Posted May 14, 2012 at 3:23 am
by Brad Wajnman
Let me start out by stating the obvious…
When you write a check to a charity, you’re making a donation — you’re giving away your money. Aside from getting a tax deduction, you’re not gonna see your money again.
When you buy a stock, you’re making an investment. Sure, there’s some risk involved, but you anticipate making a profit at some point.
But… what if you could direct a portion of your portfolio toward helping impoverished individuals AND earn a return on your investment in a socially beneficial and meaningful way?
It’s a novel idea to most investors; however the eBay-owned IV (Investment Vehicle) we just added to the AIP (Alternative Investments Page) is making it possible.
It allows individual investors (in the U.S.) with small amounts of capital to purchase low-risk securities offering conservative, but above CD and money-market, returns.
The money that’s raised from the sale of these securities is invested in microfinance institutions worldwide who give micro-loans to the working poor in developing countries and the U.S. in order to start their own small businesses.
These are people in poverty looking for a hand up rather than a hand out, so they can work their way towards economic security and stability.
With this IV, you can invest as little as $20 that goes towards providing the working poor with access to small loans, savings accounts, insurance and other products that many of us take for granted.
Investments can be screened by geographic region, the number of projects funded by the investment, and cause type such as ‘rural areas’, ‘women’, ‘fair trade’ and ‘green’.
It’s a great way to help break the cycle of poverty via long-lasting opportunities instead of short-term relief, as well as compound your good will and diversify your portfolio, all without cutting into your charitable donation budget.
Click here to read how others are doing it…
NOTE: The above is a preface of one of several key resources, vendors, or programs that Barry Goss and Brad Wajnman — respectively, the Wealth Vault Managing Editor and Investment Director — revealed to our paid-up members on Friday, May 11th. To get the full review of this particular investment vehicle, either login, or become a member…
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Posted April 19, 2012 at 3:57 am
Yes, it almost seems a bit far-fetched to list those kind of returns.
Yet, it’s all true!
A well-crafted commodity trading portfolio — one that you can mimic with a few simple click of the mouse — is part of a market-investing club that Brad Wajnman, the WV’s investment Director, added to the Vault on April 13th.
This club, which focuses on helping everyday traders-investors identify underlying trends in the markets that are hidden in plain sight from the general public, is fascinating to say the least.
You can use their easy-to-understand, built-in proprietary charting technology (which carries data on hundreds of thousands of stocks, futures, forex, mutual funds, and ETFs from major US, Australian, and Canadian exchanges) to instantly pinpoint when to buy / sell.
The co-founder of this club is a respected pioneer in the trading education industry and a 30-year veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Now, I won’t throw visions of sugar plums and lollipops at you, by telling you that his commodity-driven portfolio ROI will be sustainable at this current growth rate [click for chart]; however, I can tell you with confidence that his ETF portfolio — which tracks gold, oil, the S&P 500, and the US dollar — has a GREAT chance to sustain it’s performance.
It’s has low-volatility, is fairly low-risk for most investors, and has a average 29% per annum return.
But, before I get ahead of myself and keep talking about this ONE resource find that’s now in our Vault, keep this is mind, if you’re not yet a paid-up member of our own club:
We focus on vetting out people and programs under the ‘investing’ and ‘opportunity’ umbrella.
One member called us “the consumer reports of unconventional income-streams and investing programs.”
He’s right too.
The description is a nut-shelled version of exactly what we do.
We list, talk about, and monitor off-the-beaten-path ideas and money-growing avenues. If you don’t have access to the Vault, you can never know what NEW gems, trinkets, and goblets that are put inside and archived 
So, head here now to be part of our world…
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Living a Life Without Limits,
Barry Goss
Founder, LWL Media
Managing Publisher, The Wealth Vault / Wealth Wire
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Posted April 2, 2012 at 3:00 am
From the Desk of Brad Wajnman
Investment Director
While we’re not fans of sub-par equity returns offered by run-of-the-mill mutual funds, the one thing they do provide is the all-important benefit of diversification.
A well-diversified portfolio allows you to maximize profits and minimize risk during times of extreme volatility, and that’s exactly what our latest addition to the Vault can do for you…
It’s like a ‘mutual fund’ of managed forex accounts. I say that because the vetted company behind this investment vehicle (IV) actually offers four completely separate systems, each with a distinctly different ‘hands-free’ trading strategy.
