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If you can buy gold with dollars lent to you at excessively low interest rates while the taxpayers shoulder the risk that gold prices might crash, that would be a viable way to take advantage of the situation.

But I was asking how to improve the situation. Does buying gold improve the situation in some way that is not obvious to me?




As gold supply is relatively fixed, it's harder to manipulate than valuations of internet companies. Spending dollars on gold rather than stocks will reduce the stock bubble risk and reduce price for dollars (measured in gold / $), so reducing your vulnerability to dollar bubbles caused by government policies.

It's not perfect but it's a form of insurance. Based on recent gold prices, it looks like many people are taking that insurance.

Essentially I'm agreeing with you - stop accepting dollars, use gold instead.




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