{"id":155209,"date":"2019-09-11T07:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T11:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=155209"},"modified":"2019-09-11T07:17:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T11:17:28","slug":"bank-of-englands-carney-delivers-dollar-shocker-at-jackson-hole-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2019\/09\/bank-of-englands-carney-delivers-dollar-shocker-at-jackson-hole-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of England\u2019s Carney delivers dollar shocker at Jackson Hole meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bank of England governor Mark Carney, in something of a shocker, told the recent Jackson Hole central bankers\u2019 conference that the world\u2019s reliance on the US dollar \u2018won\u2019t hold\u2019 and needs to be replaced by a new international monetary and financial system based on many more global currencies,\u201d according to a Financial Times report. The greatest impact of Carney\u2019s bombshell, though, came not from his opinion on the look and feel of some futuristic global monetary system. It came instead from his seeming tacit approval of the escalating movement to dethrone the dollar as the world\u2019s reserve currency in the here and now. A good many in that audience were no doubt surprised \u2013 even rattled \u2013 by Carney\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething is going on,\u201d said St. Louis Fed President James Bullard in a Financial Times report, \u201cand that\u2019s causing I think a total rethink of central banking and all our cherished notions of what we think we\u2019re doing. We just have to stop thinking that next year things are going to be normal.\u201d To which FT added: \u201cInterest rates are not going back up anytime soon, the role of the dollar is under scrutiny \u2013 both as a haven asset and as a medium of exchange \u2013 and trade uncertainty has become a permanent feature of policymaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

That about sums it up.\u00a0 The dollar at the moment is something of a Humpty Dumpty in the global monetary system \u2013 sitting on his wall oblivious and seemingly immune to all that goes on around him.\u00a0 Whether or not there will someday be a Great Fall remains to be seen, but increasingly, as Carney\u2019s speech illustrates, forces are lining up against it.<\/p>\n

\u201c[H]istory,\u201d Carney concludes, \u201cteaches that the transition to a new global reserve currency may not proceed smoothly. Consider the rare example of the shift from sterling to the dollar in the early 20th Century \u2013 a shift prompted by changes in trade and reinforced by developments in finance. The disruption wrought by the First World War allowed the US to expand its presence in markets previously dominated by European producers. Trade that was priced in sterling switched to being priced in dollars; and demand for dollar-denominated assets followed. In addition, the US became a net creditor, lending to other countries in dollar-denominated bonds.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, it laid the foundation for the so-called American Century that followed.<\/p>

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A similar transition now could impact the dollar and dollar-denominated assets just as it did sterling and sterling-denominated assets at the turn of the 20th century. Though few believe the dollar can be fully replaced with something else at this juncture, many believe that its influence could erode \u2013 or that the old could gradually give way to something new and different.\u00a0 In fact, as you are about to read, some see it as a process that has already begun.<\/p>\n

De-dollarization boosts central bank gold purchases\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among the broad effects of the nascent de-dollarization movement has been to significantly boost central bank demand.\u00a0 The World Gold Council reports 651 metric tonnes in new gold purchases during 2018 \u2013 the highest level since the Bretton Woods Agreement was abandoned in 1971. China, Russia, Poland, and Hungary head the list of central banks adding gold to their central bank reserves in 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with the World Gold Council<\/a>, Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, explains the connection between \u201cde-dollarization\u201d and central bank gold acquisitions. \u201cIn the immediate aftermath of the crisis,\u201d he says, \u201cwe had to sell dollars to prevent our currency going into freefall. During Quantitative Easing, we had to buy dollars to protect our financial stability. And when the Federal Reserve began to taper QE, exchange rates slumped again and we had to defend ourselves with our reserves.\u00a0 All these events prompted one obvious question \u2013 is there an alternative to the dollar?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear,\u201d he goes on, \u201cthat gold is a risk diversifier \u2013 a hedge against not just financial risk but also political risk. It is also a long-term store of wealth. As such central banks, especially those from emerging markets, can increasingly see the merits of adding gold to their reserves. Over time, therefore, I am confident that gold\u2019s role will increase among central banks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nChart courtesy of the World Gold Council<\/p>\n

