Inflation Reaches 13-Year High - What's the Trade?

Real Vision senior editor Ash Bennington is joined by Evan Kuo, founder of Ampleforth, to discuss how Ampleforth was engineered specifically to satisfy characteristics of the ideal reserve currency. By working with Stanford's Hoover Institute for several years, Kuo and his team have been refining what it means to be a "good" reserve currency. A key innovation lies in their maneuver to substitute price volatility with supply volatility. Kuo's goal is to create the ultimate unit of account, resistant to demand shocks typically seen in business cycle contractions. Filmed on June 17, 2021.

As economies around the world reopen, Axel Merk, president & CIO of Merk Investments, shares his insights on central bank monetary policy, currencies, and equity valuations. Merk argues that the dollar will weaken as global economies attempt to reflate by borrowing dollars and investing domestically. He shares his framework for thinking about gold and inflation in response to Chair Powell's meeting and the FED dot plot. He believes that a market correction is possible and that investors should use current market strength to prepare themselves and reevaluate their risk appetite. Filmed on June 21, 2021.