1. gold can produce an income 2. duuh!!, you buy anything and there is some kind of fee/commission/profit factored into it, the point is ? 3. the assumption being that no-one stores it somewhere else were there are no costs involved 4. not necessarily true, in some countries people/govt"s still use it to purchase goods and services and as far as utility goes ,something has utility if members of society deem it so 5. so is unencumbered residence, land, crop, animals and firearms and everything else, how long is the "short term" anyway ? 6. how many "apocalypses" have you or anyone else been through to know
