By: John Fisher The Federal Reserve and Ben “Helicopter” Bernanke (now his nickname makes real sense) have launched another massive round of Quantitative Easing (aka money printing), being referred to as ‘QE2’. Between $600B – $800B worth depending on who you ask. QE1 was supposedly a single,
Read more →By: John Fisher Yesterday we saw a massive move to the upside for both gold and silver. Now why would that be? The Republicans for all practical purposes are back in power. Doesn’t that mean more fiscal prudence in the future putting a damper on metals
Read more →By: John Fisher – Additional Content from Franklin Sanders My friend Franklin summarized the issue of investor mistakes in a bull market quite well: “Over the years I have watched investors make mistakes. Two of the biggest mistakes arise from not understanding what a bull market (primary
Read more →By: Brett Arends, Wall Street Journal The conventional wisdom on Wall Street is that the gold bubble is about to pop. After all, people will tell you, the little guy is now totally on this bandwagon. Ordinary Mom and Pop investors from Bakersfield to Boston have dumped
Read more →By: Marek Kuchta A look at the past 177 years of the gold price reveals that unexpected write-offs are non-events—gold could be the safest investment out there. Investing into anything is usually preceded by the thought: what is there to win and what is there to lose?
Read more →By: Jeff Clark, October 9, 2010 We’ve got it easy right now. Click or call, and you can quickly and conveniently own a gold coin or bar. But if global concerns cause another panic or the dollar breaks down, you could find yourself standing in a line
Read more →By: Glenda Kwek, October 7, 2010 A stampede of the super rich is under way as they snap up gold to secure their wealth as the economies of the world wobble. “The most we’ve sold in the last couple of weeks for a customer’s own vault was
Read more →By: Pham-Duy Nguyen and Nicolas Larkin – Bloomberg News, Oct. 5, 2010 Gold futures jumped to a record $1,342.60 an ounce as the dollar sagged, boosting demand for precious metals as alternative assets. Silver advanced to a 30- year high. The greenback fell to the lowest level
Read more →By: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard States accounting for two-thirds of the global economy are either holding down their exchange rates by direct intervention or steering currencies lower in an attempt to shift problems on to somebody else, each with their own plausible justification. Nothing like this has been
Read more →By: Jeff Clark There’s lots of conflicting and inaccurate tax information surrounding this subject. So, what’s the real skinny on the current tax rules for selling precious metals & ETF’s in the U.S. The IRS considers gold a “collectible” and will tax your realized capital gains at
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