To purchase gold isn’t much different from hiding money in the proverbial coffee can. Yes, rising gold signals a little or a lot of economic decline. The yellow metal’s upward trajectory in dollars brings to mind a weekly gathering of old at Caltech. Professors wouldn’t talk about the experiments that worked, rather they’d revel in the ones that didn’t. That failed. As Caltech professor Carver Mead put it to George Gilder about those meetings of advanced minds, if all of your experiments work out as expecte ...