Those buying and holding gold see the recent political bickering in the U.S. and European Union, unstable currency markets and flagging world economies as pointing them directly to what they perceive as the ultimate world currency: gold.

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Trump's comments go directly to the core of how people really invest and what they perceive as worth or value at any one given moment.

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