Precious metals tend to be much better
investments during a depression than stocks because you can never determine which ones will realize gains and which ones will experience devastating losses.
Although it may sound boring, paying off your debt is a good
investment during a depression.
Not exact matches
For Roy Thomson, it all started with a $ 500
investment in a northern Ontario radio station
during the Great
Depression.
From their inception
during the Great
Depression to their current status as the go - to
investment...
On the practitioner - side, value investor Benjamin Graham profited handsomely from the distressed
investments that he made
during «The Forgotten
Depression» while his best known student, Warren Buffett, profited from the distressed
investments that he made
during «The Great Recession.»
Leading among these was
Investment Grade Corporate Bonds, which generated a positive annualized return of roughly +6 %
during the peak
Depression years from 1930 to 1932 and +7 %
during the decade of the 1930s.
Essentially, the project maps out how neighborhoods, where minorities lived, were consistently excluded from the government
investment that aided the United States
during the
Depression.