From Hard Assets Investor:

It strikes me as odd that there's so much interest in gold-a substance that investors rarely, if ever, get to actually handle (at least in bullion form)-and so little in foodstuffs. You can live without gold-you can't without food.

Readers' eyeballs don't latch onto the stories that deal with agricultural commodities. Columns devoted to precious metals get the traffic.

Well, wake UP, folks. You're missing out on a big part of the inflation story-and the hedging opportunity-by skimming over the ag accounts...

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