Puede ser también ansia, locura, afán

Like a handful of others a decade ago, I believed that the damage that governments were doing to their economies at that time would end in disaster. I also believed that one biproduct of these actions would be a dramatic rise in the price of precious metals. I wasn't at all certain how long this trend would last (at the time, I guessed at roughly ten years), but I felt that it would end with a gold "mania" - a time when everybody and his dog was trying to get his hands on a few Maple Leafs.

Back then, almost no one that I talked to agreed with me on this concept, although some felt that gold would rise somewhat, then decline again. I thought this to be incorrect, as major bull markets tend not to end with a whimper. They end with a major upside spike.

Even today, after ten years of rises in the price of gold, the term "mania" is not in general use in the media. It is not being discussed because, even now, fewer than 5% of investors are presently in the gold market in any significant way. However, I am more convinced than ever of a greater rise in the price of gold, just as I am more convinced than ever that there will be a mania stage that has not even begun yet.

Recently, some who have been predicting a mania have begun to speculate on what the price of gold will be when the mania hits. Just today, I read speculations of $1800 and $2100, but there are many more.



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Note added at 31 mins (2012-11-21 10:35:41 GMT)
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Sacha Pouget: Une "mania" de l'or se profile. En fait, le marché a une Mémoire. Il
se souvient que l'Or avait connu une montée fulgurante

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Note added at 38 mins (2012-11-21 10:42:50 GMT)
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''Mania'' is too common in the French media texts .if you don't like to use the english term , you can use :
hystérie de l’or