Something about gold just makes people irrational. The latest meme making the rounds in the mainstream media is that gold is a bad investment over the longer term. A couple of radio hosts asked me about it, and even Bloomberg ran a story on this earlier this week, saying that gold can’t beat the returns on a checking account over the last 30 years. The rest of the story was about while hedge fund managers are buying gold, it’s a poor investment for regular folks. There’s so much wrong wrapped around the one nugget of truth in the Bloomberg story that it’s hard to know where to begin. But I’ll try.
And before I do, let me just say that if you really think gold is a poor investment, go sell your gold, please. I want gold to get cheaper. Why? Because my subscribers are waiting to BUY gold again, and we’d love to buy your gold on the cheap. Despite the recent correction — a normal and necessary part of any bull market — the long-term trend in gold is way, way up.
Now, as for the canard that gold is a bad investment, let’s see …
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