Is Now The Time To Sell Gold?

I've kicked off a new column on the Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch site today with a piece about gold. Seems to be getting plenty of hits and feedback from readers. you can read it here.

Gold

Over at Bearwatch, they are having a go at me for the piece I wrote in The Spectator about gold. The graph shows the performance of the gold price over the since 2005. But you can prove anything with a chart. That was a commodity bull market, when the price of copper, wheat, oil etc soared. Over thirty years gold has done nothing - which is precisely the point I was making.