For decades now gold has been pushed as an investment opportunity, but I've never stepped in; I can theoretically go and buy gold, but since I'm a consumer, I pay 21% VAT on top of the sale price, which is already gold price + the seller's profit margins. And when selling, I doubt I'd get the current gold value for it, but below because the broker wants their share. So the value would need to go up at least 2x for it to become a viable investment (so I'd have had to buy in 2014 at the current rates), and then the question is whether there are other investments that would've had higher return on investment in that time period.