But what makes this IV unique is that you can choose to have one or more systems traded for you on complete autopilot in a SINGLE brokerage account. In other words, you get to create your own diversified portfolio of managed accounts under one roof.
The two owners of this firm take risk management very seriously and can custom tailor a plan for you with the right blend of risk and reward based on how aggressive or conservative you want to be.
I’ve been a subscriber to their newsletter for a couple years, and since 2009 their highest performing system has produced average monthly returns of 11.9%.
The chart below shows how each of their systems has performed over the last few years:
These managers run a tight ship by continually monitoring their traders to ensure they’re adhering to strict money management principles and not trading clients’ accounts recklessly.
In an industry plagued with notoriously high turnover rates, it’s refreshing to see a firm like this representing seasoned traders who have a track record of being able to consistently produce phenomenal monthly returns for so many years in a row.
To find out more, log into the Vault, go to our AIP (Alternative Investments Page) and look under the ‘Managed / Facilitated’ category.
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Posted March 21, 2012 at 2:10 am
From the Desk of Brad Wajnman
Investment Director
Ask any small business owner what their biggest challenge they’re facing today is and the answer you’re likely to hear “raising capital.”
See, even though 65% of all jobs in the U.S. were created by small businesses between 1993 and 2009, over the last four years, lending to small businesses has been slashed in half.
Because of this, many entrepreneurs have been forced to explore other, more unconventional, funding options in order to get access to the credit they need to open up shop, expand and ultimately, create more jobs.
One of the most popular options individuals have been tapping into lately has been P2P (peer-to-peer) lending, which cuts big banks and financial institutions out of the equation.
As a P2P lender (investor), YOU get to play the banker. And because there’s no ‘middleman’ taking a piece of the action, you stand to make higher returns on your idle cash than what you’re able to get with other traditional IVs (Investment Vehicles) such as CDs, savings accounts, bonds or mutual funds.
Until recently, borrowers could only receive a loan from P2P lenders in their own name as an individual. But I recently found one innovative company that has the distinction of being the first P2P lending platform to offer loans exclusively to small businesses.
After speaking to the CEO last week, I also found out that it’s possible for international investors to participate as well.
If you’re looking to add more fixed income diversification to your existing retirement portfolio, this P2P lending opportunity offers some of the safest higher-yielding returns available today.
You can lend as little as $50 and start receiving monthly payments directly to your account. You can even instantly fund your account via credit card.
To find out more, log into the Vault, go to our AIP (Alternative Investments Page) and look under the ‘Misc / Other’ category.
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Posted February 9, 2012 at 3:55 am
From the Desk of Brad Wajnman
Investment Director
Via our January 20th WV member update, I introduced our Vault members to a one-of-a-kind profit-sharing program that’s unlike anything else Barry and I have ever seen before.
Thing is, I completely blew off giving it a serious look for a good 7 months.
Why?
Well, on the surface, it just seemed too complicated to understand… but there was a much deeper reason I intentionally ignored it for so long.
Having lost money in other profit-sharing type programs previously, I made the mistake of assuming it was just like all the rest of them.
But after watching the company mature, make adjustments and refine its policies to ensure longevity, I decided to finally investigate what all the recent buzz was about.
It took me a while to grasp the full magnitude of what we had on our hands here. But once I did, it turned out to be one of those unique situations which made so much sense on so many levels, that we felt it would be beneficial for all WV members to know about.
The program is backed by a 14-year-old rock-solid company with an eye for the latest trends in both online shopping and home-based business.
While it’s NOT a “passive investment” or a ‘set-and-forget’ program, it does allow you to earn daily cash rewards on every dollar you spend, with minimal effort (which can be completely automated).
It utilizes “collective advertising” from its members and pays them back for helping the company advertise its retail website.
I’ve prepared an in-depth report that covers all the nitty gritty details about the program and more importantly, what makes it different from all the old profit-share programs that failed in the past.
Hint: For over a year, the company was retail only before it introduced the profit-sharing program to the public.
You see, unlike other “virtual product” business opportunities you may have seen before, you don’t have to wonder about what the “product” really is.
