Gold and Climate Change
Gold is valuable and rare. Large amounts of rock need to be mined and processed to produce an ounce of gold and this uses significant amounts of energy.
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Goldhub blog: Posts from February 2019
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Demand for gold from investors in China is expected to increase this year, while jewellery demand may also rise. Read more from our Managing Director in China, Roland Wang, in @XHNews: https://t.co/givdCNTuo9 https://t.co/L9inaHsW9m
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In a largely #cashless society, there will still be a need to store wealth, have privacy and carry out transactions between parties who don’t trust one another. Leading economist @krogoff believes gold fills that role. More in our latest #GoldInvestor: https://t.co/6xsfipO0zL https://t.co/KJicu5lbOx
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Former leader of the Commodities and Gold Group for the Government of Singapore’s #SWF, Loy Cheow Chew, believes that gold has a valuable role to play in #SWF portfolios as it provides a potential hedge against calamity. More in our latest #GoldInvestor: https://t.co/W1mJwf0JrP https://t.co/TFUmQdCILK
When trouble strikes, where should you hide? The case for gold.
It’s good to see mainstream financial ‘newspapers’ talk about gold, but this article repeats the common fallacy that gold is good only for bad times.
Gold is more than just that.
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The collapse of Lehman Brothers 10 years ago had widespread global implications, including a sustained shift in demand for gold. Find out more from our Chief Market Strategist, @JReade_WGC, in our latest edition of #GoldInvestor: https://t.co/4GvGyYkvIB https://t.co/L678hqBdiA
Reflections on the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
Paul Fisher was a senior figure at the Bank of England for over 26 years – a member of the Monetary Policy Committee from 2009–2014 and Executive Director for Markets during most of the Great Financial Crisis. He considers the origins of the crisis and whether it could happen again.
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Leading economist @krogoff suggests that society has an excessive reliance on paper money and that as cash fades from view, gold will retain and almost certainly increase its value and role. Read more from @krogoff in our latest edition of #GoldInvestor: https://t.co/nXMZqW2Po4 https://t.co/B4cAktX7EJ
The curse of cash and the allure of gold
In his book The Curse of Cash, leading economist Ken Rogoff suggests that excessive reliance on paper money is responsible for ills ranging from tax evasion to terrorism. He also believes that monetary policy would be more effective in a largely cashless society. Cryptocurrencies are not an effective replacement for paper money, he says, but gold’s role is likely to increase as cash fades from view.
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Want to learn more about the @AAOIFI_ORG Shari'ah Standard? Watch an interview with our Managing Director, Central Banks & Public Policy, Natalie Dempster, to hear how it has opened up opportunities for Islamic investments in gold: https://t.co/KyX23hxTJF https://t.co/jSw1HDfIaO
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The central bank of Hungary made one of the largest purchases during 2018, increasing its gold reserves ten-fold in October to 32t. More #GDT: https://t.co/KjGHrcWlGA https://t.co/aUZcsaO7j0
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Louise Street of our Market Intelligence team, introduces our new #GoldDemandTrends report with key highlights on central bank holdings from FY and Q4 2018: https://t.co/zl7jrMLXse https://t.co/CTnDZjZHM2
Value addition and innovation potential in gold coin market in india is untapped. Branded coins, particularly the Indian gold coin, could offer neat gifting choices for millennials and enable circulation “as is” among friends and family. Coins eventually promote jewellery buying. https://t.co/Wk59Zqjs6D
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India’s bar and coin market faced challenges through the year, down 4% in 2018. However, continued innovation in the investment market with mobile apps and online platforms is making gold more available to investors. More in #GDT: https://t.co/R3ee7ufUY2 https://t.co/ULFSt2FitF
