The world stock exchange has recently seen quite a rise in the price of gold. Over the past quarter-century, gold per ounce had not once topped the nine hundred dollar mark -- but this March, it came within ten dollars of reaching one thousand dollars per ounce.

This type of news doesn't usually grace the cyber pages at which we glance whilst wiping. Even as we must surely have our fair share of shameful stock-exchange fly-by-nighters, most of us come here to discuss real gold. The stuff we all produce. The real stock. And yet, during the past three months, these two human concerns were intermingled in a genuine contest -- nugget versus nugget holder -- as one of the world's most powerful jewelers contemplated melting down the world's most valuable toilet [1] in the name of the almighty dollar.

[2]

Hang Fung Gold Technology is a world powerhouse that's built its fortune on glittery shiny goodness, with over one-hundred-and-sixty stores spread across the globe. By melting down some gold, they could set up more stores in China, thus increasing their income later on. And yet, this global mogul had decided that their toilet is to remained unflushed.

That's right. They have decided to leave their golden throne alone, despite the fact that a cool thirty-two to thirty-five million dollars in revenue could be gathered by melting down one metric ton of their golden tourist attractions, the toilet being one of the heaviest. But while other objects will head to the smelter, the toilet will be left alone.

Why would a company dedicated to its investors financial growth decide that one of its heaviest -- and thus most valuable -- objects is too sacred to liquidate?

Sometimes publicity wins, I guess, and the eradication of an icon, no matter its shape, isn't worth the gain that would be incurred. Even though we're not talking about a statue dedicated to a living idol like Manny Pacquiao; we're talking about a plumbing fixture.

You know... more than any other BM Newswire I've researched, this one tells me that Dave is right in his aim to delve into the undercurrent of our collective cultures, striving to find the one throne we all worship. If a toilet holds the key making millionaire investors richer and is nevertheless left alone, there must be a lesson to be learned from beholding it in its unsullied state.