Gold's Resilience Amid Economic Shifts

This chapter explores the impact of yield curve inversions on gold's performance compared to stocks, emphasizing its historical outperformance in economic downturns. It highlights the evolving strategies of institutional investors towards hard assets like gold and silver, especially during inflationary periods. The discussion also addresses the roles of U.S. treasuries and central banks in asset allocation as they navigate concerns over fiat currency stability.

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On today’s episode, Clay Finck brings back Tavi Costa to chat about the beginning of a commodity supercycle. Tavi gives a masterclass in why we are just in the beginning phases of a bull market for gold, silver, and hard assets like commodities.

Tavi is a partner and portfolio manager at Crescat Capital. His research has been featured in financial publications such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, among others.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro.

03:31 - Why Tavi believes we’re just at the beginning phases of a bull market for gold, silver, and hard assets like commodities.

09:47- When the next wave of inflation may strike.

21:21 - What the 4 pillars of inflation are, and why they all point to structurally higher inflation going forward.

21:44 - Why the S&P 500’s earnings are likely to roll over and decline in the near term.

37:40 - Why yield curve inversions are bullish for gold relative to equities.

51:09 - Why foreign countries are selling US treasuries to buy gold.

83:19 - Where Tavi sees asymmetric opportunities in the gold mining industry.

83:27 - Why Tavi is bullish on Brazil and sees Brazil much differently than the other BRICS nations.

Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.

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