Why Buy Gold  I am usually asked, why should I buy gold? Why not
buy stocks or shares or forex or even different commodities such
as seed or pork bellies for example.  Today the US dollar is
price some eighty p.c less than it did 40 years ago. This
development in the decreasing worth of the dollar means that it
now buys lower than 5 p.c of what it did some forty years ago.
Currency is just not a good purchase under these circumstances.
Stocks and shares are topic to so many variables equivalent to
market developments, company director and management decisions
and so on. Agricultural commodities are topic to unpredictable
variables such as the climate for example. Few commodities have
constantly managed to retain their value come what may. One
among these is gold.  Unlike different commodities, gold keeps
it purchasing power. Whereas each year it takes extra dollars to
purchase the identical quantity of goods or providers, this
doesn’t apply to gold. An oz of gold will purchase immediately
precisely the same a