A few years ago, my mother gave me a gold Krugerrand. She inherited it from her own mother in South Africa, where gold has long doubled as an insurance policy against collapse. In a country plagued by currency crises, inflation, market volatility and political upheaval, the gold coin was a fail-safe if everything else went pear-shaped.
幾年前，我母親送給我一枚克魯格金幣，那是她從自己的母親那里繼承的。在南非，黃金長期以來就是對抗崩潰的“保險”。在這個飽受貨幣危機、通脹、市場波動和政治動蕩困擾的國家，這枚金幣意味著：如果一切都垮了，至少還留有最后的底牌。
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