I bought some Gold 4 or 5 years ago. Physical Gold that I put away in a secure insured safe place. I then put it out of my mind & tried to forget about it as much as possible. I was pretty successful in doing that. Anyway after seeing the price of Gold on Friday gone. I realised Gold had performed better that any stocks I'd previously owned & sold to buy that Gold by a long way. Next time I manage to gather some funds together(which is becoming really hard to do). I'm going to buy some Silver. I will also try & forget about that for at least 5 years. Seems to me metals are far more stable than anything these financial "experts" have anything to do with.
Only one problem, gold is considered to be true money by many but silver is primarily an industrial metal. Also, I have seen evidence (presented by others) the silver market is being manipulated. Part of the problem is major banks are market makers and there has been illegal manipulation before. Yes, those were eventually arrested, but the banks continue to be market makers. Notice how depressed silver is compared to gold in terms of ratios.
In defense of the CFOs, they are required to only have financial knowledge related to their own company and not the S&P 500. I suspect most stock analysts wouldn't do any better. They tend to all place their "bets" close together, so as to not take any risk. PS: I am neither. :-)
Great post Jay!
I bought some Gold 4 or 5 years ago. Physical Gold that I put away in a secure insured safe place. I then put it out of my mind & tried to forget about it as much as possible. I was pretty successful in doing that. Anyway after seeing the price of Gold on Friday gone. I realised Gold had performed better that any stocks I'd previously owned & sold to buy that Gold by a long way. Next time I manage to gather some funds together(which is becoming really hard to do). I'm going to buy some Silver. I will also try & forget about that for at least 5 years. Seems to me metals are far more stable than anything these financial "experts" have anything to do with.
Only one problem, gold is considered to be true money by many but silver is primarily an industrial metal. Also, I have seen evidence (presented by others) the silver market is being manipulated. Part of the problem is major banks are market makers and there has been illegal manipulation before. Yes, those were eventually arrested, but the banks continue to be market makers. Notice how depressed silver is compared to gold in terms of ratios.
In defense of the CFOs, they are required to only have financial knowledge related to their own company and not the S&P 500. I suspect most stock analysts wouldn't do any better. They tend to all place their "bets" close together, so as to not take any risk. PS: I am neither. :-)
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