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Top 2020 Precious Metals Coins to Buy Before 2021

Top 2020 Precious Metals Coins to Buy Before 2021

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Many people eagerly await the end of the year in hope of a brighter 2021. Although we still have a few months to go, most mints and refineries are shifting their attention towards their 2021 releases. What this means for investors is this is a good time to touch base with your 2020-2021 investment plans. When you sit down to check over your plans for the final months of 2020, don’t neglect to consider your hedge portfolio or holiday gifts! Here are some of the top 2020 coins to consider buying before the end of the year. Please note, the images are not to scale.

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US Mint 2020 Top Coin Picks

The US Mint’s year thus far has been unexpected, as it has been for the world. Nevertheless, they continued to strike their annual coins, even in unconventional ways.

First of all, the American Eagles coins are a classic and common choice for investors of any background. Since there are editions in silver, gold, platinum, and palladium, there is an Eagle coin for any kind of buyer. However, this year we saw the unprecedented Emergency Production American Silver Eagles, a coin that is probably won’t be repeated in 2021.

Since the US Mint’s main bullion-producing West Point facility had to temporarily quarantine, the Philadelphia Mint had to pick up the slack and strike 140,000 of these coins. But, these are not the only momentous coins from the US Mint this year. Coming soon are also the 2020 Platinum American Eagle and the first-ever Uncirculated Palladium Eagles. Although not yet released, these are great coins to keep an eye on and diversify with.

Secondly, the US Mint is going to release the WWII 75th Anniversary Coins and medals. These special American Eagles coins are different from the other 2020 Eagles owing to their new privy mark. You may have seen this privy mark already! If you have any 2020 US quarters, take them out and see if you can find a “V75” mark next to George Washington. This privy mark may seem insignificant, but it honors the Allied victory in WWII and literally puts American history in the hands of its people.

The US Mint’s other notable 2020 coins include the first-ever West Point Jefferson Nickels, and the 2020 America the Beautiful coins. This year’s releases of this program were the American Samoa National Park Coin, Connecticut Weir Farm Coin, Salt River Bay Coin, and the Kansas Tallgrass Prairie coin.

Top 2020 Coins Abroad

For many, plans to travel and vacation this year were overthrown due to COVID. That does not mean you cannot journey through alternative means! Take a step outside of your culture with silver from abroad.

Top 2020 Coins: The UK

In addition to the Canadian Mint, the British Royal Mint also manufactured masks this year for the NHS in May. However, it also continued to strike the Queen’s Beasts Coins this year. Created in 2016 as a limited-run series, the Queen’s Beasts coins are among the top 2020 coins because it is a limited program and has limited mintages. Once these coins are gone, they are most likely gone for good.

This program honors Queen Elizabeth II as the longest-reigning monarch since 2016. Therefore, each coin features a heraldic “beast”, inspired by the statues that stood guard over her coronation in 1953. Two beasts came out each year, and in 2020 we now see the Horse of Hanover and the upcoming White Greyhound of Richmond coins.

Top 2020 Coins: Australia

If your insatiable wanderlust leads you more south, you should consider the Australian Perth Mint coins from the land down under! This year, the Perth Mint undertook striking gold kilo bars to assist the supply squeeze in April for NY futures contracts. The coins from Australia that are often the most popular are the Kangaroos, Koalas, and Kookaburra coins. These are three animals indigenous to Australia, making them idyllic for their bullion coins.

However, one of their coins that is also a special pick is the 2020 1 oz Silver Lunar Year of The Mouse / Rat BU.

This coin celebrates the Chinese New Year of the Rat in the form of an appealing mouse illustration. If you don’t grab this coin before the end of the year, you will have to wait another 12 years!

Top 2020 Coins: Canadian Mint

Although it often feels like we are on an island during the pandemic, we must not forget our neighbors. In addition to producing and donating hand sanitizer and face shields, the Royal Canadian Mint also struck some exciting coins for the year.

