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Gold And The Financial Reset: Why Central Banks Are Buying
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Gold pulled back roughly 20 per cent from its highs, yet central banks bought a record amount in a single quarter, spending some 40 billion dollars on the metal. Felix Nikolas Prehn connects this buying spree to a broader pattern: Bank of America data showing productivity and consumer confidence falling together for the first time since 2008, despite 1.5 trillion dollars already spent on AI. He examines the concentration risk inside the S and P 500, where 70 per cent of this year's gains came from just ten AI related stocks. He outlines the BRICS backed Unit settlement system, designed to bypass SWIFT and underpinned by 40 per cent gold, potentially launching later this year. Drawing parallels with the 1940s, when the Federal Reserve pinned rates to absorb government debt and inflation halved the purchasing power of savings in six years, he argues the same debt playbook is repeating now with US debt again above 120 per cent of GDP.
In this episode:
00:00 Productivity and consumer confidence fall together for the first time since 2008
03:32 1.5 trillion dollars spent on AI with no measurable productivity gain
05:05 Altman, Amodei and Musk call to slow AI development
06:06 Ten stocks account for 70 per cent of S and P 500 returns this year
11:12 Central banks bought a record amount of gold in a single quarter
13:14 The Unit settlement system backed by 40 per cent gold explained
14:46 Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan gold price targets up to 6000 dollars
17:23 The 1940s debt playbook and how it quietly eroded savings
Sources mentioned:
Bank of America (Michael Hartnett research)
Goldman Sachs, https://www.goldmansachs.com
JP Morgan, https://www.jpmorgan.com
ING, https://www.ing.com
Financial Times, https://www.ft.com
Kitco, https://www.kitco.com
OpenAI (Sam Altman), https://www.openai.com
Anthropic (Dario Amodei), https://www.anthropic.com
Felix Nikolas Prehn is an economist and former investment banker. He co-founded TradeVision.io and founded Winston Daily and The Prehn Institute. The Prehn Institute gives no financial advice, and neither does this podcast.
Newsletter: Winston Daily, https://winstondaily.com
Research: https://prehninstitute.com
Author site: https://felixprehn.com
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