{"id":1253,"date":"2013-02-06T21:44:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T02:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2013-02-06T21:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T02:44:57","slug":"gold-bulls-see-profit-in-the-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Gold bulls see profit in the gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Tim Cohen<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>BusinessDay (Johannesburg)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1254\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fab2-160.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1254\" title=\"fab2-160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fab2-160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marc Faber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Devoted gold investors around the world are often depicted as eccentric devotees of a fundamentally pessimistic world view. But keynote speaker at the Mining Indaba, Marc Faber, showed on Tuesday that pessimism is not incompatible with humour \u2014 or being persuasive.<\/p>\n<p>Noted investor Dr Faber said on Tuesday that he maintains 25% of his portfolio in gold, 25% in equities, 25% in bonds, 25% in cash and 25% in property.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that adds up to more than 100%; I just have the same accounting standards as the US Federal Reserve&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdlive.co.za\/business\/mining\/2013\/02\/06\/gold-bulls-see-profit-in-the-gloom\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading . . .<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keynote speaker at the Mining Indaba, Marc Faber, showed on Tuesday that pessimism is not incompatible with humour \u2014 or being persuasive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}