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Gold versus oil, metals and currencies

Gold versus oil, metals and currencies

Rediff.com   4 Jan 2008

When demand for the dollar outstrips the supply, the value of dollars goes up. But the supply of dollars has been rising steadily at an average of 10 per cent annually from less than $1 trillion in 1980 to over $12 trillion today -- and the fundamentals for gold today have much to do with the resulting drop in demand for dollars.