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Which will come out on top: paper or gold?
• www.timesonline.co.ukThe theory of the 19th-century gold standard was that gold was “real money” in the same way as landed property was “real estate”. All types of paper money are capable of being created by banks or governments, so the supply is potentially unlimited.