price controlled. It had been fixed by fiat at $35 an ounce. So it came into the decade selling for probably a third of what the free market price would have been at that point in time. But the rest of what you say, I think is reasonably prescient. It's interesting in terms of gold's place in the popular viewpoint that you say that you haven't done an article on gold for eight years. That's because I think your media product is something that you make a living on. And you probably thought for some period of time that there simply wasn't enough interest in gold to do an article on it. And I think that has a lot to do with everything. One of the reasons that bear markets get oversold and bull markets get overbought is that people use price action to justify a narrative. And sometimes the price of something goes up because it's going up and it goes down because it's going down. If you begin to get, as an example, nervous about the economy and you begin to develop an interest in the (28/45)
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