I'd love to see an economists take on the value to a consumer of holding gold in this form, at the price.
Investment gold is usually kept in vault, and you trade ownership arms length. Direct gold ownership is rife with risks: fineness, substitutions and overpriced purchase. Yes, you can always sell at a mall gold trader but that's way way off market price.
So it's an inflation hedge with a lot of cost and risk and demands huge upswing in gold price to pay off. And securing it at volume is a nightmare. Plus Costco wants to limit you to 2, and have a margin.
Investment gold is usually kept in vault, and you trade ownership arms length. Direct gold ownership is rife with risks: fineness, substitutions and overpriced purchase. Yes, you can always sell at a mall gold trader but that's way way off market price.
So it's an inflation hedge with a lot of cost and risk and demands huge upswing in gold price to pay off. And securing it at volume is a nightmare. Plus Costco wants to limit you to 2, and have a margin.