March 28, 2024

The Ultimate Irony – Gold Bullion Is a Poor Investment According to “Too Big To Fail Banks”

coinAnalysts at the “Too Big To Fail” banks are unanimously predicting lower gold prices and telling their clients to dump gold.

On January 12, 2013 Goldman Sachs predicted that gold could fall to as low as $1,000 this year due to a less expansive monetary policy by the Federal Reserve.

In a report to clients this week Morgan Stanley analysts cut their price targets on gold for both 2014 and 2015 citing a strong global economy, rising interest rates and a reduced need for safe haven assets.

Not wanting to miss out on the “gold is dead party” Wells Fargo chimed in this week with their opinion that investors should eliminate their gold exposure on any rallies.

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The irony of the herd mentality on gold by the Too Big To Fail banks is beyond incredible.  Yes, these are the same “Too Big To Fail” banks who were selling billions of A rated mortgage backed securities to clients in 2007 that suddenly all defaulted in 2008.  Cynical types who remember the financial meltdown in housing of a few years back may also recall that the same banks now advising clients to dump gold were telling home buyers with shit credit and no income that, yes, you can afford that $800,000 house.

The big banks analysts seem to be engaging in a major group think exercise that justifies their dire predictions for future gold prices based on nothing more than an extrapolation of the gold price over the past two years.  We won’t even get into the part about how everyone at the big banks that almost blew up the financial world wound up getting bonuses instead of jail terms.

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In any event there are many people who are ignoring the sage advice of the “Too Big To Fail” banks and buying gold anyways.

Japanese investors, who are growing increasingly alarmed by the concerted efforts of Prime Minister Abe to put Japan back on the “right track” by creating inflation with printing press money, are buying gold at a frenetic pace.

Gold sales by Japan’s biggest bullion retailer surged 63 percent to a five-year high as prices slumped and investors sought refuge from Prime Minister ShinzoAbe’s campaign to stoke inflation and weaken the yen.

Sales of bars to local investors by Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. soared to 37.3 metric tons in 2013, from 22.9 tons a year earlier, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement today. Sales exceeded purchases for the first time since 2004.

Demand for physical gold in China is also exploding as investors seek a safe haven asset that cannot be produced in infinite supply by the central banks of over indebted nations.

Increased demand in China, which probably overtook India as the world’s largest consumer last year, helped gold rebound from a six-month low of $1,182.52 on Dec. 31. China imported 1,017 tons of gold from Hong Kong in the first 11 months of 2013, almost double 2012’s total, Hong Kong government data show.

With the universally bearish outlook for gold by big money managers don’t be surprised if gold outperforms all other assets classes in 2014.

Comments

  1. If Goldman is telling you to sell something then you know they are buying it. Plus when it comes to gold, I would far rather hold that than this trash paper they keep printing and saying is worth something. Hell, I would rather own crypto currencies like Bitcoin!

    I think I will continue prospecting for gold so that I have plenty to barter with in the future.

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