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Gold ’
Jun 30th, 2010 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, International, Personal Investing
Gary Gibson: Chris, you were just over in China along with Addison Wiggin looking for investment opportunities. Could you tell us what you found?
Chris Mayer: Sure. As soon as we landed, we visited a giant Carrefour, which is a big French retailer in Beijing. There, we got a chance to ...
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Tags: agriculture, Big Mac index, China, Gold, water scarcity
Posted in Featured, International, Personal Investing |
5 comments
Jun 3rd, 2010 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Gold
Knowing how governments will respond to deflation, the case for inflation-proof gold looks increasingly clear to cautious wealth...
Useless for pretty much everything except storing wealth (its economic value is social, not industrial), gold acts as inflation-proof money when investors need it most — right in the middle of an ...
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Tags: deflation, dollars, Gold, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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Apr 27th, 2010 |
By Trace Mayer |
Category: Currencies, Featured, Gold
I had a conference to attend in Southern California last week but the true capstone was a Sunday evening dinner with several readers. Although ‘gold bugs’ may be perceived in their writing as cranky I have found them to be among the most considerate and cultured company. Perhaps it stems ...
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Tags: euro, fiat currency, Gold
Posted in Currencies, Featured, Gold |
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Apr 2nd, 2010 |
By Don Stott |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
There is no more dreaded disease than cancer. Cancer causes millions of deaths each year in America, and it is painful, debilitating, and causes horrible pain. Cancer is rarely discovered in time to cure it. Like termites in a home, cancer gnaws at the body, and until the pain begins, ...
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Tags: Gold, government, social safety net, socialism
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
28 comments
Apr 1st, 2010 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Gold, International
Wanted to buy China’s growth story but didn’t know how...?
The WORLD GOLD COUNCIL’S excellent new 74-page report on Chinese gold demand – Gold in the Year of the Tiger – contains many graphics, tables and charts.
Time-pressed investors should focus on just two...
“Gold has a low-to-negative correlation with mainstream financial assets,” ...
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Tags: China, Gold, yuan
Posted in Featured, Gold, International |
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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 ...
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Tags: bullion, Gold, gold etf, insurance
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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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. ...
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Tags: Gold, inflation, money
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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Feb 16th, 2010 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
So, who gets to play Lehmans in this comedic repeat...?
Isn’t Greece marvellous?
Paying income tax, or any kind of tax it would seem, has been entirely optional. Which should have powered its economy like 1960s’ Hong Kong.
But public spending, however, accounts for 40% of GDP. So who financed that spending if ...
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Tags: crisis, deficits, Gold, government spending, Greece
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
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Feb 8th, 2010 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Gold
Gold is now more closely correlated with US stocks than with either the Euro or silver...
Okay, this is getting weird. Too weird, in fact.
And weirder still, no one else has yet noticed...
It might just be me...if not my nicotine D-T’s.
But every time I look, there they are. Gold and the ...
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Tags: Gold, S&P, U.S. Stocks
Posted in Featured, Gold |
4 comments
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 ...
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Tags: Gold, gold bull market, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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