Did you know that the price of gold and silver moved consistently higher for 12 straight years?
Why haven’t you invested?
Remember the financial crisis that began in 2008? Well, the problems that led us there have still not been resolved. Some analysts are saying the crisis we’ve seen so far is only a speed bump to what lies ahead.
Look at the Economic Risks that Are Still Putting Your Investments in Peril
Because stock brokers don’t sell it––they only see precious metals as competition to stocks. Plus, they wouldn’t make any money on it. When you buy precious metals you don’t pay the kinds of fees often associated with stocks and other equities such as maintenance fees, investment fees, broker fees, and others. Also, precious metal investors are also often portrayed as fear-mongering, disaster-obsessed aging codgers and gold itself as an out-of-the-mainstream type of investment. This is simply not the case. A recent gallup poll revealed that 34% of American investors rated gold as the best investment “regardless of gender, age, income, or party ID….” In that survey gold was rated higher than stocks, bonds, real estate and bank savings.
Look at the media: It’s owned by corporations––corporations that rely on the heavy advertising the market provides. This in addition to the mutual funds that try to get investors to buy their corporate stock. For the media to speak negatively about the stock market in general would be a conflict of their own interests––they’d be biting the hand that feeds them. Negative information might encourage people to pull their money from the stock market and the owners of stocks could see their value go down. Corporations do not want this. To repeat: Gold and silver are viewed as competition.
While it may be true that investing in gold and silver doesn’t do anything for the economy, it will do something for your portfolio. For one, it can help your wealth appreciate like it did over those previous 12 years. For another, it can help hedge your portfolio against other economic risks.
Such as:
Inflation
According to research from the World Gold Council (WGC), over the last 50 years the relative price of gold has held constant. Gold tends to go up in an inflationary environment. When savings are unattractive, such as during periods of high inflation and negative interest rates, gold shines most brightly.
Falling Currencies
While currencies may fall, in the U.S. and elsewhere, gold and silver stay strong. Falling currencies mean reduced buying power. Geopolitical and economic events can cause monetary debasement, but so can government fiscal policy. Devaluation can come from many directions, including the printing of money and “quantitative easing.” With gold and silver you can have confidence that your investment is not at the mercy of a fiat act of a particular administration.
As Alan Greenspan said: “Gold is a good place to put money these days given its value as a currency outside of the policies conducted by governments.”
Crashes of the Stock Market
History has shown that precious metals tend to move in the opposite direction of the stock market. This is why precious metals have long been prized for their ability to counterbalance drops in stocks, especially catastrophic ones as we saw in 2008 and 1987, the dot-com burst of the 1990s, and others. While stocks can lose value overnight, gold and silver have maintained their worth for thousands of years.
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