[agere_contra]

There's no way around it: when you invest, the risk of loss goes hand in hand with the potential for gain.

So buy precious metals.

Right now we have a literally golden opportunity where the safest asset class (precious metals) is also the one that will grow most in buying power - at least until 1 oz of Gold = the DOW, and probably until 0.5 oz of Gold = the DOW.

[Roccus]

Nice little dip going on in PMs right now.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Past performance is no indicator of future results, but historically, gold hasn’t been the magical investment you seem to think it has been.

http://www.investorsfriend.com/asset_performance.htm

It is folly to call gold “the safest asset class” and even more foolish to say that it “WILL grow most in buying power.”

Gold is ONE part of a prudently diversified portfolio.

[rokkitapps]

I was looking at tiaa-cref.org at mutual fund possibilities and everything is negative for the year. I looked at bond funds and they are all about 5% up on the year. not much, but better than negative. The inflation protected bonds were up about 10%. I am going to get in bonds until 2012 and then move into stocks if a republican gets elected.