David Morgan on the Dollar Demise: Silver Moves to China
By Sprott Money
David Morgan on the Dollar Demise: Silver Moves to China
Posted with permission and written by SGT Report (CLICK FOR ORIGINAL)
David Morgan of The Morgan Report, an icon in the silver sector, returns to SGT Report to discuss the future of the US Dollar and the transfer of physical gold from West to East. More specifically, the transfer of gold and silver away from the Comex and the City of London’s paper markets, to Chinese PHYSICAL precious metal markets like the Shanghai Gold Exchange, Shanghai Futures Exchange and the ABX.
It’s becoming very clear that a sea change is underway as China hoards PHYSICAL silver at the Shanghai Gold Exchange, while openly encouraging Chinese citizens to acquire physical silver and gold as a way to protect wealth. It’s a paradigm shift of epic proportion, away from paper promises and into PHYSICAL metal. David Morgan says,
Back roughly a decade or so ago, China was exporting roughly 100 million ounces of silver per year – exporting out of China. And then…it was roughly six years or so ago they started becoming a net importer of…a hundred million [ounces]. So that’s a 200-million ounce swing.
According to Steve St. Angelo from SRS Rocco Report, in just the past several weeks the Shanghai Futures Exchange’s PHYSICAL silver stocks have increased from 54.7 million ounces to 60.6 million ounces, a figure that most certainly must leave officials at the Comex filled with envy, if not drowning in outright fear.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Sean from SGT Report and David also discuss Clif High’s Web bot project. Originally developed in 1997 to predict stock market trends, the Web bots crawl the World Wide Web in search of speech markers, chatter and other specific data which can often predict future events. For some time now, the Web bot data has been predicting an explosion in the price of silver, with some of the precious metals language indicating that silver might one day achieve a 1 to 1 parity with gold as the USD finally meets its inevitable demise as the world’s reserve currency.
Morgan says that silver is one precious metal that the Bankers fear. And though a silver to gold ratio of 1 to 1 is a very heady prediction, Morgan says it’s actually possible given silver’s extreme rarity, history and widespread use as an industrial metal.
“I think it’s accurate… What people don’t seem to realize about silver in general, for my generation or perhaps people slightly older than me, was that…in 1965 we were issued slugs. But through 1968, you could actually take a silver certificate to the Treasury and get silver for it. So they were circulating 90% [silver] coins in the United States, until and through 1964. But it was illegal to own gold until 1973. So you had this gap between say, ’65 and ’73, where really all you …read more
Source: David Morgan on the Dollar Demise: Silver Moves to China
