Fred Om

Barclays Recommends Caution, Nasty Surprises Ahead

The nice thing about gold is that it's free of political bias and mutes the attempts of one man to control another via overt confiscation of private property (taxation) or stealth confiscation of private property (inflation).

You can trade it, for oil, weapons, food, anywhere in the world without external interference from the "laws of man". Once could almost argue that gold is God's currency--a symbol of freedom that is immune to the meddling of mere mortal bankers.