{"id":2123,"date":"2011-08-11T04:42:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T08:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2011-08-11T05:32:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T09:32:08","slug":"gold-vs-platinum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"Gold vs Platinum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you go looking for one thing and find something entirely different:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GoldvsPlat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2124\" title=\"GoldvsPlat\" src=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GoldvsPlat.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GoldvsPlat.png 735w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GoldvsPlat-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a trader, and would never trade in commodities&#8230; but looking at the charts can give you clues to what is going on<\/p>\n<p>This is a chart comparing the price of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">gold <\/span>to the price of <strong>platinum <\/strong>since the beginning of 2008. You&#8217;ll notice the two lines cross as the very end (yesterday).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/goldvsplataug2011.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2129\" title=\"goldvsplataug2011\" src=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/goldvsplataug2011.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/goldvsplataug2011.png 483w, https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/goldvsplataug2011-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t know was that just prior to the 2008 financial panic, there was a huge bubble collapse in Platinum. Bernanke became chairman of the Fed in 2006 and was pumping close to infinite money into the world&#8217;s markets to stimulate the economy and apparently a lot of that money was winding up in a platinum bubble. The drop starts about when Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers imploded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you go looking for one thing and find something entirely different: I&#8217;m not a trader, and would never trade in commodities&#8230; but looking at the charts can give you clues to what is going on This is a chart &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=2123\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}