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Gold's rise to ever higher prices has coincided with — and some would say, been driven by — a loss of faith in fiat money as doubts have grown about the basic economic competence of the world's most important governments and economic institutions, since the near-catastrophic meltdown of the financial markets in September 2008.

When the creation of money sufficiently hurts the actual and prospective returns of cash and debt assets, it drives flows out of those assets and into inflation-hedge assets like gold, commodities, inflation-indexed bonds, and other currencies (including