Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The price of gold today, as of 9:12 am ET, was $2,706.55 per ounce. That’s down 0.33% from yesterday’s gold price of $2,715.38.

Governments the world over choose to control the price of certain commodities for any number of reasons—and by many different means. The maple syrup reserve is merely one Canadian manifestation of ...