What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good)
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What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good) Authored by Antonius Aquinas, The recent run-up in the gold price has not garnered the attention among the mainstream financial media outlets as it should. Gold has, in part, been overshadowed by the rise in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Naturally, the financial press, which is really an arm of the government and its central bank, wants to ignore, as much as possible, references to gold as...

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