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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
GDXJ 93.98+0.6%Nov 21 4:00 PM EST

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (37716)7/24/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: long-gone  Read Replies (1) of 116764
 
<<During the '29 crash, did gold hold it's value because of the crash.....,
.... or because it was linked to the US dollar at a specific exchange rate??>>
Ah yes, chicken & egg, which came first.
Have you ever read "Capitalism: The unknown Idea"?
Chapter 6 - author Alan Greenspan, sees it the other way, gold's store of value supported the $ via it's nature based scarcity.
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