The chart below shows a positive secular price movement since mid-June, barring some minor pullbacks.

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The chart shows a secular positive price movement since early-June.

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In a secular bear market the price of most stocks falls or stagnates, but price is less significant that valuation.

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Real interest rates should fall and the price of gold should thus remain in its secular bull market.

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But in reality, deflation is the free-market approach to rectify a secular period of superfluous money supply growth, debt accumulation and asset price appreciation.

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Typically, when believers talk about previous secular bear markets, they measure using the Dow (a faulty, price-weighted index which makes returns fairly arbitrary and not reflective of economic reality), or they measure the Dow without dividends reinvested (which is really stretching reality).

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In the late 1940s, when Zionism was a mainly secular movement, David Ben Gurion was willing to accept an international status for the city as part of the price the Jews might have to pay for statehood.

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