No Bubble in Gold, Bull Market Only Just Getting Started

Published 18/03/2025, 06:33 am
Updated 18/03/2025, 06:42 am

Viewing the gold price in a vacuum, some may think there is a bubble in gold, but that is far from the case

The gold price is, after all, doing this…

A bubble in gold? No

Just last week the gold price ticked our target of 3000+, which was established in 2020 as gold topped out and began its handle-making phase and pattern consolidation, after making a higher right side high to its massive and bullish Cup pattern.

Is this round number target (it was actually the Cup’s measurement) a stop sign? Maybe, for a while. Maybe not. Targets are objectives, not earth shattering conclusions, and bull markets do not go straight up.

Aside from gold’s nominal price, I have frequently presented this chart of the gold price relative to the S&P 500. This shows who has really been the recipient of official (Fed and government) inflationary policies since 2011, and who has not.

There is no bubble in gold, as compared to the SPX

But in looking through nftrh.com’s extensive Links page, I reacquainted myself with Macrotrends, a helpful website that holds a lot of ratio charts of various markets. It’s a nice visual nerd fest. Below is one that goes well with my assertion in the chart above.

A bubble in gold? Hardly, as compared to the bubble in Monetary Base, which is a way of saying the bubble in monetary policy. I have been assigning the real bubble dynamics to monetary and fiscal policy, with the stock market simply being bubble beneficiary #1. Gold, on the other hand… Palookaville.

A bubble in gold?
Here is how Macrotrends describes the ratio.
Gold to Monetary Base Ratio

Aside from making my long-standing point that gold is not primarily about inflation (as they’ve chronically inflated money supplies for decades), the chart tells us that the current bull market in gold is only just getting started.

My assertion is that the break in the Continuum’s decades-long disinflationary downtrend * is indicative of policymaking that will be handcuffed relative to recent decades, in its ability to rescue asset markets in “business as usual” fashion.

30yr Treasury yield Continuum

It is not hard to imagine that the nominal gold price could move significantly higher, even if the Gold/Monetary Base chart above gets nowhere near the 4.8 level noted by Macrotrends.

* Which gave license to ongoing and chronic inflationary policies by Fed and government.

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