Image via Wikipedia Pension obligation bonds were a great idea for about a minute and a half in 1985 when the city of Oakland, California used them. Oakland issued tax exempt bonds at a prevailing rate for tax exempt bonds and then turned around and invested the money in vehicles such as Treasury Bills offering [...]
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As oil in developed countries such as the United States and Canada became harder to find and less profitable, oil companies moved offshore, to Alaska and to the Third World. Investing in oil has been subject to the risk of nationalization across the globe. In general it has become harder to make money in oil. [...]
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Image via Wikipedia There are a number of attractive options for investing in gold and there are pitfalls. Gold stock investing includes mining companies and derivatives. Many gold bugs will say that how to invest in the stock market during hard economic times is to invest in gold. However, the true gold bug will advise [...]
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