Why Gold and Silver Make Sense As Retirement Investments
The definitive call on whether to have precious metals in your retirement portfolio…
by Marc Courtenay, Retirement Panel Chairman
The Oxford Club
Feelings of financial insecurity are running full throttle. Couple that with a growing mistrust of government, and it's beginning to remind me of 1974 all over again.
How so? The world at the time was going through a series of financial challenges and upheavals.
- Here in the United States, we had a president "on the ropes," who was being investigated by Congress.
- Inflation was starting to rear its ugly head, too.
- And paper currencies that weren't backed by precious metals were losing their appeal, worldwide.
"How safe can you feel with something backed by the promises of politicians and intrinsically worth only the paper and ink used to create it?"
The late economist and author of several bestselling books (and Libertarian Presidential Candidate), Harry Brown, spoke those words to me back in early 1974. It was he who articulated why I needed to invest in precious metals, which turned out to be a brilliant call ahead of gold's historic ascent.
But the world is a much different place today. Given that, do gold and silver make sense as retirement investments?
To put it simply – and emphatically – yes! Let me tell you why…
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