This year, the Royal Canadian Mint also produced memorable WWII anniversary coins. But, don’t overlook the other coins they have on offer. For example, the 2020 Canadian Goose Silver Coin is a commemoration of the 1967 Centennial Dollar. It contains the original illustration created by Alex Colville, a Canadian painter and WWII veteran. He was tasked with, in addition to his military duties, capturing the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After that, in 1967, he created the coin design for the Canadian Centennial dollar. That year was the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation. Colville and Myron Cook worked together to create the silver dollar, and this year, that coin is again honored with a slightly modernized rendition with the 2020 Canadian Goose Silver coin.

Additionally, the Royal Canadian Mint also set out to strike a brand new series this year. Starting in 2020, a new collection of silver coins was released, depicting mythological creatures of the Northern world. The first impressive beast leading the hoard is the Kraken, a creature often associated with Canada and Greenland.  Its legend strikes fear in the heart of mariners ever since the early days of Canadian settlement. Although it is now understood as the giant squid, these creatures remain elusive. Moreover, we have barely scratched the surface of the depths of the ocean. What else lurks in the deep remains a mystery to us.

Although the pandemic may have put the world’s plans on hold, this is a new, biannual program. Hop on the bandwagon for this exciting program before the next beast surfaces!

Travel to New Shores: Top Asian Silver

One notable 2020 silver product this year in particular is the lovely South Korean Tiger Medal. Collectors hold the South Korean medals in high regard for their dazzling designs. This medal lives up to the South Korean reputation by showcasing a Siberian tiger cub in the springtime of Seoul.

This is the national animal of South Korea, and the medal celebrates some of the most important landmarks of the nation. Also equipped with a special security feature, the South Korean Tiger Medal is a unique pick for investors. You can follow the journey of this adorable tiger cub through South Korea as it goes through a new season each release!

Moving Beyond 2020

When choosing your investments for the rest of the year, it may behoove you to bolster your hedge portfolio. This list of some of the top 2020 coins is by no means a comprehensive list. However, it does point out some of the more exciting and unique coins of the year you most likely won’t be able to find struck again beyond 2020. Additionally, most mints and refineries are now moving onto their 2021 products with the looming holiday season approaching. We are still months away - however, it tends to pay off to have a plan ahead of time when it comes to investing.

If you are less inclined to purchase physical gold you have to store yourself, you may also consider purchasing PAXG! This is the very first gold backed cryptocurrency token. So, you do not have to worry about storing your own gold in your home with PAXG unless you redeem it! About 31,000 PAXG tokens are in circulation at this time, but the total market capitalization is $60 million.

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Low Iron Levels In Blood Could Trigger Long COVID: Study

Low Iron Levels In Blood Could Trigger Long COVID: Study

Authored by Amie Dahnke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

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Low Iron Levels In Blood Could Trigger Long COVID: Study

Authored by Amie Dahnke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

People with inadequate iron levels in their blood due to a COVID-19 infection could be at greater risk of long COVID.

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A new study indicates that problems with iron levels in the bloodstream likely trigger chronic inflammation and other conditions associated with the post-COVID phenomenon. The findings, published on March 1 in Nature Immunology, could offer new ways to treat or prevent the condition.

Long COVID Patients Have Low Iron Levels

Researchers at the University of Cambridge pinpointed low iron as a potential link to long-COVID symptoms thanks to a study they initiated shortly after the start of the pandemic. They recruited people who tested positive for the virus to provide blood samples for analysis over a year, which allowed the researchers to look for post-infection changes in the blood. The researchers looked at 214 samples and found that 45 percent of patients reported symptoms of long COVID that lasted between three and 10 months.

In analyzing the blood samples, the research team noticed that people experiencing long COVID had low iron levels, contributing to anemia and low red blood cell production, just two weeks after they were diagnosed with COVID-19. This was true for patients regardless of age, sex, or the initial severity of their infection.

