by Quant2011
In each area they’re bigger, that means that productive belongings (shares) are valued much less than non-productive , digital ledger entries, impostors of actual cash:
seekingalpha.com/article/4594039-global-etf-market-facts-3-things-to-know-from-q1-2023
Gold ETFs in North Am are solely 1727 tonnes, 55M oz, value simply $110 billion. Or 0.3% of US inventory market, whereas not less than 10% gold allocation is required to hedge inventory portfolio. Even worse, if we add fastened revenue.
What the above doesn’t cowl are fiat currencies. If we add them, productive actual belongings and actual cash (gold and silver) are veeery small – which is inverted freakonomics.
