Copper price set for worst week since 2022 as China Plenum disappoints
Copper prices have retreated from a record hit in May on concerns about the strength of demand in China.
Jim Rogers poured cold water on Friday’s stock rally after European leaders agreed to backstop more debt-stricken banks. The S&P 500 jumped 2.49% on Friday, and spot gold was up $30 to close at $1,599.10/oz.
“This is more than just a temporary stop gap to make the markets feel good for a few hours, few days, or a few week. Then everybody is going to wake up and realize this doesn’t solve the problem,” the legendary commodity investor told CNBC on Friday.
“This is not solving the problem. This is making the problem worse.”
Rogers believes the only real solution to the world’s economic woes is to reduce debt dramatically and start letting companies go bankrupt.
“People need to stop spending money they don’t have. This is not going to be solved until people stop spending money, stop spending money dramatically and paying down debt. The solution to too much debt is not more debt. All this little agreement does is let them have a little more debt for a little while longer.”
On Friday the EU announced a Troubled Country Relief Program, a fund similar to the one set up in the aftermath of the US sub-prime crisis, “to break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns,” in the words of European Council President Herman Van Rompuy.
Rogers says the announcement and the market rally should be ignored since this cycle has been repeated over and over.
“They have had 20 meetings—20 summits in the last three weeks. And everytime they have a summit and they announce something, the markets rally. And then the markets say, wait a minute. After they read it and see what it really means, then the markets go back down. The same thing is going to happen again.”
“Gold is going up because they are going to print more money. I mean where is the money going to come from to solve these problems. It just means we have a license now to print more money. You see commodities are going through the roof right now, much more than stocks.”
Rogers say Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Barak Obama are doing everything they can to get through the next election.
“It is going to be bad after the election,” says Rogers.
Asked if he is buying or shorting, Rogers said neither.
“I’m just watching. Let’s see what goes up the most and what goes down the most, and then I might do something.”
Image from Reuters TV interview
5 Comments
Syedtaha9742
Daks printing money isn’t pushing the Gold price up, Printing money devalues dollar which in turn pushes the prices up.
DAVID ROGERS
JIM ROGERS IS CORRECT AS TO THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM,HOWEVER HE SEEMS TO MIS THE AMERICAN SOLUTION,LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, WHICH CHANGE THE DYNAMICS OF THE ECONOMY IE LINCOLNS RAILROAD,FDRs ELECTRAFICATION .EISENHOWERs INTRASTATE HIGHWAYS ETC.YES CUT THE BAILOUT CUT THE SPECULATION AND FOCUS ON THE PHYSICAL ECONOMY. DR
Sherdianto8
Jim is partially correct.
Jabafuller
Water, in the pipes, metal ones do rust.
The point here is cause and effect, as long as the banks can get
Away with stealing from sheep it’s good to go.
So when Hell can hold no more this sort of thing will continue.
daks
Jim has facts but his conclusions are confusing. For instant, if printing money pushes gold price up what will bring it down then1