Gold is good at facing the biggest Social and Economic upheaval of all
It's not. It's still a commodity (and not a particularly useful one). Again, if you pick any given market crash and you invest in a telecom or energy giant at the outset, you're going to outperform gold as a commodity over the intervening years. Gold only pays out when you can time the market and sell during a surge in demand. Outside of those boom cycles, the commodity trades flat or declining.
It is, at best, a short cycle hedge against sudden drops in price. And at that point, your play is to sell the gold and buy into an undervalued equity.
Gold just works it’s “magic”
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