Now that we’ve completed due diligence on it and have kicked the tires by testing it out with our own money for a few months, we think it’s one of the most innovative business models that exists right now.
But I’ll let you read the report and draw your own conclusions. Click here to download it now…
- Brad
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Posted February 6, 2012 at 11:55 pm
The following was part of the Oct 31st 2011 update sent out to paid-up WV members. We have Part 1 of this commentary also available for public — no charge — consumption here..
by Barry Goss
Managing Editor / Publisher, The Wealth Vault
Gold bug fever can get so rampant that some of the die-hard extremists forget that its price has always been dictated via political puppetry.
If a central banker has the will to raise real rates, as Volcker did 30 years ago, then the price of gold can be crushed. The mood of investors, based upon what I’ll call a gloom-to-boom ratio, can easily reverse price momentum in its tracks.
History has shown this to be the case, over and over.
“Gold at $1,500 is not what I would call an investment. An investment is something you buy near its value. If gold costs $450 or $500 to produce, at $1,400 you don’t have value, you have momentum.” said Kaplan, of Prospector Asset Management.
Why?
Because, contrary to what bandwagon barkers would have you believe, gold is really just a solid form of back-up money. Or, to be technically correct, a “currency of last resort,” as Greenspan has stated many times through the years.
It’s pure insurance against paper currency breakdown. Like California falling over into the Pacific Ocean, not something I’ll expect to see in my lifetime.
The cries for “buy, buy, buy” gold (bullion, that is) can get so loud, that the high priests of the metal (think Glenn Beck, Mike Maloney, or Howard Ruff) truly feel that using your hard-earned money for anything else is a crime.
They end up choosing between the metal and stocks. But, there shouldn’t be an “it” versus “it” approach there. It’s gold versus paper currencies and debt, not innovation and value creation.
How To Create A Fortune and a Better World: If you can get anything about this now-popular topic across to your family members and friends, this is it:
Gold does not PRODUCE wealth. It is a non-productive monetary asset… unless it’ll be accepted widely as a medium of exchange in some distant future.
A purist might simply be correct by saying that gold can be regarded as a store of value (without growth), whereas stocks can be regarded as a return on value (i.e., growth from anticipated real price increase plus dividends).
There is still questionable debate, however, on the true store of value pitch (but, I’ll save it for my report).
Back to value-creation, however.
What is the most measurable, most sustainable, vehicle to represent any kind of creative innovation; imagination and productive change?
I think you already know the answer. But, it’s a well-run company that produces and sells something the world needs.
Remember, just like a gun used solely for home security, gold is also boring (you can make a gun not boring at the pistol range every week, if you like. Can’t really do much with gold, except melt it down to jewelry and impress your wife).
In other words, gold doesn’t bring about any dividends and doesn’t guarantee capital gains. It doesn’t bring about VALUE until you have to use it.
And, if you’re saying to yourself, “well, I’ve owned some physical gold — bars, coins, jewelry — over the long haul. I disagree with your claim that I don’t have value, or a great return on my capital,” I’ll say this:
It’s only a paper return until you do something with it.
And, trust me… the longer ago you bought the gold, the greater the chance you’ll have that you might still get a return. Meaning, if its price tumbles back down to $1,000/ounce and you bought it just under, or just over, that price, your returns are teetering on break-even.
As I see it, gold above $1000 can’t be used to rationalize anything other than speculation… assuming, that is, you don’t already have some stored away to be used as insurance.
And, for that correct purpose, just know that it will hedge against inflation but won’t pay a premium to it. It will track inflation, but won’t give you a premium over it.
But, what will are companies that produce profits. Profits that are paid out as income in the form of dividends or are reinvested and compounded.
Where you find these companies — even the ones that are just percolating under the public radar (the ones that can be the next Apple or Google) — I’ll share with you later this week.
NOTE: The above commentary is the preface to our October 31st member update. To read it’s continuation and the rest of the update, as well as obtain full access to our coveted money-growing Vault, click here… After you join us a full-fledged paid-up member, go to the October 31st member update to finish reading the above commentary.
Or… if you just prefer more no-charge gold bug commentary…
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Posted February 3, 2012 at 3:55 am
by Brad Wajnman
In the old days (that is, before the Internet), if you were interested in researching stocks, you’d either have to rely on the advice of a broker who was paid only when you bought or sold… or you had to dig through a mountain of annual reports, newspapers, and an assortment of other documents that were usually months old by the time you got a hold of them.
