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How About a Fort Knox of Your Own?

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 7:51
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by Paul Sullivan
New York Times

THE last time the world as we knew it seemed likely to end, Dan Tapiero thought about buying gold.

He didn’t tell his wife; they didn’t talk about things like that. In fact he didn’t tell anyone for a while. He just tried to figure out how he was going to buy physical gold as the financial markets collapsed at the end of 2008.

Mining stocks were not for him, and neither was buying gold on the futures exchange. That was financial gold, meaning it existed on account statements but was not tangible. He wanted the real thing, gold in the form of bullion that he could hold in his palms, smudge with his thumbs.

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