Mar 2, 2013

The Fed minutes released the week before last seem to have many thinking the US Fed is about to ease up a gear or two on the money printer. However Vedran Vuk digs beneath the surface of the commonly quoted excerpts to see what the pointy heads at the Fed are really indicating in their characteristic double speak. As we said following the minutes, it pays to...

Feb 20, 2013

Learn just how volatile silver can be compared to gold, but also how you can take advantage of this volatility for your financial benefit when buying silver… Embrace Silver’s Volatility All the Way to the Bank By Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst Most precious-metals investors know that silver is more volatile than gold. But do they know...

Nov 7, 2012

This week: Another Bite of the Gold and Silver Cherry Presents Itself Obamney – Does it Matter Who Wins? The 75 Storey Debt Ceiling NZ Housing Un-affordability: It’s Not Supply, It’s the Debt Stupid! Another Bite of the Gold and Silver Cherry Presents Itself Friday in the US (Saturday NZT) saw a large fall in both metals. Gold fell about 2%...

Sep 5, 2012

We’ve read many theories on just how much gold and silver you should own.  They vary significantly, from as little as say 5% right up to numbers like 50% of your liquid net worth.  However we haven’t seen an argument laid out like this before. This piece includes some useful tables showing how much gold and silver you would need to own based upon...

Sep 4, 2012

We posted a somewhat controversial video a couple weeks back of Sandeep Jaitly commenting on what in his opinion were mistakes made by Austrian School economist Von Mises on the Max Keiser show.  He made a number of other comments, the upshot of which was that he resigned from the Gold Standard Institute.  We’ve since read a couple of opinions and didn’t...