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Gold bars of various sizes lie in a safe on a table at the precious metal dealer Pro Aurum. (Photo by Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Gold "shines" during volatile times

Daria Solovieva
Zac Efron in "Gold" (Screen Media)

Zac Efron is worth his weight in "Gold"

Gary M. Kramer
Artist's impression of a hot and dense accretion disk around a black hole, which can be a rich production site of heavy elements. Neutron-rich material is ejected from the disk, enabling the rapid neutron-capture process (r-process). The light blue region is a particularly fast ejection of matter, called a jet, which typically originates parallel to the disk's rotation axis. (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)

There's gold in them thar black holes

Nicole Karlis
Using a hydraulic hammer, miners mine roof slate in an underground pit (Thomas Frey/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COVID disrupting global mining industry

John Steen - The Conversation
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(Illustration by Anastasya Eliseeva, courtesy of New Frame.)

Ghana's stolen wealth

Celina della Croce - Independent Media Institute
Mohammad Bin Salman (Shutterstock/AP/Salon)

MBS takes his show on the road to China

Edward Goldberg
Thomas S. Kaplan (YouTube/The Economist)

Billionaire's sketchy Iran bet

Eli Clifton
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-923639p1.html'>vasabii</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Sarah Gray
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Jess Zimmerman - GlobalPost
(AP/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)

Bill Carter
Paul Krugman (AP/Lai Seng Sin)

Krugman slams bitcoin

Elias Isquith
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Swindling dumb conservatives

Alex Seitz-Wald
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Traders on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

Pan Pylas
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-73686p1.html'>Denis Vrublevski</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Paul Ames, Amy Silverstein - GlobalPost
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Jillian Rayfield
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Beck-backed gold fraud?

Alex Seitz-Wald
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U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas during the artistic gymnastics women's individual all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) (Gregory Bull)

Golden Gabby!

Salon Staff
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