Is silver a bubble? Or did we just experience a blow-off top from the highs a few weeks ago? This article is derived from a conversation I had recently in replying to an article on the financial website Seeking Alpha written by CFA, Michael A. Gayed called Silver: From First to Worst. I always enjoy my conversations with Michael as …
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10
2011
CFA Claims 3 Myths That Will Pop the Gold Bubble But Does Not Reply To My Critique
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: buy gold dip, CFA, gold bubble, Japanese example, Seeking Alpha
With the recent fall in gold and silver prices, those who have always hated gold and silver seem to come out of the woodwork in claiming the top is in. One advisor who continually wants to criticize gold as a viable investment, who also writes articles for a financial website, Seeking Alpha, is CFA Charles Lewis Sizemore. I have written …
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5
2011
2011 Gold and Silver Prices Falling Nothing To Panic About – Decline’s Always Occur
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: 2011 gold price, buy gold, buy silver, dollar bounce, gold decline, gold falling, silver crash, silver falling
The Quick Answer As To Why Gold and Silver Prices Are Falling (for those of us who just want a quick synopsis and don’t have time or care about the details) For those that want quick answers as to what is going on with the price of gold and especially silver right now, know this; I have zero people calling …
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22
2011
Morningstar Joins The Anti-Gold Crowd
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: anti-gold, bad advice, bias, buy gold, gold bubble, money magazine, Morningstar, mutual funds, real wealth
Morningstar, a company that specializes in the analysis of Mutual Funds, has come out with an article that is critical of the long term outlook for gold. Please see: Why We See Gold Going Lower Long-Term When you see companies that specialize in plugging non-gold alternatives, one has to take their advice for what it is; biased. I commented on …
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21
2011
NY Times Says The Precious Metals Bubble Looks Set To Be Pricked
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: congress, Gold Bubble 2011, Higher Interest Rates, NY Times, U.S. Dollar
Sooner or later one of the magazine’s, financial guru’s, CNBC correspondents and others who say gold is a bubble will claim victory. Not everything goes straight up. Thus far however, they have all been wrong. The NY Times is the latest to join the crowd calling gold a bubble. Every time someone does, I am right there to refute their …
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15
2011
4 Reasons There Will Be Future QE And A Higher Price For Gold and Silver
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, buy gold, buy silver, GDP, medicare, QE, quantitative easing, U.S. Treasuries, Unemployment
There has been talk of late that the Fed could put end to quantitative easing (QE) early. This article will address the probability of future QE and list four problem areas where the Fed may have to return to their hat and see just how many quantitative easing rabbit’s are left in it that can fool the investing public into …
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5
2011
Current Thoughts On Gold and Silver Prices and Kiplinger’s Seven Ways Not To Buy Gold
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: buy gold, buy silver, Free Money Finance, gold bubble, gold price, gold top, kiplinger seven ways not to buy gold, TBT, U.S. Dollar, U.S. Treasuries
There was a recent article on buying gold that Free Money Finance brought my attention to recently. I suggest you take a look at it. It was from Kiplinger and called; “Seven Ways Not To Buy Gold.” I agree with all seven reasons. It’s as if the author from Kiplinger read my book, “Buy Gold and Silver Safely” as …
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29
2011
Does Real Estate Or Gold Have A Bright Future?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: 2009 Recovery Act, Consumer Confidence Index, Gold, Real Estate, U.S. Economic Outlook, Unemployment
Every once in awhile, I keep tabs on what’s going on with real estate. I have friends and clients who will ask me my thoughts and I try to analyze what’s going on in real estate with a non-biased approach, say as opposed to your typical real estate agent. I approach gold and silver the same way, sometimes giving …
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25
2011
The Lender of Last Resort Isn’t the Fed or ECB, It’s YOU!
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Banks, Central Bank, ECB, Federal Reserve, Government Spending, IMF, Inflation, Taxes
Banks always are bailed out by the government or the Fed and in Europe’s case, the equivalent of the Fed, the European Central Bank (ECB). The ECB is who is keeping Portugal’s banks afloat. But it’s also the IMF who likes to stick their greedy fingers into the pie, just as they have in many other countries, like Jamaica for …
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25
2011
Failed European Bank Stress Tests Offer Even More Reasons To Own Physical Gold and Silver
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: ECB, European Bank Stress Test, Federeal Reserve, Gold, PIIGS, Portugal, Portuguese banks, silver, Spanish banks
One by one, country by country, the Eurozone’s PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) are succumbing to the excesses of the credit expansion era that saw out of control government spending and banks lending to businesses and consumers who now can’t pay the loans back. At the same time, the traditional way banks make profit has also disappeared as …
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