Challenging Financial Advisors on the Need to Diversify Into Gold

Posted by on Jul 8, 2009 in Education Blog, Gold, Government Spending, Inflation, Investing, Stocks, U.S. Dollar | 1 comment

In a follow up to a recent article; Gold: Why Doesn’t Your Financial Advisor Recommend It?, I decided to take on the task of challenging a financial advisor on their understanding of how gold fits into one’s portfolio. First, you should know that I was a financial advisor for over 20 years.  I left the business to follow my passion to write as described in my “About Doug”...

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Confused About Gold and the Dollar? Understand Their Relationship Before You Invest

Posted by on Jun 2, 2009 in Gold, Inflation, Interest rates, Investing, U.S. Dollar | 0 comments

It’s not known for sure where the concept that an ounce of gold could always buy a nice businessman’s suit came from, but the analogy is used today by many who want to paint a positive picture for gold.  The premise of the story is used to reveal the fact that the dollar has lost 95%-98% of its purchasing power since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. The typical story...

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The Demise of GM and How the U.S. Is On the Same Course “As GM Goes, So Goes the Nation”

Posted by on Oct 22, 2008 in Economy, Federal Reserve, GM, Inflation, Interest rates, Investing, Taxes, U.S. Dollar | 0 comments

I truly believe a year from now we’ll have many of the answers we’ve all been waiting for. I choose a year from now because once this Presidential political distraction is over with, and we’ve had another year of the continued crack up from the sub-prime mess and more bank failures, and more fed intervention (GM, Ford, possibly the airlines, state bailouts, followed by the...

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