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John Browne
John Browne is a senior economic consultant to Euro Pacific Capital. Opinions expressed are those of the writer, and may or may not reflect those held by Euro Pacific Capital, or its CEO, Peter Schiff.
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By John Browne |
December 6, 2012
Central banks are at the epicenter of the apparently coordinated unconventional monetary policies of quantitative easing and distorted low interest rates. The fact that many of them are buying gold surely carries a generally bullish message for the yellow metal.
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By John Browne |
November 21, 2012
The euro crisis has begun to feel like an everlasting steeplechase with high hedges and water obstacles blocking the path to economic resurgence on the Continent. Each time a hurdle has been cleared another problem emerges.
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By John Browne |
November 7, 2012
Expect general interest in gold as a store of value to increase while confidence in fiat currencies declines. If this trend is energized by increasing uneasiness over the safety, security, and ownership of the gold held by the world's central banks, volatility could result.
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By John Browne |
September 28, 2012
The biggest winners thus far that may have resulted from newly communicated central bank intentions are not the euro or the broad stock markets but rather gold and gold-related investments.
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By John Browne |
September 12, 2012
Significant concessions Germany received have gone largely unreported and will make central banks both in Europe and the America’s more likely to continue to flood their economies with synthetic money. This should be good news for precious metal investors.
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By John Browne |
September 7, 2012
If the German Constitutional Court rules against German rescue plans for other nations, the Bundesbank and all believers in sound money can breathe again. However, it could imply an urgent and possibly terminal threat to the euro.
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By John Browne |
August 23, 2012
In the face of growing fears of a renewed global plunge into economic depression and a climate of low apparent price inflation, investors might expect precious metals to be falling in price. Instead, gold and silver continue to hover around a relatively high levels.
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By John Browne |
August 8, 2012
Enormous pressure likely is being exerted on the Fed and ECB by politicians, bankers and overblown financial markets that appear increasingly desperate for more cheap easy money. However, it is likely they will either be unable or unwilling to deliver
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By John Browne |
July 19, 2012
Unlike the relatively mild post-war recessions, this recession threatens to spark a global currency crisis. The situation is now so serious that it portends a collapse of the entire fiat monetary system, perhaps with a return to some form of gold standard.
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By John Browne |
July 3, 2012
The short-term outlook for gold and silver remains volatile, reflecting chronic political uncertainty. In the longer term, however, precious metals may be set up to rise in price as the promised recovery fails and recession leads to depression.