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They say the currency is unsound, political, debased, endlessly managed. They say it is manipulated at the source and diluted at the edge. They say it cannot be trusted except as a temporary convenience, cannot be believed except by force of habit, cannot be honoured except inside a system that demands more faith precisely as it deserves less. And yet, when gold rises against it, they suddenly treat its judgment as definitive. They say the ruler is bent, then use the bent ruler to measure th