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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 292807, member: 3011&quot;]The case just isn&#039;t that clear-cut.&nbsp; If you invested your money in January 1970, the London gold price was $34.94 [now about $827] and the S&amp;P500 was 85.28 [now about 1504].&nbsp; Of course the stocks throw off dividend income, and sophisticated gold investors generate income selling covered calls, but a closer look reveals that there are times to be in stocks and times to be in bullion.&nbsp; Nothing works best all of the time and there is usually more good than harm done by putting money into various asset classes and periodically rebalancing them.&nbsp; If you consult a good financial advisor they should explain this.&nbsp; If you consult an index fund salesman, they probably won&#039;t.&nbsp; They also probably won&#039;t explain that you can outperform the S&amp;P500 by buying equal dollar amounts of every stock in the index, which takes advantage of the way it is constructed.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that&#039;s getting waaaaayyyy off topic.&nbsp; The point is that owning a little gold and silver isn&#039;t a bad thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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