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October 31, 2012Key Gold Headlines

This Month in Gold – October 2012

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 […]

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October 26, 2012Gold Scams Exposed

“Natural Gold” Unhealthy for Your Portfolio

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 […]

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October 16, 2012Gold Scams Exposed

Can Bacteria Produce Gold?

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 […]

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October 9, 2012Original Analysis

Riding Into the Sunset or a Brick Wall

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 […]

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October 9, 2012Guest Commentaries

The Solar Silver Thrust

By Jeff Clark from Casey Research In early July, Japan set a premium price for solar energy that was three times the rate of conventional power. This meant utility companies would be paid three times more for electricity sourced from solar. It’s widely expected that the premium will ignite the use of solar power – […]

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October 1, 2012Lampoon the System

We’re Here to Help

Jon Pawelko publishes the web comic Lampoon The System to poke fun at insane economic policies and educate the public on sound economics. Click here for more cartoons and information on his anthology book, available for only $15. Follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on Peter Schiff’s latest thoughts: @SchiffGold Interested in learning about […]

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September 7, 2012Original Analysis

The Fed’s Campaign

By Peter Schiff This past Friday, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered his annual address from Jackson Hole – the State of the Dollar, if you will – I couldn’t help but hear it as an incumbent’s campaign speech. While Wall Street was hoping for some concrete announcement, what we got was a mushy appraisal […]

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September 7, 2012Guest Commentaries

What to Do When Inflation Gets Out of Hand

By Jeff Clark from Casey Research The cheek of it! They raised the price of my favorite ice cream. Actually, they didn’t increase the price; they reduced the container size. I can now only get three servings for the same amount of money that used to give me four, so I’m buying ice cream more […]

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September 1, 2012Lampoon the System

Puppet Master

Jon Pawelko publishes the web comic Lampoon The System to poke fun at insane economic policies and educate the public on sound economics. Click here for more cartoons and information on his anthology book, available for only $15. Follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on Peter Schiff’s latest thoughts: @SchiffGold Interested in learning about […]

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August 2, 2012Original Analysis

Priced for Collapse

By Peter Schiff Where is the gold price today? If you’re like many Americans, you have no idea whether it went up, down, or sideways. Fortunately, I know my readers to be more informed – you likely know that after falling from almost $1900, gold has been trapped around $1600 since early May. But you […]

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