Rare, malleable and immune to corrosion, gold made an ideal source of money before the development of modern currency. The impulse to hoard bullion as a hedge against inflation is one that many seem to find hard to resist, but the notion that the world is running out of the stuff is not. Yet that was the suggestion by the president of Barrick Gold, the world's largest producer, who spoke this week of “peak gold”, sparking headlines about the world running out.
在現代貨幣出現之前，稀有、可鍛造、不易被腐蝕的黃金一直是理想的金錢原料。儲存金條來抵御通貨膨脹，似乎是許多人都難以抵制的沖動，但黃金快要用光的想法卻并非普遍存在。然而，這正是全球最大黃金生產商巴里克黃金公司(Barrick Gold)總裁的觀點。他本周發表的“黃金生產已見頂”的言論，引發了有關黃金將被用光的諸多報道。
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