Buiter on gold, Bitcoin and subjective value
By GCRU Gold News on Thursday, November 27 2014, 23:56 - Permalink
Someone once wisely said, “if you love something, let it go. If it returns, it’s yours; if it doesn’t, it never was.”
But as Willem Buiter, chief economist at Citi, points out on Thursday, that’s not the message those with a tendency for passion investments seem to have ever received. They want to imprison the thing they love most and keep them in a dark dingy basement.