Joe Weisenthal, Columnist

How Donald Trump Changed My Mind About Gold

It's not about wealth. It's about power.

Raw power.

Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg
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If you poke around on the internet, you'll find a lot of people who have criticized me for being a "gold hater." Here are two different pieces that took me just a few seconds to find. There are plenty of tweets out there saying the same thing.

These people have been basically right. Over the years, I've said a lot of bad stuff about gold -- how it's a lousy currency, how it's just a rock that shouldn't have any value, how love of it is primitive and irrational, how it has no justifiable basis in the economy.