{"id":136025,"date":"2010-01-04T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-commodities-that-kicked-golds-ass-in-2009-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-04T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T14:03:00","slug":"11-surprising-commodities-that-kicked-golds-ass-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/136025","title":{"rendered":"11 Surprising Commodities That Kicked Gold&#8217;s Ass In 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-commodities-that-kicked-golds-ass-in-2009-2010-1\/lumber-24-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b412d4500000000006acf16&amp;maxX=368&amp;maxY=276\" border=\"0\" alt=\"orange juice\" width=\"368\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 15px 15px 15px 0;\">\n<script src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/ds\/badge2.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nhttp:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-commodities-that-kicked-golds-ass-in-2009-2010-1\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone was obsessed with gold in 2009, as remnants of the financial crisis and the gigantic sovereign debt binge pushed investors to seek out the world&#8217;s longest-lasting form of money.<\/p>\n<p>If the world goes to hell, the thinking goes, you want gold.<\/p>\n<p>But, if the world really goes to hell, what use are your gold eagle coins, really?<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you rather have more useful commodities like cotton and rubber to trade?<\/p>\n<p>And indeed, those two were among the 11 surprising commodities that kicked gold&#8217;s ass in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-commodities-that-kicked-golds-ass-in-2009-2010-1\/lumber-24-1\"><strong>See the whole list here &#8212; &gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Image via Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wwhyte\/\" title=\"Link to wwhyte1968's photostream\"><strong>wwhyte1968<\/strong><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-commodities-that-kicked-golds-ass-in-2009-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/alchemists-screwed-as-lead-outperforms-gold-in-2009-2009-12\">Alchemists Screwed As Lead Outperforms Gold In 2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/a-complete-guide-to-2010-predictions-in-60-seconds-2009-12\">The 60-Second Guide To Everything You Need To Know About Oil, Gold, Bonds, China, And Stocks In 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mf-global-a-jobless-recovery-sovereign-debt-risks-and-the-apex-of-us-liberalism-in-2010-2009-12\">MF Global: A Jobless Recovery, Sovereign Debt Risks, And The &quot;Apex&quot; Of US Liberalism In 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/mmmticPrM_U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Everyone was obsessed with gold in 2009, as remnants of the financial crisis and the gigantic sovereign debt binge pushed investors to seek out the world&#8217;s longest-lasting form of money. If the world goes to hell, the thinking goes, you want gold. But, if the world really goes to hell, what use are your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}