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Published : August 22nd, 2015
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The bull market that wouldn't end finally has. In a brutal day that just kept getting worse, US stocks followed Asia and Europe into the deflationary vortex.

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Whether this was just a speed bump on the road to infinite financial asset valuations or the return of sanity to a previously-insane world remains to be seen. But one thing that has the ring of certainty -- in the sense that it repeats a pattern in place for as long as there's been human civilization -- is the behavior of gold. While equities -- at today's levels a perfect example of hope triumphing over experience -- were being crushed, and even the lesser precious metals were under pressure, gold had a nice, calm, in all respects normal day.

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It behaved, in short, like exactly the kind of port-in-a-storm that its fans claim it to be. Already this year it's up dramatically against a long list of national currencies. The chart below is the Brazilian real price, which is par for the emerging market course.

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Does this mean we're back in 2009, ready for another epic precious metals run? Who knows? Much, as always, depends on the shape of the central bank response to this week's equity meltdown. And the deflationary forces that are engulfing much of the world could be temporary bad news for an asset that many still see mostly as an inflation hedge. But each new instance of gold shielding its owners from crisis adds credence to the claim that it is sound money which holds its value while make-believe financial assets are getting whacked.

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John Rubino is the author of The Coming Collapse of the Dollar (co-written with James Turk), How to Profit From the Coming Real Estate Bust (Rodale, 2003), and Main Street, Not Wall Street (William Morrow, 1998). A former Wall Street financial analyst and columnist with theStreet.com, he currently writes for Fidelity Magazine and CFA Magazine He lives in Moscow, Idaho
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