“There’s nothing like a negative real interest rate and a fear to drive the gold price,” says Barrick Gold Corporation CEO Dr Mark Bristow, who also puts money printing firmly on the list of gold price drivers. Bristow was responding via Skype to Richard Quest on CNN’s Quest Means Business from Barrick Gold’s Pueblo Viejo gold mine, in the Dominican Republic, on the factors driving up gold equities and the gold price during this period of pandemic uncertainty.
