Podcast - 2012-40-02 - Gold in the Permanent Portfolio

[craigr]

Can it be? Yes it's true after a very hectic year, another podcast has been made and hopefully more will be coming at a more frequent pace as time permits. This one is a quick overview of gold in the Permanent Portfolio and completes the series of podcasts on the basic assets of stocks, bonds, cash and now gold.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160324133 ... o-podcast/

Future podcasts will cover this topic in much more detail...

[ozzy]

Very good podcast, thanks Craig!

[craigr]

Very good podcast, thanks Craig!

Thanks, it's been a while! I posted some more details about the content of this podcast on my blog for future reference:

- Owning physical gold and what kind to buy.

- Reasons for holding gold outside the country (with future discussions on how to do it easily and safely).

- Gold funds you can consider owning if convenience is more important than safety.

- Why you probably aren’t going to be able to get your gold from a gold fund even if they tell you that it’s possible.

- Why you shouldn’t own Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) for your gold allocation in the portfolio.

- Why you shouldn’t own collateralized commodity futures instead of gold.

- Why the government doesn’t care about hurting people with inflation and how they are likely to behave when inflation is bad.

- How gold can work in concert with stocks and bonds to produce superior after-inflation returns over time.