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Like buying gold. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6347#1523 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6347#1523 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:14:54 EDT Nice to see some counter to gold fever. However, what is an 1801 dollar (the paper one) worth now? http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6347#1522 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6347#1522 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:35:30 EDT It is true that gold as an "investment" may not make sense for most people, since then you are just treating it as a commodity -- and any commodity can go up or down quite a bit. But that is not gold's primary role in human life -- it is as a store of value, which Mr. Kanfer either doesn't understand or chooses not to name, as the historical truth for many millennia. A dollar performs very very poorly as a store of value. If you want your savings not to lose, say 50% of its value, as has a dollar if you earned it in 1985, then it is best not to hold your wealth in dollars, which are designed to be debased. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6347#1520 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6347#1520 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:00:54 EDT This incredibly simplistic piece falls far below the standard I have come to expect from City Journal. To put it simply, gold is money. It always has been and always will be. It is no different than Dollars or Euros except for the fact that Central Banks can't print it. That City Journal would implicitly be expressing a preference for the paper garbage spewed out by governments over "the gold standard" -- literally -- for all currencies is simply beyond belief. Please find someone to write about gold who actually knows something about the subject. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6347#1519 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6347#1519 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:30:05 EDT All true, but you have to exchange goods, labor and services for SOMETHING. If that something is a "dollar" (technically, far more worthless and less "rare" than gold), which can be inflated into virtual worthlessness, then there is something to be said for keeping a portion of your net worth in something that cannot be dissipated quite so easily. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6347#1518 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=6347#1518 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:14:01 EDT