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- From: gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Inflation Coming? (Gold?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.183750.21125@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:37:50 GMT
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- In article <24560004@hpgnd153.grenoble.hp.com> errol@hpgnd153.grenoble.hp.com (Errol Inan) writes:
- >Yes. Higher inflation.
- >
- >No. Don't buy gold or gold stocks.
- >
- >For the last ten years, gold's price seems to have had more to due with
- >production capabilities than inflation. When the price goes up, producers
- >crank up mines and thus the supply. Eventually the price starts to drop.
- >
- >When the price goes down, the high-cost mines get closed, and thus gold
- >production goes down. The price gets driven back up.
- >
- >The net effect being no great change in gold prices.
- >
- >If you still want to play it, go with gold stocks. Gold stocks are cheap
- >(Homestake Mining - $11) so in the short term, you might make some money. Long
- >term however, you won't hit the jackpot. As for trading the pure commodity,
- >the commissions are high, and the price movements are not as great as the
- >resulting price movements in gold stocks.
- >
- >Regardless, as I've said, changes in gold prices have more to do with
- >production than inflation.
- >
- >I don't really know much about other precious metals.
- >
- >Probably real-estate and currency plays are the way to go if higher inflation
- >is on the horizon (in the old U.S. of A).
-
- It is hard to believe that real estate will go into another
- inflationary spiral, what with the enormous overbuilding and
- the absence now of investment tax incentives, capital gains
- exemption, and a risk-protected banking industry (although
- apparently the $100k guarantee is still in effect). Do you really
- think that real estate will be a good inflation hedge?
-
- If not, is there anything else, other than dicey currency plays,
- and gold/gold stocks? I guess the question is, what is it that
- will go up in the next inflation of the currency?
-