While gold has not recently seen fresh safe-haven investment demand due to the EU debt crisis, my bias is that a serious escalation in the crisis, such as the EU starting to break up, would see good safe-haven demand come back into the gold market.
"Marketing theory isn't affected by age bias, but marketers themselves are, " Stroud writes, blaming the bias on a marketing industry population that skews under 35 on the lack of an institutional commitment to break out of a comfort zone.