1. U.S. stocks sank on Monday while Bitcoin’s slump deepened, as Wall Street’s strong late-November rebound looked set to hit a speed bump on the first trading day of December. Tech led the retreat, with the Nasdaq Composite down by around 1% and the S&P 500 dropping roughly 0.7%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid…
Now that it appears the virus is ebbing and things are slowly opening back up, let’s look at how our two favorite investments have fared so far this year. Did gold provide a hedge? How did metals perform against the stock market? And where is the better value now?
In the stock market’s four worst bear markets, ones that included a major second leg down, the gold price has risen every time.
Could it happen again?
A textbook in my Master of Psychology program theorized that most things in life come down to core drives—food, shelter, sex, etc. Throw in Freud’s pain and pleasure principals and this is supposedly what drives everything we do.
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