Beginning of the year and the 23rd of march markets sank the s. And p. Lost a 3rd of its value you had gold was just absolutely knocked down i mean certainly the open interest was not down though the price was a lot more resilient than you would have thought and so there were various things that really were his i mean even bit coy and sort of was pretty weak in those in the at that early time but then on the 23rd of march something happened and that was that the fed made a statement which basically set we will throw however much money it takes at resolving economic problems and at that moment the markets switched from being worried about deflation to suddenly thinking the outlook is inflation the s. And p. Took off and we are where we are now gold and silver took off the gold silver ratio collapsed from 120. 00 down to current 70 ought they call and took off oil took off though there was that moment and i think we discussed this in an earlier. Cost with the video with the when go dippe
True to the extent that people need dollars but it eventually what happens when theres an alternative to the dollar and it becomes clear that the issuing authority is not trustworthy and has as really been running a large ponzi scheme which is whats been happening and the models are here to call call the law i own the fundamental value of the dollar and its you know its tragic and its its potentially rather scary and has some bad implications im quite an optimist so i actually think that the system is broken needs to be fixed and that theres a good other side to it once we get through once we get through it will no doubt be a difficult period you know you mention 1971 when we went off the Gold Standard Richard Nixon closed the gold window after france asked for 300000000. 00 worth of their gold back in the the trade deficit going on and then soon after that the United Kingdom asked for their gold which has also happened to be about 300000000 dollars worth and Richard Nixon and said clo
Parr lawrence welcome welcome thanks so much of stacy for having me appreciate it so lawrence i guess you know obviously we ended july hitting new all time highs in gold silver is also on a tear its quite a ways from its all time high however and what i want to ask is really how much this economist cover free money when Government Spending knows no limits is is the free money it was never free and we can see that in gold prices free money is good to keep the system rolling obviously thats why they put it in place. Of course is whats the underlying value of the money. You know that money is in the process of dying and i think thats what were all observing very notably its reflected in gold and silver prices right you know you say they can print all the money they want but it doesnt mean that it has value and we havent lived in war all the fia money since 1971 where the value is always based on a relative valuation to other fee out money right this spend this crazy kind of strapped bar s
, stocks andcovery futures sliding after unexpected uptick in u. S. Jobless claims. Delay to the stimulus plan means one thing for markets. This may get worse. , china to the u. S. To close its consulate in chen u du. Mike pompeo calls the chinese president a true believer into italian totalitarian ideology. Delay, thisuction follows big drops in microsoft earnings despite solid results. We are an hour from cash equity trading. You can look at drops of more than 1 acrosstheboard in european futures. You have got you are got u. S. Teachers that continue to fall after the slump we saw yesterday. Anna we have got numbers from vodafone out this morning. Lets get to that. 21 organic services revenue, this is the bread and butter of what they do. Down, but the estimate was something worse. There was another u. K. Giant, unilever, also yesterday. They are keeping the guidance for Free Cash Flow prespectrum. There have been questions around the ipo tower unit. The european tower unit is on tra
Recovery fund today. France and germany push for an agreement by next month. Its cio. Suspended coo. The stock plummets 67 after a false delay to the report. Good morning, everybody. We are just under one hour away from the start of the cash equity trading day. The final day of this week. It is friday. Thats have a look at the futures and what they tell us right now. We dont see a great deal of movement in any of these markets. European futures suggest a little bit of movement to the upside. U. S. Futures suggesting some movement in an upward direction,. 5 . They do seem to be improving as we go through the last hour or so of the trading session in asia. If we put up the gmm, you can see we are up we are up by. 2 on the msci asiapacific. Making some modest gains. It does seem the risk rally has come to some kind of a pause. Fatigue. Maybe that was the best way to sum up what was going on. Said, it does seem as if Global Equities are oncall to make some global gains, at least for the we