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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1352889, member: 3011&quot;]I&#039;ve explained the case for stocks before.&nbsp; So here it is again for everyone else but you.&nbsp; The stock market has gone nowhere since 1998.&nbsp; But in the meantime, earnings and revenue for many fine companies have continued to grow.&nbsp; Now it is possible to purchase stocks in companies with (1) little or no debt, (2) with positive cash flow, (3) a significant dividend that is growing in the high single digits or low double digits every year, and (4) you pay only about 10-12 times earnings.&nbsp; I&#039;m not talking about investing in banks or other financials.&nbsp; In the long run, stock prices track the growth in earnings and there is an opportunity to buy them now below that long term trend line.&nbsp; This presents a situation where an investment today has a high probability of significant gains over the next decade with less risk than gold or silver which are already up 6X in price.&nbsp; Over time, the average person has a better chance of accumulating significant wealth through the stock market than with any other passive investment.&nbsp; Gold is okay too and has about doubled in price since 1980 while stocks are up about 14X not counting dividends.&nbsp; Nothing is always good to buy.&nbsp; Gold was a much better purchase than stocks in 2000 after a long run up in the stock market and long bear market in gold.&nbsp; But now the positions are reversed, and this should be considered by everyone when constructing a portfolio.&nbsp; The day will come, nobody knows when, when gold and silvercoins will again be for collecting and not investing, and that isn&#039;t a bad thing for collectors.&nbsp; To believe that the gold bull market is permanent and that everything else is bad is folly.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;t the case for stocks and not the stuff you posted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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