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By Peter Schiff For such a wonderful year for precious metals investors, the final calendar quarter left little to celebrate. Just as people now take for granted that their phones will also take pictures, play music, and surf the internet, many investors have come to expect gold and silver to move up in a straight […]
Casey Research’s Gold Commentary 2011 was remarkable in many ways for the precious metals markets. Gold soared to new highs in early September, hitting at an intraday record of $1,920/ounce on the 5th. Silver screamed to within a hair of $50 on April 28. Corrections ensued, and the metals ended the year on a disappointing […]
It’s not just the U.S. that is plagued with the cheesy gold-buying commercials and ridiculously priced gold coins. Canada also deals with their fair share of gold scams. With the Cambridge House Resource Investment Conference around the corner in Vancouver, BC, it’s important that BC’s Better Business Bureau has created a Top 10 Scam List […]
Central Bank Gold Purchases Surge in Q3 Wall Street Journal – Central banks have purchased 7X as much gold in the 3rd quarter of this year than the same period last year, the latest World Gold Council quarterly report reveals. The combined purchases amount to a whopping 148.8 metric tons of gold. By comparison, in […]
Words spoken by Robert White, an appraiser, who checked out the inventory Nola Cronk had just acquired from Capital Gold Group. Cronk approached an appraiser after having a hellish battle with what she thought was a move to protect her retirement. Nola Cronk’s husband had passed away, and unfortunately he was the one who took […]
This holiday season, I came up with a not-so-original idea to buy (or give from stock) silver* as my trademark gift. Not only is it an educational tool that brings up questions about investing and the future of the dollar-based system, but it’s also worth a nice chunk of change. As we speak I’m packing […]
Now I usually do my dealing face to face with a local bullion shop, but just as Christmas shopping isn’t always done in a store anymore, neither are all precious metal purchases. Many friends and associates have mentioned the gold and silver buying options on eBay, Craigslist, and Amazon. Turns out it serves the same […]
For most of his time as a national political figure, Barack Obama has been careful to cloak his core socialist leanings behind a veil of pro-capitalist rhetoric. This makes strategic sense, as Americans still largely identify as pro-capitalist. However, based on his recent speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, the President appears to have reassessed the political […]
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Although we refer to the conventional pathways to purchasing gold, I’m sure over time as you begin immersing yourself in the precious metal’s community you will find yourself looking for deals in all places. Your ears will begin to perk up when you hear […]
Deutsche Bank’s Lewis: Gold, Agriculture, Are “Safest Long Positions” Bloomberg – Michael Lewis, Deutsche Bank’s Global Head of Commodities Research, reports that gold and other commodities are “still cheap” and that gold’s recent rally, while record-breaking, is “not yet extreme.” Demand from emerging markets remains strong for all commodities. Lewis noted that gold is below […]
