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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2489550, member: 73489&quot;]Doesn&#039;t matter, you go with the LEAST BAD and invest prudently with diversification.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #00b359">There are lots of quality bond funds paying 3-5%.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>There are also quality bond closed-end funds (CEFs) which pay 5-9% or so.&nbsp; Both leveraged and non-leveraged.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #4d4dff">A quick list in order of least-to-more risky:&nbsp; IGI/ICB/VBF/MIN.....MCR/DUC/FPF.....DSL/DSU/EHI.....I own or have owned all of these for years.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #00b359">Dividend-paying stocks are a winner.</span></b>&nbsp; RDS-B and BP are fine. Lots of others, energy and non-energy that pay DOUBLE the 10-year Treasury rate, unheard of a few years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #ff0000">Gold is a SPECULATION, not an INVESTMENT !!!</span></i></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Total production costs are always HIGHER and many of the factors that drive gold higher increase the COSTS OF MINING even higher.&nbsp; That&#039;s what happened from 2001-15.&nbsp; <b>Tens of billions in gold CAPX wasted.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Please invest in a balanced investment portfolio:&nbsp; 60% stocks, 40% bonds.&nbsp; If you are very conservative, 40% stocks, 60% bonds.</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Invest/speculate with your excess $$$ by buying bullion coins or classic gold/silver.&nbsp; Make sure YOU LIKE ANY NUMISMATIC or bullion coins even if the price gets cut in 1/2 in 5 or 10 years (unlikely IMO, but a good precaution).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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