With banks paying very little interest these days, investors have been seeking out ways to earn more than the paltry less than 1/2 percent that banks are paying on savings. The Federal Reserve has kept interest rates artificially low, hurting those seniors and other savers who don’t trust the stock or bond market with their nest egg. But some of …
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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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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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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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8
2012
Is This The Bottom For Gold And Silver Prices?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: bottom for gold and silver, debt, EURO, Federal Reserve, Gold prediction, Greece, Interest rates, QE3, quantitative easing, silver, Spain, treasury bubble, U.S. banks, U.S. Dollar, U.S. Treasuries
While we are taking the brunt of the bad European news now, and gold and silver prices are taking a beating, the good news will be coming at some point between now and November as we gear up for the coming election. As long as the stock market continues to falter, Obama will indeed play the QE3 card. Since the …
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16
2010
Is the U.S. Following in Japan’s Deflationary Footsteps? Part 2
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Credit Contraction, Debt to GDP, Deflation, Gold, Interest rates, Japan Deflation, U.S. economy
In Part 2, I will address the 5, 10 and 30 year yields of the Japanese Government Bonds (JGB) and U.S. Dollar T-Bonds first and speak to the likeliness the U.S. will follow the Japan example of increasing Debt as a percentage of GDP to fight the deflationary credit contraction occurring. I’ll then correlate the four areas discussed in Part 1 and Part 2 with contemplations on how gold priced in U.S. Dollars will perform moving forward.
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13
2010
Apr
27
2010
Do You Buy Real Estate Now or Wait? Part 2/3
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Austrian Economics, Baby Boomers, Bank Lending, Buy Real Esttate, Consumer Sentiment, Declining Wages, Federal Reserve, GDP, Government Spending, Household Debt, housing bubble, Housing Market, Inflation, Interest rates, Japanese Real Estate Market, Orange County California, REIT's, Retirement Planning, Robert Schiller, U.S. Dollar, Unemployment, Wages
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26
2010
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28
2009