Planet Money is totally reading my blog...

Actually, that's probably not true. But they did have a quick discussion about the nature of the value of gold (see recent post, What's money worth?).

From The Friday Podcast: Gold!

"The guy who sells it to us says he doesn't know why it's worth anything at all. And a fund manager with millions of dollars invested in gold told tells us it's a mistake to try to make sense of it."