Barry, my post specifically said "in 2004". Then gold was about 300 US dollars an ounce. Now it is at about $1,700.
I wouldn't dream of advising people now to invest or not to invest in gold, and stated so in the later post.
The point of my comment was to let know that I predicted very correctly the market trends back then 10 or so years ago.
I also predicted in 2004 that oil would rise from $40 a barrel to over $100 within a few years, which it did.
That metals would go up in price significantly on the commodities market, which they did.
In 2006 I gave the European Union 6 months before it would go financially bankrupt, and that only be cheating, namely by mass-printing money, could the EU delay bankruptcy.
In 2007 the bankruptcy and financial crash started, in 2008 the financial crash was fully blown, and only enormous money-printing prevented the financial collapse of the European Union, as well as of a number of industrialised countries not EU members.
In 2008, when the official mainstream Media said that "taxpayers money" had bailed out the banks, I said straight away that it was not tax-payers money, but money printed out of thin air by the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.
I made use of your thread to show off my fore-knowledge of economic trends, Barry!
I also have evidence of my fore-knowledge, written and dated!
suggest you keep politics off it Barry. 
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