Unless some dough changes hands, even the biggest commercial developments are as unheard as trees falling in the distant forest. Today most of the money in the world isn't even made of paper, much less metal. It exists as binary digits. No wonder the central banks of the world are heaving their gold reserves into a collapsing market. Say good-bye to gold.
Gold is history.
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