Investment suggestions for Trump's presidency?

[SuburbanFarmer]

You a gold bug then?

I considered it for quite a while, but that appears to be out of whack too - at least the ETFs and ETNs that you could buy it through. I think it's prudent to have hard assets right now - real estate, physical metals, art, whatever..
If you want to protect money, then buy things that are worth money.

[apeman]

I hear piles of cocaine are a great hedge against inflation

[SuburbanFarmer]

I hear pile of cocaine are a great hedge against inflation

Not a bad idea. I'm not familiar with the durability or preservation qualities of cocaine, though.

[apeman]

Ya me either, hate the stuff really.

I'm sure this has been very informative for the OP, for he now knows for certain not to listen to a word we say

[SuburbanFarmer]

Ya me either, hate the stuff really.

I'm sure this has been very informative for the OP, for he now knows for certain not to listen to a word we say

LOL Really, the only source I trust at this point would be Ben Graham himself. We are completely through the looking glass, now. Dan Nathan's Morning Word segments are really good, too:
http://www.riskreversal.com/

Everything else is just cheerleading, IMO. Zero Hedge admitted to being paid to post insane crap.

[apeman]

Zero Hedge admitted to being paid to post insane crap.

well for sure, but I'd like to read the concession if you ahve a link

[SuburbanFarmer]

Zero Hedge admitted to being paid to post insane crap.

well for sure, but I'd like to read the concession if you ahve a link

Sorry, not the actual site itself, just one of their writers: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... egade-blog

Apparently, they've doubled down and slandered the shit out of him: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-2 ... zero-hedge

Looks like roughly 5,000 words to say what a piece of crap their writer was? That doesn't smack of a coverup...

[boethius]

Inflation doesn't bother me in the US so long as we have factories pumping out tons of shit and farms that feed all of us.

Inflation isn't about creating money per se.
Inflation is when you create money and nothing else...no farms, no factories, no distribution network, no nothing.

Inflation is when you bomb the fuck out of Germany in WW1, destroy its entire industrial base, and then print money.
Inflation is when you have a corrupt warlord take over Zimbabwe, kill the few productive people in the country, and then print money.

You don't get inflation when we have so much shit in the US that there is about the same square footage devoted to self-storage as to office space simply because we print half a year's GDP.

[Okeefenokee]

When people post this:

I have no experience in investing with the stock market, but Trump's spree of job retaining deals has me excited to try it out.

it means the top isn't far off.

An old Wall Street saying has it that when everybody’s getting into the market and even the shoeshine boy is giving stock tips (or the barber/hairdresser or the taxi driver or the waiter or the bartender), then it’s time to sell.

Supposedly, Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969) knew that it was time to get out of the market in 1929 when his shoeshine boy began giving him stock tips. Contemporary citations have not been found, but the event appears in a 1965 biography of Joseph P. Kennedy.

YMMV

I heard Kennedy found out through some form of insider trading, but that might have been what someone who didn't like him decided to call his shoeshine boy information. This campus needs a shoeshine boy.

[Okeefenokee]

The "trump trade" boosted financials, transport, industrial and commodities. The gains may have already been had, be careful not to be the last guy in.

BUT

maybe the gains are just starting, and the euphoria just beginning.

Your best bet is to ask GrumpyCatFace, he is the resident economics and finance expert. His views on wealth creation are beyond reproach.