Precious metals are always a safe bet for the long-term. Look up the price of gold in1980, look it up today. Invest even if only to guard your money against inflation. If you're worried about a shtf scenario, only buy physical. Word to the wise, fractionals (1/2- 1/4- 1/10- 1/20 T. Oz,) American Eagles and Canadian Maples have higher premiums.
Yeah, except PMs are exposed to suppression
There's all sorts of ins and outs with the markets in general, but these are different. The silver market is more prone to market manipulation. There's no CEOs, CFOs, etc. unlike a business it can't be driven into the ground and poof be gone tomorrow before you wake up. If you purchase physical precious metals, you have them in hand. Silver's on run right now, at the time I started writing this it it's up $1.33, and it's not even noon. There's plenty.
Gold is prone to price manipulation too, just as much as silver, and big time since decades now, I could name the libor scandal for a start
PMs, especially gold and silver, are the natural competitors to paper currency... So you get the idea, there's vitualy no limit to price manipulation ultimately, it's a matter of national security in the end. If paper currencies start to collapse and people rush to PMs as store of value, as alternative... The PMs price will magically collapse, as usual, so PMs are rendered as a less attractive alternative, that's the intent
Now there's a move on PMs yeah https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/epic-gold-market-follow-epic-stock-market-bubble
But I wouldn't be surprised to see it collapse all over again because reason
PMs price manipulation will end the day paper currency's reign is over
Problem is that we're entering the digital currency era
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