I’ve been making the case for gold for a long time but I got nervous today watching CNBC and seeing Jim Cramer frothing about gold. He has long talked about holding 10% of your portfolio in gold, and that potion (based on almost any timeline) has now beaten the S&P 500.
The thesis for gold is increasingly crystalized by the simple question: What’s safer, the US dollar or gold?
Enormous deficits, political dysfunction and geopolitical antagonization make that question an easy one to answer
The great manias can be summarized with a very simple thesis