Margaret Thatcher and Gold
A look at what the Iron Lady's policies did for investors...
BACK in the 1960s Margaret Thatcher defended the right to own gold. Yet her policies as prime minister did not turn out to be very gold-friendly. Why?
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A look at what the Iron Lady's policies did for investors...
BACK in the 1960s Margaret Thatcher defended the right to own gold. Yet her policies as prime minister did not turn out to be very gold-friendly. Why?
Adrian Ash is director of research at BullionVault, the world-leading physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium market for private investors online. Formerly head of editorial at London's top publisher of private-investment advice, he was City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning from 2003 to 2008, and he has now been researching and writing daily analysis of precious metals and the wider financial markets for over 20 years. A frequent guest on BBC radio and television, Adrian is regularly quoted by the Financial Times, MarketWatch and many other respected news outlets, and his views from inside the bullion market have been sought by the Economist magazine, CNBC, Bloomberg, Germany's Handelsblatt and FAZ, plus Italy's Il Sole 24 Ore.
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