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Jim Rogers: The dollar is a flawed currency
Excerpts from The Financial Times’ View from the Markets online interview with Jim Rogers:
FT: It’s a year since we last interviewed you. You were aggressively bearish about the dollar, but you thought there would probably be a rebound and you would take that…
21Nov2008 | The Gold Blog | 0 comments | ContinuedObama’s Golden Opportunity – Return to Gold Standard
The Washington Times’s Lawrence Hunter wrote last week that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has an opportunity to reset the economy and restore the U.S. dollar to its preeminence as the world’s reserve currency by reestablishing the gold standard. He writes:
First,…
18Nov2008 | The Gold Blog | 3 comments | ContinuedGold Investments Market Update - Rollercoaster Markets Continue
The great global deleveraging continues. In a world that has become addicted to debt fuelled growth, the idea that readily available credit may no longer be available, has scared many into facing the truth; credit is not free and should…
13Nov2008 | The Gold Blog | 0 comments | Continued12 Survival Tips for the Coming Global Recession
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (via MarketWatch) — A record 130 million voters are predicted to head to the polls Tuesday. The bad news: 65 million, roughly 50% of all voters, will be miffed, mad at, angry with, even hate the new…
12Nov2008 | The Gold Blog | 0 comments | ContinuedSilver Bullion Premiums Foretell a Price Surge
Seeking Alpha has an interesting article regarding Silver Bullion premiums, though this is at the moment somewhat irrelevant since the market for 100oz bars is nearly non-existent.
30Oct2008 | The Gold Blog | 0 comments | ContinuedThere has been much recent coverage of the rising premiums being paid to purchase physical…
Gold Investments Market Update - Premiums Soaring for Physical Bullion as Delayed Deliveries and Shortages Intensify Internationally
COMEX gold continues to surprise to the downside despite the incredibly strong fundamentals of gold bullion itself with increasing shortages, delayed deliveries and premiums soaring for physical bullion in Asia, Europe, the US and internationally. Premiums have soared on smaller…
21Oct2008 | The Gold Blog | 0 comments | ContinuedLargest Gold Refinery in the World Runs out of Krugerrands
Shortages of certain bullion products is possibly the most important issue facing the gold and silver markets today.
The sole maker of South African Krugerrands, Rand Refinery Ltd., largest gold refinery in the world, today ran out of the iconic bullion…
2Sep2008 | The Gold Blog | 0 comments | ContinuedBritish Gold Sovereigns - The Preserve of Collectors, Savers and Smart Investors
Gold as Essential Diversification and Financial Insurance
Gold bullion remains an essential diversification and essential financial insurance to have in all properly diversified portfolios. Besides the ever more important factors of inflation hedging and financial insurance, gold is likely to continue…
22Aug2008 | The Gold Blog | 0 comments | ContinuedBear bet that netted £141m throws fresh suspicion on collapse
It seems that Wall St. are trying to blame the straw for breaking the camel’s back. As The Independent report today:
Suspicion over the collapse of Bear Stearns is centring on a massive options trade, less than two weeks before the…
13Aug2008 | The Gold Blog | 0 comments | ContinuedDeep Protracted Recession Coming but Important to Keep Things in Perspective
Irish writer, Joe O’Connor has been appearing on RTE’s (Ireland’s national radio station – akin to the BBC) Drivetime in recent weeks with some witty, inspiring and uplifting poetry.
His beautiful words perfectly illustrate how an economic recession or depression is…
8Aug2008 | The Gold Blog | 0 comments | ContinuedOnly the fittest SME’S will survive the coming recession
Small to medium enterprises are the life blood of modern economies. In Ireland for example, up to 56% of the national workforce is employed in by Small to Medium Enterprises, that is to say companies that employ less the 250 employees…
2Aug2008 | The Gold Blog | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Derivatives Market now valued at $1.14 Quadrillion!
The Bank of International Settlements, which seems to be the only institution that tracks the derivatives market, has recently reported that global outstanding derivatives have reached 1.14 quadrillion dollars: $548 Trillion in listed credit derivatives plus $596 trillion in notional/OTC…
24Jul2008 | The Gold Blog | 9 comments | Continued
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