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John Rubino: Why it’s time to have more than gold in your portfolio

Investors often prepare for financial uncertainty by trying to anticipate the next crisis. The greater risk may be assuming that yesterday's strategies will protect tomorrow's wealth. For John Rubino, financial resilience begins with recognizing the limits of prediction. Even gold, which...

Jeff Snider: Why hard assets can’t protect you from every crisis

Hard assets can provide protection from many risks, but they don’t exist outside the financial system. When credit contracts and liquidity disappears, even assets that investors consider resilient can face pressure as losses, leverage, and forced selling spread through interconnected...

Brent Johnson: What if the broken system keeps working?

Seeing the cracks in the global financial system is easy. Knowing what happens next is much harder. Brent Johnson argues that investors can get into trouble when they mistake an unsustainable system for one that must fail soon. Markets can defy...

Rodrigo Gordillo: Should you trust the market you remember?

Perhaps the most dangerous assumption an investor can make is that the future will behave like the past they personally remember. Rodrigo Gordillo learned that lesson early, and it became the foundation of his investment philosophy. Rather than trying to predict...

Tom Wheelwright: How taxes impact the returns you take home

Most investors are trained to think about returns first and taxes later. Tom Wheelwright argues that separating the two can leave a remarkable amount of wealth on the table. Taxes can amplify an investment’s return just as easily as they can...

Jeff Deist: The End of Monetary Hedonism

For generations, prosperity rested on a simple idea: produce more than you consume, save the difference, and leave something behind for those who come next. Jeff Deist argues that today’s monetary system has steadily reversed those incentives, rewarding debt and consumption...

Doug Casey talks gold, freedom, and rising political risks

Doug Casey argues that investors often prepare for the wrong risks. Markets rise and fall, commodities fluctuate, and economies expand and contract. Yet The International Man contends that the greatest threats to wealth often emerge from the political and monetary...

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