/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>19671932

Japan only hobbles on because it has the rest of the world to trade with. When America collapses, the whole world will go into a depression. There is no America for America to be what America is for Japan. Also, the Japanese stock-market has been a disaster for thirty years. It still hasn't recovered. Gold has done well in Japan, just as it did in the Great Depression, a fact which disproves the theory of some that gold doesn't thrive under deflation. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ffEORwWkk.).)

>>19612252

>Gold mostly holds value but has the small potential for loss, silver is the same but with more upside potential.

Gold and silver have no potential for loss in this kind of environment. They are inversely correlated with a drop in real yields. Tens of trillions will have to be printed to keep the yield curve under control. We are going into the same kind of circumstances which we had in the 80s, where gold goes up 10x and silver miners go up 100x. Anybody who is not invested in precious metals now is missing the opportunity of a lifetime.

If you think that equities are a safe bet, look at the Great Depression. Adjusted for inflation, if you had bought stocks just before the great crash of 1929, it would have taken you 80 years to recover your losses. See also the Nikkei in Japan once their central bank, like the Fed, had completely monetized the debt.