The gold Prospectors Association of America, a group that caters to recreational miners, saw membership nearly double in 2008 as the gold bug spreads.

美国淘金协会是一个迎合自主矿工的组织，在2008年黄金投资者增加之后其会员几乎增加了一倍。

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But the quintessential gold bug is an investor who expects every form of paper wealth to collapse, along with civilisation itself.

但是作为投资人——典型的黄金热徒们，他们只是希望任何形式的纸上财富全部崩溃，同时崩溃的还有文明本身。

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One of the invited speakers was to be Joachim Rotkopf, who was to lecture on the origins of European surrealism to be found in Poe's work, precisely the topic that had provoked the controversy with Professor Xavier Urquiza from Mendoza, and that had kept me so amused in the pages of The Gold-Bug, the Society journal.

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Follow only the gold-bug blogs, and you might think the Financial Times kicked off the idea on Monday night.

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Timing For decades, one of the best investment strategies has been to ignore the advice of gold bug James Dines.

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