I'm fond of Warren Buffett's view on gold: you could buy a hunk of yellow metal that just sits there, or you could buy an equivalent amount of Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola will give you about a 3% dividend every year, plus there are thousands of people working hard every day to make sure that they sell even more Coca-Cola next year. At the end of, say, ten years, your hunk of gold is still the same amount of gold. But your chunk of Coca-Cola has grown and even given back to you 30%. So the question is, which would you rather buy?