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JT Long: Preserving wealth in a volatile political and financial world is a job for gold (NYSEArca:GLD). Greg Weldon, publisher of Weldon’s Money Monitor newsletter and Grant Williams, a portfolio advisor at Vulpes Investment Management in Singapore, will share their insights at the Cambridge Read more…
David Zeiler: With two GOP presidential candidates saying they’d add legendary Wall Street pundit Jim Grant to their administrations, bringing back the gold standard clearly has moved up on the Republican agenda. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Stocks drifted lower to start the week as resurfacing Euro zone debt woes brought back the bears. Domestic equity indexes retreated into red territory after European leaders put pressure on Greek lawmakers to meet and accept the conditions of the proposed $171 billion bailout. Investors Read more…
Unless you owned defensive stocks, 2012 has been an equal opportunity rally. Tech stocks, financials, cyclical names… just about any asset class that isn’t defensive has seen a sharp move higher this year. Both supporting and belying this observation is the price action in gold, typically Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Congressman and presidential candiate Dr. Ron Paul has spent most of his career advocating a return to the gold standard (NYSEArca:GLD). He feels that replacing the yellow metal with paper is the source of many economic woes that returning to gold could fix. There’s just Read more…
The Daily Capitalist: The Financial Times is out with “reporting” titled Investors beware gold’s deceptive beauty. It suggests that some guys who stole a few million dollars worth of gold rush-era Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: CNN reports that 13 states seek approval to issue money in preparation for a U.S. dollar collapse. Read more…
Kevin Kerr: No matter where you live or travel — America, Europe, Asia, South America, China, etc. — you use fiat currency, at least in one form or another. Read more…
Jared Cummans: Markets seem to be in a state of confusion, as positive news and data is offset by just as many negative factors. Some investors feel that 2012 will continue to see its nice rally, as this past month was the best January for equities since 1997. Others think that the fun is over as a number of Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In his February newsletter, Bill Gross of PIMCO surmises that from now on central bankers will target nominal GDP growth in their fight to prevent a systemic financial collapse. Read more…
Sam Kirtley: As our regular readers will know, we view US real interest rates as the key determinant of gold prices over the medium term. Six weeks ago we updated the situation with U.S. real rates (discussion of the theory behind the relationship can be found in that article) and since then, we have Read more…
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Keith Weiner: After the near-collapse of the financial system in 2008, a growing number of people have come to realize that our monetary disease is terminal. It is that group to whom I address this paper. I sincerely hope that this group includes leaders in business, finance, and government. Read more…
Brian Sylvester: Philip Ker, a mining analyst for Canada-based Union Securities Ltd., says while current market conditions are affecting the junior mining space, they are also helping investors to Read more…
Sara Nunnally: We are seeing a big turnaround in the gold market. Who’s buying? It is not who you think. We turned our back for two seconds, and look what happened: Gold, like a five-year-old who’s found the cookie jar, has shot back above $1,700 an ounce. Read more…
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