from New York Sun
“It seems we’re all gold bugs now,” announces the op-ed piece in the New York Times. It says that gold is “one of the best performing assets in the world this year.” Of gold, the Times writes: “Its price just topped $2,000 an ounce for the first time.” It concludes by warning that unless “central banks stop printing money frantically and real interest rates start rising again, it is difficult not to be a gold bug now.”
Welcome to the fight, we say. It’s nice to see our esteemed colleagues acknowledge the monetary issue, even if they do so with typical condescension. The phrase “gold bug,” after all, is marked in the Sun’s “Reporter’s Handbook and Manual of Style” as pejorative. The Times’ definition of gold bugs as “investors perpetually bullish on gold” is crosswise with our view; we’re not perpetually bullish on gold and don’t invest in it.