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Well, people are a little crazy. You know that. You know they're nuts. But there's one thing we've been crazy about for thousands and thousands

of years. And I guess when we were initially nuts about it, there was good reason. But now

the reasons are fewer and farther between. Today, even though we hate to do it, we're talking about gold, that shiny,

malleable metal that people have used as a means of transporting wealth. That was what was the useful purpose of gold hundreds or thousands of years ago

before electronic banking. It was one of the few ways you could transfer large amounts of money

in a small, relatively rare form that everybody could agree had value.

And that's the only reason that it has value, it had value or it has value today,

is that just like the U.S. dollar, we agree that it has a certain value.

Pass that, it's just a rock.

Yeah.

You know, and here's the other thing it has.

It has from UBS, RBC Capital Markets, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Van Eck have all recently

published positive comments about gold.

Guess what?

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