish on bitcoin, advising investors to put 5% of their portfolios in the cryptocurrency to protect their assets."
#Gold
is now entering its strongest seasonal phase...This plus very poor sentiment as well as increasingly positive CoT-reports suggest that we should be close to a bottom...
ht
@kevinmuir
and
#NautilusResearch
Probably one of my very favourite Ludwig von Mises quotes:
"The artificial prosperity cannot last because the lowering of the rate of interest, purely technical as it was and not corresponding to the real state of the market data, has misled entrepreneurial calculations. It has
“Inflation is just like alcoholism. In both cases, when you start drinking or when you start printing too much money, the good effects come first, the bad effects only come later.”
Milton Friedman
As expected: The renaissance of gold in institutional portfolios is starting:
$16 Billion Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund Approves A 5% Allocation For Gold | Zero Hedge
The most interesting
#FED
paper that you've probably never heard of: "Fiscal Dominance and the Return of Zero-Interest Bank Reserve Requirements"
Particularly this quote was quite "interesting:
“Second, because many people are unfamiliar with the concept of the inflation tax
Looking at the chart of
#GOLD
, this quote comes to my mind:
"In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could."
Rüdiger Dornbusch