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Investing for Inflation, Part II

Right on. USD may just be the best investment show in town. Who knows.


On Jun 16 10:04 PM Speedspirit wrote:

> Carefull what you percieve as inflation investments that may make
> you money when we very well could be in a deflationary state. And
> from here we could go straight to hyper inflation. So did your team
> think about that scenario? Did your team consider all the market
> manipulation that has taken place? Emerging markets are either dependent
> on the US for exports or thier invested interest in the dollar so
> if we fail they fail, the saying is "The New World Order" because
> thats what it is. In and out thats the trade.

Commodity Index Funds: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

We live in a bizzaro world. All pundits are screaming about commodities. The financial firms have flooded the markets with commodity ETF and ETN. No one will tell you that most markets are in general in contango, especially energy due to storage issues. That means a continuous bleeding of your portfolio as you are paying someone to store oil and gas.

If the spot price stays flat or about flat, that ETF will start going to a BIG 0. Check out the performance of OIL, UNG, USO.

Investing in these is in itself a full time JOB. A long term investor is better off spending on education, pay off the house, not borrowing money@25% from credit cards. If you are old, buy annuities.

I think investing in the commodity companies is much better, they just might give you a dividend rather than charge the contango fee.

Yes, I have invested in commodity ETFs and made some lost some, but I will STAY the HECK away from commodities.

My Take on This Very Risky Market

a readable article for a change.

Why I Don't Own Commodities

Give me a break, you invest in companies, look at the SP500 return over the last 10 years, Vanguard chief argues in favor of index investing and you are saying the opposite, I agree with neither. Its going to be a ver bad time to be in equities. You are underestimating the problem in lose monetary policy around the globe, that is the main reason for the commodities run...