I would really like to give it a whirl , but even with all these Black Friday sales and coupon codes , it ' s still $ 50 for me . As much as that seems worth it in a vacuum , I ' ve got enough shooters for one season . <| sep |> He raised taxes 7 out of his 8 years in office . You can ' t be anti media and pro Reagan . You just can ' t be . Fuck he was the actual worst . He can trickle down my balls . <| sep |> I personally wouldn ' t hold an ETF long term . I looked up GLD and like all ETFs I know of , there are expenses they take right out of the ETF . But I ' m sure plenty of people have arguments why many ETFs are good long term investments . I know someone online who invested in UWTI for months and posted on some message board why oil was up 3 % or something and UWTI was only up 6 %. Everyone had to explain to him , and me too actually about decay , resets , expenses , all these things . Now I only trade ETFs . I wouldn ' t consider them an investment .