2013 saw an increase in the direction of a disconnect between those who look at charts and believe in holding paper wealth and those who value real
world things. The ongoing separating process of the real world from paper can only end one way . . . crash.
Which of the following two types of places do you store your retirement and reserve savings? For most people it is the first type, pure paper. For the
'big player smart wealth' and billions of individuals in the east it is the second type, saving
possesable wealth.
1) "Sukhani eyes
multiyear, long-term bull market in 2014 . . . . .
The trade in this market, in 2014 is to buy every dip, short selling will be difficult rather less profitable as compared to buying."
www.moneycontrol.com...
2) "The world’s rich are increasingly investing in expensive stuff, and “freeports”
such as Luxembourg’s are becoming their repositories of choice.
. . . . .
Because of the confidentiality, the value of goods stashed in freeports is unknowable. It is thought to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and
rising.
. . . . .
The Luxembourg compound will sport more than 300 cameras. Access to strong-rooms will be by biometric reading. Singapore has vibration-detection
technology and seven-tonne doors on some vaults. “You expect Tom Cruise to abseil from the ceiling at any moment,” says Mark Smallwood of Deutsche
Bank, which leases space for clients to store up to 200 tonnes of gold at the Singapore freeport."
www.economist.com...
"The world’s metal is slipping into the shadows.
Banks, hedge funds, commodity merchants and others are stashing tens of millions of tons of aluminum, copper, nickel and zinc in a hidden system of
warehouses that span the globe.
These facilities are known to some in the industry as “shadow warehouses” because they are unregulated and don’t disclose their holdings."
www.marketwatch.com...
edit on 1-1-2014 by inthewinterdark because: formatting