matman

Groundbreaking WSJ Story on Gold

I'm pretty sure you're in the bottom 50% It's valuable cause its rare, just like good sense. You should probably read up on the nature of money before making any more dumb posts.


On Jul 09 05:35 PM jrainspe wrote:

> This whole discussion is a fool's argument. There is intrinsically
> no difference between a piece of plastic you call a "gold asset card"
> and the metal itself. Except for jewelery, gold does not add anything
> to the quality of one's life. You can't eat it; you can't drink it;
> it doesn't cure disease; in fact, of itself it does nothing, just
> like the one dollar bill in your wallet or a gold asset card. The
> fact that humans place one inanimate object as "more valuable" than
> another inanimate object is only one of the reasons I have very little
> respect for humans as a whole. Remember, 50% of the population have
> an IQ of 100 or less.