Why it's time to go shopping for gold

South African miners are digging deep as output falls. But whilst the world's supply of cheap gold is coming to an end, the supply of cheap money grows greater every day.

Once upon a time in the market place, says Economics 101, money had three primary functions.

A medium of exchange for buying and selling, money was also a unit of account for pricing those deals. Thirdly, it had to act as a store of value a way of freezing wealth, ready to spend at some point in the future.

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Adrian has written all things gold related from if it’s worth buying, what the real price of gold should be and what’s the point of gold for MoneyWeek. He has also written for other leading money titles on his gold expertise including Business Insider, Forbes, City A.M, Yahoo Finance and What Investment Magazine. Now Adrian is head of the research desk at BullionVault, a physical market for gold and silver for private investors online.