Jeweler Les Harrell of Littleton, Colorado, struck gold when he had the idea to give people cash for their gold -- at parties.

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It wasn't just the idea of paying gold-watch prices for stainless-steel models that hampered the early adoption of the Royal Oak and the Nautilus.

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"The thing that really upset me was the idea that I was this gold-digger, " she said.

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Since the exchange rate is a binary issue, not distorted by an overhang of global liquidity, we take euro-dollar stability and falling gold as rejecting the idea of a Fed rate cut.

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One idea is to buy an intangible that tracks gold--such as an exchange-traded fund.

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The idea that shale-gas will become the next gold rush is therefore jeopardized, particularly because its production requires seven times the amount of water as does the extraction of conventional natural gas.

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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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You get a fatter yield in small cap Gold Resources (GORO), but the better idea may be to stick with a well-known name where the top three officers are not related.

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Lindsey, a former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, is open to the idea of free-market currencies, and there is a growing movement to incorporate gold into the global monetary system.

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