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cal tensions are depriving the US Treasury
of foreign sources of funding relied on in
the past. And not only are the usual adver-
saries like Russia, Iran and China seeking
ways to dethrone the dollar, the Euro zone
has joined those efforts following a rever-
sal of Obama's Iran nuclear deal. How will
the Treasury respond to this growing crisis
in 2019? Most likely, it will do what most
bankrupt nations do. They hyper-inflate
their currencies. The end of this cycle is
near and we are approaching that point in
time when owning gold and gold shares is
more necessary than ever," Jay Taylor edi-
tor of Jay Taylor's Gold, Energy, and Tech
Stocks said at the recent Metal Investor
Forum in Vancouver.
The second challenge is that the junior
exploration sector has been hammered by
a lack of venture capital flow again in 2018
that could extend well into 2019 or 2020.
"The money is being diverted away
from the junior resource sector to the can-
nabis sector and we will need to adapt to
this new reality," said John Kaiser editor of
Kaiser Research Online.
Investment in the Canadian cannabis
sector skyrocketed in 2018. According
to the Canadian Marijuana Index, which
tracks the stock performance of 18
Canadian cannabis companies, cannabis
stocks are up almost 634% over last year
with an aggregated market capitalization
Grassroots exploration and discoveries are still the lifeblood of the junior exploration sector. The
recent RNX gold discovery brought investors back into the sector driving the company's stock price
to a high of $1.18 from $0.11 – a 1,072% increase, producing a significantly higher return-on-
investment than companies in cannabis or crypto currency sectors.
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