Commodities certainly seem like the place to be.
The way I look at the stock market under such an oppressive and fascist government as we have with Obama and his henchmen Czars is that it would be the very LAST place I put any of my money or keep any.
Before he was elected and took office, I took every everloving cent I had in it out. Its true that levels eventually nearly got back up to where they were almost three years later, but one must remember that the DOW hit over 14000 before he was elected. At best last year, smart investors were able to keep their money with no return.
Todays high increases and low volume? I’d guess computers and brokers fleecing the gullible people who think they are ‘stock traders’ ala Guitar Hero or something like the government artificially making strategic money-dumps. In any case, it’s not a smart place to be for someone not well-connect and on the “in”.....
The thing about precious metals is that unlike stocks and paper ‘currencies,’ they will never be worth nothing.
Food and guns are similar, but food perishes quickly, and guns are only yours as long as you can defend them.