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Don Miller: Legendary Wall Street trader and best-selling author Jim Rogers recently offered this unconventional advice: If you want to get rich, you should be investing in farmland. Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: To the casual observer, the announcements made late last week in Europe may appear to be just another in a series of “do the minimal to get by” moves by policymakers. In reality, Germany moved off their hard-line stance, which may mark a watershed Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: “Buy. Real. Assets. Now!” That strong suggestion, from the highly-trafficked website to which investors go for their daily dose of critical analysis of daily economic Read more…
Eric Dutram: Although ETFs have become more well-known and prevalent among financial circles, there are still a host of misconceptions regarding the products. Read more…
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Jeb Handwerger: Around the year 1650 A.D. the word highwaymen entered our language. It referred to robbery committed on a public road against travelers. Now we use the phrase “highway robbery” for which we pay the tolls to travel on modern day roads. Read more…
Jared Cummans: 2011 was a tough year for commodities, with the majority of investors watching their positions turn sour as equity markets wreaked havoc in the commodity space. But while finding gains for the year was a tall order, it is clear that investors are looking more and more to exchange Read more…
Jonathan Yates: And they said it couldn’t be done: a $20 billion a year tax credit for ethanol has ended in the United States. Sometimes the American political system does work, even when losing the subsidy directly hurts Iowa farmers in an election year. Read more…
Jeb Handwerger: Commodities In Characteristic Selloff Read more…
Jared Cummans: With real estate markets in the gutter, treasury yields at all-time lows, and equity markets plagued with instability, it’s no wonder that commodity investing has been surging in recent years. Many investors have hopped on board with the various benefits that these investments offer, Read more…
Michael Johnston: As ETFs have burst on to the scene in recent years, just about every serious investor and professional money manager has taken a crash course in exchange-traded products, becoming familiar with the countless benefits and nuances of these products. Features such as enhanced transparency Read more…
Jared Cummans: As the ETF world has rapidly developed, a number of issuers have begun to explore niche markets with hyper-targeted exposure for investors looking for unique allocations. Such innovation has brought products dedicated to smartphones, cloud computing, fertilizer, and even the fishing Read more…
Michael Johnston: United States Commodity Funds, the company behind the ultra-popular natural gas (NYSE:UNG) and crude oil (NYSE:USO) products, has laid the groundwork for another unique exchange-traded commodity product. In a recent SEC filing, USCF outlined some details for a proposed Read more…
Jared Cummans: Investing in commodities has certainly picked up in recent years, but it seems that the overall industry has begun to experience some growing pains. As is common with newer investment types (not that commodities are new, but their heavy popularity is), analysts will lash out and tell investors Read more…
Richard Rittorno: Recent declines in coffee prices may give coffee retailers room to rise. Coffee, the commodity, is down about 28% since its peak in May, as reflected by the iPath DJ AIG Coffee TR Sub-Index (NYSE:JO). Read more…
Much has been made about the perfect market timing that can be derived by the doing the opposite of what the herd, or small investor, is doing. While this 
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