a question for the gold bugs, page-17

Interesting question why gold attracts so much excitement. It must be in our genes! People go panning for a few specks and get very excited to get ten dollars worth of gold for a hundred dollars worth of effort. Many people have died for gold, whole civilisations destroyed for it. They haven't died for fertiliser.
It doesn't have quite the same aura around it. Gold is in our blood. If you find a gold coin on the street you pick it up immediately, if you find the same value in horse compost you hold your nose.