If you had two thousand dollars that you Wanted to park in a safe place well gold Or treasury bills might be considered Safe depending on who you ask so how do They match up starting with gold today's Spot price is 1825 you pay a little bit Of a premium on a gold coin so a one Ounce gold coin will cost around 1916 the annual rate for a treasury bill Right now is 5.28 so two thousand Dollars in t Bells will cost you 1 894 Dollars so it's pretty close the gold Coin is about twenty dollars more at the End of the one year term the treasury Bill pays out two thousand dollars no Questions asked that means you have a Hundred and five dollar profit and the Gold coin well the price depends on Whatever spot price is doing at the time Nobody's there to guarantee your profit So if you're wondering why gold isn't Acting as an inflation hedge right now Well this is it in a nutshell Just like easy guarantees
