To: TobagoJack who wrote (14709 ) 2/9/2002 10:11:39 PM From: Moominoid Respond to Better still, I believe the market cap of all publicly traded gold mining companies (and attributable gold mining subsidiaries of general mining companies) tally up to no more than USD 40 billion. <<how to actually buy/store physical gold in reasonable quantities>> A 1 foot x 1 foot x 3 feet bank safe deposit box will hold enough for most folks to retire on. The box, when full, is impossible for one guy to move. Alternatively, buy a burial plot and entomb gold in quick setting cement during middle of night. This particular physical asset is beautiful. Hold it up to the candle light. Turn slowly one way, then another. Gently set it down on velvet tablecloth, rejoining it with its siblings. Stack them up. Shuffle the stacks around. Count the stacks. Arrrgh. Set wife or girlfriend against kitchen counter. One caution. During times of panic, governments (any and all governments) tend to outlaw gold ownership, because they do not believe it is good for the people. When the KMT Nationalists were planning to pull out from the Mainland China in 1948, they made gold ownership punishable by death.
