Categorie: Economie

De goudprijs zal blijven stijgen, ongeacht wat de economie doet. Nog voor het einde van dit jaar zal de prijs voor goudfutures stijgen tot 1500 dollar per troy ounce.  Dat zeggen analisten in en peiling die is afgenomen door Bloomberg.

In het Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht is van 13 juni 2010 tot en met  06 januari 2011 de tentoonstelling ‘Goud’ van Aziz te bewonderen. Met zijn artistieke associaties presenteert AZIZ een tentoonstelling die de gouden museumcollectie verrassend combineert en confronteert met oude, modee en hedendaagse bruiklenen uit binnen- en buitenland.

 

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No wonder gold rose to $1,260 an ounce this week before easing. One by one, central banks are amassing major gold positions, proof positive that they want to participate in the world’s most glamorous asset class. Think central banks taking investment advice from global hedge funds.

 

This is probably a unique order in the investment jungle. The major seller, the Inteational Monetary Fund, does not look too sharp. It sold 541,700 ounces of the shiny metal in July alone according to Uncommon Wisdom, an investment service I’ve been monitoring.

 

So far in 2010 Russia has increased its gold holdings by 2.8 million ounces, $3.6 billion at current prices. Total holdings by the Putin govement total almost $30 billion. Saudi Arabia and the Philippines have disclosed new gold buying in 2010, plus India, Sri Lanka and Mauritius bought gold in 2009.

 

The World Gold Council seems sure the People’s Bank of China also is a major accumulator of gold. It makes sense that some portion of China’s $2 trillion in reserves would be held in gold. It is a hedge against global economic uncertainty. For others, it is a substitute for paper money. More recently, it’s been a hot investment.

 

This central bank buying reverses the prevailing trend of the past several decades of central banks selling excess gold to the speculators. Can China not be steadily and secretly taking a massive position? We will try to find out next week from a well-placed Hong Kong source.

Bron: Forbes

Een ‘kwakkeleconomie’ zoals in Japan zou in Nederland ook zijn intrede kunnen doen. Daarvoor waarschuwde financieel deskundige Willem Middelkoop maandagmorgen in het radio-1 programma Dit Is De Dag. ‘Mensen lopen niet huilend over straat en verliezen niet massaal hun baan, maar echt goed gaat het ook niet.’

Russian premier Vladimir Putin has ordered a halt to all exports of wheat and other grains from August 15, raising the stakes dramatically in the crisis over wheat supplies.

“This is very serious,” said Abdolreza Abbassanian, chief grain economist at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. “It’s a desperate situation because it has caught everybody off guard. We’re not facing the situation of two years ago but there is a risk of destabilising panic.”

President-directeur van Franco Nevada in een oprecht gesprek met Mineweb over waarom de goudprijzen volgens hem waarschijnlijk zullen blijven stijgen, de noodzaak van nieuwe exploratietechnologie en de veranderende rol van goud als investering

The history of fiat money, to put it kindly, has been one of failure. In fact, EVERY fiat currency since the Romans first began the practice in the first century has ended in devaluation and eventual collapse, of not only the currency, but of the economy that housed the fiat currency as well.

 

Why would it be different here in the U.S.? Well, in actuality, it hasn’t been. In fact, in our short history, we’ve already had several failed attempts at using paper currency, and it is my opinion that today’s dollars are no different than the continentals issued during the Revolutionary War. But I will get into that in a moment. In the meantime, I will show you that fiat currencies have not been successful, and the only aspect of fiat currencies that have stood the test of time is the inability of political systems to prevent the devaluation and debasement of this toilet paper money by letting the printing presses run wild.

Afgelopen weekend ontvingen wij een interessant vraag per e-mail van Gert Jan Grosman. Uiteraard hebben wij deze vraag aan Willem voorgelegd:

“Onlangs zag ik ergens op inteet dat de regering in de VS een wet in voorbereiding zou hebben om met ingang van 2012 iedereen te verplichten zelfs een kleine aankoop

UBS says thermal coal, copper, zinc and gold are the commodities to watch. But, was investors to take their time accumulating assets.

Franco Nevada’s Chairman speaks frankly to Mineweb about why he thinks gold prices are likely to continue climbing, the need for new exploration technology and the changing role of gold as investment.