The metal with a mind of its own

The world is full of vain 'world improvers', says Bill Bonner. They cause global mayhem in their efforts to make the rest of us just like them. There's only one way to protect yourself and your assets from the results: buy gold.

The world is full of vain world improvers', says Bill Bonner. They cause global mayhem in their efforts to make the rest of us just like them. There's only one way to protect yourself and your assets from the results: buy gold.

The trouble with the big wide world is that it is never quite good enough for some people. They keep trying to improve it. Alexander the Great' must be a great hero to the world improvers - at least, that is how Oliver Stone presented him. In its most memorable (in a bad way) scene, Alexander turns his face to the sky and dreams of a better world... hardly noticing his friend dying on the bed next to him. Like all world improvers, then and now, the only better world Alexander can see is a reflection of his own! He wanted to remake Babylon into a Greek city.

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