Gold owners are smarter than many investors.

People who own gold and people who invest in the stock market have fundamentally different goals. Gold owners are protecting a proportion of their wealth in a form that is physical, in their possession, and will always hold value. Investors put money into stocks and bonds in the hope of making big profits. But here …

A return to the Gold Standard? Not likely. But…

A few years ago, World Bank chief Robert Zoellick said in an article the Financial Times that leading economies should consider “employing gold as an international reference point of market expectations about inflation, deflation and future currency values.” Naturally, economists and self-appointed pundits around the world called him mad, saying there is no way we …