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How to Buy Gold Online

Gold Bullion is a great way to store wealth over the long term. Gold Bullion is pretty much immune to inflation, compact, and the most beautiful investment in the world. Everyone should own some gold bullion as part of their safety and security plan, retirement plan, or for all the other reasons to save for the future. Gold bullion is gold in a form designed for storage (as opposed to gold jewelry or used for industrial purposes). Gold Bullion is priced as some reasonable value above current gold price spot, so gold bullion does not include "collector coins" that are worth more to a collector then a pure bullion investor would pay. Step 1: Decide what type of gold bullion you want to hold, or diversify over time into all types. Major categories of gold bullion include: ~~~99.99% Pure Gold Bars - available from 1 gram through 1 ounce sizes, as well as larger bars like the 400 oz gold bars used in big depositories. ~~~99.99% or higher 1 ounce Gold Coins - Avai

How to Invest in Copper at a Steep Discount

You can invest in a commodity that has always served as money, with just a little cash and at a discount to the actual price of copper. Investing in durable commodities like gold, silver and copper protects your purchasing power in inflationary times. With the US printing new money by the trillions this is a very real concern. Things you'll need: Federal Reserve Notes (paper $$s) Good Sources of Copper Desire to invest Understand that US Pennies up to 1981 are 95% Copper/Cu and Canadian Pennies up to 1996 are 98% Copper/Cu. After these dates pennies have been made from copper coated zinc (US and Canada) and copper coated steel (Canada) in a process called debasing. Find a good supplier set up to supply at the level you want to invest at. Some suppliers focus on 1 lb to 10 lb lots. Other suppliers focus on 68 lb flat rate USPS boxes. Some suppliers will sell you a ton (2000 lbs) or more at a time. Decide if you want to hold the copper yourself or have it stored: If yo