First, acknowledge in this environment is that we all need a Financial Survival Plan (FSP) Those charts that all financial advisers are so handy with show how nice those average 8 or 10% stock market returns develop a theoretical portfolio. Conveniently, those charts skipped key collapse periods such as: How many countries changed [...]
5 Tips for Profiting from a Bear Market with Alternative Investments
Bear markets are only the label slapped on markets that are scaring the public away. Alternative investments in bear markets suffer faster and more than the standard fare of index funds, bonds, etc. Small capital mining stocks have dropped by 50% or more from their highs, and some as much as 80%. Silver is off [...]
State of the Gold vs. Dollar vs Euro vs Yen Battle and Alternative Investment Implications
While attending the New York Hard Asset conference where small to mid tier mining companies, exploration companies and alternative investment opportunities are featured to accredited investors, and money managers. The overall market health of all risk assets such as stocks in markets across the world are in down trends. Double that downtrend for mining companies [...]
Will Gold and Silver Go Higher Now That the Liquidity Crunch and Summer is Here?
Gold and silver have been trending lower since the long term bull market highs of around $1900 for gold and $45 for silver in May of 2011. Recapping markets is easy. Explaining the future for markets is where even the bold fear to tread. Through my twitter feed at financialsurvvl, I routinely make [...]
World Food Price Trends Tell a Frightening Story about Our Future Grocery Bills
“Adversity is a fact of life. It can’t be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.” Reviewing the World Bank’s Food Price Watch of January 2012, the frightening fact is hidden by the misleading first sentence: “Global food prices declined 8% between September and December 2011.” That benign [...]
Going Beyond Banks to Financial Freedom – Before the Banking Collapse
Most of us have bank accounts. They offer online convenience, automatic bill pay. Good stuff in some ways. What we give up though, is full control of our money. This is where the rubber meets the road. Control. While we think “we” have a bank account, the reality is much crueler. The Federal [...]
Stories of Financial Survivalists – Making a Fortune During A Financial Collapse
A financial collapse is always happening somewhere. Either a person is individually experiencing a lack of operating capital leading to complete desperation for covering their current lifestyle, or the same scenario might be playing out for a company, a town, city, state, or a country. We need not look far in the past to [...]
How PIGS and BRIC’s Affect an Alternative Investment Portfolio
No industry – save the military / offense industrial complex – generates acronyms with as much fervor as the financial world. As an example: Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain make up the downtrodden PIGS, while the elite group of Brazil, Russia, India and China are the world growth leaders. Often analysts compare the growth [...]
How to Use Gold and Silver in An A Retirement Portfolio With Alternative Investments
Gold and silver have a specific function in any portfolio. When combined with alternative investments and retirement oriented portfolios, gold and silver have the role of adding stability. Stability with gold and silver would seem to be a poor choice. With silver going as high as $45, then dropping back to $26 recently, and [...]
What We Can All Learn From Max Keiser About Getting Rich in a Crooked System
Max Keiser – Unleashed about Manipulation For those unfamiliar with the effervescent – putting it mildly – Max Keiser, you can experience his unique insights at http://www.maxkeiser.com Keiser has qualifications that almost no other commenter can match. Aside from working on Wall Street for several years, he also patented the Hollywood Stock Exchange concept [...]
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