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Gold May Rise to $5,000 on Inflation

AmishAmish Member Posts: 1,383 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
Gold May Rise to $5,000 on Inflation, Schroder Says (Update1)

By Bei Hu

June 19 (Bloomberg) -- Gold prices may rise to $5,000 an ounce as investors seek to protect themselves against accelerating inflation, said Schroder Investment Management Ltd., which oversees $277 billion of assets globally.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601012&sid=aF1439PVhAgk&refer=commodities

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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I hope it does. Lots of debts will get paid off cheap![:D]
  • elkoholicelkoholic Member Posts: 5,130
    edited November -1
  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    if gold goes up, everything else will, making it all relative. bible says gold will buy a loaf of bread some day.
    Retired Naval Aviation
    Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
    Former NSSA All American
    Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
    MO, CT, VA.
  • mowartmowart Member Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gold has uses:

    Coinage
    Jewelry
    Artwork
    Dental
    Electronics
    Chemistry
    Advertising
    Spacecraft
    Etc.

    In spite of this about 20% of the gold mined each year is not used but is put back into the ground in vaults. For any other commodity, (e.g. copper, tin, etc) this would be a catastrophe and the price would plummet. But because it's gold, people think it has some inherent worth.

    As a commodity, gold is worth about $300/ oz or so, anything more than that is caused by human psychology.
  • mrseatlemrseatle Member Posts: 15,467 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bobski
    if gold goes up, everything else will, making it all relative. bible says gold will buy a loaf of bread some day.


    "...and turn this stone into a loaf..."

    ...it may still have some un-discovered properties though[}:)]
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