Operation Goldfinger
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Cash is nice, and stocks are fun, but nothing beats gold. Nothing. This sentiment was the focus of America’s ruling politicians in the mid-1960s. Fearing a gold shortage, President Kennedy remarked in a closed-door meeting “If everyone wants gold, we’re all going to be ruined because there is not enough gold to go around.” The gold standard was still a pillar of the U.S. economic system.