Quote: (06-05-2012 08:45 PM)void Wrote:
So, we all know the financial system is designed to fail after a certain time. Investing in gold in 2006 would have tripled or quadrupled your wealth by now. I considered it, but didnt do it (goddamn). what are the next big upcoming investment opportunities?
You can only buy and sell, equity, debt, land, currencies, commodities and other exotica.
In the last few years.
Lots of "smart" money has been buying arable land and the price of farm land has gone through the roof. Most of the folks who called the housing bubble right have been doing their "mad max" buying scenario. Of course no one is calling it a bubble, but that's what it is.
A lot of people are betting on Sovereign debt default from the EU Portugal Ireland Italy Greece Spain, but you would have had to have bought in during the economic crisis of 2008. I think that's what happened with that 2 billion dollar loss a few weeks back. They "hedged" against debt default and lost.
Right now there's a big build of human and physical infrastructure in the extraction industries. NPR is talking about lots of oil and gas jobs in Houston, mining in Australia, and we've got a thread on shale gas in Canada.
So I would expect as more of these reports hit the mainstream, more retail investors are gonna buy in and think they're getting a deal...when they're only paying off the people who have the educated staff, time, and money to investigate and analyze these opportunities.
Essentially everyone should be looking @ industries that take advantage of population growth and the shift in wealth from Europe/US to Asia and the rest of the world.
The real money is going to be made doing real stuff though.