Great for a spreadbet long though. Makes money on the rise in dollar price, but you can still buy more or less the same amount of gold with the proceeds. Every cloud...
Was Marc Faber aware of this? Is this why he's been claiming India's Central bank is the only one that knows what it's doing? It seemed an odd thing to say without giving any supporting logic.
Eerie quiet, considering all time records breaking. Not only no rockets, but hardly anyone even posting. Maybe too many people hoping for "the pullback"?
It's lost 50% and the option of swapping it for anything else. And an inflation rate of around 20%. Not a bad investment really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%93...inancial_crisis
Yep, gets better every day.
Not because gold gets more shiny or ductile. Every day there's more bad news for taxes, and more government spending programmes, and more people looking for their share of existing spending programmes.