“If Just 1%Of Japanese Pension Assets Shift Into Gold, The Gold Market Would Explode”
Last night we reported that in the encroaching attempt to globalize the fiat ponzi regime, in Japan's latest rush to crushTM (sounds even better than race to debase) its currency it would proceed to monetize even more debt, only not its own debt - a strategy that has failed miserably to stimulate inflation for the past 30 years - but that of Europe.
So far so good, and perfectly expected in a monetary lunatic asylum in which coining money without an appropriate collateral backing is actually considered sound monetary policy by Nobel prize winners.
What gives us some hope that there may be at least one sane voice left in the wilderness is the far less trumpeted news overnight that "Japanese pension funds, the world’s second-largest pool of retirement assets after the U.S., will more than double their gold holdings in the next two years as the new government pushes for a higher inflation target, according to an adviser to the funds. Assets held by Japanese pension funds in gold-backed exchange-traded products may expand to 100 billion yen ($1.1 billion) by 2015 from less than 45 billion yen at present." The reason for the move is fear that Abe is actually able (unlike last time when his failure was accompanied by an inexplicable case of career-ending diarrhea) to hit his goal of 2% inflation, without in the process sending bond yields so high all tax revenue goes solely to cover interest expense on the JPY 1 quadrillion pyramid of debt and rising. Which, incidentally, according to many traders is the reason for the move higher in gold prices today.
From Bloomberg:
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp., which introduced Japan’s first gold ETF in 2010, expects assets held in the product to double over the next several years from 26.2 billion yen as of Nov. 30. Global investors are holding a near-record amount in gold-backed ETPs that are valued at $139.6 billion, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Assets held by corporate pension funds in Japan amounted to 72.24 trillion yen as of March 2012, declining 0.9 percent from a year earlier, according to Yasuo Sugeno, director at Daiwa Institute of Research in Tokyo. Of the total, about 72 billion yen were allocated to commodities including gold through hedge funds, he said Dec. 10.
Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan, the operator of the world’s largest pension fund with 113.6 trillion yen, stays away from commodity investment as 67 percent of their assets were allocated to Japanese bonds, Sugeno said.
Japanese pensions oversee $3.36 trillion, according to human-resource
and consulting services company Towers Watson & Co. Corporate
pension funds in Japan will diversify 72 trillion yen in assets after
domestic stocks produced little return in the past two decades,
according to Daiwa Institute of Research.
So after the rotation, paper gold holding will double to a whopping... 0.03% of all pension fund assets! Now imagine what happens to the price of gold if Japan does indeed succeed in generating inflation, and pension funds scramble to push 1, 2, 5% or more of their assets into gold. Sure enough:
Perhaps it is time for the punditry and the chatterbox media to start considering what happens not when the much anticipated rotation out of bonds and into stocks, which has not happened for 4 years now, and won't, at least not until the government bond bubble finally pops which will only happen when the central banks finally lose control, but what happens if even a tiny amount of the global pension capital allocated to bonds and/or equities, is rotated into gold.
“Pension money invested in bullion is ‘peanuts’ at the moment,” Toshima
said. “If 1 percent of their total assets shift to the metal, the gold
market would explode.”
Could not have said it better ourselves.
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gold-ichiwa, bitchez...
Fucking do it then! Rush to crush was a college game. Girls loved it.
It's just like if someone threatened to ban, say, something plentiful and readily available like "Assault Clips" (ROFL), then suddenly there wouldn't be any available, at any price, anywhere.
Or something like that.
Sod Japan. How about a simiar amount from The Fed's blob-like spreadsheet!
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/the-new-hoover-dam-20...
The CB FIAT Printing And GOLD Manip Will End Soon, This YEAR, Bitchezzz.
GOLD will be the Star.
Unfortunately, if they've been naive enough to buy Japanese bonds, they will be naive enough to buy GLD
article is total BS. ETFs can expand infinitely to accommodate influx of monies.
It's not real gold...it is options to have gold or promises to possibly deliver gold if they don't have to go to too much trouble to get it.
ETFs and the lot permit the manufacture of infinite ounces of paper gold and a mechanism by which cash can settle in lieu of real material. Even allocated accounts work this way.
I wouldn't call it BS, but iI must admit I kept looking for the Goldcore byline
yeah; something like that. I think it's called supply and demand; but that's unnecessarily confusing. I pointed out, until I got tired of pointing it out; the Silver Bullion Market, (talking about what's actually available to buyers, ok?), is so small that a couple of rich families in Europe could get together an buy the whole fucking thing. And they might. Why not? The Silver market is like the powder hold in a an old wooden sailing ship; it might not explode; but then again it might; and it takes so little to do it. Capitalists love corners on markets. If you were clever you could sell 14th. of your holdings back into the screaming maw that had become the market, (with no silver available), and get your money back and keep the other t/4ths of the Silver for free. I find it very helpful to consider these kinds of scenarios when the market is depressed and not rallying, like it is now. (the silver market).
why the hell would someone want to buy the silver bullion market?
