Reuters/Lisa Lambert, Susan Heavey and Richard Cowan/4-24-2020
“U.S. gross domestic product will plunge by nearly 40% on an annualized basis in the second quarter, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. But the CBO forecast an economic resurgence in the second half of the year, and said unemployment would crest at 16% but remain in double digits throughout 2021.”
USAGOLD note: This Reuters report captures the scope of the problem facing the federal government and the central bank in some hard, bleak numbers. A year ago this situation, about as dire as one could imagine, was not on anyone’s horizon ……
“[Saxo Bank] sees gold prices pushing to $1,800 an ounce by the end of this year, hitting a new record high by 2021 and sees a long-term gold price above $4,000 an ounce. If ever there was a time where it made sense to put a part of your savings into something tangible, then I think that is now.”
“Therefore, I advise people amass gold now not because I have no faith in human civilization, but precisely because I do. The division of labor will live on, and amassing the means through which it will survive, is going to make its current holders very, very rich in real terms. If and when the dollar is destroyed, human civilization will not simply end. It will continue to use gold as money, just as it does right now, but without the dollar intermediate. Unfortunately, most people will be very poor, because they only have the intermediary. Those people will have to work for those who have the real thing. The real thing will then filter down and through the new economy.”