Super-cycle’s Next Stage Is ‘Vertical,’ Say 48 Top AnalystsPHOENIX — Over four dozen experts now agree gold and silver prices must double again in the near future to reach their previous inflation-adjusted 1980 highs, as oil prices did last week, according to GOLD: THE NEXT STAGE, Swiss America Trading Corporation’s 26th anniversary financial journal.Gold prices have rocketed from $650 an ounce to $950 in just the last eight months. A 2008 Reuters global poll of fifty analysts are forecasting gold to surge over 20 percent this year, topping $1,000/oz.”Great values exist today for the educated gold buyer,” says Swiss America CEO Craig R. Smith. “I’m convinced the world will witness a gold price explosion in 2008, propelling the shiny yellow metal vertically into the next and most exciting stage of this long-term bull market.”Rising inflation, here and abroad, may be the next economic volcano to erupt, derailing the Federal Reserve’s desperate attempt to engineer a soft- landing from an impending recession.GOLD: THE NEXT STAGE features the top ten economic issues of 2008 and dozens of forces driving precious metal prices to skyrocket, distilled from 48 top analysts over the past two years. (more…)