Owning gold & silver = real money?

Question by Francisco Noperi: Owning gold & silver = real money?
instead of saving cash because dollar goes down in value.

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Answer by JoeyV
I know that nobody on Yahoo believes it but gold and silver can lose value too. In fact, if one of them is going to lose half its value in a year it’s certainly gold and silver. There is no chance that your portfolio is less risky containing precious metals than cash investments like money markets.

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