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Pal o’ Mine

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Well, Maxx has created a monster, because palladium has gone from “never even gave it a thought” to “living rent free in my head.” I wanted to share a few more charts about this critter.

First is the layered chart of the long-term gold futures versus those of palladium. They pretty much tracked one another until a couple of years ago, at which time palladium decided to vastly underperform gold. I suppose the big question is whether PA can ultimately clamor its way back up to GC-land.

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