In the pantheon of commodities with nice price runs over the past several years, gold has a special shine.

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For nearly 5, 000 years, humans have taken a shine to gold, and it has been used as a medium of exchange by Egyptians, Romans, and governments and individuals into the modern era.

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While inflation may not be an issue currently and gold is at all time record highs, Kantor expects that if the economy recovers steadily, some of the shine will be taken off gold.

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In a months-long fall this year, gold stopped behaving as usual and lost its shine as a safe-haven play.

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