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One of our readers recently asked about investing in gold through a new company they had come across on the Internet. The company sells 1-gram gold ingots (tiny bullion bars) encased in thin plastic, which are stamped with a serial number and hologram to prevent counterfeiting. They tout their product as a unique development that […]

By J. Luis Martin Although the eurozone crisis did not make it into the US presidential debate on foreign policy in October, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner did remark earlier in the month: “We are very worried about the risk of collapse in Europe.” Indeed, he should be, for a collapse of the euro would not […]

By Peter Schiff If no one seems to care that the Titanic is filling with water, why not drill another hole in it? That seems to be the M.O. of the Bernanke Federal Reserve. After the announcement of QE3 (also dubbed “QE Infinity”) created yet another round of media chatter about a recovery, the Fed’s […]

By Jeff Clark from Casey Research While I don’t like making price predictions, and certainly ones accompanied by a specific date, it’s hard to ignore the correlation between the US monetary base and the gold price. That correlation says we’ll see $2,300 gold by January 2014. There are plenty of long-term charts that show a […]

China’s Currency Rises in US Backyard Financial Times – Two scholars from the Peterson Institute of International Economics write: “Would-be US leaders would do well to note that for probably the first time since the Second World War the dollar bloc in East Asia has been displaced. In its wake a currency bloc based on China’s renminbi is emerging.” Seven out […]

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Bridgewater’s Dalio Likes Gold, Breaks From Buffett  Forbes – Ray Dalio, manager of one of the world’s most profitable hedge funds – the $120 billion Bridgewater Associates – likes gold, sees it as a useful inflation hedge, and thinks it belongs in any well-diversified portfolio. For Dalio, gold is “the alternative money.” Concerning Warren Buffett’s […]

While not nearly as common as overpriced numismatics, every now and then the precious metals investor will come across the opportunity to purchase natural gold nuggets. While they may be appealing at first glance, these opportunities are just another distraction from the real purpose of investing in precious metals: as a long-term, liquid store of […]

News from earlier this month is still circulating about a newly discovered bacterium that…how do we put this…“excretes” gold under the right conditions. That’s right—when forced into a toxic environment saturated with gold chloride, Cupriavidus metallidurans will essentially eat up the toxins of gold chloride and leave behind pure, 24K nuggets. Gold skeptics and scaremongers […]

By Peter Schiff A month ago, I presented the case for why Fed Chairman Bernanke would have strong motivation to launch another round of quantitative easing (QE) before the election. In short, it would save him his job. Now, I didn’t predict with certainty that he would do so – only the few men at […]