After the Zimbabwe Dollar was abandoned in 2009, the US Dollar and other foreign currencies became the official mediums of exchange in that country, and still are today. So my question is, if someone had some company stock that they originally bought with the Zimbabwe Dollar, and they now decide to ...

I'm curious about the relationship between stocks and treasury bonds in countries like greece, italy, and spain because the yields on their treasuries are very high right now which means that their values have gone down significantly. This puzzles me because their stock markets have all been beaten ...

What do you think about adding a portion of gold stocks to the PP in place of bonds? From the data that I've read, gold stocks surged over 500% during the great depression from 1929-1933. Homestake Mining stock rose from $80 in October 1929 to $495 per share in December 1935 - a return of 519% (excl...

I'm curious how well stocks are expected to perform in the event of a hyper-inflationary scenario. From the information that I could find on Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Industrial Index at the beginning of 2005 was 2,191 points and at the end of 2007 it was 4,000,796. This suggests that stocks offer pret...

I have just started my PP, but I haven't purchased any gold yet. I'm trying to figure out the best time to go in. I'm thinking that any more bad news out of Europe will cause gold prices to fall due to strengthening dollar, so I kind of want to wait until the end of june at least. What do you think?

I am interested in buying individual bonds instead of ETFs/mutual funds for my Roth IRA with TD Ameritrade. My question is what are the tax consequences of this? I know investments that you have in a Roth IRA are supposed to be tax-free, but does this include individual bonds as well? There was one ...

The only other bond fund my plan offers is Pimco Total Return, which doesn't really fulfill my need for a long-term bond so I am going to open a separate roth ira to satisfy that requirement as well as the gold requirement. But back to my cash dilemma, PLDAX according to the prospectus puts 59% in m...

In my employer retirement plan, I have two options for the cash portion of my PP. The first is Pimco Low Duration (PLDAX), which appears to invest in mostly short-term mortgage assets and treasuries and yields 2.5% right now. It would carry slightly more risk but still seems pretty safe. The other i...