Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Should You Invest in Commodities? Here’s the Tea (and the Oil and the Gold…)
Fri, 07 Mar 2025
Today, Nicole is going to tell you about the investment hiding in plain sight: commodities. To learn more investing strategies, order Nicole's new book The Money School HERE! All investing involves the risk of loss, including loss of principal. Brokerage services for US-listed, registered securities, options and bonds in a self-directed account are offered by Open to the Public Investing, member FINRA & SIPC. Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank. Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions, LLC (NMLS ID 1890144), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Cryptocurrency is highly speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and has the potential for loss of the entire amount of an investment. Cryptocurrency holdings are not protected by the FDIC or SIPC. Treasury accounts offering 6 months T-Bills are offered by Jiko Securities, Inc.,member FINRA & SIPC. Securities in your account are protected up to $500,000. For details: www.sipc.org. Banking services and the Bank Accounts are provided by Jiko Bank, a division of Mid- Central National Bank. For U.S. Investments in T-bills: Not FDIC Insured; No Bank Guarantee; May Lose Value. Treasuries risk disclosures, see https://jiko.io/docs/treasuries_risk_disclosure.pdf. See public.com/#disclosures-main.
Why does Nicole hate fees and how does Chime help?
You have probably heard me call myself the fee police because I hate, hate, hate fees. It makes it really hard to stay on budget, which then can delay our financial progress. When we're trying to make progress, life's curve balls often feel like taking one step forward and two steps back.
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Chime also has no monthly fees or maintenance fees. And Chime has over 50,000 fee-free ATMs. So as the fee police myself, I approve. Make progress toward a better financial future with Chime. Open your account in just two minutes at Chime.com slash MNN. That's Chime.com slash MNN as in Money News Network. Chime feels like progress. It's me talking about public again, obviously. Are you surprised?
It is my favorite brokerage after all. By now you know Public is the only place I personally buy bonds. If you haven't heard my spiel, in the olden days, I would buy treasuries through the government website and it would always take forever. And also the branding was horrible. It kind of looked like the Toys R Us website back in the day. But with Public,
it's simple and easy to invest in treasuries right from your phone. There are literally thousands of bonds to choose from on public, not just government bonds, corporate bonds too. You can use public for more than just your bond investments, of course. On public, you can invest in stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and they even have a high yield cash account where you can earn 4.1% APY on your cash.
And there's an exciting new offering on public that I cannot wait to tell you about. Now you can invest toward your future self through retirement accounts. On public, you can open a traditional IRA or a Roth IRA or both. I mean, why not? If you're looking for a simple yet sophisticated investing experience, head over to public.com slash money rehab.
One more time because trust you will thank me later. Public.com slash money rehab. This is a paid endorsement for public investing. Full disclosures and conditions can be found in the podcast description. I'm Nicole Lappin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand. It's time for some money rehab. So my fifth book, The Money School, launched this week. Yay.
And if you've listened to Monday's episode, my latest book is all about proven investing strategies to help you grow wealth. And so to celebrate this week, I'm sharing some of those investing strategies here on the pod. Today, we're actually starting where I started with commodities.
My very first gig in financial reporting was from the pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where commodities like coffee, oil, gold and even frozen concentrated orange juice are traded. And yes, I thought they were messing with me when they said I'd be working at the stock exchange that sold orange juice. Apparently they were not. Fun times.
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