re: gold: why it will outperform../gold.
fludy, if you believe the good times have stopped rolling then why would you be into base metals? We are poised on the brink of a world-wide depression. In that circumstance, the demand for base metals will be low. Prices will go nowhere but down.
With all due respect, the financial journalists have shown themselves to be very poor forecasters of anything let alone fiancial trends.
Already, gold has outperformed the rest of the market significnatly over the past year or more. We are at the beginning of a long-term secular bull run in gold. Just look at the chart and check the long term moving averages. Sure, it may be a bumpy ride but for a variety of reasons (not just the threat of war) the trend for gold is up and will remain so for at least a couple of years imhop.
