Monday, September 5, 2011

Negative interest rates drives gold prices

The driver of gold prices has been real interest rates.

The chart from Gold Stock Analyst tracking the price of gold going back to 1968. In each case when real rates, calculated by subtracted the 12-month moving average of the year over year change of CPI from the 12-month moving average of the 3-month Treasury bill, went negative in the 1970s, gold has had a dramatic rise in price until 1980 when a period of real interest rates occured.

A new period of negative interest rates from 2000 until the present time created soaring gold prices once more.




















  Source Gold Stock Analyst   Click on image to get a larger picture.

Christina J. Kruger

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