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John Konrad says demand for gold is way up.
I stopped by this coin shop in downtown Seattle the other day and met John Konrad. He sells stamps and collectibles but really, Konrad is in it for the love of money. "Real money," he tells me, not that fiat paper stuff you probably think of as money. He's talking about gold.
Konrad says he has never seen demand for gold like this before. He can't get his hands on enough. Customers want to stock up. In normal times at the Stamp and Coin Shop, it's a wait of a day or two for big order. Now it's weeks and Konrad is reluctantly turning business away.
Even young people, he exclaims (defined by Konrad as under 50 years-old), are coming in and asking for gold!
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