Gold is always considered to be a safe investment by most of the governments and only the currencies of those countries with comfortable gold reserves are respected in the world market. Similarly, Gold is also considered a very good bet in uncertain times, like the ones we are in now. But the key difference between the 1970 depression and now is that economically most of the countries are far better off now and as things stand today, we seem to be very close to the end of the recession and hence investing further in gold now may not yield good returns over the next two three years.