The Commodity Investor: Supercycle Isn’t Dead; That’s Why You Should Be Buying Commodities
This bull market is driven by fundamental factors including the rise of the emerging-market consumer class, increasing urbanization trends and rising incomes around the world. As a result, prices of commodities from gold to soybeans were set to rise. Recently, this theory has come under fire for not being an accurate reflection of the current state of the market.
The Supercycle
For several years, it seemed like nothing could stop commodity prices from going higher. Whether in 2008 when it looked like oil prices were going to reach $200, or in 2011 when gold prices kept making new highs as the sovereign debt crisis raged on, it seemed as if nothing could stop commodities prices from going higher.