Reuters interviews Mark O'Byrne of GoldCore about the outlook for investor demand for gold, and the best way to own gold today.

You can read the interview here.

Contributing editor to Money Week, Dominic Frisby, has just released an excellent video - ‘Gold: Independent Money’.

A picture paints a thousand words and a video hundreds of thousands of words and this is a very informative video about our modern monetary system, fiat currencies and gold. It shows how fiat money has led to wars, massive debt, social inequality, economic bubbles, rampant consumerism, and environmental destruction.

 Irish people have a rare opportunity to get within touching distance and see a gold bullion bar at the Trinity Science Exhibition. The 'Elements: The Beauty of Chemistry' exhibition opened on Friday in the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and runs from July 15th until September 23rd.

GoldCore has just launched an interesting and informative video – 'GoldNomics' – in order to help further educate the public internationally about gold.

* 'GoldNomics' conveys gold's historical and continuing importance

* Gold's extreme rarity, liquidity & safe haven status explained

* Video uses music, images, facts and quotations to show how gold is a proven store of value throughout history and an important diversification today

Selected highlights of the latest  ‘Popular Delusions’ note from Société Générale’s Dylan Grice:

Gold bugs of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your exposure to fiat currencies.

Or so says leading hedgie and Wall Street throw back Paul Tudor Jones, who in his latest missive to investors has gone soft at the knees for the yellow metal:

"I have never been a gold bug. It is just an asset that, like everything else in life, has is time and place. And now is that time."

Rousing stuff indeed.

Gold has surpassed its all time record high ($1,033/oz) of some 18 months ago today, and surged to a new record nominal high over $1,040/oz this morning. The reasons for gold's new record historic high and likely continuing strength in the coming months are the same fundamental factors that have been driving the gold market higher in recent months.

Gold rallied 2% following news that China’s state holdings of the metal have been quietly raised by 76% since 2003. Rumours and speculation about Chinese buying have been rife for years, but many market participants remained in denial until this irrefutable proof was given. China is not only the world’s largest mine producer of gold, but also the fifth-largest individual country holder of gold with 1,054t.

Adrian Douglas of Market Force Analysis writes that in his experience, most ordinaly people have difficulty understanding why gold is the investment opportunity of a life time. Blaming the messenger, he explains it in simple terms, making a distinction between consumables and collectables: