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Fed’s Announcement and Precious Metals

As expected, today the Fed announced it will expand its balance sheet by continuing to purchase long-term Treasuries after Operation Twist expires. The Fed remains committed to buying government debt and keeping interest rates near zero until unemployment drops to 6.5%, which it admits probably won’t happen until 2015. Surprise, surprise, gold prices rose on […]

Ditching before the Fiscal Cliff

By Peter Schiff Turn on the TV and this is what you’ll hear: The US budget is heading for a fiscal cliff. If a deal isn’t reaching in Congress by the end of this year, a combination of automatic tax hikes and budget cuts will sink America into economic depression. There is no escape. Of […]

The Long-Term Bull Market In Gold

Metals Analyst Kira Brecht published an incisive commentary on Kitco yesterday on the long-term gold trend, examining the relationship between gold and the quantitative easing of central banks: “But, what will it take to kill the long-term bull market in gold? Listen up folks and listen good. There is nothing on the near or medium […]

How Do The Chinese View The Gold Market?

By Jeff Clark from Casey Research Have you ever wondered what the typical Chinese gold investor thinks about our Western ideas of gold? We read month-after-month about demand hitting record-after-record in their country – so how do they view our buying habits? Since 2007, China’s demand for gold has risen 27% per year. Its share […]

China Understands the Safety of Gold – Do You?

The media has stirred up a lot of fear about the possibility of actually going over the fiscal cliff in the new year. However, Peter Schiff maintains that the cliff is an essential step in repairing the economy. He also continues to stress how much safer gold is than dollar-denominated assets, especially Treasuries:

This Month in Gold – December 2012

Schiff: Gold Will Pass $2,000/oz ABC News – Gold will go much higher than $2,000 an ounce, says Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals. The reason it hasn’t gotten there yet, argues Schiff, is because most people have yet to fully grasp the true scale of the economic predicament the US faces. However, […]

The Exit Tax

Jon Pawelko publishes the web comic Lampoon The System to poke fun at insane economic policies and educate the public on sound economics. Click here for more cartoons and information on his anthology book, available for only $15. Follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on Peter Schiff’s latest thoughts: @SchiffGold Interested in learning about […]

When Accepting Free Gold Bars Can Cost You Money

Have you heard about the Nigerian prince who would like to send you his fortune for safekeeping if you’ll only give him enough money to execute the transfer? There are a lot of variations of this classic internet scam, and in all of them the victim ends up giving away lots of money only to […]

Peter Schiff Interview: Avoid the Dollar in Obama’s Second Term

In a recent interview with Olly Ludwig on Seeking Alpha, Peter emphasized that the US dollar would go down and gold would go up no matter who won the presidency: Ludwig: As you take in this Obama victory, is there any asset allocation shift you think might be more sensible now than, say, before it was […]

Are 1-Gram Gold Ingots Revolutionary or Over Priced Gold?

One of our readers recently asked about investing in gold through a new company they had come across on the Internet. The company sells 1-gram gold ingots (tiny bullion bars) encased in thin plastic, which are stamped with a serial number and hologram to prevent counterfeiting. They tout their product as a unique development that […]