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Stocks are one of the oldest financial products in the world, and somehow also one of the slowest. They trade five days a week, on a clock set by the New York and London business day. They take two days to settle. They live inside brokerage accounts, gated by country,

Gold has been money for roughly five thousand years, and for most of that history owning it meant holding it—a coin in a pocket, a bar in a vault. Only in the last forty years has gold become a stock-market product you can add to your portfolio in one