Jeweler Les Harrell of Littleton, Colorado, struck gold when he had the idea to give people cash for their gold -- at parties.
The prevailing view is that a win for Democrat Barack Obama would mean higher gold prices on the idea of the status quo continuing, and win for Republican Mitt Romney would mean lower gold prices on thoughts that he might replace Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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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.
The idea of offering gold as collateral to get cheaper loans is common practice in Asia.
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Actually, I agree that some form of an international gold standard is a good idea.
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.
The spat may be a little academic a budget committee mainly rejected the idea of selling gold but the suspicious see Mr Welteke as playing a scapegoat for an irritated Mr Eichel.
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That seems like a good idea since keeping gold in your basement is risky, keeping it in your safe deposit box is impractical, and owning the metal makes it more complicated to sell.
He advocates less for a gold standard than for an idea of Friedrich Hayek, the Nobel laureate who came to favor what he called the denationalization of money and a system centered on private coinage and currency that would compete with government-issued money.
Governments, greedy to spend their gold reserves, warmed to this idea, particularly during the 1930s depression.
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The heart of the gold standard has always been the idea of an external, impersonal and automatic discipline on the temptation to manipulate money.
But the movie is held together visually by the many shades, indoors and out, of the glorious Roman gold ochre and thematically by the idea of seizing the moment the magic you make for yourself by not being afraid.
"The thing that really upset me was the idea that I was this gold-digger, " she said.
At least gold investors seem to have a better idea of what is going on.
So it would seem that Milton Friedman thinks that the gold standard of 1873 was a really bad idea.
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The general idea among most economists is that gold would be a step backward for our modern monetary system the equivalent of trading in an automobile for a horse and buggy.
The gold or Google question also tickles a much larger idea.
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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But Banagale comes back again to the idea of Bitcoin as a currency backed by gold.
One idea is to buy an intangible that tracks gold--such as an exchange-traded fund.
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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Buying gold as a hedge against a failing economy seems to be the best idea so far, but now it seems that everyone has the same idea.
Follow only the gold-bug blogs, and you might think the Financial Times kicked off the idea on Monday night.
Apple took a more playful approach to the idea of personal computing, and it paid off in a river of gold.
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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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The idea of defining the value of the dollar in terms of the value of a fixed weight of gold is not a radical notion.
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