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Over the last five decades, gold has behaved less like a straight-line investment and more like a mirror of global fear. Its price history can be best understood in three repeating phases: spectacular highs, painful lows and frustratingly long flat periods. 1. The First Great High: The 1970s Gold Explosion (Early 1970s to 1980) Gold was freed from the gold standard in the early 1970s. What followed was chaos: High inflation, oil shocks, currency instability, geopolitical tens