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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: carranza2 who wrote (152515)	1/15/2020 6:05:56 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By dsv Respond to of 218118

(1) China is tee-ing up domestic cashless and is a long way into the journey (1-i) Whenever I cross the border I feel loss as folks rush through turnstiles and wave their cell phones for permission-ing (1-ii) When the wife wants to process a micro-purchase and reaches for cash, the seller look at her as if she is from the Stone Age (1-iii) Believe domestic cashless would open way to anti-corruption / anti-criminal, but given social-credit regime, ohwhoawee - recommend silver counter-measures, and suspect Ag / Au would go ... up, even as their trades would also fall under big data mining and severe-control regime and block-chained (1-iv) Before folks go yapping about China China China, comment, the way is and shall continue to go global (2) China shall tee-up digital block-chain Yuan (DBY) (2-i) Initially and domestically, the digital Yuan would merge w/ domestic cashless, naturally (2-ii) Soon-enough China would stick/carrot 'encourage' buyers of Team China products to side-step SWIFT / Dollar / Euro / Yen / etc etc etc and use DBY (2-iii) For items Team China produces a good-enough percentage (rare earth, economic trains, EV batteries, Apple iPhone, quantum encrypted communication services, etc etc), strong 'encouragement' would likely be tee-ed up to transact in DBY, gradually, but inexorably, towards inevitable Point of Destination (2-iv) For items Team China buys a lot of, i.e. energy, supposedly the exchanges already do trade account settlement in Yuan - small gap to jump to DBY, and the energy trades supposedly can be offset settled in gold asia.nikkei.com , guessing the volume shall grow, and grow and Petro-CNY - DBS Bankhttps://www.dbs.com › aics › pdfController › content › article › pdf › CIO (2-v) As gold pricing move up relative to oil worth, the move towards gold settlement should increase especially as Team USA continues to weaponise the Dollar (3) IOW, DBY would be backed by Team China production and market

To: carranza2 who wrote (152515)	1/15/2020 6:11:55 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218118

lining up the ducks ...

To: carranza2 who wrote (152515)	1/15/2020 11:25:32 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218118

Following up re <<China ... gold>> The below piece while seems to be another gold puff piece but makes a good point, that China imports gold in some quantity and w/ consistency, perseverance, and insistence, but only exports a few baubles and minuscule number of coins; thus if one were to treat team China as a single buyer / hoarder, gold around the world has been progressively Hoover-ed up. Such vacuuming has been happening at the metal as well as the mining levels, by private, state, as well as PBOC central bank, in broad daylight, might after day after night. Over time ... well ... unclear what sort of sardine being traded on the Comex and London And in any event of a squeeze, kaboom.

To: carranza2 who wrote (152515)	1/17/2020 8:41:44 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218118

Wrong direction for market 'health' ... ask-socrates.com BlogEurope's Negative Yielding Debt I wrongly typed that outstanding negative-yielding debt "is" instead of "was" nearly $18 trillion. The official government debt has declined only due to the fact that much of it was short-term. Italy, for example, was offering debt denominated in dollars, not euros, because of the problem with actually finding a home for negative-yielding debt. The bulk was just being traded by punters, but now that the view is rates will rise even in Europe by the invisible hand of the free market, the appetite for negative-yielding debt among punters is dropping sharply. There is still outstanding over $12 trillion worth of negative-yielding government debt. There are also private-issues that were not generally included in those numbers. The private debt at the peak added about $1 trillion to the total pile. The crisis is not simply debt moving back to zero yields, it is how far will the invisible hand drive interest rates higher until we see once again "investors" will to buy and hold the 10-year debt, to begin with. In many countries, banks will not give mortgages beyond 5 or 7 years. The same attitude is starting to unfold particularly with European debt.

To: carranza2 who wrote (152515)	1/19/2020 6:46:47 PM
From: TobagoJack	2 Recommendations Recommended By bull_dozer marcher Respond to of 218118

Gold Just like in the movie 1917, most of us wait, and some recon forward, whilst others dead and dying

To: carranza2 who wrote (152515)	1/23/2020 3:43:37 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By bull_dozer Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218118

GUEED - everything down, gold up, good as consolation, but only if one makes it to the stage in one piece w/ one's gold safe and unencumbered