by Bill Holter
JSMineset
In a recent article, Peter Degraaf posted a series of charts including the one below. I must confess I had never seen this particular chart before but extremely glad it was posted. I knew the monetary base had grown wildly but did not realize the extent until seeing it in graph form. While Peter spent just one paragraph on this, let’s look at it in depth to get a better understanding of why it is so important and what it really means.
[…] Let’s start by deconstructing this down to what it really means. First, I must confess I do not know whether this chart is comparing the “priced” amount of U.S. gold to the monetary base or rather the price of gold to the monetary base. Either way, this chart tells us something VERY important! The price of gold relative to the monetary base has never been lower than it is right now other than at the end of last year.