The price of gold and silver has moved higher for 11 straight years and you’re not yet invested? Why is that? Will you wait for the price to reach record highs before you invest, or is now the time to buy? There are many reasons why you are not invested in these metals and most of them reveal how …
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28
2012
Remember When A Silver Dime Bought You Two Candy Bars? Why You Need To Buy 90% Silver Bags and American Silver Eagles At Just 1% Over Cost Today
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: 1% over cost, 1964 Roosevelt Dime, 90% silver bags, buy silver, Inflation
I remember as a kid buying candy bars for a nickel. When they raised the price to a dime, I said I would never buy a candy bar again. Of course that promise to myself didn’t last long, but today, a candy bar costs 20 times as much as it did in 1964 when a silver dime could buy you …
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18
2011
Whether it’s Bernanke and Geithner, today or Greenspan and Snow of years past, the Fed will always do what they do best, interfere in the markets. But how effective are they? Author’s Note: Seeking Alpha, a financial website, did not allow this article to be posted on their site. They claim they are not biased against gold, but their editors …
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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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11
2011
Pop Goes The Gold Bubble?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Budget deficit, buy gold, buy silver, debt, Deflation, gold bubble, gold prices 2011, Gold Prices falling, Inflation, Obama, Seeking Alpha, U.S. economy
I always get a kick out of these articles that young writers put out when they try and tackle a subject such as gold and claim it’s in a “bubble.” To date, I have not seen one of them address the banking system mess our country is in (as well as the banks of Europe and soon most everywhere else). …
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6
2011
What the heck is going on these days with the banks? More and more issues are arising with our nations banks causing concern for the investing public. On August 17, 2009 I wrote an article entitled The Banking Crisis is Far From Over. I wanted to make people aware of what was really going on in the banking industry as …
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31
2011
New Website Coming Soon – Prices Still 1% Above Wholesale
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: buy gold, buy gold 1% over wholesale cost, Buy Gold and Silver Safely, buy silver
The Buy Gold and Silver Safely website has been going through a major overhaul. The new website will be more user friendly and contain more useful information in helping gold and silver investors. I will tell you this from an investment perspective. NO ONE is selling their gold or silver. The sales of gold and silver are noticeably larger these …
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7
2011
Gold and Silver Still A Safe Haven But Poised For A Fall?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: buy gold, buy silver, congress spending, consumer confidence, consumer spending, Debt Ceiling, gold safe haven, mass psychology
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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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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