While we are taking the brunt of the bad European news now, and gold and silver prices are taking a beating, the good news will be coming at some point between now and November as we gear up for the coming election. As long as the stock market continues to falter, Obama will indeed play the QE3 card. Since the …
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11
2012
2012 Predictions For Gold, Silver, Stock Market, Economy and Elections
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: 2012 economy prediction, 2012 gold predictions, 2012 presidential election prediction, 2012 silver predictions, 2012 stock market prediction, EURO, Federal Reserve, Ron Paul, U.S. Dollar, U.S. economy
Recap of 2010 and 2011 While some well known trend forecasters like Gerald Celente were predicting a crash in 2010, I was taking the opposite side saying that “I don’t see it happening as quickly as Celente does.” In September of 2010 I cautioned traders in gold and silver mining stocks to think about taking profit. The HUI at that …
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14
2011
Physical Gold or Silver – Which Metal Is A Better Investment Today?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: $1, 000 ounce silver bar, 1% over spot, 90% silver bags, buy gold, buy silver, DOW, gold american eagle, silver american eagle, silver or gold, stocks or gold
Recently I was quoted in an article for Fox Business called; The Lowdown on Buying and Selling Silver. In this article I was quoted as recommending a 75% allocation to physical gold and a 25% allocation to physical silver for investors who are looking to insure their U.S. dollar risk of their porfolios. This diversification I first recommended when I wrote my book …
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12
2011
Fox Business Quoted Me in Article – The Lowdown on Buying and Selling Silver
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: buy gold, Buy Gold and Silver Safely, buy silver, Doug Eberhardt, Fox Business, Michael Estrin, Personal Finance, precious metal diversification, silver or gold
Fox Business writer Michael Estrin wrote an article yesterday for the Personal Finance section, The Lowdown on Buying and Selling Silver, in which he quoted me saying how silver, like gold, is known as money and can be used as a hedge against economic uncertainty. Below is the section I was quoted (at the end of the article). An Invaluable Hedge While many …
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7
2011
Inflation/Deflation And Gold
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: bankig crisis, buy gold, Deflation, Inflation, Japan Deflation, Roy Jastram, Seeking Alpha, The Golden Constant, U.S. Treasuries
From time to time I will participate in the conversation on various blogs when I see someone who I know has some intelligence write something about gold’s price history that might influence people not to invest in the precious metal, when there are a multitude of reasons to invest in gold. One of the typical objections that people will throw out …
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13
2011
What’s Going On With Gold? – Where To From Here
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: bank failures, buy gold, Debt Ceiling, FDIC, Federal Reserve Balance Sheet, Gold Prices falling, QE2, QE3, sub-investment grade derivatives, U.S. bank risk
Back in September 2010 I went out on a limb and called a top for those who trade gold and silver mining shares. My goal at the time was to have them consider taking their profits in paper gold and convert to the physical metal for delivery, what we specialize in here at Buy Gold and Silver Safely. At the …
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18
2011
Everyone once in awhile I’ll run across someone who thinks they know it all and will say something like, “The DOW has outperformed gold since the year 1900 and has not been a good store of value.” There are blatant problems with this kind of statement as the following comments will show. The Price Of Gold Was Fixed From 1913 …
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30
2010