You silverbugz need to have your heads examined...praying for a market corner so you won't be a bagholder
super post it amazes me that half a dozen hedge funds dont quietly informally co ordinate themselves and blow those thieving motherfuckers at jp morgue off the fucking face of mother earth
there is such a thing as a laydown trade ... they are admittedly rare but from time to time they occur ... silver has a 33 year double top at 50, unheard of in the history of technical analysis take out 50 and its 67 the same day headed for triple digits
If this Jananese "Gold Backed" ETF has a prospectus anything like the GLD, these Japanese pensions will NOT own any gold!
WRONG! Gold will not explode up until the ponzi scam suppression is removed, even if they buy in 10%! Don't you get it yet Tyler? Gold should already be well above $2,000.
It's practically impossible to prevent gold price from rising once the positive sentiment toward physical metal starts prevailing worldwide, regardless of the degree of suppression. The risk of default would increase beyond acceptable limits; the COMEX market would collapse literally in hours (or nanoseconds). And if this were to happen the price would skyrocket not to the Moon but to the Sun.
And that is what's happening right now; a shift from paper to metal perception of gold. The fact that gold is not well above $2000 costs the manipulators probably an incredible amount of effort in order to preserve perhaps the last remnants of the paper gold illusion.
Because they know that JPM would smash it again. Apparently the FED has decided that $1650 on gold and $30 on silver is a safe number for the fiat and that is where it will stay for now.
well put the operative words being for now
How do you say bitchez in Japanese ?
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chinpokomon
Sounds like Pokemon !
Are you sure ?
I don’t want to order my T-shirt with a word that means something else.
(Thanks)
BTW, the literal translation of "teme" is just a rude way of saying "you", rather than saying the more respectful form of "you" which is "anata"...you really gonna put "teme" on a t-shirt?
The word you're after is "douseiaisha".
Crap, I just got a cool tatoo with that ideogram at the center.
They told me it meant "recieves abundantly"
http://translate.google.nl/#en/ja/bitches
..according to Google translate.
??? (teme)
(cue jap accent and dramatic pronunciation) TEEEeemmmEEEE! gold-itchiwaaaaaaAAA!
*edit, lol hiragana characters come up as "???"
Closest would be Kuso-onna.
It means "shit-woman".
And if my nut-sack didn't have wrinkles it would be a tennis ball!
I'm gonna put THAT ^^ on a T-shirt!
In all honesty, with keynesian policies the focus is always to avoid the end game when the going gets tough.
So calling their debt policy a failure when kicking the can down the road is the strategy is not very clever. If anything they are the masters of fiat currencies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Japan Post Bank sits on one of the biggest piles of private cash (possibly the biggest pile) in the world. It is also the biggest holder of Japan's debt. If it even sniffs at the gold market, people will sit up and take notice. But they haven't and they won't. I mean, I'd like Ben Bernanke to give me a check for a billion dollars too, but it isn't going to happen (unless bread costs $1 million a loaf)
http://www.businessinsider.com/debt-ceiling-deadline-february-15-march-o...
Surprise: We Might Hit The Debt Ceiling Two Weeks Earlier Than Expected Ooops.30 billion in interest daily? Something seems amiss. More importantly, to whom is all that interest going?
Why widows and orphans, of course.
Platinum Trillion Dollar coins - Bitchez! I call them Krugmans.
If this happens, I'm calling silver at $30,000,000,000 per ounce.
I would be a quadrillionaire then!
Assuming that Timmy had in mind a 1 oz coin, at 1574/oz Timmy wants a 635,324,015 % devaluation ! That’s what you’d call Hyper Inflation.
He must have attended a training course given by Zimbabwe’s central bank.
dat be rayciss...what happened in rhodes, i mean zimbabwe, was all white people's fault
gideon gonzo presiding
Maybe they're afraid the island would flip with the extra weight or maybe rockschilds told them they'll have to get rid of the radiation first.
if they keep buying paper gold my guess is the banks will keep finding a way to make sure there is enough paper available.
Hello BITCHES! You are now in the presence of greatness.
Grats on your first ever post after 45 weeks.
It's time to play... Name That Sock-Puppet!
First clue: Obnoxious asshole.
Hmmm... that doesn't narrow it down much.
Stay tuned for more clues!
Yes, thank you. It has taken some time to choose a character.
You have chosen ... poorly.
Whatever MynMaxGullyFromm.
Perhaps he was tanning his Hyde with Boner
Let me know when they start taking delivery, then we will have a story.
I read yesterday that my old school district was trying to levy a 9.5% on residents or they would have to shut my high school down because of budget problems. So I went to the budget meeting last night. The place was absolutely packed. The first slide they put up showed that 80% of the 2013 budget was going to pay for pensions and benefits of retired employees. 80%!!! I knew things were bad but the math and the demographics by me would make Kyle Bass blush.
That's unbelievable. How receptive was the audience to that?