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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
GDXJ 101.44+3.5%4:00 PM EST

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To: Ming who wrote (14349)7/10/1998 2:17:00 PM
From: goldsnow  Read Replies (2) of 116756
 
Raw material (mostly oil) clearly is a part of the deflationary pressures on Western World..The larger problem though is a rising
dollar and as such rising Trade Deficit putting pressure on Corporations unable to raise prices..that conflicts with full employment and inflationary pressures.This build-in deflation ironically may benefit commodities in a huge way..As jobs in China
(and Japan) start to disappear massive attempt to re-inflate economy
would start in earnest (especially long-overdue infrastructure build-up in China..
I found myself in profound disagreement with people questioning
role of China...For starters it is a rapid emergence of China after cold war ended that was an engine of growing consumption..The size of its Economy is already Huge (someone mentioned California size-That is Huge) yet it is nothing in comparison to what it will be Unified China (Taiwan, Singapur, Hong Kong) that should eventually emerge..The very process of emerging, no matter how long is Huge...India (almost 1 bln
people is on a horizon.. A collapse of the Soviet Union was a double blow-not only Military Industry (along with every other) collapsed
but massive amount of base metals/oil came into pipeline..Russia
at the brink of the economic collapse would not be able to sustain that production...Yes inflation in commodities and inflation in general is coming..The first sign will be Gold breaking-out..Untill than it remains a buying opportunity, insurance opportunity and hedge
against disastrous and very real event of deflation spiraling
out of control...Can this happen? Of course!
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