Friday Briefing: Gold (gold), glad you are bound to return

Friday Briefing

Patrick Brusnahan
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From Egyptian pharaohs to early Californian settlers, from JRR Tolkien’s dragons to Ian Fleming’s villains, from ABBA to Spandau Ballet, there has been a historical obsession with gold. And all of that was before it was more than $5,000 an ounce.

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