GOLD – WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT
As far as gold is concerned, the only thing that will take its price higher is further lasting deterioration in actual purchasing power of the US dollar.
- If you think that a collapse in the US dollar is imminent, and that runaway inflation is just around the corner, then load up on gold. But don’t expect to get rich if you are correct. At best, all you can expect is to maintain your current level of purchasing power for whatever wealth you have already accumulated.
- If we have a period of relative tranquility and economic prosperity with mild inflation effects, then gold’s price could languish or decline for many years.
- A financial collapse with credit defaults would likely usher in a long-lasting economic depression and deflation. The deflation would result in price declines for all assets of anywhere from 60-90 percent or more. And, yes, that includes gold.
CONCLUSION
The value of gold is constant. Its price changes according to changes in actual purchasing power of the US dollar.
If you want to know and understand what is happening to gold’s price, then you need to know and understand what is happening to the US dollar.
Changes in the price of gold do not tell us anything about gold; they tell us what has happened to the US dollar.