As many have told me during my interviews with them, physical gold should not be looked at as an investment, but more like an insurance policy against the bad decisions of our leaders, which happen all too often.+
In this article, David Smith talks about how to treat gold & silver right, so they treat you well as well.
He concludes it by saying that one should look at gold and silver as insurance against a decline in your other assets, and only Secondarily for possible investment gains, has never been more relevant than it is today as markets across the board -including the metals – gyrate, on a metaphorical tightrope over an abyss!
The insurance aspect has become critical. And the asymmetric potential of risking a modest amount of depreciating currency for the possibility of gaining a lot more depreciating currency (!) has never been greater.
