There is a ton of investors out there who have traditionally invested their hard earned money into the stock market and mutual funds who ask this question. The news media for years now have bad mouthed commodities into the ground calling gold a “barbeous relic” that has only lost value since January 1980 when the [...]
An ancient philosopher once said “May you live in interesting times”, and we certainly live in interesting times these days! The recession that began towards the end of 2008 and has stretched into 2010 with little signs of lessening anytime soon has made us all stop and think about our investments in many different ways. [...]
At the time of writing this article the Markets are showing great signs of nervousness and probably should be on Prozac. The problem is that the Markets are uncertain as to the future and therefore have bouts of pessimism followed by optimism followed by pessimism again. Consequently, we see big swings in daily prices [...]