Gold Is Not An Investment

It’s a form of monetary insurance

Shefali O'Hara
5 min readMar 29

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If you want to invest your money, don’t buy gold. Park your money in a good index fund. Add to the fund a set amount each month. This is dollar cost averaging. Once a year re-evaluate.

If you prefer to manage your money more directly — you can buy individual stocks, track them, and so on. This can be more risky if you don’t know anything…

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Shefali O'Hara

Cancer survivor, writer, engineer. BSEE from MIT, MSEE, and MA in history. Love nature, animals, books, art, and interesting discussions.