Olympic gold medals are silver with just a patina of gold. The last solid gold gold medal was…
About six years ago, when the chatter about the gold standard (admittedly stirred up, in considerable part, by me)…
Not all of the epic figures of history found gold endearing.
Per Gaius Plinius Secundus, commonly known as Pliny the Elder, in his The Natural History, Book 33, section 3:
Some critics of gold (and of the gold standard) are concerned by the environmental toxicity of the cyanide now used to…
Indian culture long has held a high appreciation for gold.
The ancient Greeks, much like India, told of a long-lost golden age.
Robert Frost famously wrote a rather melancholy poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay:
The great Restoration diarist Samuel Pepys confided, to his diary, on May 19, 1663…