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Gold, The Next Bubble?
Commodity News Center ^ | 9/17/09 | Adrian Ash

Posted on 09/17/2009 8:16:32 PM PDT by h20skier66

"Whether through exuberant hedgies or anxious private investors, gold just keeps pushing higher..."

SO SPECULATIVE BETTING on gold going higher now equals a record-busting 752-tonne position in Comex futures and options, yet this is not a bubble according to Michael Pento of Deltaga.

Let's say otherwise. Let's say that gold prices, surging by almost $100-per-ounce in barely a month, are very much in a bubble...blown up by near-zero interest rates worldwide and a sharply negative cost of borrowing after inflation. Were that the case, the question before potential and existing investors would be simple:

Is this "irrational exuberance" or a "permanently high plateau"?

Alan Greenspan applied the former to US price/earnings in Dec. 1996; Irving Fisher said the latter of US equities in Oct. 1929. Both were looking at what history would decide were clearly bubbles in hindsight. But Greenspan was three years and 105% early.

Fisher spoke less than 72 hours before the Great Crash began...

(Excerpt) Read more at commoditynewscenter.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bubble; credit; gold; investing
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1 posted on 09/17/2009 8:16:32 PM PDT by h20skier66
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To: h20skier66

You can’t eat or burn it and the day approaches when you can’t spend it. I hope Soros is long on it.


2 posted on 09/17/2009 8:18:02 PM PDT by stboz
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To: stboz

Fine rifles, on the other hand...


3 posted on 09/17/2009 8:19:39 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: h20skier66

I Think the bubble is paper


4 posted on 09/17/2009 8:20:07 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: h20skier66

Yes, the hype is getting up there.


5 posted on 09/17/2009 8:21:55 PM PDT by Tempest (I believe in the sanctity of life... As long as you can afford it.)
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To: Tempest

I agree.....historically it’s overpriced when compared to silver...the gold to silver ratio right now is like 60 to 1, whereas the historical ratio is 16 to 1......I’m sick of hearing all of our conservative talk show hosts push gold....they are not experts in metals, so they shouldn’t be pushing it to the listeners they supposedly value. the only thing worse is Hannity plugging GM.

I think Gold will fall slightly, and silver will rise greatly.


6 posted on 09/17/2009 8:24:46 PM PDT by teg_76
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To: teg_76

silver is over 17 now.


7 posted on 09/17/2009 8:31:00 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: teg_76

There are plenty of goldbugs on FR also. They’ll be here shortly to tell you how wrong you are. They were busy attacking me yesterday on another thread.


8 posted on 09/17/2009 8:32:18 PM PDT by packrat35 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.- M Thatcher)
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To: stboz

Maybe.

I prefer silver bullion (I’m not rich), because in the event of a monetary collapse it is akin to smaller denominations, i.e. more spendable.

Back to gold, it may bubble out now, but as a currency collapse gets closer, and it will, you may view it differently. I am of the opinion that governments may be forced on to a gold or precious metals standard in order to make the paper currency usable.

You want to know the biggest ugliest bubble getting closer to popping? US Treasuries. We have the Fed printing money to buy the notes used to pay the interest on the money the Fed is printing and “loaning” to the federal government. The abject absurdity of this is so ludicrous that no one can bring themselves to admit out loud that the “full faith and credit” of the US government is not on par with a $50 hooker’s promises.

Something will have to back our currency, there is certainly nothing behind it now.


9 posted on 09/17/2009 8:32:32 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Something will have to back our currency, there is certainly nothing behind it now.

How about land? I saw two full busloads of Chinese people in Havre, Montana, last October. There's nothing there.....but farmland.

10 posted on 09/17/2009 8:35:24 PM PDT by stboz
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I don’t prefer bullion per se but rather junk silver. Silver American coins that are recognized as money and are in convenient proportional units.


11 posted on 09/17/2009 8:36:17 PM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: h20skier66

Oh I hope so and I hope it catches all those anarcho-capitalists gold standard types flat footed.

parsy, who is being mean


12 posted on 09/17/2009 8:37:15 PM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: h20skier66

I could never understand this gold thing. No amount of gold will buy you food when our economy tanks. The only way to survive in that environment is to grow/kill your own food and barter.


13 posted on 09/17/2009 8:38:57 PM PDT by ParityErr (It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.)
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To: teg_76

Randi Rhodes is plugging it on her show.. so its a pox on them all...

By the way, the capital gains on gold is 28%! Nobody tells you that on the radio....


14 posted on 09/17/2009 8:39:33 PM PDT by adamjefferson
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To: h20skier66

Paper fiat currencies are in bubble territory. Gold is up 10% in a month, and that’s a “bubble”? Hardly.

But if gold looks good, silver looks positively ready to explode.


15 posted on 09/17/2009 8:47:10 PM PDT by Roberts
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To: packrat35

Well, as for myself, I am not a gold-bug, and I am certainly not here to tell you how wrong you are. I only wish to offer a slightly different perspective:

When the SHTF, what will you need?

Food? Definitely, but you can only put so much investment into food before you find yourself in a position of having to defend it.

Guns & Ammo? That will help protect any stash of food for a time, but how long? Just ask the Branch Davidians how the fortress-option worked out for them.

Real Estate? That would also help with the Food issue, but again, you have to defend it.

Now, think about something that has been considered a form of currency since the dawn of civilization; something that is so precious that you can almost hold the equivalent of an entire house in one hand; something that you truly can ‘take with you’ if you need to move to another locale on a moment’s notice.

What did I just describe?

I am not suggesting you put everything into precious metals, but I think every survivalist should have some on hand —the key element being physical possession.


16 posted on 09/17/2009 8:47:31 PM PDT by beancounter13
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To: arthurus

Don’t know what will be the most negotiable form of silver, but it looks to be the most practical metal for a medium of exchange when (not if) we have a currency collapse.

Now, if we end up in a state of anarchy, who knows? Food stuffs and water could be the medium of exchange. Can’t do everything with barter.

Anyway, it will be something besides paper money, you can bet on that.


17 posted on 09/17/2009 8:48:55 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Silver is good, too.

The only issue I have with silver is that it does not carry the same proportionate value per ounce. Please note my earlier posting on portability.

With silver, you would have to carry a pretty big box to equal the same investment you would have in a single gold coin. An overly-large investment in silver puts you in the same position as would an investment in Real Estate —you have to defend it.

As for Platinum and Palladium, their primary value is due to their use as industrial metals, and I do not consider them to be appropriate for survivalists.


18 posted on 09/17/2009 8:58:55 PM PDT by beancounter13
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To: h20skier66

Your gold will only be able to do so much. Don’t forget:

Ezekiel 7:19 (New King James Version)
They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse;

Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them
In the day of the wrath of the LORD;
They will not satisfy their souls,
Nor fill their stomachs,
Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.


19 posted on 09/17/2009 9:07:24 PM PDT by boatbums (Not everything faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed unless it is faced.)
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To: h20skier66; All

You can’t eat the dollar and it doesn’t burn well. And when the sh!t hits the fan, they won’t be worth squat. Meanwhile, gold will still be traded.

As for why gold has gone up... That’s simple. It hasn’t.

After going from $800b to $1.8 trillion dollars in cash... The dollar is decreasing in value

if gold was at $700 an ounce before dilluting the dollar, then it’s only natural for it to double if the cash supplied is doubled. And that’s without adding in all the other stupid things the admin is doing.


20 posted on 09/17/2009 9:24:44 PM PDT by sten
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