What is the price of gold warning us of?
” CNBC asked Peter Schiff of Europac. Mr. Schiff said rising gold is a sign of a loss of international confidence in the U.S dollar and also warning of a major decline in stock prices, sighting that the “Dow/Gold ratio” has fallen from 44-to-1 back in 1999 to 19-to-1 today. The Dow theorist Richard Russell says the Dow/Gold ratio will eventually fall to 1-to-1. “The reversal of this huge rise in the ratio will be a major decline, a decline to the point where the Dow again might buy only 1 ounce of gold or even less. This will require either a huge rise in gold or a massive decline in the Dow – or probably both.” “The gold market has been and will remain restrained like a magnificent bull with numerous gigantic reins, hardly rampaging, but surely towing the gaggle of central bankers uphill. Since the currency system is unfixable, and debt must accelerate, the gold bull will breathe endless life, since the alternative is a rampaging recession aggravated by debt default and asset deflatio