Legendary US investor Warren Buffett -- in a 2011 letter to shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway investment group -- famously compared the entire world's gold stock of 170,000 metric tons, valued at $9.6 trillion (pile A) with another set of assets costing an equal amount (pile B).
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