It’s been difficult to see a trend of late for gold and silver, despite the last few days of strength with the recent downgrade of Portugal debt and continued issues with Greece. We’ve seen gold and silver move up and down since its highs earlier this year, but the short term trend is still down with gold falling about 1% …
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1
2011
New Currency The Barackazillion – The Only Currency You’ll Ever Need
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Barackazillion, Budget deficit, Congressional Spending, Conservatives, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Notes, Gold, Monetary System, Money, national debt, silver, Tea Party
Introducing; the Barackazillion – The Only Currency You Will Ever Need – go to http://barackazillion.com/ and watch the video. “Money We Can Believe In” “As Good As Gold” For those who lean left, I would have done the same thing for Bush had I thought of it then – I am neither left nor right in my political views. I …
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24
2011
When is the best time to buy gold and silver? When the prices are pulling back. What do most people do when buying gold and silver? They buy when the prices are taking off. It is this mentality that I wish to “re-frame” in this article. The time to buy gold and silver is when the price is falling, contrary …
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10
2011
Outline Of The Book “Buy Gold And Silver Safely”
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: buy gold, Buy Gold and Silver Safely, buy silver, Doug Eberhardt
For those of you who haven’t yet purchased the book, “Buy Gold And Silver Safely,” I thought it would be helpful to see what the actual outline for the book contains. I started the book out with the major reasons to own gold and silver. They stem from a critique of the financial services industry I was a part of …
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3
2011
Increase In Bank Sub-investment Grade Derivatives Reveal A Need For Gold Insurance
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: bank failures, bank of america, Bank sub-investment grade derivatives, Credit Contraction, Deflation, FASB, FDIC, Federal Reserve, foreclosure, Gold, J.P. Morgan, mark to market, occ, TARP, too big to fail
The financial crisis started with banks getting burned in the derivatives market. Then TARP was manipulated to help banks get cash. Next came the Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB) allowing banks to mark to model (fantasy) their real estate assets (cheat). And now we have come full circle once again as banks own more sub-investment grade derivatives today than at …
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27
2011
Glenn Beck, Congress, And The NY Times Don’t Care If You Get Ripped Off Buying Gold
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Anthony Weiner, Boortz, buy gold, congress, Glenn Beck, Gold bullion, Gold Dealer Ripoff, gold ripoff, gold scams, hannity, Levine, Medved, NY Times
When I was interviewed for a NY Times story about gold dealers and how they rip off their clients back in September 2010, I was told by the reporter that one gold dealer in particular that he visited has a shrine at its entry way dedicated to Glenn Beck. You may trust Glenn Beck on what he says about …
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23
2011
Is Silver Still A Bubble at $35 An Ounce?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: buy silver, fractional reserve lending, quantitative easing, Silver bubble
There was a Seeking Alpha author who wrote an article last week called; 4 Reasons Why Silver Will Continue to Deflate. His article was picked up by David Oldenburg, from The Online Money Show and then the live interview was posted on Seeking Alpha’s main page. So I had to respond to it. You can listen to the show and …
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20
2011
Gold And The End Of The World Scenario
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: argentina, banking crisis, buy gold, End of the world, Hyperinflation, iceland
There are some out there who are pro-gold, who use fear tactics like “the end of the world is coming and you better own gold.” You won’t find those types of claims in my articles. However, being that some think the end of the world is coming tomorrow (it’s not), readers may want to know what would happen before any …
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19
2011
The math (according to MeasuringWorth.com): Dow 1/4/1971 – 830 Gold 1/4/1971 – $35 Dow today: $12,516 Gold today: $1,497 Dow percentage gain for that time-frame; approximately 1,500% Gold percentage gain for that time-frame; approximately 3,500% Gold outshines the Dow by a significant percentage to date, from the time that Nixon separated the relationship of gold and Federal Reserve Notes. Of …
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17
2011
Is Silver Money? And Why You Should Own It
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Article 1 Section 10, buy silver, Constitution, higher inflation, higher taxes, is silver money, silver is money, silver money
Recently I had a discussion on the Seeking Alpha financial website with someone who claimed that “silver is not money.” I took issue with what he said and made this reply to him. I have left out names. Is Silver Money? First and foremost, it seems to me you are ignoring the historical reference of money and silver being used …
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