Barry Ritholtz, Columnist

I Don't Hate Gold. I Just Don't Love It.

The precious metal isn't an investment in the normal sense. It's just a bet on a price change.

June 23, 2016 at 4:26 PM UTC

Barry Ritholtz is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and was previously chief market strategist at Maxim Group. He is the author of “Bailout Nation.”

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I don’t hate gold.

That may be hard for some of you to believe. You have read critical things from me about gold, the miners and the quasi-religious fervor surrounding the shiny yellow metal. Some of my commentary about it the past few years may have led some of you to pigeon-hole me as an anti-gold evangelist.