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Investment manias share some key traits in common. When they get going, they REALLY get going (a la NASDAQ 1999). People believe that “this time it’s different” (housing bubble anyone?). And – they are certainly equal opportunity. From tulips, to spices…from houses, to tech stocks…manias are always looking for the next asset class to party […]
Legendary investor and investment writer Richard Russell believes we’re nearing the speculative, or mania, phase in gold: Every major primary bull market that I have studied or lived through ends up with a wildly speculative third phase. This is the phase where the public and the crowd rushes head-long into the market. We saw this last in […]
How can you buy physical gold? It’s a question that’s coming up more and more these days…as demand for gold bullion is going through the roof. Jeff Clark points out a few resources that you should take a look at, if you’re looking to purchase some physical gold. And it’s probably a great time to […]
From Reuters: A German asset management company plans to set up 500 “Gold-to-Go” ATMs in Germany, Switzerland and Austria this year. A gold-dispensing automatic teller machine (ATM) was on display at Frankfurt’s main railway station for a one-day marketing test yesterday. A one-gram piece of gold, the size of a child’s little fingernail and about […]
The world’s major central banks are expected to reduce sales and lending of their gold bullion reserves this year, MarketWatch reports. Because central banks hold a significant portion of above-ground gold in the world – over 15% of it, the article reports – reduced selling by the banks could weigh on gold supplies. If you […]
Please enjoy this insightful guest article by Doug Casey, as he shares his forecasts for the 2009 economy and beyond. I strongly agree with Doug’s outlook for gold and interest rates. The contrarian in me wants to be more optimistic about the economy beyond 2009, so for the sake of the world, I hope Doug’s […]
Richard Russell’s latest comments on the action in the gold and silver markets: As I said, the gold action is changing — what’s happened to the profit taking? Gold buyers have stopped taking profits, the are buying and sitting with their gold. Physical gold has now been swept off the market. Coins are only sold […]
Now that we’re on the other side of the investment madness that was 2008, Casey Research’s Doug Hornig reminds us to keep the big investment picture in perspective. As we’ve discussed in this space, there were only a few asset classes that gained value in 2008 – the US dollar, US Treasuries, cocoa, and gold […]
GoldMoney’s James Turk reports that 2008 was the eighth year in a row that gold has climbed against the US dollar. Since 2001, when the streak began, gold has appreciated an average of 16.3% per year with respect to the US dollar. Turk also lays out gold’s performance against the major currencies, where, to my […]
By Doug Hornig, co-editor of BIG GOLD, from Casey Research The spot price of gold has fallen more than 20% from its all-time high, reached in March of 2008. But if you think that means demand has declined, think again. Gold demand has in fact exploded, and not just here and there. Everywhere. Around the […]
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