Gold Archive

Bill Gross: CPI Understates Real Inflation

May 22, 2008  ·  Category: Gold, Inflation
 I’ll tell you another area where we’ve been foolin’ ourselves and that’s the belief that inflation is under control. Gross on using owner equivalent rent instead of home prices in calculating the CPI: ..... the first occurring in ...
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Gold Bulls Unfazed By Recent Correction

April 8, 2008  ·  Category: Gold
I strongly suggest buying gold during this recent pullback if you haven't already done so. - Graham Summers, "Gold: The Last Cheap Asset Class", Seeking Alpha, April 8 Gold is still in a long term bull market and ...
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Another Good Day To Sell Stocks And Buy Gold

April 1, 2008  ·  Category: Market Commentary, Gold
A couple weeks ago I suggested it was a good day to sell stocks and buy gold ("An Opportunity To Sell Stocks And Buy Gold", Wednesday March 19).  Today strikes me as another good day ...
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Newsletters Bearish On Gold

March 26, 2008  ·  Category: Sentiment Analysis, Gold
In a piece today, "Golden Correction", Mark Hulbert writes that sentiment among the gold newsletters that he follows is very bearish.  The recommended exposure as of the end of yesterday was 11.5% - down 54% ...
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Irwin Kellner: Money Supply Growth “Jaw Dropping”

March 25, 2008  ·  Category: Federal Reserve, Gold, Inflation
The money supply's rate of growth is nothing short of jaw dropping. - Irwin Kellner, "Follow the money", Marketwatch, Tuesday March 25 According to economist Irwin Kellner in an article on Marketwatch today, M2 money supply grew ...
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An Opportunity To Sell Stocks And Buy Gold

March 19, 2008  ·  Category: Market Commentary, Gold
At my recent talks on "How To Invest In The Coming Bear Market" at the Borders Bookstore in Roseville, CA, I've been advising people to reduce their exposure to stocks and to buy gold. The last ...
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I Told You - Gold Closes Above $1000 For 1st Time Ever

March 14, 2008  ·  Category: Gold
For years I've been telling everybody that gold was going to $1000.  I've been saying it since gold was in the $400s.  Well, today, it finally happened: Gold closed above $1000 an ounce.  To everybody who ...
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$1000 Gold? 100 Yen Per $? - This Is A Dollar Crisis

March 13, 2008  ·  Category: Market Commentary, Federal Reserve, Gold, Currencies
Gold briefly touched $1000 an ounce this morning - an all time high (Gold 5 Year Chart). The Yen/$ briefly dipped below 100 this morning - just below very long term support at lows from early ...
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Inflation And The Erosion Of Purchasing Power

February 27, 2008  ·  Category: Retirement Investing, Economics, Federal Reserve, Gold, Inflation
Inflation is poised to become a serious threat to the world's economic well being - and not enough people are talking about it. While Wall Street whines and whines about how the Fed is behind the ...
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Barron’s Economics Columnist Pens Two Excellent Columns On The Gold Standard

February 25, 2008  ·  Category: Economics, Gold
The last two weeks, Barron's economics columnist Gene Epstein has written an excellent two part case for gold: "Greenspan Was Right: The Case for Gold, Part I" (subscription required) "Restoring Balance: The Case for Gold, Part II" (subscription ...
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