Well the answer is no! Gold is a good investment for certain reasons but not the best. Also the type of gold people buy is not technically an investment.
It's definitely a long term investment and it even might be a good short term investment at the moment. The prices are being manipulated down and I believe they're about to skyrocket. I posted a question myself asking what other's projections for the price might be. Silver is also another good metal to invest in.
Yea, in 2-3 years the price of gold will increase about 37%
Maybe previously. Not now. I wouldn't buy gold as you do not earn any income from the commodity. You are better off buying a well known resource company such as BHP
No
if you mean actually buying gold and then storing it,
but there are other ways to invest in gold (e.g gold mining companies)
only as a part of a well diversified portfolio and it should not be more that 5% of the total portfolio
Does it generally beat out inflation?
