We have seen the perfect storm come down on gold and silver this past week with the Fed taper, Congress agreement on the budget for two years and higher than expected GDP, but there is another reason why gold and silver prices are falling. This stems from the year-end tax moves that the big players in the precious metals market; Hedge …
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7
2013
The results of the Fed decision came in. No taper. But the stock market sold off that day and so did gold. Why? The answer may be found in the following article posted at CNBC where they state; “but markets interpreted language in the decision to mean that the end may come sooner than expected.” If markets and price action tell …
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16
2013
The Federal Reserve – Lender and Buyer of Last Resort
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: BOE, Buyer of Last Resort, Central Bank, Dodd, ECB, Federal Reserve, Frank, Gold, Lender of Last Resort, QE
Can the Federal Reserve save the U.S. economy from failure? Is this their mandate? When you research “lender of last resort (LLR),” which is what the Fed is supposed to be, you mostly find the source to be Walter Bagehot’s Lender of Last Resort Doctrine. This doctrine came about from Bagehot’s book, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market. Hartley Withers, in …
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27
2013
Gold and Silver Are Insurance against $17 Trillion of National Debt and More
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: allocation, buy, debt, Dollar, dollar cost average, Federal Reserve, Gold, government, insurance, Interest rates, liabilities, national, note, silver, trillion, unfunded
Gold and Silver Are Insurance Against $17 Trillion of National Debt Investing in physical gold and silver is not a profit driven investment. It is a mindset. It gives investors the same type of peace of mind that protects their wealth they receive by insuring their home, auto or health…just in case something happens where they need it. What other …
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25
2013
Do Financial Advisors Ever Caution You Against Buying Stocks?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: buy, caution, financial advisor, Gold, precious metals, sell, silver, Stocks
Recently I had someone tell me that I am biased in favor of gold and silver (meaning always bullish) because I sell gold and silver. This was rather presumptuous on their behalf which is why I copied the articles below to show what I have actually written over the past five months about the gold and silver markets. Sept. 16 …
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13
2013
Calling the Fed Taper Bluff and What Gold Might Do Next
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: CBO, debt, Dollar, EURO, fed, GDP, Gold, Interest rates, Japan, projections, tapering, velocity, YEN
The price of gold could be affected by next weeks Fed meeting as they decide whether or not to taper the Quantitative Easing purchases they have been making in their attempt to buy up the toxic assets of the banks and the treasuries that no one else will buy. Ever since the talk of tapering by Bernanke in June of …
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28
2013
One Week Sale On American Gold Eagles 4% Over Spot Including 1% Commission
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: $1, American, Buy Gold and Silver Safely, coin, commission, Eagle, Gold, sale, spot
NOTE: The following sale of coins were at a time when the premiums were higher or lower than they are today. At the time of the sale, they were the lowest in the country and we still guarantee lowest in the country today. Call 888-604-6534 for a quote. Beginning August 29th through September 6th we will have the American Eagle …
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27
2013
Being one of the few out there who sells gold and has called gold lower since September of 2011 when the dollar hit bottom, and having called a summer rally most recently in June, I turned cautious on August 12th for short term traders, expecting a bounce in the dollar. The double top for gold has turned into an extended …
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12
2013
Double Top in Gold with Dollar Rebounding Spells More Trouble Ahead for the Bulls
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
July 22nd I wrote an article Nice Run Up In Gold and Silver Prices – Expect a Pullback where I called a short term top for gold. July 23rd, GLD topped out at $130.14 and proceeded to fall to $124 by August 7th. We are now testing $130 again on GLD as seen in the following chart. As you can see …
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23
2013
Conversation with Axel Merk on Gold and Euro at FreedomFest – Merk Funds
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Axel Merk, currency, Dollar, EURO, Gold, manipulation, Merk Funds
Last week I was at FreedomFest in Las Vegas and met many who are influential in the advising of what investors should do with their money. I met hedge fund manager and author Jim Rogers, Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of business magazine Forbes, John Stossel and Sentator Rand Paul. I gave each of them the currency I created called the Barackazillion, …
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