Merryn Talks Money

Why Gold’s Ascent May Be Just Getting Started

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“To touch gold is the closest you will ever come to touching eternity.”

That’s what Dominic Frisby, author of the just-released Secret History of Gold told us this week. Gold was created from pre-solar system star explosions and it remains exactly as it was on that creation. It can’t be destroyed, changed or made in a lab. Dig up a Roman coin and it will be as shiny as the day it was dropped.