If, however, your goal with purchasing gold is to take a gamble or make a bet on the direction of the current price, go for it.
But this also is a treacherous time to make a big bet on the retail industry, which is battling headwinds from a weak economy, competition from online shopping and overbuilding during the boom years.
The financial industry has done so well for itself, in short, because it has been given the licence to make a leveraged bet on property.
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You can own bullion or futures, but if you really want to shoot for big returns you need to make a speculative bet on mining companies.
If you want to make a big bold bet on new tech, you need to have the ability to convince others that it is a good idea.
If you want to succeed in international investing you can't just buy a couple foreign stocks every now and then or make an occasional bet on a hot country fund or ETF.
If you think there is even a small chance Arena will make it through this time, a bet on it might have made sense.
In their determination not to make a wrong bet, nobody is taking on risk.
It also fosters new ways of using the telephone: to send short messages (a billion a month in Europe), to pay for a Coke, to make a bet, to receive instant recommendations on where to park or to eat.
In sum, there are four things that make 529s a good bet: a tax exemption on gains, a possible deduction for contributions, flexibility and no punishment at financial aid time.
Typically, when investors take a short position, or make bearish bets on a stock, they borrow stock to magnify their bet.
Well, I think starting a company, and gambling everything I have on the bet that I can make this work (and change the world in the process) is definitely a challenge.
Once again, the reason he was able to make so much money on his bet against mortgages was because the broadly held view in a very deep market was that the only direction for mortgage bonds was up.
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And if they make a big bet and it goes sour, they have their 2% of assets under management to fall back on.
Google has made a big bet on mobile, but has not demonstrated that it has the business smarts to make mobile ads pay off for advertisers.
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Under a cap and trade system, whether the chief financial officer places the right bet on purchasing permits can make or break an energy-intensive company.
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