Global demand for gold has driven its price up to as much as $5,500 per ounce. Daniel McDowell, a political scientist at Syracuse University and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, tells The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler that gold’s rising value is connected to rising instability being felt around the globe.
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