He showed me into a lovely rose-coloured room with intricate plasterwork on the ceiling and walls.

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Comiskey anticipates safe-haven buying, recounting that when there was a stalemate during the debt-ceiling debate in late summer 2011, Treasury securities and gold rose.

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