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Financial Times/Henry Sanderson and Benjamin Parkin/9-29-2020
“Warren Buffett always mocked people who invested in gold, calling it a useless metal that ‘gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace’ and a way of ‘going long on fear’. This year, however, the ‘sage of Omaha’ joined investors including the world’s largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates in buying into the latest gold rush, which helped push prices to a record high this summer.”
USAGOLD note: Buffett’s interest in gold did not occur in a vacuum, but comes, in our view, from a realization that demand for investment purposes could ramp up considerably in the years to come for reasons covered in detail at the link above – this morning’s featured FT Big Read. We found this quote of particular interest: “Gold ETFs now make up 35% of global demand compared with just 8% just last year …” As we have mentioned previously on this page, one wonders what will happen with the supply-demand equation when India and China come back online in full force.
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