Silver Antidote To Bubble Craziness

CHARACTERISTICS OF BUBBLE CRAZINESS:

  • U.S. stocks, according to many measures, are the most over-valued in history. We live in a Bubble Zone!
  • Bitcoin and other cryptos are definitely in a bubble, but they could rise even higher.
  • Bonds yield little, and in many European countries, less than zero. Central banks have created this distortion to the detriment of savers, insurance companies and pension funds.
  • Real estate: Some locations, such as New Zealand, Canada and Australia are up a factor of 8 to 20 since 1980. Houses have become unaffordable for many, even with historically low interest rates.
  • Silver and gold: No bubble since 1980. Prices have been repressed since 2011 and are attractive now.
  • INVESTING IN BUBBLE CRAZINESS:

  • Institutions buy stocks because bonds yield so little. This works until the inevitable crash. Think tech stocks in 2000 or 2018(?).
  • Institutions and central banks buy bonds trusting the “greater fool” theory. Argentina sold 100 year bonds. What happens when the world runs out of “greater fools?”
  • People buy Bitcoin because it is going up, and it might double again from here. Are you comfortable investing savings with that plan?
  • Others deposit their digital currency units into a “high yield” checking account that yields 0.01% interest. Or they “invest” in a CD that guarantees a yield of 1% per year in a currency that will be devalued by far more. Others buy a motor coach that depreciates $100,000 when they drive it from the dealer lot. Or they purchase a house that costs $10,000 to $50,000 per year in taxes, insurance, maintenance and utilities before principal and interest.
  • Demand value! Not doing any of the above! Avoid fads, bubbles, central bank distortions and obvious financial insanity.
  • WHAT’S LEFT? GLAD YOU ASKED!

  • What has been money for thousands of years?
  • What is more permanent than ephemeral digital currency units that are continually devalued?
  • Asia has aggressively accumulated it for decades.
  • What has been secretly sold from western vaults and shipped to Asia?
  • What is used in thousands of industrial and medical applications?
  • What has been suppressed by governments and central banks because they promote their own digital and paper currencies which have zero intrinsic value?
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    Author: Travis Esquivel

    Travis Esquivel is an engineer, passionate soccer player and full-time dad. He enjoys writing about innovation and technology from time to time.

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