Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency. . . and the major thrust in the demand for … - Alan Greenspan

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At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

Alan Greenspan

Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency. . . and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

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