And domestic growth is becoming the important emerging-market story: hundreds of millions of people are earning enough to let them rapidly accumulate higher-value consumer goods, from cars to computers.

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As a value investor, Miller likes to accumulate stocks that have fallen to new lows.

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One would need to accumulate tonnes in order to be able to gain anything like real metals value.

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