I'd swap "fundamentally" with "historically", myself.
this shows us that the US master plan to erase gold from any monetary status in the minds of its "subjects" (and the rest of the world if possible) outlined in the 1974
Kissinger memo here, has worked quite well, at least on you it would seem. the academic class in general seem to have bought it, but as they were educated through state apparatus with the *correct* thoughts to think, and then most often reliant on the same apparatus for their jobs, it's to be expected.
40 years is a good run but whether it can continue indefinitely is another subject entirely.
there are some interesting parallels between Gold & BTC and Silver / Litecoin just this week, that is that both these cryptos have now replicated the approximate equivalent price rise of Gold/Silver
since 1974, in the last few months.
Bitcoin
peaked out briefly at the value of an Oz of gold this week and if I'd been wise enough to be into Bitcoin in the $5s and $10s I would most definitely have been swapping them coin for coin into Au Oz at that point.
Imagine if you had mined and gathered 1000 bitcoins at lowish prices and could swap them out for real physical gold. Modern day alchemy no?
And the litecoin price went from $4 on the 17th Nov and peaked out at $48.20 on my charts, it's just replicated 40 years of (maximum) silver rally in 2 weeks.
as these are the only currency markets that are not directly controlled by a group of large banks, and thus far (as far as we know) are not subject to Fed (through
the ESF) or BIS direct interventions (like all the others) and are also potentially "disruptive technology" to the Fiat Ponzi in the same was Google & eBay were to bricks and mortar and newspaper businesses, I am not expecting these markets to follow the generally accepted "rules of markets" really.
where do we think Bitcoin fits in on the upside down Exeter?
Bitcoin is not gold, and its vulnerability to certain technical difficulties ensures it never will be. It could however be a very effective way of transferring wealth stored in other mediums one day.
therefore I give it's chances of ultimately going to zero reasonable odds over a long enough timeline, because Im sure the Governments and monetary authorities will try very hard to either control or destroy it.
and how would it fare under a more longtail event scenario
a previous one I once posited?
being as Alien analogies are ok for genius Nobel Laureattes, perhaps I can use one?
..so there's this benign bunch of stoner Aliens that have been watching us for a while in near orbit, who are a bit slack on their maintenance and accidentally blow a warp drive while over the mid Atlantic.
This has the unfortunate side effect of letting off a powerful EMP taking out all electronics across Northern America & Europe.
being your average sort of Billionaire, you've got a boat, a few houses, a jet, a big pile of gold, a garage full of armaments and some guys working for you and approx $750 million in various stocks and shares and bonds.
what do you think your wealth is after the EMP? real wealth will survive generations, not just vanish like an idea under the right circumstances.
it wouldn't need to be Aliens, who knows when somebody might have had enough and go for the jugular.