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There's something of a global gold rush going on. One Troy ounce of gold broke the $3,000 mark today. That's an all-time record.

In turbulent economic times, gold is seen as an investor's safe haven to find out why demand for gold is on the rise. I spoke earlier with Campbell Harvey.

He's a professor of finance at Duke University. So gold is perceived as a very safe collateral. So this is consistent with the idea that China and some other countries want to hedge.

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