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<p>[QUOTE="InfleXion, post: 1429964, member: 29012"]Gold and silver have outperformed most every other investment vehicle over the past decade other than a few hand picked high performing stocks. Silver may be wildly volatile but gold is not so much. It's not really fair to lump them together in that. Also, the volatility that is there is because of margin requirement changes and speculators that are enabled by paper silver - not because the real market is actually volatile. Regardless, volatility doesn't imply bad performance. Volatility is necessary to reach new highs, so I don't see it as a bad thing personally. It just means that you have to have conviction in your decisions to avoid being shaken out. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'd be interested in this supposed 1000 year trend being spoke of. Gold was money throughout that span, and the only thing that changed was that one day we started measuring gold in dollars instead of dollars in ounces of gold. Gold moves because of monetary policy and perceived future monetary policy. To say that gold is going down in value implies two things that I disagree with. First being that gold has retained its purchasing power for the most part throughout that span, and the second being that gold's value never really changed - only the value of the currency measuring it has. Besides, what else could you have invested in 1000 years ago? Did they have stocks and bonds back then? Maybe, but not anything that has value today. Did they have currency back then? Yes, but nothing that's worth more than it's value as a collectible today. So what has gold gone down in value in relation to exactly? It's quite a broad and unquantified statement being made here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="InfleXion, post: 1429964, member: 29012"]Gold and silver have outperformed most every other investment vehicle over the past decade other than a few hand picked high performing stocks. Silver may be wildly volatile but gold is not so much. It's not really fair to lump them together in that. Also, the volatility that is there is because of margin requirement changes and speculators that are enabled by paper silver - not because the real market is actually volatile. Regardless, volatility doesn't imply bad performance. Volatility is necessary to reach new highs, so I don't see it as a bad thing personally. It just means that you have to have conviction in your decisions to avoid being shaken out. I'd be interested in this supposed 1000 year trend being spoke of. Gold was money throughout that span, and the only thing that changed was that one day we started measuring gold in dollars instead of dollars in ounces of gold. Gold moves because of monetary policy and perceived future monetary policy. To say that gold is going down in value implies two things that I disagree with. First being that gold has retained its purchasing power for the most part throughout that span, and the second being that gold's value never really changed - only the value of the currency measuring it has. Besides, what else could you have invested in 1000 years ago? Did they have stocks and bonds back then? Maybe, but not anything that has value today. Did they have currency back then? Yes, but nothing that's worth more than it's value as a collectible today. So what has gold gone down in value in relation to exactly? It's quite a broad and unquantified statement being made here.[/QUOTE]
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