[dfwgator]

The Dutch have seen this before with Tulip Bulbs.

[Travis McGee]

Gold equals tulip bulbs?
Hardly.

[4rcane]

You need to compare hard asset to hard asset through out time, not hard asset to a currency that is being printed and devalued. A chewing gum is a gadzillion zimbawae dollars but is the chewing gum in a bubble or simply zimbawae dollar was the bubble?

[Huck]

And it's not quite over yet. Ran across a poster here on FR the other day saying he JUST decided to buy some gold.

[djf]

The Dutch have seen this before with Tulip Bulbs.

Nope. I don’t think so.

Tulip bulbs were seen as an investment opportunity.
I think the rise in gold is not because of that, but is instead because of a falling (actually a Titanic crashing!!!) in the confidence of the paper assets and equities.

[Why So Serious]

The Dutch saw this before? Huh?!

The Tulip Bubble was caused something a little different then what is going on here. This Gold move is because we are debasing a currency. Tulips had nothing to do with the debasing of a currency.

Keep dancing while Rome burns!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“The Dutch have seen this before with Tulip Bulbs.”

And that ain’t bad if one OWNS a shipload of tulip bulbs... (aka GOLD, Baby!)

I made a SWEET profit this week just a’ sittin’ on my @ss.

Mama Like! :)