The <b>Gold Price</b> In 2014: Forecasts And Predictions | Gold Silver Worlds |
| The <b>Gold Price</b> In 2014: Forecasts And Predictions | Gold Silver Worlds Posted: 30 Dec 2013 02:58 PM PST In his latest editorial, Michael Kosares, founder of USAGold.com and author of "The ABCs of Gold Investing – How To Protect and Build Your Wealth With Gold", introduces a series of forecasts and predictions to its readers. Not that he seems obsessed with forecasting and predicting, but he provided his readers with a nice (comprehensive) overview. He matched his own expectations with one of them, in particular the one from Scotia Mocatta (see first bullet point below). Readers are invited to sign-up for the newsletter to receive quality commentary from USAGold.com. Mind that our own stance regarding predictions remains unchanged compared to a year ago: "Forecasting isn't about predicting the market; it's about marketing the prediction" (see The Truth About Gold Price Predictions & Market Forecasts). Bulls Among The Financial Institutions
Bears Among The Financial Institutions
Calls from individual investors and gold enthusiastsArt Cashin from UBS: "There are always surprises. You will recall that although she hasn't been confirmed by the Senate, Yellen is to take over as the Chairman of the Fed. And every Fed Chairman, not only the ones that I've known over 50 years but the ones that have been there for the full 100 year history, have been tested in their first year by some market event. For Greenspan it was the Crash of 1987, and for Bernanke it was the Great Recession. I'm going to be very interested because we are seeing one possible impact of that already and that is mortgage rates are creeping up — therefore, mortgage applications have dropped off. We're back to mortgage applications falling to the level they were when Lehman was being deconstructed. That is a very, very significant indicator. It is more timely than some of the housing sales and a variety of other things. So if we find that the mortgage rates creep up and the mortgage applications continue to fall, the Fed may have to reverse itself with a 'red face' even before it gets started. I think it would be very significant in that people would begin to wonder, 'Is the Fed in any control at all?' If they had to reverse rather quickly, before they even began the taper, then people would wonder, 'How much in control are these people? How much do they know?'" Richard Russell: "I believe that coming up we are going to see a fourth devaluation of the dollar against gold. By doing this the US Treasury will overnight have a vastly greater supply of wealth compared with its debt, putting its finances in a much healthier state. How high might the US re-set the official price of gold? You pick a number — $5,000, $10,000 or $50,000, but the number should be high enough so that the price of gold won't have to be re-set again in a hurry. There are two problems with a re-set in the price of gold. (1) The government may decide to confiscate gold from its people. (2) There are arguments regarding how much gold the US Treasury actually owns. There have been no recent audits, and some of our gold may have been loaned out." Bachharaj Bamalwa, director of the All India Gems and Jewellery Trade Federation (via the IndoAsian News Service): "The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund may have written off gold as an investment option but the yellow metal shows no sign of losing its sheen in India. In 2013 not only did gold prices witness an upward march to touch Rs 34,600 per 10 grams, the demand also remained somewhat intact. Steady demand, despite import restrictions, saw gold prices swaying between Rs 26,440 per 10 grams in April to Rs 34,600 per 10 grams in August. 'Gold will always remain an asset class in India. It will never fetch any negative return. Temporarily, there can be some reverses but in the long term it cannot fade away." Marc Faber from the Gloom Boom Doom Report: "My sense is that at the present time, the US market is relatively expensive compared to foreign markets, especially to European markets and to emerging markets. On a cyclically-adjusted P/E [price-to-earnings] basis, it is actually going to return very little over the next seven to 10 years. . . 'Given all the money printing that is going on globally – and not just in the US – and given that the total credit as a percent of the advanced economies is now 30% higher than in 2007 before the crisis hit, I think that gold is a good insurance.'" James Rickards, Author of "Currency Wars": "There's certainly some Central Bank manipulation. There's some fundamental reasons having to do with what we've been talking about, which is deflation. Gold should go down in a deflation environment initially. But if deflation gets bad enough, the government will make the price of gold go up because they get desperate to create inflation. If you've tried everything, if you want inflation, and you've tried everything to create it, so you tried money printing, cutting rates, currency wars, Operation Twist, QE, forward guidance, nominal GDP targeting, you've tried everything, you still didn't get the inflation. There's one thing that always works, which is devaluing your currency against gold. So there could come a time when deflation gets so bad that the Fed and the treasury actually raise the price of gold, not to enrich gold investors, but to get close to generalized inflation. Because if gold goes up, silver and oil will go up along with it. It's exactly what happened in 1933. So that's one path. But the other, perhaps more likely path, is that the Fed just keeps printing money and finally succeeds in changing behavior, velocity of the turnover money picks up and inflation goes up on its own. Then gold will race way ahead of that." Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge: "The question of Buba's relationship with other central banks still remains open, however one thing we have just learned is the pace at which the German Central Bank has been able to repatriate its gold. It would make a snail proud. Yesterday Buba head Jens Weidmann told Bild that gold valued at €1.1 billion has been repatriated so far. Putting a weight to this number: to date the Bundesbank has received shipments of a paltry 37 tons of gold from its existing storage place in either New York or Paris to Germany: 'The gold reserves of the country will be stored in Frankfurt because it has a special storage with the corresponding equipment,' said Carl-Ludwig Thiele, a Bundesbank board member. The repatriated amount over the course of all of 2013 represents just over 5% of the total stated target of 700 tons, and is well below the 87.5 tons that the Bundesbank would need to repatriate each year if it were to collected the 700 tons ratably ever year in the 8 year interval between 2013 and 2020. So the question begs: since the price of gold has tumbled in 2013 (according to many driven in part by the Buba's own demand, which would make procuring gold in the open market for the US and French central banks that much easier for subsequent dispatch to Frankfurt) and one would assume there would be many more sellers than buyers of physical, why would the Bundesbank not be able to obtain a far greater share of