If you wanted to research more than a few companies, it was almost impossible unless you had a small army of analysts calculating all the data for you.
And good luck if you wanted to compare hundreds or thousands of companies at once – it was an extremely tedious and difficult task.
Thank goodness those days are gone forever.
Nowadays, both amateur and professional investors have access to powerful online research tools that, prior to the advent of the Internet, were only available to investment bankers, stock brokers, and securities dealers.
Of course, some of the more sophisticated tools come with hefty price tags. However, most investors can do all the research they need for free or for a modest subscription fee.
The most popular types of research tools are online stock screeners. These handy programs can do in nanoseconds what it would take you and me hours and hours of manual research to do by hand.
They’re designed to help investors and traders — who don’t have the interest or time to do a detailed analysis of the market — quickly sift and sort through only the stocks that meet a specific criterion or metric they’re searching for.
There are plenty of stock screeners available online that allow you to do comprehensive searches and provide a large number of qualifiers to choose from, but they usually lack one or more features that most people want, or are limited to only U.S. stock exchanges.
Over the last few years, a number of stock screening software vendors have attempted to combine several in-depth stock market analysis tools into a SINGLE platform. But so far, the only one that seems to posses all the right bells and whistles — covering almost every worldwide stock exchange — is [continue]….
Editor’s Note: The above is the start of a 9-page review that can be found inside the Vault, via the Feb 3rd 2012 ‘Member Update’ section
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Posted January 9, 2012 at 3:50 am
by Brad Wajnman
Investment Director, The Wealth Vault
Our first newly added listing for the year fits in perfectly with our prime mission of helping you make, manage, and multiply your money in uncommon and extraordinary ways.
It comes to us from xxxxx, the creator of xxxxx. We’ve personally tested it out with our own money and have experienced phenomenal results first hand.
However, unlike his xxxxx services which requires you to enter each trade manually, this affordable program combines 100% passive income generation (via a revolutionary mirror trading platform) with a lucrative affiliate program for upfront commissions and ongoing residual income (optional).
The system’s live performance from inception is currently sitting at around +27% (trading started on November 2, 2011). Even though December was a pretty flat month due to the holidays, that’s still a very healthy two-month total any way you slice it.
Point is, if you started on November 2nd with a $1,000 LIVE account, you’d have an additional $270 in your account right now.
Now if you have limited funds available to invest in the automated trading, the program offers you an innovative way to invest from earned commissions, instead of taking money out of pocket.
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Posted December 21, 2011 at 3:50 am
Note: this is an excerpt of a more detailed member update that first appeared inside the vault on August 29th.
by Barry Goss
On the front of our website (WealthVault.net), under the Managed Trading Account section, we have had a concise statement that has been showing off its wares for many months:
“We find traders who trade well and let the ivory tower economists do the worrying!”
It’s the “us not worrying” part that has seemed to make some of our friends question our mental state.
One recently explained that maybe we should spend more time at least highlighting bigger macro events like: the ongoing debt crisis, issues in Europe, institutional investors demanding their banks hold more cash for them, the looming talk of recession, etc.
I asked him: “Do you really think what the market already knows hasn’t factored these larger economic issues in?” and “Do you realize that our well-read members do keep abreast of what the market, offered up via various news outlets, knows?”
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He looked confused, but that is how somebody who over-analyzes his way through life, without experiencing personal execution, is supposed to look.
So, imagine this:
You’re the kind of person who can analyze risk; you have a natural tendency to see macro trends that are precipitated by politics and monetary moves; you have a very good academic mind but you ALSO have a knack for seeing human progress, value, and smelling opportunity in the face of fear and media-led sensationalism.
So, you put yourself into Harvard Business School, work your ass off, and the result of that work is you graduate at the top of your class. And, in undergraduate school, you already showed a fascination for the markets by working briefly for a value investor — one of them thar researchers who only bags quality companies at bargain prices and holds them for the long term.
For all the above expertise and experience, a group of wealthy families get together, talk about you in a secret private meeting, track you down and then tell you they want to give you $27 million to manage.
