{"id":24919,"date":"2011-11-02T23:11:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T03:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2011\/11\/02\/gold-lotto\/"},"modified":"2011-11-02T23:11:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T03:11:15","slug":"gold-lotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/11\/02\/gold-lotto\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Lotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By MoneyMorning.com.au<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After going bonkers a couple of months back, our old pal (<strong>gold<\/strong>) is moving in the right direction again.<\/p>\n<p>This morning it&#8217;s trading at USD$1,738&#8230; and just under $1,700 in Aussie dollars.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Central bankers are trying their darnedest to rid the world of meddlesome warning signs (messing with interest rates, pegging currencies &#8211; such as the Swiss franc, and printing money).  Warning signs that could help you defend yourself against central bank and government attack.<\/p>\n<p>But through all that, gold still has the habit of giving the game away on what you can expect to happen next.  And it&#8217;s telling you that more money-printing and co-ordinated wealth destruction is just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, like all predictions, we could be wrong&#8230; which is why we never tell you to bet your house on it.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re prepared to bet a few bucks each week on the lotto with odds of 10 billion to one, you should definitely make sure you place a bet on something with much shorter odds &#8211; that the U.S. Federal Reserve will print more money in 2012, and the gold price will go higher.<\/p>\n<p>Because believe us, you&#8217;ve got a much better chance of getting your money back on a bet against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneymorning.com.au\/20111103\/fed-up-with-inflation%E2%80%A6-the-us-federal-reserve-says-%E2%80%9Cwhat-inflation%E2%80%9D.html#more-6226\">the Fed<\/a> than you have with a bet on the lotto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheers.<br \/>\nKris.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PS.<\/strong> Don&#8217;t forget to register for the <em>Sydney Gold Symposium<\/em>.  It&#8217;s less than two weeks away.  Your editor is due to chair day two of the event, including a panel discussion with Eric Sprott, Egon von Greyerz, Ben Davies and John Embry.  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This morning it&#8217;s trading at USD$1,738&#8230; and just under $1,700 in Aussie dollars. Central bankers are trying their darnedest to rid the world of meddlesome warning signs (messing with interest rates, pegging currencies &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/11\/02\/gold-lotto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gold Lotto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}