Decius wrote:

Dagmar wrote:
So, I'm already looking into transferring a significant amount of my assets into gold. Anyone got any suggestions/pointers?

I think this is both too paranoid and not paranoid enough.

Its too paranoid because I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting that as an investment vehicle. In fact, stocks may perform well once the contraction in growth is priced in (which hasn't fully happened yet). The prudent thing to do is to work with a professional money manager, but of course you have to have a lot of money in order to get help like that.

Its not paranoid enough because the real reason to hold gold is because you are worried about total economic collapse of the sort experienced in Germany during the great depression. In such a case, a record in a computer indicating that you own gold is worth less than the magnetic disk it's printed on. You have to physically possess the gold. This creates a security and logistics problem...

Gold coins are small, which makes them easily hidable, and considering the value per ounce, a pound of gold (which isn't going to involve a huge shipping cost with FedEx) is worth about twelve thousand dollars currently. This makes it portable. One could easily fit $200,000 in gold coins in a safe-deposit box at a bank, which while costing a bit to maintain, should be secure against everything short of the bank burning to the ground.

RE: Wake up to the dangers of a deepening crisis