SP 500 Sept. Futures; Gold and Silver Charts with a Forecast and a Comparisons

The Precious Metals Bull Market Compared to the Prior Bull Market



Projection of the Gold Price by Casey Research



H/T to King World News for the Chart

John Williams on the Revised GDP Number

John Williams' comments on the GDP number were short and to the point. I am still not on board with his hyperinflation forecast preferring to stick with a pernicious stagflation, although what he sees is certainly possible, as is a Japan style deflation. That is what 'fiat' is all about.

The correlation in stocks across the various indices today is remarkably uniform. Do you need to buy a vowel?

John Williams of ShadowStats

Economic Data Will Get Much Worse.

The kindest thing I can say about a stock market that rallies on the "stronger than expected" news that annualized growth in second-quarter GDP was revised from 2.4% to just 1.6%, instead of to the expected 1.4% (keep in mind those numbers are quarterly growth rates raised to the fourth power), or that gyrates over meaningless swings in seasonally-distorted weekly new unemployment claims, is that it is irrational, unstable and terribly dangerous.

As the renewed tumbling in the U.S. economy throws off statistics suggestive of a continuing collapse in business activity, as a looming contraction in third-quarter GDP becomes increasingly evident to all except Wall Street and Administration hypesters, who professionally never admit to such news, it would be quite surprising if the financial markets did not react violently, with a massive sell-off in the U.S. dollar contributing to and coincident with massive sell-declines in both the U.S. equity and credit markets.

Recognition is growing rapidly of the re-intensifying economic downturn. Yet, little analysis so far has been put forth to public as to some of the unfortunate systemic implications of this circumstance. The problems range from extreme growth in the federal government's operating deficit, tied to reduced tax revenues and to bailout expenditures for the unemployed, bankrupt states and continuing banking industry solvency issues, to U.S. Treasury funding needs to pay for same. The latter issue promises eventual heavy Federal Reserve monetization of Treasury debt, with resulting inflation problems and eventual hyperinflation (see the Hyperinflation Special Report).

US Bond: Our Hearts Belong to Big Daddy

As crowded trades go this flight to safety into the long end of the curve and the 30 Year Bond, nicknamed Big Daddy by the bond traders, is about as jammed up as it gets. It will be interesting to see what happens with the equity markets over the next two to three months given this measure of fear and uncertainty.



30 Year Treasury Weekly Chart

Gold and Silver Charts

New futures were issued to holders of call options that were in the money today.

Let's see if the wiseguys try to run the stops tomorrow.

The second estimate of US Q2 GDP will be released tomorrow, with the consensus at 1.4% down from the original 2.4%. Keep an eye on the GDP deflator which is expected to remain steady at 1.8%. The deflator is the broadest measure of price inflation since encompassing all goods and services rather than a basket.

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