How Will the Election Outcome Impact Precious Metals?

by Clint Siegner
Gold Seek

Metals investors wonder what this presidential election will mean for gold and silver markets. Since Nixon closed the gold window in 1971 and the years of price inflation that followed, presidents have largely ignored gold, the Federal Reserve, and other issues related to sound money. Today, the devaluation of the Federal Reserve Note – the explosion of debt and the eternal deficits which enrich bankers and the political class at the expense of the rest of us – is getting harder to ignore.

The looming national bankruptcy coincides with this year’s extraordinarily divisive election. Regardless of which candidate wins, the Washington DC establishment has already lost a great deal of legitimacy. Polls show well over half of the population will not support the victor. As the trust and prestige of our Federal government fades, the potential for social unrest and even wrenching change in governance and policy is on the rise.

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