Originally Posted by
curtisst
Talk to the experts, research every day and invest no more than you would be comfortable in losing if gold goes sour.
Which, BTW, has not happened for about 5,000 years. So, you can still buy e.g. a fine tailored man's suit for an ounce of gold, just like you could 100 years ago. Milk goes sour over time, gold does not.
As for the "experts", if what we witnessed in the last century is not a proof of the rotten nature of the "expertise", then I don't know what is.
The main problem is where your gold is physically located. If history is of any value, they'll crack down on it again, just like FDR did in 1933.