A friend a mine recently asked if buying silver right now was a good idea. Since we were in a group of highly intelligent individuals I let them speak before I gave my answer - after all, I still consider myself to be a novice in precious metals investing. After listening to what all of my friends…

Financial advisors often steer their clients away from investing in gold. I personally think this is a huge mistake. There are way too many benefits to having the yellow metal in your portfolio that far out way any negatives your advisor might spin up. The intrinsic value that gold holds should be…