The interview gets interesting (gold) starting at 21 minutes & running through to the end.

Interestingly, gold, largely left for dead, has rallied. Not only has gold bounced, but it has done so despite a steady dollar. Which raises the question: Why is gold rallying now? Here are four potential reasons:

Gold is a unique asset class due to its uncorrelated nature and its ability historically to perform well amidst global financial and geopolitical turmoil. We think of it as financial insurance. Like health or auto insurance, a small allocation can go a long way when hardship occurs.

While it was disappointing to see gold fall below $1,200 per ounce, even though we expected it too and forecasted this in our prior commentaries, current extreme positioning (also characteristic of the lows in 2001) suggests the price will not remain at these levels for too long.

If you do not own gold, there is no sensible reason other than you do not know history, or you do not know the economics of it..........over long periods of time the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the gold stock.

Ray Dalio, 2015.

Hussman recommends “humble cash” as the best option “because it offers opportunity to respond to deep market losses.” We would refine that a bit. Green cash is a good option under the circumstances Hussman describes. Gold cash is even better. Inflation could become an issue. If it does, gold can do things for you that green cash cannot – like appreciate, rather than depreciate, in value. The inflation does not have to rise to the level summarized in our accompanying photograph either. Historically, gold has proven to be a solid hedge against even comparatively minor doses of currency depreciation.

Lately, gold has been "sticky" upwards, shrugging off dollar declines but has dropped dramatically whenever the dollar rises even a little bit.

The message COMEX shorts are about to receive is that gold buyers in India, China, Russia and Turkey don’t care much about the Fed’s dot plot or Q3 GDP. As we await rebirth of western investment demand in gold markets, we suspect an imminent clash between hyper-bearish COMEX spec positioning and staunch global physical demand is about to ignite some short-term pyrotechnics. This should be interesting to watch.

In other words, gold has become cheap (and undeservingly so) – which might be painful for those currently holding gold but offers an excellent opportunity for those who want to build up their gold positions. In any case, it appears that we are right in the middle of a situation in which market prices do not reflect ‘true values’: The stock market seems to be expensive, and gold is too cheap. And history taught us that over- and undervaluations will be corrected over time.

It’s no wonder that Russia, China, Turkey, Iran – nearly every major regional player invested in Eurasia integration – is buying gold with the aim of progressively getting out of US dollar hegemony. As JP Morgan himself coined it over a century ago, “Gold is money. All else is credit.”

Every currency war though is not about gold; it’s about the US dollar. Yet the US dollar now is like an inscrutable visitor from outer space, dependent on massive leverage; a galaxy of dodgy derivatives; the QE printing scheme; and gold not being awarded its true importance.