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Precious Metals. Gold and Silver Specifically.

edit: If you're in Canada, you can use ScotiaMocatta (division of ScotiaBank) as your broker Buy. online and they will deliver the metal right to your doorstep, or keep it with them in a safety box.

https://www.scotiamocatta-estore.scotiabank.com/stores/scoti...

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That's a speculation. Investments are returns on real value. Speculations are bets on unrealized value. The OP asked about investments.

Does this make angel "investing" more like angel "speculation"? Or even more so, Venture Capital primarily speculation versus investment? A legitimate question.

A little of both. Buying index funds is investing and buying gold is speculation, but there's not an excluded middle.

Anyone have a US-based broker recommendation?

You can just invest in the GLD exchange-traded fund (ETF) [1].

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=GLD

ETF's are better than holding raw metals, i believe investing in raw metal or jewels is a myth, there is no buyer for raw gold/silver. Once you buy raw metal you end up with it for your lifetime or sell them for less (jewelers would give you less gold in a new design, after their 10-25% cut).

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