Advocate away. There are some on this thread who believe that making money off gold is somehow bad or evil, whereas if you make money selling a loan or a house you're pure as the driven snow. As for me, I plan to keep making money off gold. And as Larry David would say, things are looking pretty, pretty good right now:
http://www.jsmineset.com/cwsimages/Miscfiles/3452_Charts250906-1.pdf
I read as many of these threads as I find, being the curious type and also trying to sell my west coast property.
Pretty interesting times, to say the least.
If I had any extra money, I'd buy some gold. ALso some cheap fixers in an area that has had very little explosive growth in prices. But I don't, so it's all purely theoretical. Interesting, though.