A lot of business owners, retirees and financial advisers believe in gold to be the number one protection against inflation. For thousands of years, gold has been a store of value, helping people to preserve the money they have earned. Gold, also has real world uses in electronics, semi-conductors and industrial manufacturing processes. In comparison to Paper Money, the key attribute that allows gold to act as a real store of value, is the inability of anyone to print gold into existence, the way paper money or polymer money can be printed into existence; gold must first be mined from the earth and refined. http://www.askpatel.com/user/milk52otter