Mutual funds, gold bonds, real estate , keeps my portfolio smiling though am not really a invest, wait and save kinda guy i believe in invest and grow , so mostly my savings [ if any 😕] go back in work.
Gold is a bubble right now. Who knows when it will pop.
So in short, IM we live in very boring times 🙁
in short no, i hate long posts so here is quickie , gold is solid investment and will continue to be so even after all everything fails, cause gold or other minerals based investments are backed by a solid security in end. a bubble is created on artificial or paper money as we call it, when there is no real money or security expect paper securities exchanging varoius hands , it's long and complicated affair , the crash of 08 was the result of a bubble of artificial money where there was none to go around. gold/sliver will forever be there, though prices may go up and down but it will never crash.
next big crash in 2012 will be in real estate 😛