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>What Is Driving the Price of Gold?  - Jesse - Le Cafe Américain
This was a very interesting article, I'm glad you reposted it, thank you!
Is there any chance you'll make your spreadsheet or the calculations in it available for download?
I would like to see exactly what you guys did.
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I wrote a VB6 program to test this equation on data that it downloads from the St. Louis Fed. It correlates very nicely on data in the range the article specifies, 2003-2008, but it blows up not long after that. I think the price of gold may be too heavily manipulated for a simple approach like this to work, or there are one or more variables missing from the calculations for more current data. I'll be happy to send the source code to anyone who would like it.

Thanks Again,
Mike


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Beginning of the headline :This is a reprint without changes or updates from a posting on this site on 18 January 2008. Someone had asked about it, and so I looked and found it.  I stopped updating the spreadsheet described in this posting at least three years ago and have not run any correlation analysis since. I was not using the native regression in Excel, but a bolt-on tool that was Excel friend and fairly nice, if a bit pricey. As I have stated in the past, I suspect that the greatest correlation now is to manipu... Read More
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