Comer says BarCap also plans to expand into gold storage as part of its services for customers who want to hold a stake in the physical asset.

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In the case of education, for example, a teachers' wages would come under current expenditure, while building a new school - a physical asset which will last a long time - would be classed as capital.

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The workers who perform the physical labor in an organization can be considered an asset.

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There are also some recent ETFs that I have heard physical gold bugs saying they are more comfortable with, including Central Gold Trust (GTU) , which now sells above its net asset value (NAV) and Sprott Physical Gold Trust (PHYS), which also trades above its NAV.

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