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Nobody forecast the 2020 surge or the long flat stretch before it. Ten-year price targets are published confidently and revised quietly.📊 DATA & STATS
Over the last decade gold moved through five distinct phases, including multi-year periods of almost no movement. Any single ten-year target implies a smoothness the actual…
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Central banks have been net buyers of gold for over a decade. They are accumulating it as a reserve asset, which is not the same thing as moving back to a gold standard.📊 DATA & STATS
The last formal link between a major currency and gold ended in 1971, when…
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Gold pays no interest. That single fact explains most of its declines — when safe deposits start paying well, holding a non-yielding asset costs you something.📊 DATA & STATS
Gold fell from its 1980 peak and did not reclaim it in nominal terms until 2007. Declines in gold are not…
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Calling both assets a hedge hides the important difference: one of them routinely falls more than 70 percent, and it is not the metal.📊 DATA & STATS
Bitcoin has experienced several drawdowns above 70 percent from peak within single cycles. Gold's sharpest modern declines have been shallower and spread over…
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Gold spent roughly three of the last ten years going almost nowhere. The long flat stretches are the part most people forget when they look at a ten-year chart.📊 DATA & STATS
The decade splits into five distinct phases: a quiet base, an uptrend, a sharp pandemic surge, a volatile…
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The most consequential decision when buying a gold bar is not the brand or the shop. It is the size, because premium per gram falls sharply as bar weight rises.📊 DATA & STATS
Investment bars are typically 999.9 fine. Common Malaysian sizes run from 1 gram to 100 grams. Premium…
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Switzerland refines a large share of the world's gold despite mining almost none of it. The country's reputation in gold comes entirely from refining and assay, not from what is in the ground.📊 DATA & STATS
The names you will see most often in Malaysia are PAMP Suisse, Valcambi and…

