With all that is going on, and there is a LOT going on in my view . . . .
with all that, gold is not glittering.
Both the current spot price, and the COMEX price as well, remain at least fifty bucks south of two grand!!
What the heck, even silver appears to be doing better! 
Who sprayed insecticide on the gold bugs? 
I wonder if there is a sense that Russian gold will be hitting the Asian market, or anywhere else Russia can buy something.
Gold is down this morning.
Silver is down even more, percentage wise.
Even amidst all the inflation insanity, gold continues to languish south of two grand. And you can forget forty dollar silver. Itās still down around twenty-five bucks.
Gotta be some gold bugs out there scratching their heads. 
And unlike with, say, I bonds, their gold still is not earning any interest for them. 
Well, shut my mouth!!
Comex gold just passed two grand. And spot is very nearly up to the $2k mark.
Now yer talkinā.
Silver?
Percentage wise, silver is up even more!
I donāt know. @xertyās table of the returns by asset class during rising rate environment (from the bonds thread) did not seem to point at gold (I imagine silver too) being a great investment in worst drawdown scenario compared to other asset classes over the last 50 or 60-70 years.
Now the source article did not have a war with major world power involved in that time span so maybe itās different times but still, did not seem like a good case for gold/silver.
Gold taking it in the shorts this morning.
As of 1330 Wall Street time 4/21/22 it is down 0.6%. Silver is down 2.6%
For what itās worth this may be due to interest rates going up so it makes bonds more attractive compared to Gold and Silver.
Dropped back to around $1900 again. On the other hand, Iāve found Swagbucks seems to pay on eBay bullion purchases (for the 1%), and I get the 5.25% on BoA Cash Rewards. So I have resumed buying gold bullion from reputable vendors at spot price after all cash back.
Is it time to buy Gold?
Maybe. Both gold and silver are way, way down.
Credit for this to xerty, from his piece posted elsewhere:
Zoltan Pozsar (Credit Suisse) and Jim Rickards have written that a new world monetary order is forming, where gold will rise to $20,000 or $30,000, allowing highly indebted nations like the US to pay down their debt. What are your thoughts?
Murray Stahl: Before I answer it, let me just give you a number so you can put the discussion it context. The United States has roughly 286 million ounces of gold. That would be the U.S. government, not the Federal Reserve, that owns the gold. What would it mean if, as the authors suggest, gold were $20,000 an ounce? Well, 286 million ounces of gold times $20,000 an ounce, would be $5.7 trillion.
So, the theory is that gold goes to $20,000 an ounce, such that the United States, if it still owned 286 million ounces of gold, would have $5.7 trillion and that would enable it to pay off $5.7 trillion of debt. So, that part of it I can see. The math is a little more complicated than that, though, because today the United States of America by itself, not even counting the states, has over $30.3 trillion of debt right now, and itās likely that within 12 months itās going to be $33 trillion. So, even if gold rises to $20,000, one question is when, because who knows what the debt is going to be by the time it gets to that price.
Letās even accept one year, in which case, out of $33 trillion of debt 12 months from now, with gold at $20,000 an ounce, the U.S. government determines to sell the whole gold position, and then assuming that itās even possible for the market to absorb 286 million ounces, and also assuming itās also willing to, then you paid off $5.7 trillion out of $33 trillion. So where are you? $33 trillion minus $5.7 trillion, puts you at $27.3 trillion of debt, a place we were at about, oh, letās say 16 months ago. So, even if this could happen, youāre not getting out that way. Now, what if it the gold price only went to $19,000 an ounce or $18,000 an ounce? Then youāre not even there. And what if it took five years to get there. So, itās not going to help the government to efface its debt.
Another problem with the whole analysis is that if gold ever were to be $20,000 an ounce without commensurate inflation to offset its real price, then goldmining would be unbelievably profitable. And all sorts of gold supply is going to come out of the ground, and that would reduce the price ā you wouldnāt get to $20,000. On the other hand, if gold were to $20,000 an ounce and was accompanied by a tenfold inflation, then the national debt wouldnāt be $33 trillion one year from now ā it would be some astronomically higher number. How so? This is why I talk about how severe the problem is. Because, historically, the expenses historically of a government thatās trying
to inflate were relatively discretionary such as for the military. But today the major expenditures are totally non discretionary.
For example, Medicare and Medicaid, in round numbers, is almost $1.3 trillion. What are you going to do about that? People are relying on it. They get sick and they need medication, or treatment; whatever they need, it costs what it costs. Youāve got to pay it. Social Security ā people depend on that; you have to pay it. Interest on debtā itās actually very low right now, compared with what it could be, yet weāre paying $428 billion of interest. Raise the rates just one percentage point and wait a year until we have a little more debt, and that numberās going to be a trillion dollars.
The money creation problem is such that if you really have the kind of inflation that would drive gold to $20,000 an ounce, then itās frightening to calculate what the national debt would be and what the budget would be. I had never tried to calculate it, but Iām just doing it right now on the back of an envelope. Itād be horrendous if it happened. So, $20 000 gold is not going to solve the problem. To be clear, itās not just an American problem; itās a British problem, itās a Canadian problem, itās a Chinese problem. Brazil has the problem, Argentina has the problem, Colombia has the problem. Every country in the world has the problem except for Russia. Russia, has its own problems, but this is not one of them. They happen to have a balanced budget. In fact, that scenario would actually make Russia an incredibly powerful nation again.
Gold (and silver) just continue to fall in price.
There are multiple theories but one is that it costs more to hold gold and silver now that interest rates have come up.
In our good friend, Yodaās voice
The dollar is strong ā¦
Found this elsewhere and thought it belonged here.
Prices for gold (and silver, too) seem to be going nowhere fast. At least thatās how it appears to me.
Iām hoping for a drop in the next 10 - 13 months. Thatās when Iāll be looking to buy. Although semi-lucky on my previous two purchases (not as prescient as you), Iām now regretting not buying in 2020 when the Chinese virus first hit. I didnāt foresee the massive govt spending to which Trump yielded, and then waited for dips to capitalize on progressive/socialist/Democrat spending. Iāll be looking for the low-mid $1700s before buying again.
Youāre a lot smarter than I am. I have no clue what is happening with gold . . . or silver. No future price movement in either direction would surprise me.
And I was not prescient. I was simply lucky.
Yeah, right. As was, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, etc. I believe in the āluck=preparation + opportunityā equation.
And, no, Iām not smarter than anyone, but especially you. I didnāt semi-retire until my early sixties, thanks to Barack Hussein Obama. As for gold, Iāve acted on my beliefs - in 1999, expecting a Y2K run-up (which never materialized) and late 2008, expecting an Obama ultra-extended extra-generous honeymoon (which did materialize, and led to my semi-retirement).
Thanks but I can summarize my personal experience in four words:
Blind squirrel . . . . found acorn.