It's illuminating to observe the disparity between what gold vendors say they believe and what their actions suggest they believe. They claim that gold is the o

It's illuminating to observe the disparity between what gold vendors say they believe and what their actions suggest they believe. They claim that gold is the only safe place for your wealth, so the wise thing to do is give them your risky, value-less paper dollars and receive shiny metal. But their actions are the opposite, they are happy to take all of your paper dollars and give you the shiny metal that used to be theirs... No one would give away something valuable for something less valuable, their actions imply that they ascribe more value to the paper dollars than the shiny metal.