GOLD-O-MANIA IS COMING
The buoyancy of markets in recent years has lulled central bank heads into a false conviction that they had saved the world after the 2006-9 Great Financial Crisis.
But central bankers continue to navigate like drunken sailors between the evil forces of Scylla and Charybdis as in Homer’s Odyssey.
Few of the bankers have understood that printing unlimited and worthless paper money will not allow them a pass the strait of Messina without major, or more likely catastrophic, damage to the world economy.
As exuberance continues to dominate intoxicated stock market investors, they haven’t yet noticed that all is not well on the perilous seas.
Still, most markets continue to respond positively to the printing press rather than to the underlying fundamentals.
Printing presses don’t create real value, instead they create bubbles full of worthless air. But sadly intoxicated investors confuse air, which is free and has no value, with real, intrinsic values.
To take an example, what is the intrinsic value of Bitcoin or BTC? How should BTC be valued?
Does the $60,000 price today reflect the real value or was the 10 cent price 10 years ago more correct?
BITCOINOMANIA
Are we today seeing Bitcoinomania similar to Tulipomania in the 1630s?
If not, can someone tell me at what price Bitcoin is fully and properly valued?
The Bitcoin aficionados will tell us that BTC is modern money and superior to any other currency. Well maybe they are right, but history must prove that. The 11 year history of Bitcoin is hardly sufficient to prove that it will fare better than any other money. We must remember that so far in history no currency has ever survived in its original form except for gold.
And the 5,000 year history of gold as money certainly makes it superior to all fiat currencies as well as cryptocurrencies.
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