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Dear Readers,

 

From another Canadian election to precious metals hitting an all time high, we've got lots to talk about this week.

 

Before we get started, the results from last week's survey, "Do You Use Twitter?" are in. Here are the results:

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As such, I have decided to not move ahead with the Equedia Twitter account - for now. Some of the comments from the survey are listed below. For the many of you who wanted to follow us, thank you for the kind words left in the comments. Let's move on.

 

Politics

 

As a Canadian, I am extremely fed up. Throughout the last few years during the recession, Canada has become one of the most prominent countries in the world. We now rank number one in the world for the best banking system and was the first nation to step out of the recession. We've increased our military defences (a must as a growing nation) and we have grown exponentially with the help of our natural resources.

 

You may not like Stephen Harper. You may think he's a liar. You may think he has no charisma. But Canada has done well.

 

Do we really need another election? 

 

For this week's survey, I'd like to know what you think and who you're going to vote for. 

 

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With this election, taxpayers are once again being forced to pay up. We spent $277 million for the 2004 election. In 2006, we spent $270 million. In 2008, we spent $325 million. That means Canadian taxpayers have unnecessarily spent $872 million in the last 7 years. After this election is over, we're going to surpass the billion-dollar mark. 

 

Four elections. Seven Years. One billion dollars. What a joke. And we call Canada a democracy.

 

Timing the Markets

 

Before last week got started, I went against the grain and called for an uptick in the markets (see The Controversy). It happened. The week before that, I called for a major pullback despite the markets climbing the day of the earthquake. It happened. During that pullback, I said I would be buying stocks such as Barrick Gold (TSX, NYSE: ABX) and Kiska Metals (TSX.V: KSK). While Kiska has remained flat, Barrick climbed as high as $51.49, up from just under $48 in a short week.

 

Minco Gold (TSX: MMM) (AMEX: MGH), a company we featured in January (see The Hidden Gold Producer) at a price of CDN$2.14 and US $2.16, hit a high of CDN$2.65 and US$2.71 this past week. I'll be speaking with management again next week to check up on their progress.   

 

Oil stocks are also up and I am looking for some of the bigger dividend players to step up and increase their dividends over the course of this year, which should lead to an increase in capital gains.

 

My market timing calls have been bang on. Even when most of the newsletter writers and technical traders said otherwise, I stuck to my beliefs. But my point is not to brag or gloat about these minor achievements. Timing the markets is something that we can all do with enough research - and luck. Sometimes I am wrong. And sometimes I am right. 

 

The point I am trying to make is that perception is everything and you can't always believe what you read.

 

The media is always late to the punch because it takes a lot more time than you think for a journalist or reporter to gather information on a story. It could take weeks before an article is published. If that article catches the attention of other media outlets, it could take those outlets another few weeks.

 

The media will tell a story for as long as someone is willing to listen. Once a story breaks out, every media outlet wants a piece to capture the audience. But once that audience gets bored, they move on. For the media, it's about ratings - not the truth. 

 

When you trade the markets, you have to understand this.

 

Real news happens immediately but it takes time for the media to catch on. As such, investors often take too much time to digest the information. By the time they've made a decision, Wall Street has already made money by either unloading their profits on an uptick, or picking up cheap shares from the panic selling of retail investors. 

 

If you're going to trade, you need to be proactive and react instantly on pullbacks or strong daily climbs resulting from market events. Big market swings often lead to big market gains or losses. For the majority of us, day trading isn't an option. That's why if you believe we're in a bull market, you shouldn't worry about the daily fluctuations of a stock.

 

"Disregarding the big swing and trying to jump in and out was fatal to me. Nobody can catch all the fluctuations. In a bull market the game is to buy and hold until you believe the bull market is near its end." - Jesse Livermore

 

What to Expect

 

As I mentioned in the last newsletter (see The Controversy), the market should perform well over the course of this year led by the precious metals sector because, "people need to beat the rate of inflation just to survive. The US government will continue to add more money into the system which will help the stock market climb, but in its attempt it will cause prices to rise. This in turn will force investors to make riskier bets in the market to beat inflation, thus forcing the market higher."

