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January 6, 2012Gold Scams Exposed

Gold Scams Are Voted the #1 Scam for British Colombia for 2012

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 […]

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December 31, 2011Key Gold Headlines

This Month in Gold – December 2011

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 […]

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December 17, 2011Gold Scams Exposed

The Gift That Keeps on Giving

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 […]

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December 10, 2011Gold Scams Exposed

Read the Fine Print on eBay

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 […]

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December 9, 2011Original Analysis

Obama Gets Real

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 […]

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December 8, 2011Gold Scams Exposed

Scam Tricks Woman into Buying a Fake Gold Bar

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 […]

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December 3, 2011Key Gold Headlines

This Month in Gold – December 2010

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 […]

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December 2, 2011Original Analysis

The Great Western Crackup

By Peter Schiff From World War II until very recently, the West – specifically Europe and the United States – was on a course for greater centralization, greater integration, and greater economic intervention. But this consensus is breaking down. In Europe, the euro has gone from steadily adding new members to now facing the prospect […]

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December 2, 2011Guest Commentaries

Fear Risk, Not Volatility

By Jeff Nielson While watching a little television the other night, I was once again confronted by my biggest pet peeve: investment professionals who confuse risk and volatility. In this case, the offender was a TV commercial heralding the supposed virtues of an annuity with a “guaranteed rate of return.” The suggestion is that such […]

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