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username18333

One nice thing about gold is that it makes no claim on other assets (similarly it has no counterparty risk, a risk of theft, yes).  You sit there with your gold, you hurt no one.  Sit there with your silver or platinum, conceivably you are contributing to a scarcity of metals needed by industry.

tabnloz

Yes, it is interesting how so many of the young could care less about gold.

Gold, of course, is of interesting to bearing guys.  Must be a metals thing or sumpin'...