Sunday 6 January 2008

Flight to gold as investors lose faith in money

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/01/06/ccgold106.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
The last time gold touched $850 an ounce, the world was visibly spiralling out of control.

Soviet tanks had just rolled into Afghanistan. The Mullahs had seized US hostages in Iran. Pax Americana was on the ropes, and so was capitalism. Inflation had reached 14 per cent in the United States.


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