From the most recent edition of Sean Corrigan’s Material Evidence
So, the burning question now is whether commodity prices can shake off the disquiet caused by May’s sharp liquidation and validate the soundbite suppositions of the past few days.
With so much hot money still swilling around the world, readily available at low nominal and largely negative real rates of interest, we can never say never, but [...]
Japan has $885.9 Billion of U.S. Treasury debt, maybe they’ll sell it in the global markets and cash out.
By Jeff Nielson
http://www.bullionbullscanada.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17569:japan-catastrophe-pressures-deadbeat-debtors&catid=48:gold-commentary&Itemid=131
The sequence of catastrophes which has afflicted Japan can only fill us with empathy for the Japanese people. However, Western deadbeat debtors cannot afford to concern themselves only with expressing their official condolences to Japan. Rather, they need to be focusing upon their own financial survival.
With Japan’s era of near-zero interest rates now stretching into decades, Japanese citizens were forced (by their own government) [...]