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When gold topped $1900, there was much talk about gold being in a bubble. With the subsequent decline, many gold naysayers declared themselves vindicated. Gold denigraters remain wrong. Gold is a long way from a bubble. That the World Gold Council has to urges Wall Street to invest as little as 3.3% in gold is evidence just how far away gold’s top is.
Many precious metals investors are perplexed in the metals inability to move higher with all the negative financial news. Athens is aflame (literally) as the euro crisis remains unsolved; the GOP seems to be foundering in deciding on which candidate will face Obama next year;and the US continues to borrow forty cents of every dollar it spends, with real solution in sight. So, why are gold and silver not surging? In my view, it’s period of consolidation, and I think that Gene Arensberg’s latest Got Gold Report back me up.
Last week, the History Channel’s series Decoded, took on the question of whether Fort Knox actually contains any gold. It is available on Youtube in three parts, in case you missed it. Admittedly I had pretty low expectations for the mainstream media’s treatment of the topic. Of course the question is never answered, but by the time it was over…
Obama still doesn’t get it – Government can’t create economic growth, only prevent it.
Can I make a small request? Before we go throwing more good money (American Jobs Act) after bad (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) can we review some basic economics?
Asahi recently posted a story about Japanese pensioners who are selling their gold. Remarkably the perception of gold has been quite a bit different in Japan than around the rest of the world. The country as a whole has been a net exporter of gold since 2006 and according to the World Gold Council, Japan is the only major economy where the demand for gold is decreasing.