According to one of the study co-authors, the removal of iron from the bloodstream is a natural process and defense mechanism of the body.

But it can jeopardize a person’s recovery.

“When the body has an infection, it responds by removing iron from the bloodstream. This protects us from potentially lethal bacteria that capture the iron in the bloodstream and grow rapidly. It’s an evolutionary response that redistributes iron in the body, and the blood plasma becomes an iron desert,” University of Oxford professor Hal Drakesmith said in a press release. “However, if this goes on for a long time, there is less iron for red blood cells, so oxygen is transported less efficiently affecting metabolism and energy production, and for white blood cells, which need iron to work properly. The protective mechanism ends up becoming a problem.”

The research team believes that consistently low iron levels could explain why individuals with long COVID continue to experience fatigue and difficulty exercising. As such, the researchers suggested iron supplementation to help regulate and prevent the often debilitating symptoms associated with long COVID.

“It isn’t necessarily the case that individuals don’t have enough iron in their body, it’s just that it’s trapped in the wrong place,” Aimee Hanson, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge who worked on the study, said in the press release. “What we need is a way to remobilize the iron and pull it back into the bloodstream, where it becomes more useful to the red blood cells.”

The research team pointed out that iron supplementation isn’t always straightforward. Achieving the right level of iron varies from person to person. Too much iron can cause stomach issues, ranging from constipation, nausea, and abdominal pain to gastritis and gastric lesions.

1 in 5 Still Affected by Long COVID

COVID-19 has affected nearly 40 percent of Americans, with one in five of those still suffering from symptoms of long COVID, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Long COVID is marked by health issues that continue at least four weeks after an individual was initially diagnosed with COVID-19. Symptoms can last for days, weeks, months, or years and may include fatigue, cough or chest pain, headache, brain fog, depression or anxiety, digestive issues, and joint or muscle pain.

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February Employment Situation

By Paul Gomme and Peter Rupert The establishment data from the BLS showed a 275,000 increase in payroll employment for February, outpacing the 230,000…

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By Paul Gomme and Peter Rupert

The establishment data from the BLS showed a 275,000 increase in payroll employment for February, outpacing the 230,000 average over the previous 12 months. The payroll data for January and December were revised down by a total of 167,000. The private sector added 223,000 new jobs, the largest gain since May of last year.

Temporary help services employment continues a steep decline after a sharp post-pandemic rise.

Average hours of work increased from 34.2 to 34.3. The increase, along with the 223,000 private employment increase led to a hefty increase in total hours of 5.6% at an annualized rate, also the largest increase since May of last year.

The establishment report, once again, beat “expectations;” the WSJ survey of economists was 198,000. Other than the downward revisions, mentioned above, another bit of negative news was a smallish increase in wage growth, from $34.52 to $34.57.

The household survey shows that the labor force increased 150,000, a drop in employment of 184,000 and an increase in the number of unemployed persons of 334,000. The labor force participation rate held steady at 62.5, the employment to population ratio decreased from 60.2 to 60.1 and the unemployment rate increased from 3.66 to 3.86. Remember that the unemployment rate is the number of unemployed relative to the labor force (the number employed plus the number unemployed). Consequently, the unemployment rate can go up if the number of unemployed rises holding fixed the labor force, or if the labor force shrinks holding the number unemployed unchanged. An increase in the unemployment rate is not necessarily a bad thing: it may reflect a strong labor market drawing “marginally attached” individuals from outside the labor force. Indeed, there was a 96,000 decline in those workers.

Earlier in the week, the BLS announced JOLTS (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey) data for January. There isn’t much to report here as the job openings changed little at 8.9 million, the number of hires and total separations were little changed at 5.7 million and 5.3 million, respectively.

As has been the case for the last couple of years, the number of job openings remains higher than the number of unemployed persons.

