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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 453866, member: 3011&quot;]Gold and silver coins are not an &quot;investment&quot; the way stocks or businesses are investments.&nbsp; They are a cash substitute similar to holding foreign currencies except that they are more inflation resistant.&nbsp; Of course it isn&#039;t true that they don&#039;t generate a yield.&nbsp; Larger investors use basis-trading techniques to earn risk free interest on their bullion holdings.&nbsp; You can&#039;t do this with a couple of one ounce coins, but the opportunity exists.&nbsp; It is somewhat surprising that no institution has formed a mutual fund where small investors can pool their money to do this the way the big guys do.&nbsp; And to anticipate the response, no, the gold and silver ETFs don&#039;t use basis trading to generate a yield so they aren&#039;t what I&#039;m talking about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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