Market Update: Gold, IPO Market, Bitcoin

The main reason Gold is not getting a bigger boost from QE4 is that traders expect the markets to react the way they did to QE3. But when the Fed did QE3, markets believed it was the last QE, and that the Federal Reserve had an exit strategy. But QE4 is open-ended and exit is impossible! 

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IPO Market and Stock Market Bubbles 

If you think popping bubbles are going to be contained to the IPO market or to the pot stocks, no. All of the bubbles are going to pop, including the total bubble in the US stock market overall.

Bitcoin and Pot Stocks

Lots of Bitcoin bugs criticized my tweet warning that the bursting of the pot stock bubble could be a harbinger of doom for Bitcoin as well. I am not comparing Bitcoin to pot. You can smoke pot and get high. You can’t do anything with Bitcoin. The similarities are the bubbles!

Creating Demand For Gold

The new head of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde believes she can create jobs by destroying savings. But jobs come from savings. Jobs need capital, and capital investment is funded by savings. When you destroy savings you also destroy jobs! All Lagarde will create is demand for Gold!