this is not financial advice. im barely qualified to do my own laundry. but you can play gold in your 401k by buying CEF for bullion (safest bet, IMHO, much more real than GLD). also, gold mine stocks–etf index funds like GDX, others easily findable on the internet, which track gold mines. greater leverage than gold alone, riskier, more volatile. SLV for actual silver (i don’t trust it), or SLW (i kind of trust it). of course, true gold bugs only believe gold in the hand is worthwhile, all paper is intrinsically untrustworthy. they may very well have a point.
