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What If a Russian Saver Had Bought Gold?

Tuesday, 1/06/2015 08:10
A tale of how buying gold played out in 2014's Ruble crash...
 
DMITRY sipped his coffee drink at his favorite café in Moscow, flipping through the newspaper in front of him, writes Jeff Clark, senior editor at Casey Research's Big Gold newsletter.
 
It was full of bad news: currency troubles, ongoing sanctions from the West, rising inflation, and more.
 
But he ignored all that. He turned to the investment section and began to scan the page, looking for the latest price of one specific investment. He went past the headline that screamed Russia's inflation rate was up to 11.4% last year, as well as the article detailing the Ruble's debilitating 46.5% fall. He knew all those things and had experienced them first hand.
 
He went directly to the page that quoted the price of gold in Rubles. And there it was. And this time, it wasn't just a short price quote, but a full article on the topic of gold, starting with a headline that warmed his heart...
"Gold Price in Rubles Rises 73% in 2014"
The article detailed how gold had soared last year due to the depreciation of the Ruble. What especially pleased him was that gold rose more than the Ruble fell. It also outpaced the rise in inflation.
 
The article included a chart of the last six weeks' price movement, during which the Ruble had taken an especially ugly drop.
 
Dmitry wasn't surprised to read that it wasn't just the gold price in Rubles that was up last year...
 
The price of gold rose against ALL currencies in 2014 – except the US Dollar. Yes, gold was up in the Euro, Japanese Yen, Swiss Franc, Canadian Dollar, British Pound, Australian Dollar, New Zealand Dollar, Chinese Renminbi, Indian Rupee, Swedish Krona, Brazilian Real, Israeli Shekel, and South Korean Won.
 
Even more interesting was that gold outperformed most stock markets around the world. Most investors outside North America not only saw their currency lose value but also lost money in their stock market. Dmitry's fellow Russians were hit especially hard.
 
Whoever owned gold, though, had avoided these debilitating losses and was actually sitting on a profit.
 
The article concluded by congratulating those with the foresight to buy gold, which unfortunately didn't include many of his fellow citizens – but it did include him.
 
Dmitry has every right to feel pleased with himself. While inflation raged all around him, the currency fell through the floor, and global crises remained escalated, his investment in gold had done exactly what it was supposed to do: protect him against currency and monetary calamity. In fact, he'd gained more with gold than he lost in Ruble purchasing power.
 
He'd read warnings that this could happen – warnings others had dismissed as the ravings of loony gold bugs. He had been skeptical, frankly, and it hadn't happened exactly as he thought it would, but now he sure was glad he'd decided to play it safe and bought some gold as insurance.
 
He wondered what those in North America thought about this phenomenon... Did they see the writing on the global economic wall – or did they imagine they were immune because their stock market had risen so much while gold remained weak in their currency? Did they really believe their central bankers were wizards endowed with supernatural powers that others lacked? Didn't they remember Ben Bernanke insisting in 2007 and 2008 that there was no crisis and that everything was under control?
 
It seemed to Dmitry that many of them were kidding themselves, because he knew that at some point, the very thing that happened to inflation rates and currency values in his country could happen to theirs. And how gold would respond – as he now knew firsthand.
 
Like him, sensible Americans who bought gold while it was on sale wouldn't know the timing but would be prepared for the inevitable outcome of the currency-destroying policies their central bank had adopted, just like all the others. He hoped they saw it coming and envied their chance to take advantage of relatively low prices.
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JEFF CLARK is editor and lead writer of BIG GOLD, the monthly gold-investment newsletter from Doug Casey's Casey Research. Having worked on his family's gold claims in California and Arizona, and analyzing the big trends in gold's bull market, Jeff and his team aim to highlight safe and profitable ways for the prudent investor to capitalize on today's long-term rise.

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