 

Stocks may appear to be a good hedge against inflation because, in theory, a company's revenue and earnings should grow at the same rate as inflation over time. As corporations raise their prices, revenue will appear to grow but it is all artificial. So the stock market may be moving up, but that is all relative to capital erosion.  

 

Last week, I also made a strong point that precious metals will continue to climb, with silver leading the way. Silver hit an all-time high on Thursday surpassing the $38/oz mark, climbing 5.8% on the week while gold added 0.7%. 

 

While some of us have already grabbed the precious metals bull market by the horns, the majority of the overall market has yet to jump in. But that majority will soon begin their accumulation as the media continues to further the demise of the Dollar and the rise of a new gold standard. While a gold standard is unlikely, the idea of it will be more than enough to get the crowd going. Remember, perception is reality. 

 

George Soros, one of the world's top billionaire hedge fund managers, is holding a conference in the next few weeks to change how the global currency works by moving the US Dollar away as the world's reserve currency. The media has garnered it little attention, despite Soros being one of the most influential men on this planet. Take a look at the video here:

 

George Soros' Effort to Change How the Global Currency Works  

 

I have said it before, and I'll say it again. The precious metals run is far from over. Gold showed incredible support last week and the line of least resistance is now to the upside. Is it in a bubble? Yes. But the bubble isn't about to pop anytime soon. 

 

While I believe the precious metals sector will continue to climb, the overall stock market may not fare as well after this year. 

 

A continued bull market is usually indicative of healthy earnings for corporations. Stocks in the S&P 500 are currently priced near 15 times earnings, offering shareholders a potential real return of 6.5 percent if corporations can maintain their earnings and price-to-earnings ratios do not drop in the future. 

 

Over the next 5-10 years, if earnings continue to recover as they have during historical business cycles, stocks are likely to pay returns that compare favourably to their historical averages - all relative to inflation, of course.

 

At the end of the day, that means interest rates will eventually rise and curb the growth of the overall market. 

 

We're seeing healthy earnings right now because the cost of borrowing for corporations is at its all time lows. At some point, surging inflation - both direct, and from the rise in commodity and energy prices - will force the Fed to push up interest rates. 

 

So while the stock market should rise with inflation over the next 5-10 years, the real rate of return won't be good. Take advantage of this bull market while it lasts because after that we're going to get pretty stagnant. 

 

Housing Market

 

I believe US real estate, while not at its complete bottom, is starting to look like a good investment. Even with dismal housing numbers recently released, the prospects for long-term growth are in place.

 

Given a long term time frame investment of 5 years plus, slowly dabbling with smart investments in the sector now will return great rewards. The housing market will not bring the US back to economic equilibrium now, but prices should once again rise along with inflation. 

 

The Canadian markets, on the other hand, has topped in my opinion and I expect a continued overall decline over the next 5 years as interest rates increase and over leveraged mortgage owners come under water with higher payments. 

 

CMHC will tell you that we're going to see growth this year and the next, but they are their own worst enemy. They'll tell you the housing market is fine and dandy because they don't want you to panic. As I have said before, there is conformity amongst fear in everything we do. If buyers panic, housing prices drop dramatically and we end up with have a major housing crisis.

 

While the CMHC has much stricter "internal" guidelines for its lending practices than Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, Canada's largest mortgage insurer has still pushed its limits by encouraging mortgages that are well beyond the means of a borrower - especially as interest rates rise in the coming years.

 

The CMHC is the only major financial institution in Canada not regulated by OSFI (Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.) Furthermore, like any insurer, the more mortgages they back, the more money they make. There are just too many borrowers that have overleveraged themselves just to buy a dismal 750sq ft apartment for half a million dollars. Income growth is nowhere near the growth of property values, forcing new families and first time home buyers out of the market. This simply cannot go on.

 

While the CMHC says everything is okay, their actions are saying otherwise. As of last week, the maximum amortization period for a government-insured mortgage will be lowered from 35 to 30 years. The debt-to-income ratio of Canadian households have surpassed that of the U.S. for the first time in 12 years, climbing to over 146%.

