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Why we want gold to fail

21st_century_Viking Wrote: Nov 30, 2009 2:21 PM
Since time began, gold and silver have always been the preferred medium of exchange. If gold is so bad, why have people been using it since Biblical times? And real estate? Yeah, one good eminent domain court ruling and you can kiss that good-bye.

I wonder why the Founding Fathers wrote in the Constitution in Article 1, Section 10 that the only money that should be used was gold and silver coin. Maybe they knew something we don't??

An ancient saying has it that “gold doesn’t stink.” A modern corollary might be: “Investors do.” Well, at least I’ve caught a whiff of something: A short-term fall in the price of gold, soon.

A subset of investors have gone perhaps a bit too whole hog, and the price of gold is now racing upwards at an increasingly unsustainable rate.

It’s an ancient observation: What goes up must come down.

The exceptions are those rare things that reach escape velocity. Gold hasn’t reached that, nor is it likely to.

For some reason,...