Palladium vs Platinum: Which Precious Metal Offers Better Investment Value?
In 2021, palladium exceeded platinum’s price by over $1,000 per ounce – a remarkable reversal for two metals that historically saw platinum trade at a premium. Platinum and palladium belong to the same metal family and share many industrial applications, yet they follow distinct market dynamics that make each a different kind of investment proposition....
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When to Sell Gold? Things to Check Before You Sell
Election Season Is Heating Up. Is Your Portfolio Ready?
If you live in a state with a contested Congressional race, you’ve probably been hearing nonstop political commercials. They are hard to ignore. Whichever party ends up controlling Congress, the outcome could shape the policy environment for the next two years. Continued Republican control could mean more continuity with the policies we see today. Or,...
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The $5 Bechtler Gold Coin: A Rare Survivor of America’s First Gold Rush in North Carolina
Before California, there was North Carolina. Decades before the 1848 gold rush that defined an era, the American South was already deep in a gold boom, and a German immigrant named Christopher Bechtler was meeting a need the federal government had ignored. His family’s private mint in Rutherfordton turned raw miners’ gold into reliable coinage...
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