Why gold is money by Peter Boehringer

Peter Boehringer of DEG interviewed by James Turk of GoldMoney Foundation about the gold 's value and the physical reasons why it has been chosen, out of all physical elements, as money through the ages.Peter Boehringer : I am the first one to admit and I am a gold bug that there is not and will never be an objective value of an ounce of gold or silver , silver is a little bit different because it has good industrial use too , as to gold there is no objective value to it , psychology to some extent it is even metaphoric to some extent it has been around for so long that people some how transcend to some extent , people just believe in it , but there is a root cause to that the reason I think and I am a rational analyst here is physical strictly physical , if you look the periodic table of elements there are 160 elements so if e would pick one element to use as currency we will end up with practically only the precious metals gold silver platinum palladium and to some extent Rhodium , cause some of the elements in the table are liquid so we discard them some are gases some are just not scarce some of them may be too rare that you could not probably coin a thousand coins worldwide so that's not feasible too , some of them are toxic some of them are even radioactive so it is not something feasible , so you can go on and on and scratch all the elements from the periodic table you will end up with the precious metals ...so for all those reasons and othrs gold and silver have become the national money

10 Interesting Facts about Gold

10 interesting facts about gold and gold bullion : Gold has a density of 19.282 it is one of the densest elements it is nearly twice as dense as lead but slightly lighter , it is denser than copper . The USA has the largest gold bullion reserves in the world ( at least as announced by the governments ) . the purity of gold is measured in carats a 24 carats equals 99.99% purity , 2k is 91.67% pure , 18k is 75% pure , 14k is 58.3% 12k is 50% , 10k is 41.67% pure , 9k is 37.5% pure . The South African Kruggerand was the first gold bullion coin to be mined (in 1967) and is today one of the most popular gold coin bullion along with the Canadian maple leaf and the American eagle . Modern gold medals must be 92.5% silver (not gold LOL ) and covered with 6gms of gold . The largest gold nugget ever found is called Welcome Stranger found in Australia in 1859 it weighted over 78kg and produced 71 kg of gold . The largest gold coin ever minted was created by the Royal Canadian Mint in 2007 it weights 100 kg and has 50cm in diameter . Gold is highly malleable , a single ounce can be turned into a 50 mile long thread of pure gold cable . As of 2009 all the gold mined in the world totaled 165.000 tons . This would fit into three Olympic sized swimming pools ( 20.4 meter cubed )




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BOB CHAPMAN - A MARINES DISQUISITION SHOW ON ECONOMICS- 2ND JUNE 2011

Bob Chapman :  people are going out of stocks into bonds , the FED keeping interest rates low , we gonna have more wars besides the 3 or 4 we are already in , only safe to be is gold and silver related assets ,we may have riots i America just like what's happening in the middle east and Europe