It seems like almost every asset class has hit records: US stocks, Japanese stocks, German stocks, bitcoin, gold.
The latter is unusual. Rising prices usually generate speculative interest in an asset, but not here: Jim Bianco of Bianco Research publishes this chart showing that holdings in gold ETFs have actually fallen while the price has risen. It’s not the only anomaly.
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