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Palantir Buys Gold Bars as Hedge Against ‘Black Swan Event’

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Re: Palantir Buys Gold Bars as Hedge Against ‘Black Swan Event’

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Gold tends to go up with inflation, but down with everything else in minor and financial panics - just look at the beginning of covid, or Sept 2008. And you don't need the gold bars in your vault when markets are relatively functional. This seems to be more a case of some preparedness against real extremes, like war with China, USD collapse, etc.

Re: Palantir Buys Gold Bars as Hedge Against ‘Black Swan Event’

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It protects their balance sheet / investors by providing risk mitigation via hedged assets.

couldn't their investors buy gold directly?

Yes. It is only rational if Palintir has non-public information that predicts that gold is undervalued.
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