 

Canada is now at the top of the 20 OECD nations in terms of debt-to-financial assets.

 

While Canada may not experience a catastrophic pullback like the US, a strong pullback is nonetheless inevitable. If you're a Canadian, be careful. Interest rates will rise and housing prices will go down from here.

 

More Next Week

 

The Libyan rebels are advancing and it looks they are making good progress with the help of the world. If this continues, look for the markets to open up in green territory.

 

However, I would most certainly be cautious next week and slightly defensive as Gaddafi could seek to stage another Lockerbie-style attack in Britain in revenge for its role in the airstrikes.

 

The market is now in the hands of Libya and the Middle East.

 


 
Until next week,
 
Ivan Lo
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What will happen to the U.S. economy and the dollar in the near term? Will inflation increase dramatically? What is the outlook for gold, and where should you put your money? BIG GOLD asked a world-class panel of economists, authors, and investment advisors what they expect for the future. Caution: strong opinions ahead...

 

Jim Rogers is a self-made billionaire, author of the best-sellers Adventure Capitalist and  Investment Biker, and a sought-after financial commentator. He was a co-founder of the Quantum Fund, a successful hedge fund, and creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI).

 

Bill Bonner is the president and founder of Agora, Inc., a worldwide publisher of financial advice and opinions. He is also the author of the Internet-based Daily Reckoning and a regular columnist in MoneyWeek magazine.

 

Peter Schiff is CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals (www.europacmetals.com) and host of the daily radio show The Peter Schiff Show (www.schiffradio.com). He is the author of the economic parable How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes and the recent financial bestseller The Little Book of Bull Moves: Updated and Expanded. He's a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox Business, and is quoted often in print media.

 

Jeffrey Christian is managing director of CPM Group (www.cpmgroup.com) and a prominent analyst on precious metals and commodities markets. CPM Group produces comprehensive yearbooks on gold, silver, and platinum group metals, and provides a wide range of consulting services. Jeffrey publishedCommodities Rising, an investors' guide to commodities, in 2006.

 

Walter J. "John" Williams, private consulting economist and "economic whistleblower," has been working with Fortune 500 companies for 30 years. His newsletter Shadow Government Statistics (shadowstats.com) provides in-depth analysis of the government's "creative" economic reporting practices.

 

Steve Henningsen is chief investment strategist and partner at The Wealth Conservancy in Boulder, CO, assisting clients interested in wealth preservation. Current assets under management exceed $200 million.

 

Frank Trotter is an executive vice president of EverBank and a founding partner of EverBank.com, a national branchless bank that was acquired by the current EverBank in 2002. He received an M.B.A. from Washington University and has over 30 years experience in the banking industry.

 

Dr. Krassimir Petrov is an Austrian economist and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University. He was assistant professor in economics at the American University in Bulgaria, then an associate professor in finance at Prince Sultan University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is currently an associate professor at Ahlia University in Manama, Bahrain. He's been a contributing editor for Agora Financial and Casey Research.

 

Bob Hoye is chief financial strategist of Institutional Advisors and writes Pivotal Events, a weekly market overview. His articles have been published by Barron's, Financial Post, Financial Times, and National Post.

 

BIG GOLD: A lot of economists, including the government, believe the worst is behind us economically. Do you agree? If not, what should we be on the lookout for in 2011?

 

Jim Rogers: It is better for those getting all the government largesse, but the overall situation is worse. More currency turmoil. State and local problems, plus pension problems.

 

Bill Bonner: None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises. Deleveraging takes time. 2011 will, most likely, be a transition year... not unlike 2010. But the risk is that one of these latent crises will become an active crisis.

 

Peter Schiff: To me, it's like watching someone walk into the same sliding glass door again and again. Wall Street must know by now that large infusions of liquidity from the Fed spur present consumption at the expense of investment for the future. We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved for a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

 

Jeffrey Christian: We believe the worst is behind us economically, in the short term. The recession ended in late 2009, and 2010 saw U.S. economic growth in line with what CPM had expected, but higher than the more pessimistic consensus had been. In 2011 we expect continued expansion. We think some economists and observers are too enthusiastic about economic prospects right now.

