Another reason is Chinese upper middle class use real estate as a store of value.
The rich buy apartments and often leave them empty, treating them as a store of value.
Universally recognized as a store of value, gold can be bought and sold in any country.
Gold is indeed attractive to people as a store of value when political or economic tragedy strikes.
Those who doubt the continued worth of paper money as a store of value point to two things.
Gold is viewed as a store of wealth and a hedge against inflation, as well as a traditional gift.
Gold is supposed to act as a store of value during inflationary times.
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Over time, the police built up a store of information that they used to solve all sorts of crimes.
Diamonds would merely have held their own as a store of value.
Power and Associates rankings of smartphone manufacturers and, in March, achieved a store of 839 on a 1, 000 point scale.
Gold is generally a benefactor of this flight to riskier assets as many investors see it as a store of value.
In time, a globally traded yuan could emerge as a store of value on par with the dollar, euro and yen.
This year, fears of inflation have driven many Chinese investors to include gold in their portfolios as a store of value.
It would take years for the SDR to be widely accepted as a means of exchange and a store of value.
They are also generally used by men as a store of treasure. (Cited in An Arab Philosophy of History) by C.
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She started a store of her own many years ago selling handmade soaps, body oils, candles, lotions, sugar scrubs and other beauty products.
In this context, society can be defined as those mutual users willing to agree to a medium of exchange and a store of value.
Then, as long as it is producing more than it consumes, it can convert the surplus into a store of value for future needs.
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This should increase liquidity as the ECB throws money at the problem, and liquidity favors gold, as it is used by many as a store of value.
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So even if Mr. Marshall had been filing every year in Pennsylvania he would not have a store of losses to use in the big income year.
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Many wealthy Chinese buy property as a store of value.
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But others see potential for market participants to return to gold as a store of value, particularly if traders see more worrisome headlines about sovereign debt around the world.
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But they are buying assets in a currency that is steadily losing its worth as a store of value, which should presumably be set against any possible advantages for their exporters.
Investors in gold might get a store of value (although that rather depends upon when you buy and sell) but investors in productive assets are gaining rents, incomes, dividends over the years.
Fire officials said Thursday afternoon that a hazardous materials team will deal with a store of highly toxic pesticides that caught fire at a Laguna Farms property near the university, according the Ventura County Star.
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