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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Unless you are expecting everything to go to hell like will there is no real point to investing in gold.
If you put $100 dollars in gold at the turn of the century you would have less than $200 dollars worth today (adjusted).
Compare that to the stock market.
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This is what I meant by short-term investing in gold. Bear markets are a cyclical reality. Gold has its uses.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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