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"Paradigm shift" to send gold sliding to $1,200 an ounce: SocGen And last but not least, what is probably the funniest headline yet delivered by all these newly minted gold bears: “UBS Says QE’s End May Render Gold ‘Obsolete’†A major theme of these forecasts is, you guessed it, the Fed’s alleged imminent ‘QE tapering’, and/or ‘raising of real interest rates’. To the latter we would point out that real interest rates (nominal interest rates relative to inflation expectations) have indeed risen lately, but it was certainly not the Fed’s fault.