Presumably, a lot of smug smiles have been wiped off the faces of hordes of goldbugs, along with the value of their asset portfolios! Austrians and libertarians are starting to look like the fools we always suspected they were, with their hyperinflation hysteria and exaggerated predictions about the price of gold.
Notice the rout in the graph below.
And it is an incredibly steep rout at that! To put things in historical perspective, we can see the long-term price graph from 1968 to 2013 below.
The soaring price after 2008 so obviously looks like a bubble, and the crash, which (admittedly) might or might not continue, may signal that the gold bubble has finally popped, just as the last bubble did in 1980. After the last crash, gold was in a bear market for nearly 20 years.
If something like that happens now, many people will be left facing massive losses on their gold.
Links
Paul Krugman, Gold Does Not Glitter, April 15, 2013.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/gold-does-not-glitter/
Few years ago Willem Buiter wrote in his collumn that gold is just another fiat money, because its is intrinsically worthless:
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The Gold Collapse Is Personally Costing Ron Paul A Fortune
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