Two great contradictory thoughts on gold from Satyajit Das’s article in ET
“Gold is money. Everything else is credit.”-JPMorgan’s words to Congress in 1912
“A 15th-century gold bug who’d stored all his wealth in bullion, bequeathed it to his children and required them to do the same would be more than a little miffed when gazing down from his celestial place of rest to see the real wealth of his lineage decline by nearly 90% over the next 500 years.”-Dylan Grice of Societe Generale