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Gold bug (sometimes spelled goldbug) is a term frequently employed in the financial sector and among economists in reference to persons who are extremely bullish on the commodity gold as an investment and or a standard for measuring wealth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Financial Dictionary )〕 Depending on the circumstances the term can have one or a combination of closely related and often overlapping themes that extend beyond the support for gold as an investment, including in some cases the use of the term as a pejorative. ==Various themes on the term gold bug== * An investor or speculator who is very bullish in buying the commodity gold, or similarly themed financial products such as junior mining companies, gold certificates, bullion efts, and other derivative instruments related to precious metals.〔 * A person who opposes or criticizes the use of fiat currency and supports a return to the use of the gold standard〔Gevinson, Alan. (Silverites, Populists, and the Movement for Free Silver ). (Teachinghistory.org ), accessed 18 December 2011.〕 or some other currency system based on the value of gold and other hard assets. * Someone who considers one commodity, usually gold, "the appropriate measure of wealth, regardless of the quantity of other goods and services that it can buy".〔〕 *A person, often with views summarized above, that subscribes to conspiracy theories relating to gold and silver, frequently including but not limited to, alleged manipulation of the price of precious metals and the supposed disappearance of gold held by the United States Government at Fort Knox.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=As price of gold falls, conspiracy theories rise )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Paranoids have enemies, radical gold bugs have Wall Street )〕 The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) is a small but prominent promoter of such conspiracy theories within the gold bug community.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=About GATA )〕 However, such persons are widely dismissed as cranks and their beliefs as fringe by reputable economists, business leaders and government officials.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=GATA and Gold: The Truth is Revealed )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Debunking the Post-CFTC Precious Metals Fear Mongering Campaign )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「gold bug」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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