Precious Metals
by Tim McMahon
on May 14, 2013
Many investors consider the recent drop in gold, silver and platinum prices to be the perfect opportunity to build (or add to) their precious metals position. With the price down, the basic law of supply and demand has kicked in and demand for silver bullion and silver coins has risen sharply. Short-term, supply has gotten tight, [...]
by Casey Research
on March 13, 2013
Investing In Silver can be extremely profitable when the common man decides he wants to invest in precious metals and thinks he can’t afford gold. If a major spike in investment demand if it were to occur there wouldn’t be enough silver to meet demand and prices would skyrocket. In today’s post Jeff Clark looks at the case for [...]
by Guest Author
on March 7, 2013
For many years now I’ve been saying that Gold is a Crisis Hedge rather than an inflation hedge. But it is also a commodity and a monetary instrument. Thus there are a variety of factors affecting its price at any given time. Currently as the world economy continues rolling on people are less worried about [...]
by Tim McMahon
on February 5, 2013
The obvious impact of inflation on your savings is that the purchasing power is erroded. This means that if you stash $100 under the mattress today and inflation is 3% per year when you come back a year from now your $100 will buy 3% less stuff. Put another way you would need $103 to [...]
by JRO
on December 28, 2012
Will the U.S. Dollar Be Replaced as the World’s Reserve Currency? Foreign Exchange Reserves are foreign money held by International banks for use in international trade and in an effort to diversify their holdings and hedge against the inflation of their own currency. The most common items bought and sold with their foreign exchange reserves [...]
by Guest Author
on December 1, 2012
Selling Your Scrap Gold- Economic downturns are a fact of life and you never know when you might be caught up in events outside your control. That is why you always have to be prepared for the circumstances life might throw at you. If during good times you have accumulated some gold either as jewelry or coins, [...]
by AzouzGmach
on October 27, 2012
The Impact of Inflation on Savings If you keep your money in the bank or in money market funds, inflation can eat away at their value. Inflation can be deceiving because your account balances won’t go down. However, when you take your money out to buy something, you might notice that you won’t be able to [...]
by Guest Author
on October 22, 2012
Gold-US Dollar Link The $1800 per ounce level continues to be a major technical resistance area for gold. After hovering near $1800 recently, gold moved sharply away from that level last week to close at $1735 an ounce. Despite that, more fund managers and analysts continue to point to a bright long-term future for gold [...]
by Tim McMahon
on October 8, 2012
Sound Money = Freedom Over the years I have written many times about the necessity of sound money to base our economy on and the results of wanton reckless money creation that will alway result in inflation and a worthless currency either sooner or later. I’ve told you about how inflation affects you, and how [...]
by Lindsey Jensen
on August 30, 2012
Gold Investing 101- Precious metals, particularly gold, are a very common investment opportunity in our modern world. Gold has become extremely popular both as a hedge against inflation and currency devaluation and as a primary investment with historically solid returns over time. Many small-time or new investors are eager to invest in gold; however, the [...]