Commodity Culture, Released on 5/24/24

Steve Hanke points out that the vast majority of retail and speculative positions in the gold market are coming out of China. Steve believes the fundamentals for the metal are very solid and while Eastern buying has kicked off phase one of the current bull market, phase two will be ignited when the West catches on. Steve also discusses the failures of the green energy revolution, the absurd capital gains tax in Canada, Javier Milei’s scorecard so far, and much more.

00:00 Introduction
01:21 US Tariffs on China
09:12 Is the Green Agenda Bullish for Oil?
11:12 Canada Capital Gains Tax Increase
15:10 Gold Bull Market Just Starting?
20:26 Javier Milei’s Scorecard so Far
24:15 How Long Can the Dollar Reign?
29:24 Did Lockdowns Work?
36:36 Is the Broad Market Sustainable?

Steve Hanke is an American applied economist at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is also a senior fellow and director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington, DC, and co-director of the Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise in Baltimore, Maryland. Hanke is known for his work as a currency reformer in emerging-market countries. He was a senior economist with President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1981 to 1982, and has served as an adviser to heads of state in countries throughout Asia, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. He is also known for his work on currency boards, dollarization, hyperinflation, water pricing and demand, benefit-cost analysis, privatization, and other topics in applied economics. Hanke has written extensively as a columnist for Forbes magazine and other publications. He is also a currency and commodity trader.

  china, gold, investing, steve hanke