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The ONLY Variable That Matters To The Price Of Gold

September 27, 2017

The ONLY Variable That Matters To The Price Of Gold

 

There are all sorts of positive fundamentals when it comes to the price of gold. There are the positive supply/demand fundamentals. The gold market is in a supply deficit. Mine reserves are at a 30-year low . The price of gold is below what is necessary to sustain the gold mining industry .

There are the positive geopolitical fundamentals. The world’s two most-unstable leaders – Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump – have been constantly trading threats and insults. And both of these people have nuclear weapons at their disposal. There is the endless “War on Terror”.

There are the positive economic fundamentals. Western real estate bubbles in major urban centers are at never-before-seen levels of insanity. Western markets are generally also at bubble levels, with U.S. markets representing bubbles on steroids . Western governments are bankrupt.

In relative terms, none of these fundamentals count .

There is one more important fundamental for the price of gold. Not only is it the most important fundamental, but it involves a variable which dwarfs all other fundamentals in magnitude — combined.

Regular readers have heard many times before that gold (and silver) is “a monetary metal” . The definition is simple. Gold is money. Therefore the price of gold must change proportionate to changes in the supplyof other forms of “money” (i.e. currency).

This is not a theory. It is a function of simple arithmetic. An elementary numerical example will illustrate this principle.

Suppose (in the entire world) there was a total of 10 oz’s of gold. Suppose also (in this hypothetical world) that there was a total of only $10,000 U.S. dollars. And in this hypothetical world, the price of gold is $1,000/oz.

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