In Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger, the titular villain bemoans that his chosen area of art has been overlooked. “Man has achieved miracles in every human endeavour… except crime!”. In order to rectify this, and prove himself an artist, he plans to rob Fort Knox (spoiler alert: it does not work). But in the film version, Goldfinger’s

Sharp rises in the price of precious metals and other commodities present an enormous opportunity to investors, the mining sector and countries reliant on the exportation of natural resources. Fearful of higher inflation – a result of the vast stimulus packages being injected into almost all major economies – speculators great and small are increasingly