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Three reasons to hold cyber-currencies
There’s a reason why people find holding gold so attractive…
Once you get it, you’re solely in charge of it. You can secure, store or trade your gold as you like.
All About ICO’s
Here at the Franklin Society, we have a very skeptical view of Initial Coin Offerings aka ICO’s.
But they are not all created equal and there is a pretty interesting history.
Was Nvidia the Superhero of 2018?
Forget about Superman and Batman. Unless you’ve been totally ignoring the stock market for the past year or two, you have undoubtedly heard of Nvidia, the Santa Clara, California-based tech company that has become an industry leader in graphics processing unit (GPU) design.
Will Cobalt Continue Its Skyward Path?
The price of cobalt was “parked” securely between $10 and $15 per pound from early 2013 through mid-2016. Then, it took off like a Tesla Roadster at full-throttle with the wind at its back. Currently the hottest of the hot metal investments, cobalt is used extensively in the production of electric car batteries and many other modern devices.
What Is Driving Bitcoin’s Growth
Probably everyone and their mom is asking you about Bitcoin now. How many headlines have you seen this week about Bitcoin alone? I bet it’s a few dozen!
Bitcoin’s a hot commodity right now. But it’s okay to wonder: What’s making it so big?
Bitcoin: A brief history.
Oil Investment Secrets: The Beverly Hillbilly Effect
Come and Listen to a Story…
In the early 1960s, the Ballad of Jed Clampett, theme music for TV’s wildly popular “The Beverly Hillbillies,” told the story of a “man named Jed,” who discovered oil literally bubbling up from the ground on his backwater Tennessee land. Next thing you know, the OK Oil Company paid the dirt-poor dirt-farmer $53 million for his property.
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Top 10 Metals and Mining Stocks by Dividend Yield
Looking to target metals and mining stocks that are paying dividends and decent yields? Here’s our latest list…
The Case for Investing in Rhodium
In late 2017, multiple media outlets featured stories about the “precious metals outlook” for the upcoming year. The few advocates for investing in rhodium, a by-product of platinum mining, were routinely dismissed as kooks, Neanderthals, and worse.
The Best Performing Cryptos of 2017
One of the hottest topics around the Investor Insights is cryptocurrencies. We invest in cryptos and have made great returns on Bitcoin and Ethereum but did you know that in 2017, Bitcoin wasn’t even in the top 10 of best performing cryptos? It’s true.
16.42% Yield on an Iron Royalty Trust
Here’s a hot one for you precious metals investors seeking income.
Mesabi Trust (NYSE: MSB) is an interesting play on the new boom in materials.
The royalty trust pays income based on the success of its iron ore assets in Minnesota.
How to Avoid ICO Scams
It’s hard to browse the Internet these days without running into one of the ever-present ICO scams.
Sellers say they are introducing a new cryptocurrency, usually compare it to Bitcoin or Ethereum, and proceed to lure “investors” who want to get in on a ground-floor opportunity and possibly make a financial killing in a short amount of time.
You’re Not Tardy for the Bitcoin Party
When Bitcoin reached and exceeded $10,000 dollars per coin, you may have been wondering if you missed your chance to buy it and make money with it.
Well, if you bought it last week when it was pushing up against $10,000, you could have made a profit. Today one coin is worth $16,090.
The Top 3 Ways to Invest in Gold for 2020
Long ago, someone coined the term “gold psychosis” for a very good reason: certain people lose their minds when they think about, or are in the presence of, gold.
The shiny metal is one of humanity’s oldest forms of stored value, and has been at least part of the reason for several national and international financial catastrophes, wars, and fist fights.
What Wikipedia Can’t Tell You About Bitcoin Futures
Can’t Handle Bitcoin Price Volatility? Try This Instead
Sometime in the fourth quarter of 2017, the super-powerful Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) will introduce futures contracts on the popular cyber-currency Bitcoin (BTC), marking a day that will be, for nerdy financial types everywhere, what Woodstock was for the 1960s Counterculture movement.
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14 Robotics and Drone Stocks Set to Soar
Companies that manufacture drones and robots are at an historical impasse. There has been no better time to take advantage of these investment opportunities as both sectors continue to heat up.
How to Invest in the Self-driving Vehicle Revolution
With the topic of “driverless cars” seeming to pop up in every other news headline, wouldn’t it be a good idea to invest in the companies that make these vehicles? Some of the biggest names in the automotive industry already have thrown serious money at the technology behind autonomous cars. Mercedes, Tesla, Ford, GM and others are in it to win it.
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Cash In On the Robot Manufacturing Craze
Isn’t it fascinating to find investment potential in one of the world’s most booming businesses? Robotics has finally arrived, but there are still big questions about where it’s going, what effects it will have on society, and whether the boom will go bust.
How to (Wisely) Invest in Copper and Other Base Metals
Wouldn’t it be great if there were a way to totally diversify a metals portfolio by adding base metals like copper (pictured above in natural form), aluminum and tin to the mix?
Copper, nickel, titanium and lead (yes, lead) have been getting a lot of attention recently from everyday investors. For reasons that no one really seems
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