In uncertain times gold will still shine THE price of gold plunged more than $US200 early in the week - its biggest and most sudden drop in more than 30 years. This unleashed a deluge of explanations, ranging from the conspiratorial and on to a host of more analytical reasons. And all this in turn unleashed a range of predictions on where the price was now headed. The gold bears emerged from their lairs to compete in predicting how far it would fall.