Inflation, Manipulation, and Long-Term Market Trends
Steve Saville
Oct 24, 2006
.....On a related matter there's a theory that central banks have tried to suppress the gold price over the past 15 years by lending gold into the market, but regardless of whether this theory is right or wrong it is irrelevant from an investment perspective. We don't know the motivation for the large-scale lending of gold by central banks, but even if we make the assumption that the lending has been done with the aim of keeping a lid on the gold price it is clear that, as was the case with the large-scale gold selling by the official sector during the 1970s, it hasn't altered the long-term trends in the markets. As illustrated by the above chart, a new long-term bull market in gold began exactly when it SHOULD have begun: shortly after the end of the long-term bull market in US equities. As far as forecasting the gold price was concerned, the biggest challenge during the late-1990s was figuring out when the stock market bubble was going to burst. Bubbles, by their nature, tend to go on for much longer than a rational observer expects, and this was certainly the case for the US stock market bubble......
full story: http://www.321gold.com/editorials/saville/saville102406.html
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...trau mich fast nicht zurück zu melden - Börse war in Indien nicht existent für mich
Indien ist umwerfend - so viele Eindrücke für sämtliche Sinne habe ich noch nie erlebt - dabei war ich "nur" in Rajhastan ![]()