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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York voted unanimously to add US$40.9 billion in weekend liquidity to financial markets on January 10th, leaving some investors questioning why. It’s never a good sign when the Feds are forced to pump cash into money markets. It implies that...
As tensions flared in the Middle East last week, the price of gold vaulted to US$1,611 on Wednesday (January 8) before stabilizing at US$1,540 per ounce early the next day. US gold futures peaked at $1,549, a jump of 1.4 percent. The episode saw the...
It’s possible to retire early without striking it big on the lottery. Better yet, it’s also possible to retire without any expert investment skills. Rather, for most of us, retiring early is a matter of dedication, consistent hard work, and strategizing. There’s no luck involved in...
Any savvy precious metal investor following the market closely is going to want to know the spot price of gold regularly. It's something that can be Googled and checked on any number of websites relatively easily. What most investors probably don't know is that determining the...
Every savvy investor worth their weight in gold is best served learning how to buy silver bullion in Canada. Sure, when it comes to investing in commodities, gold often takes the cake. As well it should. Gold has many practical use cases in industry and...
Did you know that American students both past and present are approximately in $1.5 trillion worth of student debt? Considering that number is so huge, it might leave you inclined to wonder when the student loan bubble might burst the way the housing market did...
Think about the images your brain conjures up when it comes to finding popular storage locations for Gold IRA accounts. Most people come up with a few ideas. Storing it in your basement. Storing it on some exclusive island with fancy palm trees and beautiful...
Most investors probably aren’t looking for the ultimate guide to investing in wheat, but there is a reason they should. Investing in agriculture is relatively solid in the long run. Everybody needs to eat, and all of the things people eat come from the farm....
Imagine a global collapse the likes of which investors have never seen before. A true doomsday scenario. Think about what happened in 2008 and 10x that. What on earth would you do? Not that anybody would be worried about their Internet connection when the whole...
Is it possible for the .U.S. government to confiscate your gold? If so, how do you expect to protect your stash in the event that happens? The answer to the first question is yes. The answer to the second question is that you have several...
Believe it or not, investing in whisky is a good idea. Over the long term, the savviest of investors can easily exceed an annual return rate of 10%. In fact, there is one investment fund in Europe that recently exceeded 21% returns over the last...
Performance of Price since start of year Gold has had one of the best starts to the year, with a jump of 16% in the first quarter, which also happens to be the largest increase in Q1 for the past 42 years. The YTD is also...
Precious metals have had an attractive return so far for 2016, and continued volatility in the stock markets is only helping. On Friday, Non-Farm Payrolls were released for the previous month of April; the market had been expecting a number around 200k. The actual number...
A look at various commodity prices since beginning of year Commodities have had a remarkable first quarter in 2016, and the turnaround has been substantial and not limited to just Crude Oil and Gold. Soybeans, Silver & Cocoa, have seen their prices grow sharply over the...
Since hitting a low on January 20, the iPath Bloomberg Commodity Index Total Return ETN (DJP), a proxy for commodity markets as a whole, has risen by 10.6%. The rally has largely been powered by rising prices for oil and related energy products, precious metals,...
Gold makes strong start to the year Gold has put on a great rally since the beginning of the year after having reached a most recent low at the beginning of December last year. Since its close on December 31st it has risen nearly 14%. That...
It's tough being a contrarian. Prices may initially move in a direction that is opposite to what is expected. People will offer plenty of reasons why non-mainstream views are wrong, or at the very least, early. It can be difficult to stand firm when enthusiasm...
Two recent articles sum up how challenging the past 12 months have been for many investors. In "The Year Nothing Worked: Stocks, Bonds, Cash Go Nowhere," Bloomberg cites data from Bianco Research that shows 2015 was "the worst year for asset allocation funds since 1937," noting that "practically...
It's been said that the responses to a crisis sow the seeds of the next upheaval. Indeed, history suggests that the so-called fixes often fall short of expectations. First, they fail to take account of the fact that the causes of each episode are often unique....
One often-repeated claim, as I noted in "A Boiling Point… For Gold" and "Is the Conventional Wisdom Wrong About Gold?" is that gold (and other precious metals) likely won't rally because inflation remains subdued. However, recent data suggests that the latter may no longer apply. It's...
