Gold Never Has Been (and Never Will Be) in a Bubble

Nathan Lewis
Daily Reckoning
Nov. 01, 2010

Binghamton, New York – Most serious gold investors follow a basic principle: that gold is stable in value. Changes in the "gold price" represent changes in the currency being compared to gold, while gold itself is essentially inert.

This is why gold was used as a monetary foundation for literally thousands of years. You want money to be stable in value. The simplest way to accomplish this was to link it to gold. Today, we summarize this quality by saying that "gold is money."

From this we can see immediately, that if gold doesn't change in value -- at least not very much -- then it can never be in a "bubble." There may be a time when many people are desperate to trade their paper money for gold, but that is because their paper money is collapsing in value. It has nothing to do with gold.

Let’s take a look at some of the great gold bull markets of the last hundred years...

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