Gold : The Fundamentals are as strong as ever

Peter Schiff : There’s a strong probability that we have in fact made a bottom, and whether we’re going to retest that bottom before going higher is anybody’s guess. But I think we’re going a lot higher. I think we’re going to take out the high of $1,800 or $1,900 set back in 2011. We might not do that in calendar year 2013, but I think we got a good shot of doing it in 2014, and actually adding quite a bit of distance above $1,900 to the upside.

The fundamentals are as strong as ever for gold. A lot of the players that exited the market in the summer of 2013 are going to be getting back in at higher prices. And a lot of the shorts are going to be in a lot of trouble, because they’re going to find it very difficult to buy back these positions that they’ve sold, because a lot of the gold that was sold by speculators on the way down was bought up by long-term holders.
People who bought gold at $1,300 aren’t going to turn around and sell it at $1,500 or $1,600—they’re just not. But meanwhile, the shorts are going to need to buy, and I don’t know where they’re going to get the physical. So I think we’re going to see a huge short squeeze in addition to the regular rally we’re going to get from new longs entering the market. It could be a huge rally for gold. - in indexuniverse



Peter Schiff is a well-known commentator appearing regularly on CNBC, TechTicker and FoxNews. He is often referred to as "Doctor Doom" because of his bearish outlook on the economy and the U.S. Dollar in particular. Peter was one of the first from within the professional investment field to call the housing market a bubble. Peter has written a book called "Crash Proof" and a follow-on called "The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets". He is the President of EuroPacific Capital, which is a brokerage specializing in finding dividend-yielding, value-based foreign stocks.