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Gold Plunges in Record Decline After Fed Chair Nomination
Gold Plunges in Record Decline After Fed Chair Nomination
Above: **Watermarked Getty Image. Kindly Replace** A customer shops for gold jewelry at a gold store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, on Jan. 31, 2026. Image credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto/Getty Images
The Spin
Gold's sharp correction was inevitable after an unsustainable melt-up from $3,000 to $5,500 without meaningful pullbacks. The structural drivers behind the rally remain intact, including geopolitical tensions, fiscal uncertainty and currency debasement concerns. Investors should view this as a buying opportunity to gradually build positions through a phased approach.
The wild gyrations in precious metals reveal dangerous froth disconnected from fundamentals. Bond markets show no inflation fears, Treasury yields moved opposite to debasement predictions and the dollar's movements contradict the safe-haven narrative. Markets don't care about emotions, and those who ignored warnings about a 25-35% crash got exactly what they deserved.
Metaculus Prediction
There is a 50% chance that Gold Futures total price returns will exceed S&P 500 Futures's by 1.75% in the Feb. 2-13 period of Q1 2026, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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