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The credit cycle has turned. The world is in a deleveraging phase. But central banks are still trying to reverse the process and provide more credit to households and businesses? They really only have one play in the playbook.

With the whole world economy in a bit of a funk you wouldn’t expect oil to be over $100 and gold to be over $1,700. Or would you?

Green and Gold Greed…

The last thing Australia needs right now is to worry that China’s manufacturing economy is sputtering. After all, that Chinese engine of growth consumes huge amounts of Australian resources, like coal and iron ore. The government is keen to siphon off revenue from mineral and energy exports in order to do what it does: take from one party in order to give to another, while sounding self-righteous and looking important.

April seems like such a long time ago. What were investors thinking then? As you can see from the chart below, April was the last time the ASX/200 traded near the 5,000 level. The index is nowhere near the 2008 high (as you can see). But maybe it’s getting ready to make a run to 5,000 by the end of the year.

If you haven’t sorted out whether gold shares or gold coins or gold bullion should be part of your investment strategy, you still have time to think about it and do something, if that’s what you decide. One reason you have time is that one of the strength’s of gold’s current move is that central banks are buying it instead of selling it.

Today’s Daily Reckoning will be a bit of a cautious and casual affair. Jet lag is supposed to have the same effect on the human body as drinking three beers. We’re opposed to drinking and reckoning. So today’s task is to survey the territory and compare it to what we thought about while out of the country for two weeks. The first obvious sign, when converting the currency, is that it now takes 96 U.S. cents to buy one Australian dollar.

“Gold is saying something,” writes Bloomberg columnist Mark Gilbert. What’s it saying? Nobody knows. Well, at least nobody who works at The Daily Reckoning. We listen. We hear. But we still don’t know what the hell gold is talking about. The yellow metal is speaking in riddles.