[expat_panama]

"...room for certain types of gold buyers on these threads without them being ridiculed.  I believe that theres room in ones portfolio for PM."

FWIW I can dig up lots of old threads that were high jacked from issues and thrown into name-calling by the gold peddlers.   Why bother, we got this one right here.

First a financial news article gets posted and an investor (like Todd) posts graphed data and comment.    Gold peddlers don't come back with more numbers --they snipe about "worthless paper".  Even your stat about the 10% PM recommendation-- serious investors don't care about what some gold seller recommends, he only cares about stats that show what's happening, like Todd's graph.

Serious investors work for a living so they lean heavy on the numbers.  SOP on these threads is for the gold peddlers to shift the conversation from numbers to emotion.

[Fan of Fiat]

Bottom line for Fan of Fiat... If you want to invest in gold, go ahead. I really don't care. Just don't post a bunch of emotionally driven, economically inaccurate crap trying to convince others to do the same.

[winodog]

I did not see any name calling by gold peddlers on this thread. Matter of fact I dont think any gold peddlers have posted in this thread.