This is exactly what happened to now renowned hedge-fund legend, Seth Klarman, in 1982.
This was the start of his firm, the Boston-based Baupost Group.
Baupost has returned 19% a year, net of fees, since Klarman started it in 1983, vs. 11% for the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index.
And when you have those kinds of sustained returns over time, people come clamoring for your advice; they want your secret sauce.
And with only one book ever written by Klarman, which is all about his thoughtful strategies for making it big with value stocks, you can imagine how much demand there is for getting a copy.
As of yesterday, I saw a copy on eBay for over $1,000.
But today, you’re going to get a very short nugget of his core philosophy and, guess what, it’s not too far removed from the very statement we have on our website.
Regarding his firm’s philosophy, he states that “We worry top down and invest bottom up.”
And, it’s also the core approach we have here at the WV:
When we’re in self-directed investing mode — i.e., picking individual stocks, funds, or other such instruments we can buy through regulated exchanges — we keep an eye on the big picture, without claiming the sky will fall, and then go look for good deals by scrutinizing the merits of price, business model, good management, etc.
Here’s an example:
10% Money Machines: For quite some time, we have been very bullish on select mortgage REITS; companies that basically make their money by buying mortgages, and then leveraging these investments by borrowing repurchase agreements against them.
These companies pocket the difference between the short-term rate they are paying and the longer-term / higher interest they collect. This is known as the “spread.” And, because of the current underlying macro economic and political environment (loose monetary policy and near-zero rates), our risk is low.
We can “Worry top down” about the above investment vehicles by simply knowing what our biggest concerns will be when the yield-curve flattens or inverts.
But, it’s easy to simply do a brief big picture assessment and see that with QE still on the table (Keynesian stimulus); slow economic growth; and little dramatic changes in policy (coming election), the current steep yield-curve (what these money machines feed off) isn’t changing anytime soon.
So, we continue to like setting aside a portion of our money into certain REITs, and we affectionately call these (and others listed) our Cash With Flash IVs.
You can see that we’ve already done a bit of research on one in particular, and have “invested bottom up” by ensuring it’s still a good deal.
When you click on our Where To Stash Your Cash page, you’ll see ____ listed (at the bottom of the table).
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Posted December 16, 2011 at 3:55 am
by Barry Goss
Managing Editor / Publisher, The Wealth Vault
Ya know… ya gotta admit, things you hear that can be possible, but rarely probable, are indeed fascinating.
For instance, full end-to-end double rainbows really are cool (er, WARNING, if you click the link and have people around you, not looking at your screen, but only hearing what’s coming from your speakers, they may think you’re watching porn).
So, just as fascinating as what the guy in the link above found (taking his hilarious reaction out of the equation) is how we humans mostly only let common sense ‘sink in’ if the teaching — the reminders — are delivered in a not-so-common way.
Sure, there are things in life we don’t need to be taught to “get” — like how wine really is made from grapes… or… how the meat in a Taco Bell taco really is cow meat (not anything more or less).
But, when it comes to finances and money, man oh man, sometimes a good storyline — a setting of cryptic and hammy proportions — is all it takes to have sensibility again become popular (and inspiring) for us.
Enter what the sheeple — those who easily latch onto popular culture and memes rather than expend energy to think in deeper ways — have made one of the longest-running and bestselling books of all time:
The Richest Man in Babylon.
George S. Clason didn’t write it to be a book. Rather, he started writing parables in 1926 and they were distributed by banks in pamphlet form. The most famous of these parables were later compiled into the book, The Richest Man in Babylon.
The book takes a couple of simple concepts and beats them to death in a series of mind-numbing stories written in old English style writing.
The narrative follows two poor workers, Bansir and Kobbi, as they attempt to gain wealth. They ask advice of their friend Arkad, who is the titular “richest man in Babylon”. Arkad proceeds to use a series of parables to illustrate the financial, or wealth-building, secrets of the so-called “ancients.”
If you like old English, or enjoy Shakespeare, and need an “imagine yourself rich” motivational story, you may like this book.
But, somehow I think you’re already past basic concepts like [1] save a portion of your income (put away X% of your income every paycheck); [2] control your expenditures (don’t spend more than you need to); [3] increase the amount of money you earn; and [4] protect your wealth against losses, etc.
