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Why Is Gold the Only Real Money? And Why Doesn’t It Rust? Imagine you find a treasure chest buried 500 years ago. What would you rather find inside? A stack of banknotes that are now just worthless paper? Shares of a trading company that went bankrupt long ago? Or a few gold coins? The answer is ob…

Why Is Gold the Only Real Money? And Why Doesn’t It Rust? Imagine you find a treasure chest buried 500 years ago. What would you rather find inside? A stack of banknotes that are now just worthless paper? Shares of a trading company that went bankrupt long ago? Or a few gold coins? The answer is obvious. Gold. But have you ever wondered why? After all, you can’t eat it, we don’t build houses with it, and industry uses only a fraction of it. So why has humanity been obsessed with it for 5,000 yea