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Dillinja,

Yes, sharemarkets are predicting blast-off for the world economy, and if the airline business is anything to go by it's not far off. Any weakness and airlines are the canary in the gold mine.

These are halcyon days for those that have accumulated shares during the GFC and bitten the bullet for a few years, it's payday. Break out the champers those that had the patience to buy when everyone else was selling amidst dire predictions from the goldbugs that the world was approaching a violent economic cataclysm. (except if you bought gold shares)

Meantime we keep hearing that; (you select the phrase)

central banks are buying gold
Indians are buying gold
Chinese are buying gold
Japanese are buying gold

and the usual predictions that gold is about to 'explode upwards..................'

in January,
in June,
on the 10th of March.

etc.etc.etc.