Investing / Investors here?

[WHITE DEVIL]

If so, what are your strategies/positions? How do you invest/what do you invest in?

I personally stick with non-US diversified mutual funds. My opinion opinion is when globalization really takes off (as we haven't seen it do yet) Americans, (who are lagging behind in science and industry) will be relegated to the role of spenders and little more. I doubt the US economy will make the sort of drastic, vital changes needed to be competitive.

In addition, anyways, both of my canada funds have performed very well for the past couple years.

I plan to still grab a decent chunk of Spiders, the midcap ETF, just in case the economy doesn't take a shit like I think it will.

And if inflation continues, I'll be looking at Gold and some I-Bonds (TIPS) soon.

 

[reza]

I want to get into currency speculation. However, I have no money to invest rite now and i gotta learn more about it. Do you keep an eye out on the exchange rates monthly? I think the US will continue to play a major role in globalization. Foreign governments will be a factor if globalization will continue to grow.

 

[WHITE DEVIL]

I do keep a tentative eye on exc. rates - but I don't watch them closely. My main focus right now is inflation, fed policy, and how the markets are going to do this winter.

The dollar has been extremely strong, bullish insofar as people have not expected this kind of strength in it - which led to the rise then fall of gold prices recently. The yen, I believe is going to be looking at at least a 6-month period of weakness against the dollar, even with signs of deflation in the japanese economy.

 

[ESCOBAR]

real estate seems to be the way to go

 

[Hutch]

depends where you are - we're in a real estate slump over here, it's suggested that prices are gonna drop by about 10% over the next 5 years - sure, it will probably be good to buy some property while the prices are low, but they are still relatively volatile - would you invest in property in New Orleans? (Dumb question, I know you'd research your properties better than that before you spent that much money, but still....)

 

[WHITE DEVIL]

Real estate, in my opinion, is one of the more solid investments as long as you initially are in the black. Even with a 10% price drop (which is quite possible) it would still be worth getting into, since real estate income is constant and passive.

 

[Merciedez]

invest in farms, raw materials, construction companies, and engineering. these are the three world wide necessities of any country, especially associated with the government...

 

[WHITE DEVIL]

Merciedez is uncharacteristically correct on this one. Whether or not she just guessed is another matter but construction engineering and raw materials, especially in emerging markets and other countires, typically tend to be good investments.