Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news‚ market trends‚ stocks‚ investing opportunities‚ and the precious metals markets. In this column‚ JWR also covers hedges‚ derivatives‚ and various obscura. This column emphasizes JWR’s “tangibles heavy” investing strategy and contrarian perspective. Today‚ we look at the crash in lab-grown diamond prices. (See the Commodities section.) Precious Metals: The NYSE stock market is slumping‚ and the crypto markets seem uncertain.  But gold and silver are still looking quite bullish. These were the opening numbers for the spot markets on Wednesday: Gold $2‚318.10 Silver $26.74 Platinum $974.50 I must … The post Economics &; Investing For Preppers appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.