The Real Reason Gold Fell—and Why It Has Already Stabilized

SOURCE: [The Gold Report]- Lawrence Roulston Things are upside down in the gold market. Valuations are irrationally low, while global consumerism fuels demand and supply comes up short. Lawrence Roulston, editor and publisher of Resource Opportunities, advises people to trust their guts as well as the numbers when weeding through prospective investments. In this interview with The Gold Report, he skirts around conspiracy theories regarding the recent gold sell-off and keeps his advice simple: lower expectations, get rid of poorly performing investments and load up on the companies going cheap. If you push against the trend, you might come out with your feet on the ground.

The Gold Report: In a recent edition of Resource Opportunities, you wrote, “This time is different from every previous bust.” How so?

Lawrence Roulston: Some people described the late 1990s as a nuclear winter of the mining industry. Demand for metals was low, and a lot of new production had come onstream. Copper was trading at the lowest price ever in real terms. Today, we don’t have that surplus. We have serious constraints on supply at a time when demand for metals is increasing.

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