'Civilized people don't buy gold':
``Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939,'' the Berkshire vice chairman said, ``but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.''
There is an invigorating debate on SA between those who believe the safest and smartest way to own gold is via physical ownership of the physical metal and those who believe the gold miners, with their greater leverage but also the greater possibility of increasing labor, materiel and environmental costs, are the smarter way to go.