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richardhutnik on 16 April 2013
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Kasz216 said:
richardhutnik said:
Kasz216 said:
No one said gold doesn't have bubbles. Just that gold is resistant and will never be worthless and always retain some value.

Don't be shocked if gold recovers actually fairly quickly.

Afterall the silly rise of Bitcoins more or less shows how much people trust paper currencies now.

I am not going to say that tangible assets, as opposed to paper ones, don't have value.  Just gold is made out to me some sort of universal place to park results of financial transactions, in order to make sure you are safe. But, what I see is people merely drive the price up and make it a bubble, as about anything else.  Even real estate, which has more real value, can be subject to the bubble nature.  There is this distortion that goes one the moment it starts to get hyped up.

It isn't though.  Gold is a focus.  So is Silver though.

They are because they are essentially the most eaisly attainable/valuable matrieals.

Also... i'd argue that gold has more real value then real estate.

5 pounds of gold in LA, 5 pounds of gold in Detroit.  It's more or less worth the same.

Real Estate?  Good luck giving away real estate in Detroit. 

Note, when I say real estate, i mean property with some value to do something constructive.  Gold has little intrinsic value at this point.  It makes a near perfect metal to give away because of its attributes though.  But, like all currency, it depends upon people wanting it.  I am of the belief the perfect currency is something with no intrinsic value (so it doesn't get consumed or used) BUT everyone wants?  Think for a minute how the heck something with no intrinsic value is something that everyone wants.  That attribute shows up heavily in bubble situations.