re: investing in gold

you'll be the smartest man in the room when SHTF and we're all being wiped off the face fo the earth by the illuminati and their secret army. When that happens, you will be able to grade your gold bars for essentials and you will look like a genius. Meanwhile guys like me with stocks and tinfoil hats will be swept under the rug and we will be crying,starving, and killing each other over tomato plants like the movie waterworld

Meanwhile those who own gold will be in private jets, vacationing like the elite.

If you can't sense my sarcasm, Im here to tell you that if and when SHTF, I, along with other people with guns will take your gold which will ultimately be worthless in an end of times scenario. Gold is up about $500 over the last 33 years, so aside from the gold bugs who tell you how gold is the greatest investment ever, run away. There are no dividends, and literally any dividend paying bluechip over the last 33 year timeframe has beaten gold soundly in terms of total return with dividends reinvested.