Barron's
By ALAN ABELSON
All of which gives us pause and makes us more than a bit wary. And so, oddly, does the brisk surge in gold to a four-month high. We say oddly because bullion has been one of the few investments that we've written about this year with consistent enthusiasm. Everything that was wrong with the global financial system seemed to us to add fresh luster to the yellow metal. More than ever, it seemed a reasonably safe harbor in a debt-laden world where paper currencies are being routinely debased to prop up failing economies. It didn't hurt, either, that the gold-mining stocks have been conspicuous laggards for quite a spell. LINK...
