IT MAY BE WINTER BUT SPRING IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER

1. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT SPRING IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER David Chapman MGI Securities Inc.

2. IT MAYBE WINTER BUT …… “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeating it” -- George Santayana (1863-1952) “The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.” -- Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) “We hope that the weight of evidence in this book will give future policy makers and investors a bit more pause before next they declare “This time is different.” It almost never is. -- This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff, 2009

3. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. • CYCLES • Cyclesoccur – In Nature • In Climate and Weather • In Geology • In Agriculture • In Physics • In Sound • In Mathematics • In Music • In Business and Economics • And many more

4. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. Long Term Cycles Dewey & Dakin (54 Year Commodity Cycle) Kondratieff Kwave (54-60 Year Supercycle)

5. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. • Edward Dewey And Edward Dakin • ● 54 Year Cycle • ● Their book charted prices from 1790 for wholesale prices that coincided with peaks and valleys for commodity prices • ● Cycle measured peak to trough with roughly 27 years to peak and 27 years to trough

6. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. DEWEY & DAKIN PREDICTIONS

7. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. DEWEY & DAKIN PREDICTIONS

8. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. Kondratieff Cycle or Kwave ● Russian Economist under Stalin ● 50-60/65 year cycle ● Can be controversial ● Not widely accepted ● Ian Gordon – Long Wave Analyst www.longwavegroup.com

9. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. The K-Wave Cycles 1789-Present U.S.A.

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11. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. THE K WAVE – SPRING ● Best Investments – Stocks, Real Estate ● Fear of a return to depression lingers ● Banking system has been cleansed - Credit begins to slowly flow again ● Economy grows more solidly ● Recessions are short but fear lingers ● Consumer confidence improves along with employment and improving business conditions ● Interest rates are low but rise near the end of the cycle ● Real estate prices rise slowly ● New technologies and innovations create new industries ● Inflation is low but gradually rises ● Gold and precious metals rise slowly ● Stocks prices rise but suffer short but sharp corrections – peak at the end of the cycle

12. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. THE K WAVE – SUMMER ● Best Investments – Real Estate, Commodities, Precious Metals ● Confidence in the economy grows despite problems – rising expectations ● Credit begins to flow more easily especially to corporations ● Inflation begins to rise then increases rapidly to peak at the end of summer ● Increase in money supply leads to inflation ● Debt levels increase ● Industry tends to overproduction ● Raw materials and commodity prices spike at end of summer ● Farm land prices peak ● Interest rates peak ● Gold and precious metals rise and peak at end of summer ● Recessions Steeper and longer ● Stock market stagnant but falls sharply in real terms ● Primary recession at the end of the K Wave summer

13. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. THE K WAVE – SUMMER ● Emotional wars of the K Wave Summer 1st cycle – War of 1812-1815 2nd cycle – US Civil War 1860-1865 3rd cycle – World War 1 1914-1918 4th cycle – Vietnam War 1962-1973

14. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. THE K WAVE – AUTUMN ● Best Investments – Stocks, Bonds, Real Estate ● Increasing confidence leading to extreme confidence even euphoria ● Credit begins to flow easily especially to consumers ● Interest rates fall ● Growth is primarily through debt as debt levels soar ● Inflation falls into disinflation or at least low inflation ● Commodities, gold and gold equities in long bear market that ends at the end of the autumn ● Real estate prices driven up by speculation ● Debt reaches high levels even unsustainable levels ● Expansion by acquisitions and takeovers ● Financial scandals become more prevalent ● Worldwide overproduction and overcapacity ● Financial speculation grows ● Stock market booms

15. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. THE K WAVE – AUTUMN ● Society is optimistic but wages stagnate ● New technologies and innovations create new industries ● Record stock offerings and IPO’s ● Unemployment remains high despite economic growth ● Inequality in wealth and income widens ● Speculative blow off in stocks ● Trade conflicts grow

16. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. THE K WAVE – WINTER ● Best Investments – Gold, Cash ● Confidence is shattered – There is concern, fear, panic and depression ● Global stock markets enter an extended bear market punctuated by periods of sharply rising markets that causes swings in optimism ● Interest rates fall then rise with a credit crunch followed by another fall ● Inflation falls and could move to outright deflation ● Economic growth slows, stagnates and turns negative ● Real estate prices peak then collapse ● Trade conflicts grow ● Money becomes scarce, credit is constrained ● Bankruptcies soar – personal and corporate ● Banking crisis and collapse ● Sovereign debt collapses ● Overcapacity and overproduction is purged by obsolescence and failure

17. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. THE K WAVE – WINTER ● Recessions are long, recoveries weak ● Numerous corporate and banking scandals ● There is social upheaval – society becomes more polarized ● Polarized society leads to rise of extreme political parties of both the left and the right ● Debt levels fall after bankruptcies and defaults ● Gold bullion and gold equities rise in face of huge financial and economic crisis ● Commodity prices also rise but then fall as crisis widens ● The risk of war increases

18. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT …. THE K WAVE – WINTER ● Economic Wars of the K Wave Winter 1st cycle – Mexican American War 1845-1848 2nd Cycle – Spanish American War 1898 3rd cycle – World War Two 1939-1945 4th cycle – War on Terror? WW3? 2001-?

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23. THE 72 YEAR CYCLE ● Panic of 1819 + 72 Years = 1891 Panic of 1893 ● Panic of 1837 + 72 Years = 1909 Panic of 1907 ● Panic of 1857 + 72 Years = 1929 Panic of 1929 ● Panic of 1873 + 72 Years = 1945 Panic of 1942/Panic of 1946 ● Panic of 1893 + 72 Years = 1965 Panic of 1962 ● Panic of 1907 + 72 Years = 1979 Gold/Silver Panic of 1979/1980 ● Panic of 1929 + 72 Years = 2001 Panic of 2001/2002 ● Panic of 1937 + 72 Years = 2009 Panic of 2008 ● Panic of 1942 + 72 Years = 2014 Range 2012 - 2016

29. IT MAY BE WINTER BUT ….. SOME INTERESTING CHARTS SHOWING THE IMPACT OF THE KONDRATIEFF WINTER

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