Gold Archive
David Dreman Calls For 1977-1981 Like Inflation 2-4 Years Down The Road
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20 of 22 US Hedge Fund Managers Say They Bought Physical Gold For Personal Accounts
"Gold lures inflation wary hedge fund chiefs", Reuters, July 30 (via Kirk)
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WSJ: More Investors Buying Physical Gold
July 9, 2009 · Category: Gold
Worried about a harrowing, inflation-ridden future, Scott Van Steyn has found the answer in a batch of glittering one-ounce gold coins. In fact, they make up a large chunk of the physician’s assets.
“There’s 2,000 years ...
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Life Insurer Northwestern Mutual Buys $400 Million In Gold - 1st Time In 152 Years
June 3, 2009 · Category: Gold
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., the third-largest U.S. life insurer by 2008 sales, has bought gold for the first time the company’s 152-year history to hedge against further asset declines.
“Gold just seems to make sense; ...
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NYT: China Grows More Picky About Debt
China bought less than a sixth of the Treasuries issued in the 12 months through March. Less than two years ago, by contrast, Chinese purchases of Treasuries, which included purchases in the secondary market as ...
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The End Of Personal Finance: Decades Of Advice Turn Out To Be So Much Garbage
May 5, 2009 · Category: Gold, The Investment Advice Business
Years ago, when I wrote a popular financial makeover feature for a major national newspaper, one of our subjects asked if he should be plowing his more than $50,000 in savings into gold. It was ...
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Dollar Selloff Is Risk To Stock Market
March 19, 2009 · Category: Commodities, Currencies, Federal Reserve, Gold, Inflation, Market Commentary
The dollar continues to tank and commodities continue to rally in the wake of yesteday's Fed announcement:
The euro is up another 2 cents versus the dollar to $1.37 - after rallying 4 cents yesterday after ...
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Gold Breaks Out To 7 Month High
February 11, 2009 · Category: Gold
Gold powered through $940 today - its highest levels since July '08.
I also noticed that the Gold ETF (GLD) has traded more than 50 million shares today - it's biggest volume day since Sept 17 ...
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Uncle Ben Vs. Grandpa Ben
The catalyst for today's rally is the rumor that the Obama Administration is in the process of putting together a bad bank proposal to buy up bad assets from financial institutions. The financials are crushing ...
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Bill Gross: CPI Understates Real 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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