When I kept hearing about the inflation and the potential that it might cause US dollar to devaluate I starting searching out ways where I can counter this by knowing how to buy gold.  I’ve done some research online about how that could be done and it seems that precious metal is the way to counter inflation.  The reason that I found out why precious metals such as gold is used to counter inflation is because our US dollar is backed by gold just like the British pounds are backed by silver. Then the next question is how do I obtain gold. Go buy it!