Gold, fingered

All that glitters is not gold and if you’ve been invested in the barbarous relic this year you would perhaps be thinking a lot of what glitters is crap because the damned thing is down by a quarter year-to-date and a third since its autumnal peaks of 2012. What’s even worse for the holder of this alternative investment is that no one, not even the "experts" who recommended it in the first place, can explain the precipitous decline.