What is "gold bug"

n. (context finance English) A person with a particularly great enthusiasm for investing in gold (the metal).

Gold bug (sometimes spelled goldbug) is a term frequently employed in the financial sector and among economists in reference to persons who are extremely bullish on the commodity gold as an investment and or a standard for measuring wealth. Depending on the circumstances the term can have one or a combination of closely related and often overlapping themes that extend beyond the support for gold as an investment, including in some cases the use of the term as a pejorative.

A gold bug is a person who is bullish on gold and related investment products, and or supports the use of the gold standard.

Gold bug or Goldbug may also refer to:

• " The Gold-Bug", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• "The Gold Bug" (short story), a short story by Orson Scott Card
• Goldbug (band), a British band active during the mid-to-late 1990s
• Goldbug (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Goldbug (Transformers), several characters from the Transformers toy line
• Goldbug, a character in Richard Scarry's children's books
• The name formerly used by Oklahoma City University athletic teams
• "The Gold Bug", an instrumental song by the Alan Parsons Project on the album The Turn of a Friendly Card
• Goldbug, Kentucky