With the recent ruckus over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico, followed by the price for a barrel of crude oil taking a significant dive, it’s easy to understand why an investor would be concerned about the future of any crude oil investments they might have. But if you think that you fall into this category, you can take a deep breath and relax. If you have an oil ETF or some other similar investment, you’ll find that it’s pretty safe to assume that you’ll be well off in the long run, despite [...]
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The best alternative to our energy crisis is natural gas. There are many options out there for cleaner, more renewable sources of energy like wind and solar power. However, those technologies are decades away from advancing to the point where society and our economy will be able to make regular use of it. Wind and solar is still not a significant enough source of energy to replace oil, but natural gas is.
Benefits of Natural Gas
There are many advantages to gas that is not present with the other clean energy sources. First of all, our technologies can be easily and cheaply [...]
There are many different funds that call themselves ETF gold funds yet they are not all the same. There are actually numerous ways that the funds are compiled that can greatly affect the different investment strategies that a potential gold investor may employ.
The most straightforward funds will actually possess a related amount of gold bullion with each share usually being equivalent to about 1/10 of an ounce of gold. In general, these funds will keep track of fluctuations in gold price with precision. Some of the funds that could be categorized as this are SPDR Gold Trust and iShare COMEX [...]
