You can search directly for the answer to a specific question but we recommend you browse. Information is arranged as readable articles which, accessed in sequence, will build you a good picture of gold and its market.
These are the main sections :-
The fundamental properties - physical & chemical properties, abundance, extraction methods, weights & measures, useful conversion tables.
Is gold money ? - practicality of use of gold as a form of money.
Monetary episodes from history - Descriptions of monetary systems of various types explaining what went right and what went wrong. Some entertaining financial mishaps.
Commodity ratios - the key numbers - statistics of total gold supply, comparisons of the world's gold with other stores of value, who owns all the world's gold, supply side characteristics etc.
Production and consumption - tables of annual production, consumption, geographic breakdown, and explanation of how the supply side shortage is made up
Introduction to trading - issues regarding trading physical gold. Getting to know how the market works.
Keep it safe - critical issues for gold investors in arranging that their gold is not lost to financial trickery or confiscation.
Trading gold futures - How the futures market works. The hidden costs and risks of trading futures.
How to buy gold - Lists the advantages and disadvantages, and estimates the trading costs, for 7 different ways to buy gold.
Other things to know - Information which gold investors should understand but which didn't fit anywhere else. Explanations of producer hedging, the gold 'carry' trade, GATA and the alleged gold conspiracy, and the Washington Agreement.
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