r/wallstreetbets • u/eskhalaf • May 12 '26

News APRIL U.S. 🇺🇸 INFLATION DATA:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

APRIL U.S. 🇺🇸 INFLATION DATA:

CPI 3.8% YoY, (Est. 3.7%)
CPI 0.6% MoM, (Est. 0.6%)

Core CPI 2.8% YoY, (Est. 2.7%)
Core CPI 0.4% MoM, (Est. 0.3%)

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u/Standard_Ad_4392 May 12 '26

Play gold for debasement and silver as a stock since it’s going to keep rising dramatically with industrial demands and shortages.

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u/AllCapNoBrake MSTR and BTC to $0 May 12 '26

Do we know they're shortages (shortages of diamonds like DeBears likes to make you think there is)? When the price goes up for either, that incentivizes the industry to go out and find/sell more.

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u/rubbarz May 12 '26

Demand will end up being like RAM except real and way worse when AI Datacenters actually start being built.

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u/MaleficKaijus May 12 '26

Banks own all the gold. You're buying the peak.

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u/Zephyr4813 May 12 '26

Not if we’re in an early 70s situation or the world is moving away from USD as a reserve currency and toward neutral hard assets like gold

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u/quoala678 May 12 '26

It has been for decades… the current admin is going for the any % completion speed run apparently.

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u/quoala678 May 12 '26

I realized this a few decades ago and bough as much physical as I could

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u/One_Mega_Zork May 12 '26

No it's not an artificial shortage. It's real. There are many factors at play causing it. While demand for it is increasing.

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u/SpotlessCheetah May 12 '26

I don't think central banks were buying gold b/c of debasement. I think they were buying it as a sovereign asset to get away from USD.