Real Metals

At the United States Gold Bureau you can buy precious metals as an investment. It's not just silver and gold, other precious metals include platinum, rhodium, even palladium.

The thing about investing in something like a precious metal is that it is real. It is a real, solid object that exists in the real world. It's not like the money invested in a share portfolio because the value of those shares aren't really represented in the real world. If the company stops trading the shares lose all value and that just means the paper that represents those shares no longer has value.

Gold, silver and other metals will always be those bits of metal. The price may go or or down but there is something reassuring that your money, or at least part of your money, is invested in a safe form.

This is why people want to buy silver and buy gold these days. At a time when the modern economical systems seem to be failing, doing things the old way, like the ancients Greeks, suddenly feels like the right option.