“Dollar Index was up and February gold plunged 44.10 to 1378.80. March silver was down 1.61 to 29.50. All precious metal items were lower. Profit taking all around, providing a buy spot for those who have been waiting to take a position. And that’s what makes markets, sellers and buyers and buyers and sellers, and the strongest are the winners”.
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Jim Rogers: I would own silver than gold
Among them, the wisdom in investing in commodities comes sharp and clear from Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings. The celebrated commodities investor and founder of the Rogers International Commodity Index says he would love to own silver than gold.
In an interview to India’s business television channel ET Now, Rogers said that by the way of the precious metals investment, “I would rather own silver than gold.”
Asked if he expects soft commodities to outperform precious metals and base metals, Rogers said this: “Well, as a generalization, yes. I would rather own agriculture and so other commodities in 2011, but silver may outperform a lot of things.”
He said that silver is a metal and it is still depressed. “Silver is still 40% below its all-time high. So silver has not been any sort of great bubble compared to perhaps some other assets we know. I, as a class between agriculture, energy and metals, would rather own agriculture and by the way of the precious metals, I would rather own silver than gold.”
Rogers, a veteran commodities investor who has penned such fascinating books like Hot Commodities and A Bull in China, disclosed that he still owns silver.
“I still own my silver. I am not sure if I would buy it today as it has gone up so much so fast, but I am not selling it and if it goes down, I will buy more silver. Likewise for the rice, if rice goes down, I will buy more rice. So both the silver and rice have a great future for the next few years,” Rogers added.
On US bonds and China real estate, Rogers had the following words of wisdom:
“I am selling short United States government bonds, the long bonds. Everybody seems to be optimistic. Even I felt unsure when Mr. Bernanke said he was going to buy them. I thought I was being foolish, but I am making a little bit of money right now. But as I look around the world, that is one of the few bubbles or potential bubbles that I see.”
” Well, one should go the other way where there is a market, there may be a bubble in Chinese urban real estate. It is not really many ways for me to play that but the only bubble that I see in public markets is the long-term government bond market in the United States.”
The New Gold Rush
As confidence in global currencies wanes, the world’s appetite for gold will increase.
As we embark on 2011, gold continues to climb and investors are questioning its future price direction. Is gold in a bubble? Have the price gains of the last decade-which beat out stocks, bonds and several other favored asset classes- peaked? Did today’s investors miss the opportunity to buy?
Since 2002, we have responded to these questions daily, as gold climbed from $275 an ounce to over $1,400. Unfortunately, most people see gold as just another dollar-based asset class to be evaluated using the same metrics as stocks and bonds, and commodities like corn and coffee. But in order to understand the benefits of buying and holding physical gold, investors must go beyond conventional economic wisdom and understand causes rather than symptoms. They need to be able to interpret the message gold is sending.
Gold has its own rules, which explain its price performance and form the foundation of what we call “the gold mindset.” This is completely different from the debt-based mindset that has prevailed since 1971, when President Nixon removed the U.S. dollar-the world’s reserve currency-from its international peg with gold. Eliminating the gold standard has resulted in anywhere from $14 trillion to $200 trillion of debt for the U.S., which now relies on a phenomenon called “Quantitative Easing” (QE) for economic survival. QE, or money printing, has triggered global currency devaluations and protectionism worries.
In this piece, we will examine four of gold’s most important rules; the irreversible trends affecting the gold price; and how the consequences of these trends will push gold higher in 2011 and beyond.
The Golden Rules
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