WHY Gold ?
What makes a good currency? First off, it doesn’t have to have any intrinsic value. A currency only has value because we, as a society, decide that it does. That’s the other secret of gold’s success as...
View ArticlePeter Schiff : Self Promotion Helps Him – Investors Not So Much
The unabashed gold bug’s Euro Pacific Capital Inc. manages a $20 million mutual fund that invests in stocks related to the metal and lost 6.4 percent since it began in July. The Philadelphia Stock...
View ArticleGold Befuddles Bernanke as Central Banks’ Losses at $545 Billion
Ben Bernanke, the world’s most-powerful central banker, says he doesn’t understand gold prices. If his peers had paid attention, they might have stopped expanding reserves that lost $545 billion in...
View ArticleThe Gold Contrarian Plays
English: Gold bars created by Agnico-Eagle (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Gold (GC :US$1486.00) SPDR Gold ETF (GLD : NYSE : US$143.64), Barrick Gold (ABX : TSX : $22.93) Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM : TSX :...
View ArticleNews – Portfolio moving events on the Euro , Gold and Buffett
Warren Buffett speaking to a group of students from the Kansas University School of Business (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Over the weekend, rising politician Beppe Grillo, leader of Italy’s...
View ArticleCentral Banks Shifting Away From Fighting Inflation – To Funding Stimulus
English: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By PATRICK SMITH, The Fiscal Times February 18, 2013 When Shinzo Abe was elected Japan’s prime...
View ArticleThe Gold Bear Roars
English: Crystaline Gold (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Gold traders are the most bearish in more than a year on mounting speculation that improving economic growth from the U.S. to China will curb demand...
View ArticleGold – Credit Suisse Review : The Peak Of Fear
English: The old logo of Credit Suisse. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Gold (GC : NASDAQ : US$1669.10) ? Credit Suisse published a noteworthy comment on gold Friday, “The Beginning of the End of an Era”....
View ArticleBernanke Seen Buying $1.14 Trillion in Assets in 2014
English: With his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, looking on, Chairman Ben Bernanke addresses President George W. Bush and others after being sworn in to the Federal Reserve post. Also on stage with the...
View ArticlePacific Group to Convert One-Third of Hedge-Fund Assets to Gold
Pacific Group to Convert One-Third of Hedge-Fund Assets to Gold The Pacific Group Ltd., founded by a former PaineWebber Inc. trader, is converting one-third of its hedge-fund assets into physical...
View ArticleMerk Funds’ 2013 Gold Outlook
POSTED ON JANUARY 14, 2013 BY JARED CUMMANS Merk Funds is one of the biggest names in the currency space, and their products have amassed a fair amount of assets as well as attention from the investing...
View ArticleGundlach Interview : Euro Defaults and Inflation Ahead
English: With his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, looking on, Chairman Ben Bernanke addresses President George W. Bush and others after being sworn in to the Federal Reserve post. Also on stage with the...
View ArticleHappy Anniversary Helicopter Ben!
Happy Anniversary Helicopter Ben! Posted: 21 Nov 2012 11:13 AM PST Happy anniversary Helicopter Ben! It was 10 years ago today that Mr. Bernanke gave his speech titled “Deflation: Making Sure ‘It’...
View ArticleSoros Buying Gold as Record Prices Seen on Stimulus
Nov 19 from Bloomberg Gold’s 12-year rally, the longest in at least nine decades, is poised to continue in 2013 as central bank stimulus spurs investors from John Paulson to George Soros to accumulate...
View ArticleWEIMAR: The Hyperinflation Horror Story That Haunts Europe and Bernanke
WEIMAR: The Hyperinflation Horror Story That Haunts Europe and Central Banks Memories of Weimar still haunt the eurozone today. The European Central Bank, widely considered to be the only institution...
View ArticleDon Coxe Forecasts Gold Breakout To $ 2,000
Caution Tape (Photo credit: Picture Perfect Pose) Oct. 30 Don Coxe – one of the gurus followed in The Apprentice Millionaire Portfolio ( available from amazon.com ) His writing is always of interest...
View ArticleCurrency Debasement By Central Banks and Social Disorder ( Grise : Societe...
Inflation & Gold (Photo credit: Paolo Camera) The loss of trust and the Great Disorder By Dylan Grice ( SocGen), on 25 October 12 At its most fundamental level, economic activity is no more than...
View ArticleGold and The Fed Printing Press – Is Bernanke The One Keeping the Dollar...
Alastair McLeod Gabriel Mueller The hyperbolic rate of increase, if the established trend is maintained, is now running at over $300bn monthly, while the Federal Reserve is officially expanding money...
View ArticleWhy YOUR Investing Results Are Mediocre
October 15, 2012 For the past two days I have been sorting through hundreds of emails. Summary/ conclusions It is apparent that most readers of this blog have: No...
View ArticleThe Gold Investor’s Handbook
Available now at Amazon.com stock market (Photo credit: 401(K) 2012) Book Description Publication Date: September 18, 2012 Why Gold and Precious Metals and Why Now ? The proven stock market...
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