The world is now several years into the commodities secular bull market that is expected to span many decades. Undoubtedly the market trends will contain many mini-bear markets within the overall bull market as prices are bid higher by speculators chasing limited supply as we have witnessed with rice these past few weeks and are likely to witness with crude oil later this year.

However every mini-bear market will prove an excellent long-term buying opportunity, as the primary driving forces for the secular commodity bull markets will not go away i.e.

Emerging Markets Soaring Demand- A doubling in the worlds middle class from 1 billion to 2 billion each of whom will want to eat as well as we eat and have all of the luxuries that westerners enjoy.
Increase in world population that is expected to double this century.
Global warming's impact on food production as arid areas expand across the globe.
The ongoing debasement of world currencies continues with rampant inflation as a consequence of bad government that will further feed the uptrend in commodity prices.

Therefore, despite near term corrections, it is important for investors for the long-run to have adequate exposure to the natural resources sector, both for making profits and protecting the value of your wealth from government actions to debase the value of their respective currencies.

In this end there are many, ETF's and investment trusts available that help spread the risk amongst the resource sectors that are each at different stages of their current impulse bull markets or corrective bear market phases.

Your analyst primarily looking at ways of avoiding the destruction of hard earned wealth through high real inflation rates.

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By Nadeem Walayat

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