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$1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan Positive for Gold

 

The Massive $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan is Just the Start

  • Massive $1.9 Tr. American rescue plan to affect markets
  • Yellen takes over at US Treasury, what to expect
  • More spending initiatives to come
  • How all this is positive for gold and silver prices

The Biden Administration’s policies are positive for gold and silver prices. The $1.9 trillion – American Rescue Plan released on January 14 is just the beginning of spending initiatives. The plan is chocked full of both direct spending initiatives to combat the negative economic effects of the coronavirus, but also has sprinklings of campaign promise initiatives the administration will focus on getting passed.

An overview of the proposed American Rescue Plan:

$1 trillion in direct aid to families including: a $1400 per-person check to most Americans; provide rental, food, childcare, healthcare, and utility assistance; expand paid leave and extend the unemployment benefit through September and increase it to an extra $400 per-week supplement; and expanded financial assistance to university students.

$450 billion for communities and improved IT infrastructure: $350 billion of this is earmarked to support to first responders and other essential workers; the remining $90 billion is made up of initiatives which include small business grants; and support for tribal governments and transit agencies.

Gold Price and US Dollar Index, Mar 2020 - Jan 2021

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$10 billion for improved federal information technology, with the majority of this is an initiative to launch a major new IT and cybersecurity shared services.

$400 billion for national vaccination plan and school reopening: this includes expanded coronavirus testing and expedited national vaccination roll-out plan, and funds to help schools with safe reopening.

In additional to the initiatives the Biden plan proposes raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, which is one of Biden’s main campaign policies. In fact, taking a moment to look back at Biden’s campaign policies the American Rescue Plan touches on many of them, such as “universal paid sick days and 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave”, free public university tuition for families that earn less than $125,000, increased national health care coverage (through both reversing Trump’s cuts to the Affordable Care Act and lowering the eligible age from 65 to 60 for Medicare coverage. The common denominator for all initiatives is more federal spending and support for individuals.

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So, how is all this positive for gold and silver prices?

The $1.9 trillion American Relief Plan is only the first of many spending initiatives. Others will follow to further support lower-income households, small businesses, and university students; remember Biden’s campaign policy of free public university tuition for families that earn less than $125,000. Increased spending on infrastructure and R&D is also in the cards.

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Low US government borrowing costs are essential in order for the US government to service the massive debt burden. This is where the Federal Reserve comes in, to not only keep short-term interest rates low, but to also help keep longer-term interest rates low. The Fed can achieve this through some sort of yield curve control scheme. The Fed’s own forecast is for real short-term interest rates to decline to minus 1.62% in 2023. A key factor for gold and silver prices is the US dollar. The Administration’s policies will put downward pressure on the dollar. Although, Dr. Yellen said that the

“The value of the U.S. dollar and other currencies should be determined by markets. Markets adjust to reflect variations in economic performance and generally facilitate adjustments in the global economy … United States doesn’t seek a weaker currency to gain a competitive advantage …”, However, she went on to say, “We should oppose attempts by other countries to do so.”

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Specifically, she pointed out that the US needs to address the issue in respect to China…

“we need to take on China’s abusive, unfair and illegal practices, China is undercutting American companies by dumping products, erecting trade barriers, and giving illegal subsidies to corporations, it has been stealing intellectual property and engaging in practices that give it an unfair technological advantage, including forced technology transfers. And these practices including China’s low labor and environmental standards are practices that we are prepared to use the full array and tools to address.”

A lower US dollar will also be a huge step in the US reducing its massive trade deficit, which reached a new record in November 2020, the latest month data is available.

NEWS and COMMENTARY

Stocks Rise to Record on Hope for New Aid Bill 

Gold gains over 1% as focus turns to Biden administration 

Gold scales 2-week high as dollar slips on stimulus optimism 

GOLD PRICES (USD, GBP & EUR – AM/ PM LBMA Fix)

20-Jan-21 1854.60 1856.60 1354.23 1360.70 1530.42 1536.15
19-Jan-21 1843.10 1834.70 1353.20 1347.59 1519.82 1512.89
18-Jan-21 1852.40 1858.85 1354.85 1362.17 1521.56 1527.97
15-Jan-21 1853.85 1839.00 1357.57 1352.40 1527.20 1519.93
14-Jan-21 1840.25 1841.75 1347.62 1349.82 1513.05 1519.63
13-Jan-21 1852.40 1858.85 1354.85 1362.17 1521.56 1527.97
12-Jan-21 1861.85 1841.25 1369.58 1353.87 1531.93 1515.35
11-Jan-21 1847.80 1847.25 1369.59 1371.58 1520.19 1521.21
08-Jan-21 1891.30 1862.90 1391.81 1371.28 1545.19 1521.06
07-Jan-21 1911.05 1920.10 1406.34 1415.11 1559.23 1566.03

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Stephen Flood
Stephen Flood is the CEO of GoldCore. He is a former Wall Street equity trader and FinTech expert. He has been involved in the precious metals markets since 2004 and has appeared as an expert contributor on CNBC, CNN, BBC, RTE & Bloomberg TV and has had articles published in the Irish Times, Irish Independent and The Sunday Business Post.
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