Gold is no option at the moment. the Price is not real and just been created cause of the fear of loosing the money.

tell that the market....... order time 4 weeks and rising ......luckily i bought the stuff before the time factor has come into play!


if your looking into gold for speculation reasons than gold is no option.

check out the Data chart for the past 10 years and cry this is long term, because currency inflation is a fact!

An alternative to buying gold instead over the house-bank is:

http://www.bullionvault.com

but you have to trust them and cant take it home in the same way possible as buying in the bank without a time limit!

- you can't even buy gold on the spot without order-risks anymore....
- short selling is stopped on some markets

tbh in germany we have a really solid bank section. i dont see our banks falling (at least the bigger ones) like the "sparkassen" and "Volksbanken". and for sure "die Detusche Bank".
i dont feel scared losing my money there...
so gold isno ption for me ;D

but u are form gbr or usa i think , so gold was a good option for u, luckily u bough it when the price was down ;)

yes the solid German bank system only just caused a debt of around €1700 debt for every working tax payer in Germany, if the Govt bail out of Hypo will created more losses, then the Govt Credit guarantee's given will have to be paid into the markets! (roughly 1 months NeT income per taxpayer)

The hypo bail out already has caused inflation and will cause more because €'s were created from the middle class wealth that are already fighting against inflation, higher fuel,food and energy costs, while fighting to finance their private pensions.

If the same should happen again with a few other banks in germany then the effects of this deal will become a bigger problem then you can imagine.

Basically the Govt has made every Taxpayer to a market creditor. The Govt will try start to pull in all local States in on the deal that will cause cash flow problems in the local cities and communities. Meaning more CUTS/CUTS/CUTS

The German model seems solid and better than the US model but that obviously didn't stop this to happen or happen again!

bail outs are for girly man. That is what Arnold says.