The question that keeps popping up is will the government come after my gold? The short answer is yes, the government can take your gold as long as they give you “just compensation.” I’ll go into detail on the history of gold confiscation first but make sure you don’t miss the section below that dives into what the government could …
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21
2013
Why Gold and Silver Will Break to New Lows and Tax Moves to Capitalize Upon
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: 2014 predictions, budget, Capital Gain, congress, deficit, GDP growth, GLD, Gold, Illusions of Wealth, national debt, new lows, sell gold, sell silver, silver, SLV, Taper, tax loss selling, Taxes, We the Serfs
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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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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2
2009
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17
2009
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18
2009
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11
2009
Is Warren Buffet Right About Inflation?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Bailout, Dollar, Economics, Gold, Inflation, Taxes, Warren Buffet
Oct
22
2008
I truly believe a year from now we’ll have many of the answers we’ve all been waiting for. I choose a year from now because once this Presidential political distraction is over with, and we’ve had another year of the continued crack up from the sub-prime mess and more bank failures, and more fed intervention (GM, Ford, possibly the airlines, …
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28
2008