I've had mixed feelings about gold for years now and still do.  There seems to be an undertone of impending doom that doesn't seem to be abating in the least, but I'm not sure what's coming.  We had a global financial crisis in 2008 that went on for years; I'm not certain if we're going to get another one or if armageddon is coming, e.g., nuclear war or a severe terrorist strike.  If it's the latter, we need to be buying survival stuff like seeds and land instead of gold. 

I'm not sure what all this buying of gold was on the part of the governments.  That doesn't seem to indicate doomsday, but I don't have an explanation--and I distrust what I read about such things.