Then again, the world-at-large has apparently clamored for the Aesopian proverbs (like, “Better a little caution than a great regret”) and the yoga-esque platitudes (like, “Gold slippeth away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those who are skilled in its keep”) that come along with it.
On that latter, seemingly godly note… current day wisdom just might say: “I only invest in businesses I understand” (Warren Buffet). Yeah, but reaaaaaally, come on. Who wants something so simple; so cut-to-the-chase drab, when they can get an eth or thee thrown in every other paragraph?
The entire book basically boils down to: pay your bills, save some money, make it grow.
Yet, for the greenhorns coming into a J-O-B with their first paycheck, or for those just getting started in the world of investing, here’s a bit of elaboration on one key word used judiciously throughout the book:
GOLD!
Gold’s Scary Secrets: It doesn’t mean you won’t be wealthy if you don’t have any. Far from it, as it was used to simply signify money, or capital, in the above book.
And, as you’ll soon see, current day money, even in its paper (fiat and legal tender) form, can (and should) be used to increase income and build wealth.
Gold (in “physical” form) can certainly help store the value of your net worth; i.e., the dollar value of your total assets (bank accounts, stocks, real estate equity, etc.) minus the dollar value of your total liabilities (bank loans, credit card debt, etc.)
But, you have to get this distinction: it WAS once used as money. Just like cowry shells, shekels (a weight of barley), and other commodity-driven forms of money were. Yet, they eventually become obsolete due to technology (in my coming DETAILED gold report, I will get into the hype around the gold bugs holding onto the “how every paper-based money has failed, or will fail,” canard).
As a “monetary asset” (yup, regardless of Ron Paul faithfuls’ claim, Bernake was 100% correct with that label; while you can’t pay for dinner with it, you can use it as collateral), bullion (physical gold) is the best hopeful insurance against economic and political disaster (i.e., bureaucrats causing COMPLETE loss of confidence in the worldwide fiat monetary system, as represented through multiple currencies (think: Yen, Dollar, Franc, Euro, etc).
I didn’t add in the word “social” above, as in a breakdown of society, Mad Max style, gold isn’t going to be anything other than a shiny rock to look at. In this far-fetched scenario, the commodities I want on hand are:
Hundreds of 5-gallon Poland Spring Water containers, gasoline stored to run a generator for months, firewood, blood pressure medicine, storable food, Swiss Army knife, Bowie knife, batteries, shortwave radio receiver, and a Remington pump-action 10-gauge shotgun, with sufficient ammo.
Do I spend a waking minute worrying, or even thinking, that the above scenario can (or will) happen? Ah, I think you already know the answer. But, I’ll say it like this:
NO!
Instead, I get enthralled with ideas! Combine those with prosperity-minded people, experience, and technological resources and you can’t help but be part of creating a better world through VALUE and INNOVATION (more on that shortly).
So, here’s the problem with just tossing around the word “gold” without any context, or any understanding of anything about it, except its latest 10-year pricing boom.
Like the flock of believers who get sucked into the exploits of the next traveling faith healer, you also might take a leap of faith to the shiny metal… all because, well, everybody seems to be.
In the August 29 issue of Barron’s, Gene Epstein wrote that “In addition to being a commodity, gold is also a cause.”
Yet that cause has gotten skewed. Again, it should ONLY be used to mitigate risk, purchasing power loss, in true investments. But, like some religions who think that those who unquestionably believe (yeah, just believe) will be rewarded handsomely in the afterlife, extreme gold bugs will tell you if you don’t buy all you can now you’re being led astray by the forces of evil.
Just like Christianity is divided into so many sects, so too is gold: You’ve got the hard bullion people, the people who speculate in the miners, the ETFs, and even spinoff precious metals, like silver.
You also have the really far-out-there, cult-like folks who think they’re actually making long-term, value-based “investments” in the relic metal.
[ Uhmm, let's investigate that some after this managed forex find from Brad... ]
NOTE: The above commentary is part of the preface to our October 31st member update. To read it’s continuation and the rest of the update, as well as obtain full access to our coveted money-growing Vault, click here… After you join us a full-fledged paid-up member, go to the October 31st member update to finish reading the above commentary.
Or… you can read part 2 of Gold’s Scary Secrets here…
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