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Gold gets a little grudging respect from Wall Street Journal
Why You Should Own (Some) Gold
By Greg Ip
The Wall Street Journal
via MSN News, Redmond, Washington
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Here are some good reasons not to invest in gold. First, it earns no dividends or interest. Second, you can't live in it, like real estate. Third, it has doubled in the last few years, so forget about buying at the bottom.
Nonetheless, this column is going to explain why a prudent, diversified investor should consider owning gold today.
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This isn't about potential return. It is about insurance. Gold tends to go up when bad things happen, from inflation and runaway government debt to war and political instability. Those things seem more likely now than they have for a long time.
In a new report, Ashwin Thapar, of D.E. Shaw Investment Management, argues that as global wealth grows, so should gold holdings. He estimates that since 1975, gold has ranged from 1.8% to 7.3% of developed market liquid wealth. (It has recently broken above that range.)
Newly mined gold increases the stock of gold less than 2% a year, according to JPMorgan Chase. The remainder of gold wealth comes from a rising price. Over the long run that is probably enough to keep up with Treasury bills, but not a plain vanilla mix of stocks and bonds. The purpose of gold is to damp the impact when something hammers stocks, bonds, or the dollar.
The trick is to figure out what that something is.
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