{"id":163580,"date":"2020-01-21T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=163580"},"modified":"2020-01-20T19:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T00:01:10","slug":"the-cannibalization-of-the-financial-system-will-force-investors-into-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2020\/01\/the-cannibalization-of-the-financial-system-will-force-investors-into-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cannibalization Of The Financial System Will Force Investors Into Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-3433444172\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">January 21, 2020<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><b>By Money Metals News Service<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By looking at the symptoms taking place in the financial system, we can see just how bad the situation is becoming. The chart below shows the amount of asset purchases the Federal Reserve has added to its balance sheet over the past four months versus the total value of all global above-ground silver stocks:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneymetals.com\/uploads\/content\/Fed-Balance-Sheet-4-Months-vs-Value-Global-Silver-Stocks.jpg\" alt=\"Increase in Fed Balance Sheet vs. total Value of Global Silver Stocks\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I decided to compare the Fed\u2019s balance sheet to silver rather than gold because I believe silver will be the GO TO ASSET once investors get PRECIOUS METALS RELIGION. <b>Silver\u2019s future price action or value will make Palladium\u2019s current bubble look tame indeed.<\/b> Unfortunately, Palladium\u2019s value will crash once the global economy heads into a depression. Even though Palladium and Platinum are precious metals, the overwhelming majority of investment demand is in silver and gold. Palladium and Platinum\u2019s value is based more on industrial demand rather than investment demand. KISS \u2013 Keep It Simple Stupid. Acquire the 2,000+ year history of money\u2026 gold and silver.<\/p>\n<p>In the last four months, the Federal Reserve added $414 billion to its balance sheet. What a change compared to the $708 billion in assets the Fed sold back to the market (primary dealers) over a two-year period.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneymetals.com\/uploads\/content\/FRED-Asset-Balance-Sheet-2-Years-vs-4-Months.jpg\" alt=\"FRED: Assets: Total Assets\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>The Fed was selling an average of $118 billion of its assets every four months over the 2-year period. However, it purchased more than three times that rate of $414 billion in the past 4-month period.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Now, think about this. The Fed announced on October 15th that it would start purchasing $60 billion a month of U.S. Treasuries. The Fed has purchased at most, $240 billion in U.S. Treasuries in the 4-month period. But, the total increase in the Fed\u2019s balance sheet is $414 billion, or $174 billion higher. So, it also has been slowly adding assets (liabilities) via its Repo Market operations. I call them liabilities because there is no real market for them. <b>And, as time goes by, the world is going to watch as the majority of so-called ASSETS turn into LIABILITIES.<\/b><\/p><div id=\"inves-4220618815\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<p>As I mentioned in previous articles, I believe the \u201cFINANCIAL CRISIS\u201d started on September 15th, when the Fed had to step in with emergency Repo Market Operations and has continued to do so. While the markets believe the Fed has fixed the problem, it\u2019s only going to get worse. Why? Because the Thermodynamics of oil depletion doesn\u2019t stop and the quality of oil (or net energy) that makes it to the market continues to decline.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, The Federal Reserve increased the value of its balance sheet over the past 4-month period by nearly 10 times the value of all the global above-ground silver stocks:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneymetals.com\/uploads\/content\/Fed-Balance-Sheet-4-Months-vs-Value-Global-Silver-Stocks-9X.jpg\" alt=\"Increase in Fed Balance Sheet vs. 9 Times Total Value of Global Silver Stocks\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Based on a global value of available silver stocks (2.5 billion oz X $18 = $45 billion), the Fed\u2019s balance sheet purchases of $414 billion are 9.2 times all the investment silver held in the world.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Investors do not understand this CRITICAL comparison\u2026 YET. But, they will in time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/money-metals.png\" width=\"80\" height=\"79\" align=\"left\" \/> The Money Metals News Service provides market news and crisp commentary for investors following the precious metals markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Money Metals News Service By looking at the symptoms taking place in the financial system, we can see just how bad the situation is becoming. The chart below shows the amount of asset purchases the Federal Reserve has added to its balance sheet over the past four months versus the total value of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163584,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163580\/revisions\/163584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}