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Why is gold going up?
The distilled expert answer: governments must fund deficits that politics won't shrink, so policymakers choose currency debasement over bond-market failure — and gold is the hedge that has no issuer. Expert conviction: 90/100.
Synthos Score (parent prediction): 90/100 · graded in public
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