StateofConfusion

Making Sense of Commodity Products

This article puts a lot of reasons for selecting an ETF in perspective. Personally I don't give much weight to the spread as i would buy at a certain price only if I think there is a good chance of a large gain over the coming year. I own some DBC as it includes Ag and Energy.
some say to own real assets like silver but beyond owning a small amount of this (like silver quarters) I question if this is of any worth. If the futures market failed, would there still be food on the store shelves and would owning SLV make any difference? Could some deeper financial genius comment on that?