Currency problems stoke Asian physical gold demand<\/strong><\/p>\n

McKinsey & Co, the global consulting firm, warned in late August that a new Asian debt crisis might be in the making. Not surprisingly, gold is priced at all-time highs in a number of Asian currencies including the Japanese yen, India rupee and the Chinese yuan. It is also at all-time highs against the Malaysian ringgit and the Indonesian rupiah.\u00a0Jayant Bhandari, the founder of Capitalism and Morality, provides some thought-provoking insights on the origins and sustainability of Asian gold demand. \u201cMost of these people don\u2019t really understand what is happening outside their boundaries,\u201d says Bhandari, \u201cso they have no option but to buy gold, silver, and currencies of Western countries. And that is why I think support for precious metals will continue to increase going forward. I don\u2019t know what influence it will have in pricing, but really, if I had to suggest to someone on how to preserve his wealth, my suggestion would primarily be focused on gold and silver.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mobius, Soros take seats on the gold bandwagon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Question:<\/em> What do Jeffrey Gundlach, Ray Dalio, Mark Mobius, Stanley Druckenmiller, Paul Tudor-Jones, David Einhorn, Naguib Sawiris, Paul Singer, and Thomas Kaplan \u2013 some of the greatest financial minds of a generation \u2013 all have in common?<\/p>\n

Answer:<\/em> An attachment to gold and its presence in their personal financial holdings as a safe-haven hedge.<\/p>\n

Well-known emerging market analyst Mark Mobius is a recent addition to the list. \u201cInvestors,\u201d he says in an interview posted at NewsMax<\/a>, \u201cshould allocate about 10% of their assets in physical gold. The reason is that gold maintains its status as a currency \u2013 a currency that has stood the test of time.\u201d George Soros, according to Sharps Pixley\u2019s Lawrie Williams, is another new addition to the list having made \u201ca very substantial investment in the yellow metal.\u201d Gold ETFs, the favored ownership vehicle for the hedge funds, have grown 24% since May and are at their highest level since 2013.<\/p>\n

