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To: KyrosL who wrote (99952)	4/16/2013 3:51:00 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217657

Hulburt cites academic study... Gold’s fair value is $800 an ounce Commentary: What price is justified by gold’s fundamentals? marketwatch.com And don’t be too quick to dismiss the awful implications of their research. You might not agree with it, but the authors don’t ignore the possibility that the under-reporting of actual inflation justifies a much higher gold price. They also respond to the argument that factors such as currency fluctuations automatically translate into a gold bull market. Finally, it’s not the case that they are biased against gold; Erb told me that he frequently invested in gold when he was a commodities fund manager. ( Click here to read their full study.) Erb said that gold’s recent plunge is the all-too-predictable result of an asset whose price has become disconnected from fundamental value. While he allowed that gold could very well stage a powerful rally from here, he predicted that its final bear-market low will be a lot lower than where it stands today. After all, every time in history in which gold’s price has deviated significantly from fair value — as he and Prof. Harvey calculate it — it eventually has returned to it.