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Interesting article on what the high-end investors are turning toward.  I can’t even imagine a “ton” of gold.  How big would that be?  Interesting commentary on what is occurring in our economies…the key being “moving assets out of the financial system”.  Who does that leave in them?

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The world’s wealthiest people have responded to economic worries by buying gold by the bar — and sometimes by the ton — and by moving assets out of the financial system, bankers catering to the very rich said on Monday

Fears of a double-dip downturn have boosted the appetite for physical bullion as well as for mining company shares and exchange-traded funds, UBS executive Josef Stadler told the Reuters Global Private Banking Summit.

“They don’t only buy ETFs or futures; they buy physical gold,” said Stadler, who runs the Swiss bank’s services for clients with assets of at least $50 million to invest.

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