As gold prices rise, watch out for fake gold bars with tungsten cores, and other scams.

  As the price of gold begins to inch its way up, a whole new flood of buyers start looking for gold. (Weird thing…few people buy gold when the price is going down or stagnant. They prefer to buy when the price is higher!) Anyway, as these occasional or “amateur” buyers start looking for dealers, …

Why geopolitical change is a strong buying signal for gold.

If you just glance at the headlines, the world seems much as it was last year and the year before. A few wars, some trade disputes, ups and downs in the economies of various countries. Same old same old. But if you look a little closer, you’ll see the first cracks appearing in what will …

During times of global uncertainty, buy more gold.

When should you be buying more gold? Some people make this decision very complicated, listening to analysts on a daily basis, scrutinizing technical charts, and so on. That’s not how I make my own buying decisions. First off, I’m not a trader or speculator in gold. I’m an owner of gold. I buy physical gold …

Why physical gold is probably worth a lot more than you think.

It would be reasonable to think that the price of gold is determined solely by the supply and demand of the physical product – gold bullion. But that is not the case. Most of the “gold” traded each day is paper gold, not physical gold. This paper gold is traded in the form of ETFs, …

Owning gold – a small downside with a huge upside.

When you invest money there is usually a reasonable upside and a huge downside. Just ask anyone who invested their savings in Enron or with Bernie Madoff. Yes, those are extreme examples. But there are thousands of other cases where honest people invested their savings in the hope of a reasonable growth in their savings, …

Why you should buy physical gold, not paper gold.

The quick answer to why you should own physical gold is that you can’t trust the banks or your government. Eric Sprout, the billionaire precious metals trader, recently conducted an audit of how much gold the U.S. government has been buying and selling over the last few decades. Here is his conclusion: “We used this …