“Everyone believes the gold market has reversed direction. The bull market of the last 14 years has finally ended. It’s all downhill from here, they say. But if that is true, what else will have to be true? The last bull market in gold ended when the Fed changed course. Arthur Burns was replaced by Paul Volcker. A loose money policy became a tight money policy. By the end of the bear market in gold there was hardly a single gold bug who was still sober or still solvent. But what’s the Fed doing now? Has it reversed course? Has Ben ‘Bubbles’ Bernanke been replaced with a tough-as-nails inflation fighter? Has the FOMC vowed to stop printing money?”
“Everyone believes the gold market has reversed direction. The bull market of the last 14 years has finally ended. It’s all downhill from here, they say. But if that is true, what else will have to be true? The last bull market in gold ended when the Fed changed course. Arthur Burns was replaced by Paul Volcker. A loose money policy became a tight money policy. By the end of the bear market in gold there was hardly a single gold bug who was still sober or still solvent. But what’s the Fed doing now? Has it reversed course? Has Ben ‘Bubbles’ Bernanke been replaced with a tough-as-nails inflation fighter? Has the FOMC vowed to stop printing money?“