(USA Today) — If stocks are the investment of greed, gold is the investment of fear. And fear is in a bull market. Scared that the only way to pay the nation’s $8.9 trillion debt is to print more money? Gold soars in inflationary periods. Think the dollar will plunge on international currency markets? Buy gold. Worried that the U.S. is headed for a revolution? Buy gold, which rises in value when governments fall.