the gold? Unless, of course, neither New York nor Paris actually have free, unencumbered physical gold in their possession -with most of it leased out to various even closer 'partners' – and are scrambling to procure as much physical as they can find at the new low, low prices (thank you paper gold ETF dumping). Chris Powell from GATA: We see these enormous volumes of gold moving from West to East, sometimes through Switzerland. We saw the disparity in the Bank of England's gold vaulting reports between February and June, where 1,200 tons of gold seemed to disappear. When I asked the Bank of England about that they basically told me to drop dead and they would have no further comment on the matter. All of this echoes what Kaye [Hong Kong analyst, William Kaye] is saying. We can see these gold outflows from the West, and we can also see the inflows to the East. We don't know exactly when the metal will run out, but we do know we have seen this movie once before. This is exactly what happened when the London Gold Pool was drained. The pool collapsed and there were emergency US Air Force transport flights, according to the Federal Open Market Committee Meeting Minutes, flying gold over from the United States to the Bank of England in 1968. This was at a time when the Bank of England was advancing its own gold into the market on behalf of the United States, in an attempt to hold the gold price at $35 an ounce. In March of 1968, the outflow of gold had reached hundreds of tons per week. At that point, the nations participating in the London Gold Pool realized they had only a few weeks' worth of gold left at that staggering rate of outflow. So, they closed the London Gold Pool. The dollar price of gold literally failed at that point. The price of gold was $35 an ounce of gold one day, and the next day there was no price at all because there was no official market. I suspect that either that will happen, and the gold that is available will run out, or more likely the central banks will see what's coming and arrange an international currency revaluation. At that point there will be chaos in the gold and currency markets, but in the end this will mean substantially higher gold after the official reset of the international gold price." Doug Casey from Casey Research: "First thing you should do is buy some gold coins – or one gold coin I should say – and buy an equal amount of silver coins and that should constitute your financial foundation . . . Bonds remain a triple threat to your capital. With interest rates at all time lows, that means bonds are at all time highs. . .Second thing is that bonds are denominated in paper currencies and those currencies are going to lose value much faster over the next couple of years due to the trillion of units being created by governments," he added. "Third thing is default risk…so bonds are a horrible place for your money, I wouldn't trust them with a 10-foot pole." Jeff Clark from Casey Research: "If you're like me, you've bought gold due to the money printing policies of most developed countries and the effect those policies will have on the future purchasing power of our paper money. Probably also because there's no viable way for governments to escape the consequences of all the debt they've piled up. And maybe because politicians can't be trusted to formulate a realistic strategy to avoid any number of monetary, fiscal, or economic crises going forward. These are valid, core reasons to hold gold in a portfolio at this point in time. But a new trend is under way, and someday soon it will be just as much a driving force for gold prices as anything else: a good old-fashioned supply crunch. A few metals analysts have mentioned it, but it escapes many and certainly is off the radar of the mainstream financial media. But unless several critical factors reverse course, a supply shortage is on the way with clear implications for the price of gold." Richard Kyosaki: "When the big bad wolf, also known as the Next Recession or New Depression, hits sometime between 2015 and 2035, these pigs will also be food for the wolf. The third pig builds his house out of tangible assets. These pigs are entrepreneurs and professional investors who study and invest for their own future, investing in real assets, not paper assets. When the big bad wolf comes, in that 20-year window between 2015 and 2035, those who have built houses of "bricks" are likely to get richer. They become richer because they built with bricks, investing in tangible assets such as real estate, gold, silver, oil, food, and businesses they control. I would definitely avoid paper assets such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and ETFs and the reason is these are paper assets, not real assets. Think of the story of the Three Little Pigs: The first pig built his house out of straw, the second pig built his house out of sticks, and the third pig built his house out of bricks. Here's my spin on that story: The first pig represents the poor. Poor people build their house out of paper. They work hard for cash and save cash. Their strategy is to work hard, live below their means, and save money. When the big bad wolf appears, huffing and puffing, these pigs are wolf food. The second pig represents the middle class. They build their houses out of illusions, believing in job security, benefits, owning their home, saving money, and investing in a retirement plan filled with stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and ETFs." James Turk from Goldmoney: "There is another reason to look back over the past 13 years, Eric, and view them as one time span: One losing year after 12 winning years is not that bad. Even with 2013 added in, over the last 13 years gold has generated an average annual return greater than 13%. It has been and remains one of the best assets to own, particularly given that neither physical gold nor physical silver has counterparty risk, and just like every other bubble inflated by banks or governments, the 'Money Bubble' will pop too." John Embry from Sprott Asset Management: "I've been to San Francisco with my wife 40 times, and I have never seen the city of San Francisco slower at any time in the past 40 years. I went shopping for Christmas gifts, and normally there would be lines out in the street at some of these places. Instead, I went right in with no wait, made my purchases and went straight to the cashier and paid without waiting. So there is something strange going on. Everyone is saying the US economy is strengthening, and President Obama was saying today that there could be a real turnaround in 2014. I see all of this as propaganda and outright lies because from what I observed with my own eyes, the bullish talk is patently false. I don't see the strength in the US economy at all. They just had about the third or fourth upward revision of the 3rd quarter GDP. And now, because the consumer had not been doing well, they cranked up the consumer numbers in the latest adjustment. So I think there is something seriously wrong, and as a result they are falsifying a lot of data in a desperate attempt to try to cover it up. But I strongly believe that the harsh reality will become all too obvious as 2014 unfolds."  |
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