05-03-2015, 12:15 PM
Tyler.M Wrote:Precious metal as an investment option always hit me as really weird. it seemed like a potentially good idea in 2008 but it seems to go inverse with the confidence in the market. i prefer to invest in etfs or mutual funds or a very wide commodities fund to reduce volatility in one market. i only hold like 6 individual company stocks and those were just for shits and giggles
Some people also do it out of fear of market collapse. You could probably invest in ammo too, at this point.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth