What's going on with the gold price?

Stocks and bonds are going down at the same time. The dollar has bounced despite some very dodgy fundamentals. And 'safe haven' gold sank to a two-week low last week. Adrian Ash unravels some decidedly odd market conditions.

It's acold and bitter truththat the world's investment markets rarely act as sober as Britney Spears in a new wig.

In fact, as John Maynard Keynes famously noted, they're prone to stay much crazier for much longer than a right-minded investor can stay solvent.

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Adrian has written all things gold related from if it’s worth buying, what the real price of gold should be and what’s the point of gold for MoneyWeek. He has also written for other leading money titles on his gold expertise including Business Insider, Forbes, City A.M, Yahoo Finance and What Investment Magazine. Now Adrian is head of the research desk at BullionVault, a physical market for gold and silver for private investors online.