Brien Lundin: Gold’s (Almost) Free at Last
June 21, 2010 at 07:22 AM EDT
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report The U.S. dollar may only look good because its fiat currency brethren look bad, but declining confidence in paper money has thrust gold toward a position it hasn’t enjoyed for a century or so— freedom from its seesaw relationship with the U.S. dollar. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, Gold Newsletter Editor and Publisher Brien Lundin—who also hosts the New Orleans Investment Conference—says that mounting troubles in Euroland threaten to end the traditional inverse correlation between the price of gold and the value of the U.S. dollar. Of course the dollar decoupling can only go so far. "Gold stands as the one currency that governments cannot debase or debauch," Brien says, but "the dollar is the only currency…