“I will say this about gold. ...
...Last Monday, I braved the heavy thunderstorm to visit BullionStar’s shop front near Clarke Quay MRT. Even with an umbrella, I was more than half drenched and I guess the lady in the shop probably thought I was just a pesky passer-by coming in to seek shelter from the rain.
But nope, I came in with a specific agenda and she was quite surprised as I quickly made a small purchase to buy 25 pieces of Canadian Maple silver coins. At that time, each coin costs slightly less than $25 and this was my first-ever bullion purchase.
To be fair, there was a time when I despised these hard assets. After all, I was a firm believer that stuff like gold and silver were basically unproductive assets. And I was corroborated by none other than Warren himself and he explained his best with this quote:
