"Steve Platt" is a United Kingdom/British journalist and former editor of the New Statesman magazine. The fortnightly Statesman column by John Pilger began in 1991, while Platt was editor, after the two men had worked together on media campaigns against the Gulf War/First Gulf war. Platt now writes for Red Pepper (magazine)/Red Pepper magazine.

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People for a long time had not been interested in the precious metals to any big degree, but now you have started to see them look at them once again as a flight to quality in terms of asset diversification.

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I think gold has kind of taken on a leadership role.

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This is not exactly the type of game you want at this stage. But you can't do anything about it but play hard.

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