It’s Come To This: Gold Vending Machine Debuts In German Airport

Monday, June 29, 2009 - 14:07 in Mathematics & Economics

Gold has long represented a safe haven for nervous investors, and the latest financial meltdown has again borne witness to skyrocketing gold prices. Now a German company hopes to capitalize on public distrust of banks by putting real, solid gold bars into those sweaty hands via vending machines, the first of which was just installed in Frankfurt Airport. Right next to the iPod machine. read more

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