[Travis McGee]

"Well, then for the same reason as buying gold, you might as well by used bricks, gravel, copper, cords of wood, rubber bands, or whatever."

So sayeth Mr. Super Financial Genius. ROTFLMAO.

[dennisw]

"Well, then for the same reason as buying gold, you might as well by used bricks, gravel, copper, cords of wood, rubber bands, or whatever."

"professional' is oblivious. Gold is unlike anything else. You hold a gold coin in your hand and you feel a little zing. For thousands of years other people have felt this same zing. Gold ain't top of the heap for nothing

I'd love to own $50,000 worth of oil futures or pork bellies or copper. But gold is quite a bit different except to the oblivious. Not in denial, just totally oblivious to gold down through human history