Like many of you, the passage of the healthcare bill wasn’t met with the popping of champagne in my house. I found myself chanting “Uncle Sam, Uncle Sham” as the day wore on. Higher taxes and other major changes are headed our way. And yet, I think there’s something in ...read more
Price Per Ounce or Total Ounces Owned
Mar 8th, 2010 | By Jeff Clark | Category: Featured, Gold
In a recent conversation with a fellow gold analyst, he was emphatic that the price one pays for physical gold should be ignored. “What’s far more important,” he insisted, “is how many ounces I own in relation to the total value of my assets.”
Building a core position in gold bullion ...read more
1,001 Reasons to Own Gold
Feb 23rd, 2010 | By Jeff Clark | Category: Featured, Gold
Tracking the numerous ongoing bullish factors for gold is quite a chore. There are, quite literally, so many compelling arguments for holding our favorite metal that I used to catalog them each month in our letter.
The reason there are so many “reasons” is because gold is unlike any other asset. ...read more
Sooner or Later, You’ll Invest Abroad
Feb 17th, 2010 | By Jeff Clark | Category: Featured, Gold, International
Many conventional U.S. brokers are relatively clueless when it comes to gold stocks. If you asked them to name one, chances are it would be a domestic producer, one with assets located primarily in North America. But that’s not where the big money will be made over the next decade.
To ...read more
How to Talk to a Mainstream Nincompoop About Gold
Feb 3rd, 2010 | By Jeff Clark | Category: Featured, Gold
My Grandmother’s favorite word for politely describing the obtuse among us aptly characterizes a recent attack on gold. And that it comes from an investment magazine that commands front-of-the-rack prominence in waiting rooms across our great land is reassuring evidence we have a long way to go in this gold ...read more
The Biggest Financial Deceptions of the Decade Have Nothing on the Fed
Jan 11th, 2010 | By Jeff Clark | Category: Economics, Featured
Enron? Bear Stearns? Bernie Madoff? They’re all big stories about big losses and have hurt a lot of employees and investors. But none come close to getting my vote for the decade’s most dastardly deception...
First came Enron, with $65.5 billion in assets, going belly-up and becoming the largest bankruptcy in ...read more
Gold Mania Means a Niagra Falls of Dollars Through a Precious Metals Market Garden Hose
Nov 20th, 2009 | By Jeff Clark | Category: Featured, Gold
“There’s no doubt in my mind that we’ll have a mania in gold. And because the gold and especially silver markets are so tiny, the rush into them will be like trying to push the contents of Hoover Dam through a garden hose. Our positions will go absolutely ballistic.” – ...read more
Why Gold Has a Long Way to Go
Nov 6th, 2009 | By Jeff Clark | Category: Featured, Gold
A couple weeks ago, I had my TV tuned to a business show that loves to give predictions on the markets and the economy. On that day, one of the program’s regular guests declared it was time to “short” gold, that it had reached its top, and that the precious ...read more
What if Everyone in the World Wanted a One-Ounce Gold Coin?
Sep 28th, 2009 | By Jeff Clark | Category: Featured, Gold
If we’re right about where the price of gold is headed, the general public will someday clamor to buy all things gold. While gold stocks will be where the real leverage is, the rush will start with gold itself. As a gold editor, I have a very natural question: is ...read more
When is the Best Time to Buy Gold?
Jun 24th, 2009 | By Jeff Clark | Category: Featured, Gold
I bet you don’t own enough gold.
Before you tell me I’m wrong, let me ask it this way...
If inflation returns, or even hyperinflation...
If the economic crisis persists and gets worse...
If uncertainty and fear continue, and chaos and rioting begin...
If stock markets languish or suffer another meltdown...
If the recovery spending of ...read more


