Loading ...Comment: I don’t think physical Gold has any enemies anymore. If they do bash it down on occasion (margined paper speculators) the banks and gov’ts will buy physical on the dips. Why else would spot gold beholding $1800 so well?
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The global economy was flashing danger signs long before the pandemic. For one thing, many countries were clamouring to get hold of as much gold as possible. For the past decade, they have been buying new reserves and bringing it home from overseas storage to an extent never seen in modern times. Then just before the pandemic, there was a pause. What does all this mean?
Central banks added 650 tons to their reserves in 2019, the second highest shift in 50 years, after the 656 tons added in 2018. Before the 2007-09 financial crisis, central banks were net sellers of gold worldwide for decades. Leading the recent spree has been China, Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Central bank gold buying 1971-2019
We have also seen a large effort by central banks to repatriate their gold from other countries, mostly from storage in New York and London.
Stocking up has made sense to many countries in the populist climate. It is also a sign of countries diversifying from dollars. The likes of Russia, China and even countries in Western Europe want to break the US dominance of the financial system, having seen it used as leverage in everything from economic sanctions to trade threats.
Note, populist climate is a reversal of the past after 2008. Also Trump supporters did not raid the Whitehouse, they were fed up anti establishment anti status quo people with a political message.
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