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“Gold was like a beach ball that had been pushed too low in the water and is now bouncing higher with a vengeance”

“Gold was like a beach ball that had been pushed too low in the water and is now bouncing higher with a vengeance”

Gold fell $2.40 to $1,187.80 yesterday. It remained resilient despite Chinese markets being closed due to strong physical demand and concerns about the global economy, the banking sector and the risks of a new global financial crisis.

Gold jumped $34.70, or 3%, to $1,192.40 an ounce on Monday and registered its best single-session point and percentage gain since December 2014.

Deutsche Bank Is Scared: "What Needs To Be Done" In Its Own Words

It all started in mid/late 2014, when the first whispers of a Fed rate hike emerged, which in turn led to relentless increase in the value of the US dollar and the plunge in the price of oil and all commodities, unleashing the worst commodity bear market in history.

The immediate implication of these two concurrent events was missed by most, although we wrote about it and previewed the implications in November of that year in "How The Petrodollar Quietly Died, And Nobody Noticed."

Revenge of the Kennedy School

I received an e-mail from a friend who is a Harvard graduate and an orthodox Catholic. He takes exception to R.R. Reno’s column on meritocracy, which I cited favorably today. I can’t reproduce his letter verbatim here, because he wants to protect his privacy. But I have edited it to his satisfaction, and present this version with his approval:

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