We can talk about technical charts, supply and demand fundamentals, and
price manipulation, all of which point to significant increases in the value
of gold and silver for the foreseeable future.
But according to Golden Arrow Resources CEO Joseph Grosso, who
is credited with the discovery of the largest silver deposit in
history, the single biggest reason that retail investors,
institutional players and governments around the world are gobbling up
physical precious metals, resource stocks and ETF’s at unprecedented
levels is that they are scared to death of the state of the global
economy and where it will go next.
Like an expecting father waiting for five years to see a baby being born,
we are at the inception of a mining economy… There is a pause, a slight pause
towards the U.S. dollar and that pause is allowing the oldest currency in the
world, gold and silver [to rise] and that is now in favor.
…Because there is fear. When there is fear, that’s when gold does
best.
… Right now, this is a scary time… People want to hop out [of
traditional assets] and find safety in precious metals.
In the following interview with SGT Report the level-headed Grosso explains that there is
still hope for America and the U.S. economy, but there will be a lot of pain
before it gets better, the consequence of which is an environment that has
historically boded well for precious metals as safe haven assets.
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SGT Report: There is a web bot project out there that
mines the internet for data… and the data mined by the web bot
project suggests that some time in the future, because of worldwide monetary
chaos, we will eventually see silver return to a 10-to-1 or 8-to-1 ratio…
Right now the silver-to-gold ratio is hovering somewhere around 70-to-1…
And you know as well as anyone, because you mine the stuff, silver is found
in the earth’s crust much closer to a 10-to-1 ratio…
Joe Grosso: What you’re saying is really what dreams are
made of… I remember a time when silver was somewhere around 40-to-1 and
then it gravitated to 80-to-1.
So I do feel that there is a catch up for silver to come into a
more humane ratio between the two, but it is of course the biggest dream that
we will have a ratio of 10-to-1… this would make the silver price worth about
$130 per ounce [at current gold price].
We’d like to see a return in the next three to five years where a lot of
mines had to shut down and they can re-open again. Unfortunately for
some, they have been liquidating assets… and out of the spoils we are now
looking at acquiring or merging ourselves.
…
Silver… we’re glad to be in silver because it has two uses. One, as a
precious metal. And second, almost 50% of the silver produced in the world is
used for industrial use.
As Joe Grosso notes, mining companies have been pummeled over the last
five years, leaving many to be either completely liquidated, or pausing
operations until such time that prices eventually rise as a result of either
core supply and demand fundamentals, or outright panic buying during economic
crisis.
But unlike most proponents of a rising silver price, Grosso brings a
unique perspective to the conversation, because he doesn’t necessarily see
Venezuela-style meltdown, hyperinflation and chaos coming to the United
States:
I am firmly of the belief that Venezuela will not happen in
America… I think the American people have been tried [historically]…
It’s happened before and America came out of it… It will happen again and
America will come out of it… It’s a tough time… The administration will be
under a lot of pressure…
But you do have what it takes. You have a fully developed economy which
has been going for years… The comparison is pale in my estimation… The United
States is in a much better position to recover.
I think that America will come out of it.
America is America.
… I really feel that we need to be grown up enough to know that in
order to cure any illness, you need a bitter medicine. The more powerful the
medicine, the quicker we will return to normality.
And America, I feel, will know that. You have the intelligence to know
that. Not everything is only up and up and up and up.
It needs to be dealt with, with stronger resolve. And I am sure your
country will understand that the tough things that are to come is the
medicine that is going to resolve the problem.
But if you don’t take it, you don’t resolve it.
The American people do, indeed, understand that the system is broken as
evidenced by the rise of extremely popular anti-establishment political
candidates on both sides of the aisle.
It appears that, at least on some level, the people are willing to take
the medicine.
But whether the governing bodies dispense it is a whole nother matter.
Failure to do so, says Grasso, means that things will only get worse.
If and when things get worse, panicked and concerned citizens the world
over will continue to shift capital into assets like gold and silver,
which will be the only currencies left standing when it really hits
the fan.
To learn more about Joe Grasso and his latest projects visit Golden Arrow
Resources.
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