One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. Thomas Edison’s quote is fascinating to me because one of the most interesting statistics I’ve seen about investing history is that there was a point in the early 2000s when Amazon, the biggest giant in retail today, was down 90%…

You’ve probably seen those commercials about people who own gold and try to convince you to invest in gold as well. Why is that? And why hold gold? Gold’s uses are limited, other than jewelry and some machinery, and yet it seems to be a commodity that garners a tremendous amount of attention from investors.