The old saying that prices don't rise in a straight line always applies because people are involved. People get nervous, believing a certain price is the point to take profits, so they do. Just like you feeling it's surreal.

However, there's a force pushing gold in spite of people's feelings and opinionated logic. Bottom line, it's the amount of fiat per ounce of gold. There's a whole lot more fiat (debt) per ounce of gold, therefore, the price appears to rise, but in reality gold is stable and it's the fiat that's declining in value. However, that's not the point I'm making.

Gold should already be at a much higher price, and we shouldn't even be wondering where that price point should be. There's been this little issue of the gold price being artificially suppressed for years, like compressing a spring.

All that's happening right now is people are gradually losing faith in fiat and returning to the real money, gold. Gold is naturally rising because the suppressors are losing control of their suppression scheme. What control they still have they're using stop gold from going straight up with ever more paper. The reason they still can slow the rise in price is because there are still a majority of people out there that don't realize their fiat is losing value, or just don't believe it yet. Therefore, the masses aren't overpowering the suppressors yet.

The result is a sloped price rise of gold. We're just conditioned to look at charts and believe this rise is surreal, when in fact, gold actually should be screaming straight up to get itself stabilized to the amount of fiat that's been created.

Terry