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Gold ~ Monthly
Since uranium is a big topic due to today's news...I don't know who needs to hear this, but gold is an element on the periodic table that can be created in a lab via nuclear reaction. Thus far, technology has not advanced enough to make it worthwhile from a cost and resource standpoint, but there was a time in history when we believed extracting crude oil from fissures in shale rock formations was impractical. High prices tend to bring about innovation; if such innovation occurs in gold, the human value we have assigned to a pretty rock disappears. I am not predicting this will happen, but the truth is the value of gold is arguably arbitrary, and like fine art or baseball cards, that value is not guaranteed.