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The German economy is suffering its sharpest fall in orders since the 2009 crisis, while global financial markets, particularly in the US, continue to soar.

This week, we'll look at a couple of interesting long term charts of both gold and the dow to see how technical analysis suggests they MIGHT play out in the decades ahead.

Gold is the best-performing asset class in this century, better than the S&P including reinvested dividends and still NOBODY OWNS GOLD. Only 0.5% of global financial assets are invested in gold. Gold will rise by multiples in the coming years.

Could Donald Trump's election put the brakes on gold's rise? In 2016, the Republican candidate's victory in the US presidential election led to a €100 drop in the price of gold in euros, with the price falling from €1,180 to €1,080 in the four weeks following the election.

Has the gold price reached its ceiling, or is it even in a bubble, as it was in the early 1980s, and is a significant correction imminent? There are strong reasons to believe that the gold price is not yet in a region of extreme overvaluation.

The gold price has just hit a new all-time high. Is this an underlying trend or a passing phase? In any case, all the conditions are in place to fuel this ascent.

Just over a year ago, I wrote that physical gold had become more reliable than Treasury bills, a trend now confirmed by Bank of America, which anticipates a potential replacement of Treasury bills by gold as a safe-haven asset, despite JPMorgan's reservations.

The fall in China's property market and the rise in interest rates in the United States are prompting consumers to favour savings and shun property in favour of gold.

The US economy continues to grow thanks to debt- and credit-backed consumption, but this momentum is based on fragile foundations, with the risk of a downturn if the property or stock markets deteriorate.

For years now, emerging countries have been enjoying stronger growth than Western nations. Globalization, combined with the rise of China, has enabled these countries to achieve dazzling growth. Whereas in the past, periods of international crisis severely affected their economies, the situation...