Every time silver gets to a point where it is about to break out, it has a retreat in price. The old adage that we have heard for years is, “this time it’s different!” But silver keeps disappointing. Well, this time I really do think it is different and I have been harping on silver since I started writing my …
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10
2024
Last Time Bank Offered Depositors Sign Up Bonuses Silver Soared
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Banks, Illusions of Wealth, lawsuits, profitinupanddownmarkets.com, Purchasing Power, safe, silver
Banks are at it again offering bonuses to depositors in a dash for more cash approach not seen since the last financial crisis. Skip to the silver analysis at the end if you are in a hurry. The Financial crisis ended by 2011 but this may come to many as a surprise, that there have been 212 bank failures since …
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13
2024
If you wanted to destroy the currency of a nation, there is no better way to do it than collectively have other nations band together and create their own monetary system and shun the dollar. That’s exactly what BRICS, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are doing. But it doesn’t stop there. Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, …
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6
2024
How To Buy Gold and Silver in an IRA
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: 401k, Banks, crash, Dollar, fed, Gold, Interest rates, IRA, precious metals, rollover, silver, transfer
Many investors are not aware that you can invest in gold and silver through your IRA with an IRA transfer from your current bank or brokerage account. Or if you have a 401k from a prior company, a 401k rollover into a precious metals IRA can be done by filling out a few forms. Many investors know why gold and …
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12
2014
We Are Not Off to the Races Yet With Gold
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Bank of Japan, Banks, Credit Contraction, Deflation, Dollar, Draghi, ECB, EURO, fed, fiscal stimulus, Future, Gold, Inflation, Interest rates, price, shadow banking, Shinzo, silver, Treasuries, YEN
Gold has had a nice bounce now off the bottom set in December of 2013, but are we off to the races just yet? Here is what I wrote last month where I concluded “we could go higher from here for a bit to trap more of the bulls who say the bottom is in.” We should start to see …
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30
2013
As I pointed out in my last article, I expected continued selling of gold by the big boys; the Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds and Professional traders and they didn’t disappoint. The largest ETF; SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) saw an outflow of 12.9 metric tons last week. From Kitco; Holdings of gold by SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), the world’s largest exchange-traded …
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15
2013
Over the past year and a half, I have written many articles on investing in gold and silver, and been one of the few who have told clients continually to dollar cost average into a position during this time-frame, hoping the price goes lower so they get an overall better price. I have been one of the few gold dealers who have …
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18
2012
Why Gold and Silver Prices are Declining Along with Dollar
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Banks, clock, debt, EURO, Federal Reserve, Gold, manipulation, price, silver
Today we saw gold and silver take a big hit. Normally this would be the result of a stronger dollar, but the dollar also took a big hit today. So what’s really going on here? Why are gold and silver prices falling along with the dollar of late? I wrote the article Thoughts On Gold Price Manipulation the day before …
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14
2012
Turning Paper Into Gold Part 1
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Banks, derivatives, ETF, GLD, Gold, insured, J.P. Morgan, prospectus, silver, SLV
I have seen many more investors coming to us, saying they are selling their gold (GLD) and silver (SLV) ETFs and wanting to buy physical gold and silver. What would be there reasoning to do so? One reason is that gold and silver ETFs should be viewed as trading vehicles and not counted as real wealth ownership. Here is what …
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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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