All things being equal, it's no worse than other commodities and better than many. However, there are alot of less than scrupulous people who keep pushing it on

All things being equal, it's no worse than other commodities and better than many. However, there are alot of less than scrupulous people who keep pushing it onto less sophisticated investors. And many of those people are paid by various companies to herd those less sophisticated investors into buying their product. Not saying that Bill Gross is one of those by any means, just pointing out why it has a bad rep. And if the non-GOP candidate wins, they'll be another round of "buy gold" and/or "buy guns" or another TFH approved product come January.