Follow only the gold-bug blogs, and you might think the Financial Times kicked off the idea on Monday night.

FORBES: Is Gadhafi's Gold The Reason For The War We Wage?

One of the invited speakers was to be Joachim Rotkopf, who was to lecture on the origins of European surrealism to be found in Poe's work, precisely the topic that had provoked the controversy with Professor Xavier Urquiza from Mendoza, and that had kept me so amused in the pages of The Gold-Bug, the Society journal.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'

The firm is a spin-off of the old Polyconomics indie research firm run by gold bug and famous supply side economist Jude Wanniski.

FORBES: Gold 'Is Finished'

James Dines is a long-suffering gold bug and editor of The Dines Letter.

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