What does the rising price of gold tell us about the health of the U.S. Dollar??
*Dow Theory Letters, by Richard Russell, July 15, 2008:
“I said it three years ago, I said it two years ago, I said it a
year ago, I said it six months ago, and I'll say it again today. The
Achilles Heel of the United States is the dollar. The reserve status of
the US dollar is absolutely critical to the health of the US. If the
dollar begins to lose it's reserve status, the US economy will be in
shambles.
Gold is now on the move. It's taking more and more dollars to buy an
ounce of real money -- gold. This is the market's way of saying that it
trusts the value of the dollar less and less. You may like gold as I
do, but the rising trend of gold is a red flag for the health of the
United States. The rising dollar price of gold is telling us that both
the US economy and the dollar are in trouble.
The US is the only nation in the world that can print the currency that
its own debt is denominated in. That's an unbelievable ‘gift.’ But the
US has been doing too damn much printing and too much debt creating.
The world recognizes this, and it's systematically moving away from
dollars. Nations are now creating Sovereign Wealth Funds that buy
tangibles while at the same time they're getting rid of unwanted
dollars.
Right now almost everything from stocks to the Dow to homes to food is
losing value relative to gold. I tell you it's ominous. And it's all
the more ominous because 95% of analysts and economists don't recognize
or understand what's going on. They're ignorant of the message that
rising gold is sending us, and worse -- their ignorant of the very
meaning of gold.”
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