Quote Originally Posted by alancohen View Post
Same premise with gold sales. Whenever the ecomomy goes in the tank all the commercials for gold start up again saying the price is going to go through the roof and it's the best investment on the planet. If it was such a good investment, why are you selling it?
The problem is that those commercials aren't selling gold. They're selling you a worthless piece of paper that says you own gold.................. which likely does not physically exist.

Gold and Silver in their actual physical state will always be, and have always been excellent long term investments. But, to be secure investments, you need to possess precious metals in their physical state, not in "shorts", or certificates, or any other fungible proxy.