So You Think Gold Fell Due To A “Strong Dollar”? Don’t Make Me Laugh

By Andy Hoffman

Just a month ago, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was completing a bizarre run from 6,800 to 8,800, following the monster decline from 14,000 less than a year ago. Aside from the obvious “dead cat bounce” phenomenon, the market (helped, of course, by the omnipresent PPT) was aglow with dreams of “green shoots of economic recovery”, a propagandist platform created by a combination of Washington, Wall Street, and scheming media outlets such as CNBC.

There was no real evidence of such a recovery (even in “massaged” government figures), other than that the freefall of economic activity that commenced last autumn had started to slow to a more normalized decline, hardly what I would call reason for excitement. And given the major bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler that have occurred since then, as well as continued declines in real estate prices and rising unemployment, I find it laughable that anyone would entertain such a ridiculous idea that the economy is “bottoming.” But that’s another story altogether.

So You Think Gold Fell Due To A “Strong Dollar”? Don’t Make Me Laugh

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