Those were the days, my friend

Julian Baring, the late legendary gold bug, was certainly there in spirit.

Last week, a group of white, middle-aged and elderly millionaires met for dinner at Brooks, the swanky club in London's St James. The former partners of James Capel held a reunion that made a small hole in the interest on the £80m in 1985 money they shared when they sold to HSBC.

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