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Chart courtesy of GoldChartsRUs<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I had to pick my favorite for the next 12 to 24 months, it would be gold. If it goes to $1400, it goes to $1700 rather quickly. When you break something like that [the 75-year expansion of globalization and trade], a lot of times the consequences won\u2019t be seen at first. It might be seen one year, two years, three years later. . . So that would make one think that it\u2019s possible that we might go into a recession or make one think that it would make rates go back toward the zero bound level and of course in a situation like that gold is going to scream.\u201d \u2013 Paul Tudor Jones, Tudor Investment Corporation\u00a0 (Bloomberg interview<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Alan Greenspan says gold surging because \u201cpeople are looking for hard assets\u201d
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In a recent CNBC interview<\/a>, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan predicted that negative interest rates will reach the United States. \u201cYou\u2019re seeing it pretty much throughout the world. It\u2019s only a matter of time before it\u2019s more in the United States.\u201d Greenspan, a long-time advocate of gold ownership, went on to say that \u201cgold prices have been surging because people are looking for \u2018hard\u2019 assets they know are going to have value as the population ages.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMarkets have changed a lot since the 1970s. Back then the U.S. stock markets as a percentage of GDP was only 20 to 30 percent. Today markets are 150 percent of GDP and they have a rather large effect on overall economic activity. Gold is again rising but how high it will go, Marc, does not know but to him, it seems inexpensive when compared to negatively yielding bonds. Gold should stay above 1400 and investors should hold it as insurance in varying amounts depending on their confidence in the financial system.\u201d \u2013 Marc Faber, Palisade Radio interview<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI actually think the Fed has triggered hyperinflation, but it\u2019s not in consumer goods. It\u2019s in asset prices and luxury goods. If a company\u2019s share price increases without an underlying increase in its profits, we call it multiple expansion, but in reality, it\u2019s inflation. With QE, central bankers put vast sums of money into the hands of financial investors, who in turn went and bought financial assets and luxury goods driving up the prices.\u201d \u2013 Ron Stoferle, Incrementum<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cGold is often thought of as a relatively pedestrian real asset, the returns from which are equally conservative. In fact, while there are periods in which this may be true, over the long term, gold has proved itself an investment to compete with the best. While the Dow Jones Industrials Average increased by 25.8x from 1967 to 2018, for example, the price of gold has increased by 36.3x.\u201d \u2013 Edison Investment Research<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we observe the empires of the world that have existed over the millennia, we see a consistent history of collapse without renewal. Whether we\u2019re looking at the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Spanish Empire, or any other that\u2019s existed at one time, history is remarkably consistent: The decline and fall of any empire never reverses itself; nor does the empire return, once it\u2019s fallen.\u201d \u2013 Jeff Thomas, International Man<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI never really \u2018invested\u2019 in gold. I didn\u2019t trade in gold. I used it as a savings account. I used it as a reserve always thinking this is my backup. So I did that systematically over the years. So I bought gold over the years, but I never sold gold.\u201d \u2013 Ron Paul, Liberty Report<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201c. . . I\u2019ve never wavered from the view that this would end badly. Never have I believed that manipulating and distorting markets would achieve anything but epic Bubbles and inevitable terrible hardship. I\u2019ve not seen evidence to counter the view that the longer the global Bubble inflates the greater the downside risk (moreover, such risk grows exponentially over time). And not for one minute did I believe zero rates and QE would resolve deep financial and economic structural issues. Indeed, I have fully expected reckless monetary mismanagement to ensure a global crisis much beyond 2008. From my analytical perspective, the global Bubble has followed the worst-case scenario.\u201d \u2013 Doug Noland, Credit Bubble Bulletin<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cCash over the long run is the worst-performing asset class and therefore the riskiest asset class. So where do you go? To me, going to any one asset increases risk. So the best way to deal with the challenging environment I foresee is by diversifying well. . . [G]old is just an alternative currency to fiat paper currencies. If your portfolio is likely to perform poorly in the adverse environment I\u2019ve been describing\u2014less effective monetary policy, the need to run larger fiscal deficits and monetize them, and challenging politics\u2014the behavior of gold as alternative cash has some diversifying merit.\u201d \u2013 Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates (Please see Paradigm Shifts<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a difference a few years makes. Back in the summer of 2015, a WSJ op-ed writer,\u00a0 who somehow was unaware of the past 6,000 years of human history, infamously and embarrassingly said \u2018Let\u2019s Be Honest About Gold: It\u2019s a Pet Rock.\u2019 Fast forward to today, when with every central bank once again rushing to debase its currency in what increasingly appears to be the final race to the debasement bottom, when even BOE head Mark Carney recommends that it\u00a0is time to retire the dollar as the world\u2019s reserve currency,\u00a0pet rock<\/s>\u00a0gold has emerged as the second best-performing asset of the year\u2026 and at the rate it is going \u2013\u00a04th in 2017, 3rd in 2018, 2nd in 2019\u00a0\u2013 gold will be the standout asset class of 2020.\u201d \u2013 Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing magical about gold. It\u2019s just uniquely well-suited among the 92 naturally occurring elements for use as money\u2026 in the same way aluminum is good for airplanes or uranium is good for nuclear power. There are very good reasons for this, and they are not new reasons. Aristotle defined five reasons why gold is money in the 4th century BCE (which may only have been the first time it was put down on paper). Those five reasons are as valid today as they were then.\u201d \u2013 Doug Casey, Casey Research<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat comes next? The answer, I believe, is very likely to be a synchronised global recession, punctuated by a step-by-step market downturn \u2014 one in which there may be the odd rally, but the general direction is down. This could last for some years. In the next few weeks, I would expect new lows in bond yields, a deepening of the yield curve inversion, higher prices for \u2018safety\u2019 assets like the yen and Swiss franc, and a continued bull market in gold.\u201d Rana Forooha, Financial Times<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI have a theory that computers started to suck when dumb people started to use them. The same is also true of precious metals, which turned into a speculative football in 2011. Those geeks are gone, and only the die-hards are left \u2014 the shiny rocks passed from weak hands to strong hands.\u201d \u2013 Jared Dillian, NewsMax Finance<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe strange persistence of the strong dollar with the rising gold price has puzzled many participants this year. Some are even beginning to suggest that the dollar\u2019s inverse relationship with gold has been broken. In this report, I\u2019ll make the case that what we\u2019ve seen so far this year has been an exception to the rule. The evidence I\u2019ll show here implies that we\u2019re likely to see a divergence between the U.S. currency\u2019s value and the gold price in the coming months. And while the dollar remains strong right now, gold will likely continue to outperform the greenback due to the threats facing the global economy.\u201d \u2013 Cliff Droke, Seeking Alpha<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n

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