Also earlier in the week the BLS announced that productivity increased 3.2% in the 4th quarter with output rising 3.5% and hours of work rising 0.3%.

The bottom line is that the labor market continues its surprisingly (to some) strong performance, once again proving stronger than many had expected. This strength makes it difficult to justify any interest rate cuts soon, particularly given the recent inflation spike.

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Another beloved brewery files Chapter 11 bankruptcy

The beer industry has been devastated by covid, changing tastes, and maybe fallout from the Bud Light scandal.

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Before the covid pandemic, craft beer was having a moment. Most cities had multiple breweries and taprooms with some having so many that people put together the brewery version of a pub crawl.

It was a period where beer snobbery ruled the day and it was not uncommon to hear bar patrons discuss the makeup of the beer the beer they were drinking. This boom period always seemed destined for failure, or at least a retraction as many markets seemed to have more craft breweries than they could support.

Related: Fast-food chain closes more stores after Chapter 11 bankruptcy

The pandemic, however, hastened that downfall. Many of these local and regional craft breweries counted on in-person sales to drive their business. 

And while many had local and regional distribution, selling through a third party comes with much lower margins. Direct sales drove their business and the pandemic forced many breweries to shut down their taprooms during the period where social distancing rules were in effect.

During those months the breweries still had rent and employees to pay while little money was coming in. That led to a number of popular beermakers including San Francisco's nationally-known Anchor Brewing as well as many regional favorites including Chicago’s Metropolitan Brewing, New Jersey’s Flying Fish, Denver’s Joyride Brewing, Tampa’s Zydeco Brew Werks, and Cleveland’s Terrestrial Brewing filing bankruptcy.

Some of these brands hope to survive, but others, including Anchor Brewing, fell into Chapter 7 liquidation. Now, another domino has fallen as a popular regional brewery has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Overall beer sales have fallen.

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Covid is not the only reason for brewery bankruptcies

While covid deserves some of the blame for brewery failures, it's not the only reason why so many have filed for bankruptcy protection. Overall beer sales have fallen driven by younger people embracing non-alcoholic cocktails, and the rise in popularity of non-beer alcoholic offerings,

Beer sales have fallen to their lowest levels since 1999 and some industry analysts

"Sales declined by more than 5% in the first nine months of the year, dragged down not only by the backlash and boycotts against Anheuser-Busch-owned Bud Light but the changing habits of younger drinkers," according to data from Beer Marketer’s Insights published by the New York Post.

Bud Light parent Anheuser Busch InBev (BUD) faced massive boycotts after it partnered with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney. It was a very small partnership but it led to a right-wing backlash spurred on by Kid Rock, who posted a video on social media where he chastised the company before shooting up cases of Bud Light with an automatic weapon.

Another brewery files Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Gizmo Brew Works, which does business under the name Roth Brewing Company LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 8. In its filing, the company checked the box that indicates that its debts are less than $7.5 million and it chooses to proceed under Subchapter V of Chapter 11. 

"Both small business and subchapter V cases are treated differently than a traditional chapter 11 case primarily due to accelerated deadlines and the speed with which the plan is confirmed," USCourts.gov explained. 

Roth Brewing/Gizmo Brew Works shared that it has 50-99 creditors and assets $100,000 and $500,000. The filing noted that the company does expect to have funds available for unsecured creditors. 

The popular brewery operates three taprooms and sells its beer to go at those locations.

"Join us at Gizmo Brew Works Craft Brewery and Taprooms located in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Find us for entertainment, live music, food trucks, beer specials, and most importantly, great-tasting craft beer by Gizmo Brew Works," the company shared on its website.

The company estimates that it has between $1 and $10 million in liabilities (a broad range as the bankruptcy form does not provide a space to be more specific).

Gizmo Brew Works/Roth Brewing did not share a reorganization or funding plan in its bankruptcy filing. An email request for comment sent through the company's contact page was not immediately returned.

 

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