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7 Ways to Hedge Against Inflation

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Inflation Hedge #3: Oil and Gas

Oil and natural gas are other great commodity inflation hedges. The raw material that fuels society must be had, and inflation can't really put a huge dent in the demand for these products, which means higher oil and natural gas prices.

In the oil space, a great investment choice is the United States Oil Fund (USO), an ETF designed to move in conjunction with the spot price of West Texas Intermediate light, sweet crude oil. On the natural gas front we have the United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG), a fund designed to track the movements of natural gas prices.

Really want to juice up your returns? Try trading options on USO.

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