I think coins can be a decent investment provided that: 1. You know enough about them to avoid problem coins. 2. You don't buy them after a...
I'm not particularly interested in sterling, but I've seen a lot of coins with about .6 oz of silver.
Roosevelt had Congress amend the 1917 Trading With the Enemy Act to include any national emergency. The act included the power to regulate just...
Sometimes it's harder to hang onto money you have than to make it in the first place. They are two different skill sets and most conventional...
You can get a lot of information with an internet search. The idea was that people were hoarding gold to protect themselves and gold was flowing...
Rob McEwen knows as much about the gold business as anybody on the planet. He believes that gold will be $2,000 by the end of 2010, and $5,000...
The 6.3% three year annualized return is running about a full percentage point behind plain old investment grade corporates, probably due to the...
Sterling always seems to sell for a discount to .999 and even to .90 silver. It just seems to be less popular.
That's a valuable insight that many people in business never quite get.:thumb:
I think people use far too much extreme language to describe things. Something goes up - it's a bubble. Something goes down - it's collapsing....
Maybe it's time to admit the obvious. The much followed gold/silver ratio is garbage.
Keep in mind that if the newsletter writers knew anything, they would be making far more money trading gold and gold futures than they could ever...
Speculation ranges from a rising dollar, rush to liquidity, monkey-business at the LME, increase in shorts at the futures markets, central bank...
I wouldn't really be interested in PAUAX. It looks like a fund of funds with two layers of management fees and a front end load. The stock is...
Doing a little research, CPUs and circuit boards from high end systems contain from 8 to 11 troy ounces of recoverable gold per each 2,000 pounds....
I haven't decided yet. The majority of asset classes look very weak right now, so diversification might not work well over the next few years. I...
That's about a 6% pretax annual return on the gold and 5% on the silver over a 20 year period.
The fear is that several Eurozone countries may default on their debt. If they do, it will effectively end the Euro as a currency, and money is...
As I said, death is what happens AFTER life, not during life.
The idea that gold [and silver] were somehow a constant value and that it was really the dollar that was flucuating seems to be an idea first...
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