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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Slumdog who wrote (26328)	1/19/2010 3:15:21 PM
From: Real Man	4 Recommendations Respond to of 71477

SP500/gold ratio is a good indicator for the economy, but not a good indicator for the direction of SP500 in dollar terms. SP500 in gold terms did NOT have a cyclical bull market in 2002-2007, except a brief period of flatness in 2003-2005; it just keeps going down since year 2000. This is the DOW, in gold, but SP500 is actually quite similar. Thus, the DOW actually DECLINED in gold terms during the cyclical "bull market" of 2002-2007! This move from March lows also does not look like much -g-