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1 week ago | 
youngresearch.com | E.J. Smith
You can do a lot by simply trying to survive. You don’t need huge gains that get wiped out by huge losses. Sometimes, you just need to survive to live to fight another day. In investing, that works because of the beauty of compounding money. As Dick Young said to me recently: “Survival Guy, I made more money after the age of 60 than at any other time in my life.” Survive and you just may too. The big winner since we last spoke has been gold, as you can see below. Is it too late to get in?
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1 week ago | 
youngresearch.com | E.J. Smith
“Inertia,” Dick Young said to me recently, “is terrible. Investors need to beat back this mighty foe.” A point he regularly explained to you inside the pages of Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report. Your Survival Guy was reminded of this yesterday during a foggy mid-afternoon walk coming back from Goat Island, admiring some of the recently launched boats and anticipating the season ahead (we launch Tom Sawyer tomorrow).
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1 week ago | 
youngresearch.com | E.J. Smith
As I wrote to you three months ago, Your Survival Guy is caught in the tariff crossfire. We’re in the middle of a home project, and back in February, we ordered our windows from Loewen, based in Canada. Good windows. We have them in the rest of the house.
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1 week ago | 
youngresearch.com | E.J. Smith
When blue state politicians were promoting the Summer of Rage in 2020, and forcing residents out with draconian COVID policies through the next couple years, did they have any idea that they’d sink their commercial real estate markets? Employees who could fled to the country to telework, and others moved to offices in Florida and Texas, where politicians put freedom first.
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1 week ago | 
youngresearch.com | E.J. Smith
When the lights go out, like they did last week in Spain and Portugal, you don’t want to rely on being able to beg your way for food and water. Which is why having cash on hand may be your saving grace to remove some of the uncertainty in desperate times. Many Spaniards and Portuguese took the power outages in stride, settling in to enjoy some time without the pesky internet bothering their day.
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1 week ago | 
youngresearch.com | E.J. Smith
Should you sell in May and go away? You know Your Survival Guy doesn’t do predictions, but if you sold a year ago in May and never got back in, then you missed a good 52-week run in a number of areas, including the following:Never mind all the volatility. Focus on what will make you a more comfortable investor, not an emotional wreck. Action Line: When you have the right mix of stocks for your retirement life, you might find you have plenty of peace of mind to worry about how to spend it.
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1 week ago | 
youngresearch.com | E.J. Smith
The cause of the recent major power outage in Spain was a blackout in renewable solar energy, a problem many warned would happen. What can you do if something like this comes your way? First, you always need to have some cash on you. Over the winter, hanging with my sister and brother-in-law up in New Hampshire, we talked about seeing Tyler Hubbard at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in August. She ordered the tickets on her phone, and to her surprise, I handed over the cash for Becky and me.
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2 weeks ago | 
youngresearch.com | E.J. Smith
As many of you remember from Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report, he would leave you with these wise words: “Make it a Good Month.” In other words, he gave you his best ideas. The only piece of the puzzle left was for you to make it happen. How was your month? Did you make it a good month? Because for many of you, me included, April was not all bad, and it was a barn burner of a month for gold. How about for the last 52 weeks? I’m not patting my back. I’m not saying gold is going up from here.
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2 weeks ago | 
youngresearch.com | E.J. Smith
When you start thinking about disaster preparedness, one common theme I’ve learned and observed is how one’s mindset is a huge part of the equation. One’s temperament can work wonders in times of trouble. That’s not to say it’s any easier, because it’s not easy. But understanding and acknowledging that the way things are today isn’t necessarily how things will always be helps ease the shock. Panic, surprise, and losing self-control can only make matters worse.
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2 weeks ago | 
youngresearch.com | E.J. Smith
When the you-know-what hits the fan, water is the one commodity we can’t live without for more than about three days. Having enough water on hand for you and your family to survive for a couple of weeks is no easy task or fun to think about, but it’s necessary. (You can begin by reading Your Survival Guy’s special report on water here). Why not just see how life plays out, you might think. Why leave it to chance is my response.
