Gold A Niche Investment

Gold is a scarce natural resource and its scarcity helps keep it valuable. Unlike paper money gold cannot be printed to order. In the turmoil of todays financial markets currency is being generated from nothing in the trillions but historically currencies which are not backed by precious metals have a tendency of being worth less over the years. Typically these currencies end up being worth nothing. For example the US dollar lost 98% of its purchasing power in the twentieth

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