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"Price of Gold"

May

2011

Is Gold A Good Store Of Value?

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: gold ratio, gold value, Price of Gold, value of gold

Everyone once in awhile I’ll run across someone who thinks they know it all and will say something like, “The DOW has outperformed gold since the year 1900 and has not been a good store of value.” There are blatant problems with this kind of statement as the following comments will show. The Price Of Gold Was Fixed From 1913 …

Why The Price Of Gold Could Move Lower Short Term

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: austerity, EURO, gold predictions, Pound, Price of Gold, U.S. Dollar Index, YEN

It goes against all conventional wisdom for a gold dealer to caution investors on the price of gold and silver moving lower. There are literally trillions of reasons why the price of gold and silver will move higher in the years to come, including a multitude of unsustainable future government obligations. But from a short term perspective I have seen …

Many Financial Advisors Still Ignorant of Gold’s Place In A Diversified Portfolio Part 1

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: CFA, cfp, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Balance Sheet, financial advisor, Gold Investments, modern portfolio theory, Price of Gold, Prudent Man Rule, quantitative easing, Risk Free Asset, U.S. Treasuries

What the financial services industry did was take the stable asset of gold and tried to replace it with the U.S. dollar. The financial advisors were led to believe that the U.S. dollar is a “risk free” asset, when throughout history, only gold has never gone to zero in value.