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Gold & Tech: How The Whales Trick The Retail Plankton
Gold & Tech: How The Whales Trick The Retail Plankton
Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold,
Never in my 30+ years in the markets have I seen a monetary, precious metal and risk-asset setup more obvious yet more deliberately ignored than today.
Below, we look at the converging signposts screaming from the tech/AI sector and the equally obvious (yet deliberately downplayed) signals from a precious metals market entering a watershed turning point.
How the Whales Do Their “Magic”
As warned for years, and more recently here at the precious metals symposium in Florida, the insider whales...
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