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There is Just Not that Much Gold
Bob Murphy mentioned that the price of gold must be keeping Keynesians up at night. I was on Peter Schiff’s radio show the other day and the topic of gold featured prominently. Its appealing to think of gold as a true store of value and that fiat currency and fractional reserve banking are fake. However, the quantity of gold in existence is simply dwarfed by the size of the global economy. This makes it hard for gold to play a fundamental role, even absent concerns about monetary policy. In human history there have been a little over 5 billion ounces of gold mined. A good fraction of it is I believe still in ... (full story)
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