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Summary: Aug. 17th, 2018(S13-E657)Featured GuestsPeter Hug & John Williams Please Listen Here Show HighlightsPeter Hug, Director of the Kitco Precious Metals Division, makes his show debut. Negativity in the retail market for gold / silver has reached such epic levels that from a contrarian vantage point, a price floor could soon materialize. Our guest outlines a highly effective / unique investment portfolio balancing technique that has enabled his clients to oftentimes outperform the indexes. Many investors have reaped handsome rewards form the US equities rally, making stocks overweighted asset class.Peter Hug suggests booking enough stock profits to maintain at least a 10% balance in the PMs, which represent a relative bargain. Once gold and silver eclipse the former peak, at that point the 10% portfolio component will be closer to 20% and a new rebalancing is advisable. The guest / host concur that runaway inflation is inevitable, making the PMs essential components of every financial security net. However, the timing of hyperinflationary episodes is notoriously uncertain, only exacerbated by unique / convoluted quantitative easing operations.The purchasing power of the typical household continues to slide as the inevitable advance of inflation forces erode the wealth of middle / working class. The tipping point in the chaotic economic-system may occur once Fed policymakers slow / halt rate increases as early as 2019.The net affect is setting the launch pad for PMs price advances. Elsewhere, alternative precious metals are reviewed, including Rhodium, a scarce metal used primarily in auto production.Rhodium could experience a price squeeze from $4,000 to perhaps $5,000, similar to the 5x advance in Ruthenium. Our guest views the risk of $500 M in US tariffs (taxes) on imports from China as a potential threat to the robust domestic economic growth.John Williams of Shadowstats.com, a leading online alternative economic-resource sees the potential for an explosive move in the PMs sector / commodities. According to Shadowstats, the official inflation numbers are significantly understated - consumers are being robbed as the pace of price increases exceeds wages. Shadowstats finds that the GDP is slowing at a rapid clip, which will be reflected in next week's official tally.The troubling sign for the domestic economy could result in the first recession amid one of the longest economic expansions in US history. Inflation is typically good news for the commodities sector, including crude oil, gold, silver and PMs shares, all of which are poised from a technical vantage point for a potential rally.The event that leads to the economic tipping point could be an expectedly sharp decline, even a crash in the US Greenback. John Williams expects that policymakers will return to quantitative easing (QE) in an attempt to stabilize the US dollar; the move could backfire resulting in a panic to procure inflation safe haven investments, such as energy shares and PMs.Please Listen Here Dial-Up Real AudioMP3Mp3 FAST DownloadMp3 High Quality DownloadRight click above & "Save Target As..." to download. To learn more about software needed to play the above formats, please visit the FAQ.