When too much silver is barely enough!
I can’t help feeling that we’re living the dip today. It doesn’t have to go down to be a dip, just a steady rise over the next few months will show that today is the buying opportunity.
That addresses spot, but what about premiums? Will they be going up at a greater rate than spot?
Using CB purchases of gold as a measure of financial decline is a flawed metric.
I've been eyeing off this one with my excess flybuys points. Probably over-marketed like blue label but I'll bet its' still good...
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CB purchases began increasing from about 2011, during the first 7/8 years the POG fell, it's only been rising since about 2020 so the correlation is not consistent across the decade. There's probably a higher correlation with the strengthening USD and increasing debt.
Most of the CBs purchasing gold have been from emerging markets/countries with high levels of debt denominated in foreign currencies etc, Take Turkey or China for instance. There's another post floating around looking at the reasons why CBs are buying gold, hedging their currencies and debt exposure were a couple of the reasons. They're not buying it because they like shiny yellow metal or because they view it as an alternative currency.