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Imagine a global collapse the likes of which investors have never seen before. A true doomsday scenario. Think about what happened in 2008 and 10x that. What on earth would you do? Not that anybody would be worried about their Internet connection when the whole...
Is it possible for the .U.S. government to confiscate your gold? If so, how do you expect to protect your stash in the event that happens? The answer to the first question is yes. The answer to the second question is that you have several...
Believe it or not, investing in whisky is a good idea. Over the long term, the savviest of investors can easily exceed an annual return rate of 10%. In fact, there is one investment fund in Europe that recently exceeded 21% returns over the last...
Performance of Price since start of year Gold has had one of the best starts to the year, with a jump of 16% in the first quarter, which also happens to be the largest increase in Q1 for the past 42 years. The YTD is also...
Precious metals have had an attractive return so far for 2016, and continued volatility in the stock markets is only helping. On Friday, Non-Farm Payrolls were released for the previous month of April; the market had been expecting a number around 200k. The actual number...
A look at various commodity prices since beginning of year Commodities have had a remarkable first quarter in 2016, and the turnaround has been substantial and not limited to just Crude Oil and Gold. Soybeans, Silver & Cocoa, have seen their prices grow sharply over the...
Since hitting a low on January 20, the iPath Bloomberg Commodity Index Total Return ETN (DJP), a proxy for commodity markets as a whole, has risen by 10.6%. The rally has largely been powered by rising prices for oil and related energy products, precious metals,...
Gold makes strong start to the year Gold has put on a great rally since the beginning of the year after having reached a most recent low at the beginning of December last year. Since its close on December 31st it has risen nearly 14%. That...
It's tough being a contrarian. Prices may initially move in a direction that is opposite to what is expected. People will offer plenty of reasons why non-mainstream views are wrong, or at the very least, early. It can be difficult to stand firm when enthusiasm...
Two recent articles sum up how challenging the past 12 months have been for many investors. In "The Year Nothing Worked: Stocks, Bonds, Cash Go Nowhere," Bloomberg cites data from Bianco Research that shows 2015 was "the worst year for asset allocation funds since 1937," noting that "practically...
It's been said that the responses to a crisis sow the seeds of the next upheaval. Indeed, history suggests that the so-called fixes often fall short of expectations. First, they fail to take account of the fact that the causes of each episode are often unique....
One often-repeated claim, as I noted in "A Boiling Point… For Gold" and "Is the Conventional Wisdom Wrong About Gold?" is that gold (and other precious metals) likely won't rally because inflation remains subdued. However, recent data suggests that the latter may no longer apply. It's...
To many observers, the outlook for oil and other energy products, industrial and precious metals, grains and other commodities remains bleak, even after a rout that has seen the CRB Commodity Index lose more than a third of its value over 16 months, and which...
