About to start a small portfolio, quick tips on where to put it.

In my opinion it is about protecting your money from devalue, and/or bank seizure. It's not about how much dollar value your metal has. It is about how much metal value your dollar has. The dollar is falling apart, and that is why it takes so much to buy items. Gold could drop to $20 per ounce and it would still buy the same amount of goods/services it always has. That purchasing power has hardly changed in 2000 years. The only thing changing, once again, is the fiat paper money supply. You can buy junk silver for virtually no over spot pricing.

"There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." -Maynard Keynes

 

If you really want to stay in the market(Casino) then invest in companies that work in the water and waste water business. Veolia Environment is one that I invested in a few years back. However then the crash of 2008 woke me up, that's when I started to invest in gold, and silver (bullion). even junk coins have a value when the fiat system goes belly up!! stay away from large bars though, buy small coins and waffers, combi-bar's etc.. Bars are harder to dump or re-sell. this all just my opinion, this is what I feel comfortable investing in. everybody is entitled to their own opinion, And their is good info coming from everyone, but really study the markets before investing, you COULD lose everything, and that would be bad. Also someone on here mentioned over seas like China....one problem, China has printed 100's of trillions more that the US Federal reserve, So just keep that in mind.