Gold Rockets Past $5,000 in Heavy Trading. Jan. 21, 2012 (AP ) For the fifteenth straight day, the price of gold rose on record-setting volume, reaching a milestone few believed possible just a few short years ago. Roaring inflation and a fading U.S. dollar, combined with the continuing stress and uncertainty of World War III, pushed gold past the psychological barrier of $5,000 (to gold bugs, the “Big Nickel”), to close at $5,108 per ounce.
October 9th, 2008 | Jeff Clark | 8 comments | ContinuedArchive for Jeff Clark
Jeff Clark is the editor of BIG GOLD, a Casey Research publication that pinpoints the safest ways to capitalize on the gold bull market. The next issue includes an interview with Doug Casey; learn what made Doug such a spectacularly successful gold investor, and where he sees gold and gold stocks going in the near future.
How To Calculate Your Own Gold Price Projection
More than any other commodity, the gold price rises (and falls) with demand from investors; the demand from consumers and industrial users is very much a secondary consideration. Or to put it another way, what ultimately controls gold is mass psychology. If you were an investor during the Internet craze, do you recall the absolute hysteria about NASDAQ stocks? Do you remember how everyone knew about them? Do you recall the excited banter about the latest Internet company?
August 15th, 2008 | Jeff Clark | 10 comments | Continued
