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Are gold stocks the real barbarous relic?

Sam Kirtley | July 11, 2011 | 2:20 pm Energy Precious Metals Gold 

In 1924 John Maynard Keynes referred to the gold standard as a “barbarous relic”, but we think the new barbarous relic is using gold stocks as a trading or investment vehicle in an attempt to benefit from rising gold prices....

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