 

For the U.S. in 2011, we are looking for real GDP of 2.5% - 2.8%, inflation to remain low, and for the economy to avoid deflation. Interest rates are expected to start rising, perhaps significantly in the second half of 2011. The dollar is expected to be volatile, rising somewhat against the euro but continuing to weaken against the Canadian and Australian dollars, the rupee, yuan, rand, and other currencies.

 

European sovereign debt issues will continue to plague financial markets, but market reactions will be less severe than they were regarding Greece in April 2010.

 

John Williams: An intensifying economic downturn - what formally will be viewed as the second dip of a double-dip depression - already has started to unfold. The problem with the economy remains structural, where household income is not growing fast enough to beat inflation, and where debt expansion - encouraged for many years by the Fed as a way to get around the economic growth problems inherent from a lack of income growth - generally is not available, as a result of the systemic solvency crisis. Accordingly, individual consumers, who account for more than 70% GDP, do not have the ability, and increasingly lack the willingness, to fuel the needed growth in consumption on which the U.S. economy is so dependent.

 

Steve Henningsen: The governments worldwide (I don't pay much attention to economists) want us to believe that the worst is behind us because the financial system is built upon the foundation of trust and confidence. Both of these were battered badly when it was shown that much of the world's prosperity over the past few decades was simply a mirage that, once dispersed, left behind only debt with no means of future production. Now they want us to believe that they fixed the problem via more debt.  

 

What I will be watching for this year is sovereign and U.S. municipal debt corpses floating to the surface sometime in the months ahead.  

 

Frank Trotter: Right now I have a somewhat dark but not dismal outlook. I think that over 2011, we will continue to experience a Jimmy Carter-style malaise that combines continuing high unemployment, tentative business investment, rising prices, low housing numbers when looked at on an absolute basis, and creeping interest rates.

 

As a very large mortgage servicer, we are not seeing significant improvements in payment patterns that would indicate the worst is fully behind us, and with mortgage rates moving upward, we see less ability for current mortgage holders to refinance and reduce payments.

 

Krassimir Petrov: No, the worst is yet to come. No structural changes have been made, no problems have been fixed. Printing money, a.k.a. Quantitative Easing, is a quick fix that has postponed the problem, yet also made it a lot worse. I would say that we are still in the early stages of the crisis and have another 4-8 years to go.

 

Bob Hoye: The worst of the post-bubble economic adversity is not behind us.

 

BG: Price inflation is creeping up, but the enormous amount of money printing hasn't really hit the system yet. Does that happen in 2011, further down the road, or not at all?

 

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Investment Legends: "Dollar Collapse Inevitable"
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How to Use the Price to Sales Ratio Valuation Metrics
Kinross Receives Pre-Approval to Increase Kupol Ownership to 100%
Technical Trading with Harry Boxer
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Comments From Last Week's Survey
Morningstar: Gold and Silver as an Asset Class
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Equedia Watch: Companies Under Evalualtion
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I wanted to go over a lot more in this week's letter, but my main computer (where I had all of my notes) completely died and won't turn back on. The thing won't even hold up a charge. What ticks me off is that I bought the darn thing less than a year ago and it was top of the line. Technology. Can't live it, can't live without it. 

 

While we're on the topic of technology, RIM finally announced that their new iPad killer, the Playbook, will finally be released on April 19, 2011. Why does this matter? Simple. Because I want one. 

 

RIM, will you please send me one and I'll be sure to write up a good review? :)

 

Actually, I have always been a supporter of RIM's Blackberry over Apple's iPhone. Not so much as an investment, but more because RIM is one of Canada's few successful prodigies that has been able to compete and innovate on a global scale. The last time we had something like that, was Nortel. And we all know what happened with that...perhaps that's why RIM's share price has always lagged behind Apple's, despite increased earnings. 

 

I let my son, whose now seven, watch the Prince of Persia (yes, I know it's PG 13) last week. When the lead character kissed the princess, my son looked up at me, blushed, and asked, "Dad, when they kiss in the movies, do they use special effects?"  

 

The joys of being a parent.

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