Should You Invest in Commodities? Here’s the Tea (and the Oil and the Gold…)
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And if you've listened to Monday's episode, my latest book is all about proven investing strategies to help you grow wealth. And so to celebrate this week, I'm sharing some of those investing strategies here on the pod. Today, we're actually starting where I started with commodities. My very first gig in financial reporting was from the pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where commodities like coffee, oil, gold and even frozen concentrated orange juice are traded. And yes, I thought they were messing with me when they said I'd be working at the stock exchange that sold orange juice. Apparently they were not. Fun times. The most relevant commodity of your portfolio will likely be gold. But with everybody talking about egg prices like they're the new Bitcoin, it's a pretty good time to become well-versed in commodities as an asset class. So coffee, oil, gold, OJ, eggs. What is the through line here? A commodity is something that you can touch that can be easily exchanged one for another or for cash.
And oddly on brand with this egg thing, commodities come in two flavors, hard and soft. Soft commodities include anything that has to be grown or harvested. So think soybeans, cotton, cattle, and yes, for the last time, I promise, eggs. Hard commodities are resources extracted from the earth like palladium, silver, platinum, gold, crude oil, natural gas. So what the heck does this mean for you? Well, you don't have to be working on the floor of the Merc to invest in commodities. Commodities have long been a popular investment for people looking to diversify their portfolios beyond traditional stocks and bonds. I mentioned gold earlier, so let's double click on that. Gold has often been seen as a safe haven asset, especially during times of economic uncertainty. From 1971, when the U.S.
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