Re: This is a general Thank You.
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Sep 27, 2009 05:04AM
Golden Minerals is a junior silver producer with a strong growth profile, listed on both the NYSE Amex and TSX.
Me too. We should thank Agoracom for being able to figure out how to keep the crazies out....in the meantime:
What they said, when they said it, and the gold price that year:
1. Gold $271: "Gold will continue to decline as it has for 20 years to $200 or lower."
2. Gold $275: "Gold is certain to continue its decline to $200 or lower due to deflation following the collapse of the stock market bubble." (That was the year we backed up the truck.)
3. Gold $310: "Despite a modest recent rise due to increased gold demand driven by investors’ fear associated with the 9/11 attacks, gold will soon resume its decline to $200 or lower once the fear subsides."
4. Gold $363: "The rise in the gold price since 2001 is due to a combination of temporary factors, such as investors’ fears about oil and inflation related to the War in Iraq and a weak dollar. Soon the positive outcome of the war will be clear, the dollar will strengthen, and gold demand will drop off, pushing prices back down toward $200."
5. Gold $410: "Economic recovery is pushing up gold demand and prices. The Treasury department has restated its strong dollar policy. Gold will soon lose its luster and fall back to $300."
6. Gold $445: "Gold prices increased only slightly this year over last year, indicating a topping in the gold price. Next year gold prices will fall to $300 or lower."
7. Gold $604: "The spike in the price of gold this year is due to short term dollar weakness. Look for the dollar to rally and gold to decline back to more normal levels below $400 starting next year."
8. Gold $695: "Gold traded mostly sideways over the last year, indicating a topping in the gold price. Look for gold to decline to well under $500 next year."
9. Gold $872: Early in the year, "Gold is participating in a bubble in commodities. When the commodity bubble pops, gold will fall more than 50% along with oil and other commodities." Later in the year: "Gold has crashed to $716 along with stocks and commodities and will continue to decline to $500 next year."
10. Gold $924: "The gold price reflects widespread concern about the financial system in the wake of the global financial crisis. As the system steadies, the gold price will drift down to under $700."
What does each popular consensus position about gold have in common? One, wrong every time. Two, every few years the prediction of the following year's price "bottom" was increased in ratchet-like fashion. Waiting to buy based on the consensus has been a mistake eight years running.
iTulip.com Position: The price of gold began to rise after the foreign debt dependent and asset price inflation-dependent U.S. FIRE Economy went into decline in 2001. The steady fall in exchange rate value of the dollar and rising dollar gold prices reflects the decline of the FIRE Economy.
We hold gold as long as the U.S. economy remains structured as a finance-based economy, particularly while government policy attempts to resurrect it. We sell gold only after the U.S. economy and dollar-centric global monetary system is restructured and the U.S. is able to grow through saving and investment with positive real interest rates.
We continue to view all short-term pricing factors, such as those we have heard from time to time since 2001, as noise until the global economy and monetary system restructures.