Comments on: Is Gold a Good Investment? http://www.yourtwobits.com/247/is-gold-a-good-investment Budget. Save. Invest. Live. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:31:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Michael http://www.yourtwobits.com/247/is-gold-a-good-investment/comment-page-1#comment-46 Michael Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:04:13 +0000 http://www.yourtwobits.com/?p=247#comment-46 This is a good question. I looked into this a bit and was going to put together my own data in Excel, when I found someone else who already had. Chris Butler at The Investing Pig did a great job covering this topic in his article <a href="http://theinvestingpig.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-gold-adequate-hedge-against.html" rel="nofollow">"Is Gold an Adequate Hedge Against Inflation?"</a> It's well worth the read. You may also find this article interesting. <a href="http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2009/02/09/the-risk-adverse-portfolio-a-historical-perspective/" rel="nofollow">"The Risk-Adverse Portfolio: A Historical Perspective."</a> This is a good question. I looked into this a bit and was going to put together my own data in Excel, when I found someone else who already had. Chris Butler at The Investing Pig did a great job covering this topic in his article “Is Gold an Adequate Hedge Against Inflation?” It’s well worth the read.

You may also find this article interesting.
“The Risk-Adverse Portfolio: A Historical Perspective.”

]]> By: Jason Crowther http://www.yourtwobits.com/247/is-gold-a-good-investment/comment-page-1#comment-39 Jason Crowther Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:01:53 +0000 http://www.yourtwobits.com/?p=247#comment-39 In regards to your article of "Is Gold a good investment" I agree with you for the most part but what about using it as a second savings. For example after putting money in your savings account buy some gold or silver to help hedge inflation. Isn’t the US currency dropping in value because of inflation. Were gold and silver have stayed up with inflation. What do you know about this? In regards to your article of “Is Gold a good investment” I agree with you for the most part but what about using it as a second savings. For example after putting money in your savings account buy some gold or silver to help hedge inflation. Isn’t the US currency dropping in value because of inflation. Were gold and silver have stayed up with inflation. What do you know about this?

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