In what might seem as an unnecessary warning to anyone who has followed the progress of the bitcoin price over the past year, the World Gold Council (WGC) has put out a commentary rubbishing bitcoin as a potential investment safe haven with the advice that gold is a far better option. This does echo our own views which have often been expressed here. Take the 2018 full calendar year as an example. True the gold price fell about 4% over the period, but equities fell by more, even though they did outperform gold for part of the year, as we pointed out strrongly in an article published here a few weeks ago:. The equties ... (full story)