Inflation good for commodity prices especially copper, gold...31 Mar 2021 17:04
Lumber prices are an important predictor of future inflation in the US...they've been flying...
https://uk.investing.com/analysis/inflation-on-the-way-cotton-and-lumber-say-its-already-here-200457021
Oceanbank guy on Bloomberg says he's seeing extaordinary input rice increases across the board for hi customers...and...more important...they're able to pass them along to customers...
That means higher retail prices and higher wage demands..supply push AND .demand pull inflation combined and off we go...
The FED thinks its got the tools to contain this, but they're being driven by actual data, not forecasts, which means they're going to be behind the curve once again...and this time it could be hyperinflation...even in the short term, gold/silver is the place to be, but with Biden's infrastructure plan, EVs and a massive switch of demand to non-urban housing (which is massively undersupplied)), due to changes in work patterns, copper is going to be very much in demand...
Gold at $2300 and copper at $5 this year...just as Alpala is revised and Porvenir and Rio Amarillo are proived up...
Hold onto your seats...