Olivier Garrett: Buying Gold & Silver
Precious metals and the Hard Assets Alliance
With financial markets becoming increasingly volatile (the Shanghai Composite’s loss of over $2 trillion in the past month, for example), along with growing global economic instability and currency risks (Greece contagion, anyone?), we think it time to reiterate more loudly our core belief that everyone should own some precious metals.
As detailed out in our report The Screaming Fundamentals For Owning Gold & Silver, the primary reasons are:
- To protect purchasing power against monetary recklessness (e.g. central bank money printing)
- As insulation against fiscal foolishness (e.g., chronic deficit spending by governments)
- As insurance against the possibility of a major calamity in the banking/financial system
- For the embedded ‘option value’ that will pay out handsomely if gold is re-monetized
And while there are many ways to purchase precious metals, we continue to be impressed by the full-service set of solutions offered by the Hard Assets Alliance. Peak Prosperity joined the HAA as a founding member back in 2012, and since then, we’ve appreciated how well they’ve executed on their mission and continued to launch features targeted at what their customers value most.
In this week’s podcast, Chris sits down with Olivier Garrett, the CEO of the Hard Assets Alliance to discuss the current state of the precious metals market, why the reasons for owning bullion make more sense than ever today, and what the HAA, specifically, is doing to make it as affordable, easy and secure as possible for people everywhere to own gold and silver.
The podcast gets into much more detail, but the main advantages of the Hard Assets Alliance is that it makes the same advantages enjoyed by institutions available to the retail bullion investor:
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