Sell Gold Article Debunked
This is the final gold post in the series on silver and gold. We continue with the second portion of an article by Fareed Zakaria in which he feels he is doing the public a favor by exposing the follishness of those buying gold today. After each point, we are providing a rubuttal which will […]
Gold Speculators or Prudent Gold Savers?
We’re continuing a series on gold and silver which began here. This is part of a letter written by myself and the board of an association to list the reasoning behind moving some of our US Dollar savings to gold and silver to protect ourselves from risk in the fiat US Dollar. The point is […]
Gold & Silver: Are We in a Bubble?
Gold and Silver prices have grown dramatically over the last year when compared to fiat money such as the US Dollar. We’re continuing a series that began here. Fortunately, I believe we are still fairly early in the so called “bull market” of gold and silver. There are 3 phases of a bull market, the […]
Silver & Gold: Why? How?
We’re continuing a series on silver and gold in which I’m including parts of a letter I drew up to document our rationale for the board of an associations decision to hold gold and silver for a portion of savings. This association currently holds US Dollar cash as its only form of savings. I’m going […]
Gold & Silver: Out of Favor, About to Take Off?
Gold and Silver have lost all favor. We’re started a series discussing the precious metals markets here, and those pieces will continue, but some important information has come out between the time we wrote the series and the time we’re editing them for the blog. This post will quickly address this important information. The Weekly […]
The Reasons to Buy Gold & Silver
Gold and silver markets have been extremely volatile. We began a new series on this topic here. Today, we’ll finish our explanation of the big picture view of the market and then give the details of why it’s important to have exposure to gold and silver as a hedge against the financial chaos currently mounting! […]
Gold & Silver on Sale
Gold and Silver have seen big corrections to begin the traditionally strong Fall season. It’s important to ask yourself, “Is this correction a good buying opportunity or is it the beginning of crash from an all time high?” (See recent pre-rocket launch gold commentary here.) I’m on a board that manages a small amount […]
People Want More Than Their Governments Can Give
I read an interesting article recently called “The Rage of the Indignants” which talks about the phenomenon sweeping the globe of people being fed up with their governments and leaders. This article is from Spiegel in Germany and focuses on the mass movements of people in many of the major capitals of Europe revolting against […]
Economic Turmoil in the 2nd Half of 2011?
What do we know that will lead towards or away from Economic Turmoil? (See beginning of newsletter here.) The largest holder of US Debt (after the US Federal Reserve that is) is China. Just this week they announced that they would be drastically reducing the amount of US Debt which they hold. So they are […]
The Fed’s Big Decision
That leads us to the Fed’s Big Decision. (Find Part 1 Here) The current QE2 will end at the June 30th. The Fed can’t really ignore what has been going on any longer. The US Dollar has fallen dramatically since QE2 was announced. It’s within only a couple points of reaching its all time low […]