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To: Snowshoe who wrote (29447)	3/4/2003 3:31:06 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 74559

And governments who want to inflate away your paper money too.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (29447)	3/4/2003 4:38:03 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<You also have to account for thieves and governments who try to confiscate your gold. > Governments might prefer people to have gold because it can be stolen from them individually - such as it was stolen from Jews by the Nazis. With money in paper form as "Trust Us, We Know What We Are Doing", they can only steal from everyone. Which is politically risky. So, to hold gold exposes people to individual expropriation, which, if one is a minority of some sort, is attractive at various times to thuggish governments. The trick would be to find the gold that people have. They could hide it in their garden. Mqurice