“It’s a long-term story,” David McAlvany says of gold, and it’s still going even as the metal pulls back from all-time highs. He compares buying gold futures to buying gold mining companies, and why investors might be interested in each. He says Bitcoin is “clearly not a safe-haven asset” and he thinks companies with it on the balance sheet could be in trouble if the market falls. For crude oil, he argues, “supply is the fulcrum” for price – and we have to look back to the Middle East as shale production falls into decline.