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And none of them are likely to happen in any conceivable near-term time frame.
Gold is sitting pretty now above $1400/oz following the World Bank’s suggestion of a return to the gold standard – and it’s inevitably already drawing out commentators from the woodwork who want to talk about how overvalued gold is and the fact [...]

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The World Bank may lead the rest of us back on to the gold standard a lot sooner than we think.  World Bank head Robert Zoellick suggested over the weekend (and for the second time) that the G20 should consider making gold the global reserve currency as part of some major structural changes to the [...]

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In a surprise reaction to the weekend approval of the one trillion euro bailout of Greece (750 billion euros from the ECB and 250 billion euros from the IMF, i.e., U.S. money, i.e., China’s savings), markets remained suspicious of long-term improvement in both Greece and the Euro.
As a result, this week has seen a steady [...]

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As I write this in late December 2009, gold sits at “only”! $1104/oz., when just about two weeks ago it was at its all-time secular high north of $1200.  Many correctly called what seemed to be, at least in the short-term, a “gold bubble.”
But I don’t think it’s wise to write gold off completely.  Gold [...]

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One comment you sometimes hear from skeptics or those who aren’t yet familiar with the case for gold is what on earth would you use it for.  Why buy gold? You can’t use it as money anywhere, right?  Well, maybe you can’t buy a Big Mac with gold yet, but there is a growing number [...]

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