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"Paper Money Systems Have Always Wound-Up With Collapse And Chaos", Buffett Senior Posted: 08 Oct 2019 07:13 AM PDT Warren himself acquired a record-setting 128 million ounces of silver back in the late 1990s… which he later sold at a profit in the early 2000s. But to listen to him talk about precious metals these days, he's always negative. Buffett often quips that if you took the world's entire supply of gold and melted it together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet (~21 meters) per side and be worth around $9 trillion. Reclusive Millionaire Urges Retirees: "Get Out Of Cash" PhD Millionaire who called Dotcom crash, housing bust, and market's surge since '09 is now predicting a 'cash panic' in 2019. Here's how to prepare. With that same $9 trillion, you could buy every share of Apple, Disney, Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan, Exxon Mobil, all the farmland in the United States, all the developable land in Manhattan, and still have more than a trillion dollars left over. This is Buffett's central argument: gold doesn't produce anything. So it's much better to invest in a productive asset like a business, farmland, etc. Sure, I'd rather own a profitable, productive asset than a pile of metal. But Buffett is completely wrong to compare gold to productive assets… they're apples and oranges. Gold isn't an 'investment'. It's an insurance policy against paper currencies will lose value over time. So a MUCH better comparison for gold is CASH. Read the entire article

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