I agree that it is important to establish what the facts are. One of the biggest problems investors have is distinguishing between fact and...
Not at all. If I believed that nothing would change, there would be no point in investing. I find no problem believing that gold and silver are...
Not at all. Everyone should research this and think for themselves. But too often you will read articles implying that the Fed is incompetent...
My response was directed toward nobody in particular. If it was I would have quoted someone. So if your conscience is guilty, it is your...
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http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/05/700-billion-ha-real-costs-of-bailouts.html Perhaps not the best, but this is a decent summary of the...
A couple of thoughts... First, when you factor in the $160billion loss [according to Bloomberg] on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bankruptcies,...
It isn't condescending to people who don't believe they know more than the Fed and investment professionals. There are a lot of articles on the...
You are correct. All member banks pay annual dues to the FDIC as sort of an insurance premium. Those funds are used to cover failed banks. But...
I thought I answered this, but the answer disappeared. Spooky! Electronic money such as the money in your checking account is an unsecured...
If someone put half of their investment money in very long treasury bonds and the other half in gold, they could accomplish this, as you suggest....
The one thing everyone should keep in mind is that the doom and gloom industry has been operating off and on since the 1970s. The internet has...
That is a common misconception. You have to go back and study Adam Smith's real bills doctrine and look at how the economies of advanced nations...
I think the MS61 common date coins mentioned above will move in line with bullion. There just don't seem to be many numismatic gold collectors,...
The large silver traders are hardly "uninformed." The uninformed folks are the ones writing the various internet articles on gold and silver, not...
First of all, the stock market is hardly in a bubble. Prices aren't even back to the level of the late 1990's. The real bubble right now is in...
I think that at some point, silver prices will spike upward, probably by a lot -- then crash back to about $20 very quickly. That's usually the...
There is much less money in circulation than you think. As of 1/3/2011, the total was $916.1 billion per the New York Fed. Contrary to what...
A few thoughts regarding the above statements... 1. I've read this too, but it happens to be untrue. There are many precious metals...
This might be a source of future problems. As the old saying goes, don't fall in love with your investments. Investments don't care if you own...
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