Jim Rogers: Budget Deficits Pushing Up Gold Prices

12-01-2009 • David Lew for LewRockwell.com

What is the real reason behind the historic rise in gold prices? Futures and spot prices of gold across global commodity bourses and bullion markets have been surging for the past few months. Gold price touched a high of $1195 per ounce in the last week of November.

Bullion analysts have been maintaining that depreciating US dollar is one main reason for the big rise in gold prices. Now, global commodities investment guru Jim Rogers says budget deficits in many countries across the world are propping up gold prices.

Is it true? Jim Rogers has forecast that gold prices would zoom to a record $2000 per ounce in the next decade, beginning next year. Rogers, who has been aggressively investing in agricultural commodities, especially in China, has also recently maintained that given a chance to invest in bullion, he would put his money in silver and palladium, and not in gold, as the yellow metal prices are on fire.

But is budgetary deficits spurring gold, and bullion trade in into the high-price tag level?

Here is what Jim Rogers told Business Week:.....