Even Ben Bernanke understands value of gold as a means to protect one’s wealth.

It’s as if everyone is holding their breath. This is the week we’ll find out whether or not there will be a default on the U.S. dollar. Chances are, there won’t. It most likely that some kind of compromise will be made. The debt ceiling will rise. There will be some cuts in spending. Maybe …

Who is buying gold? India’s gold and silver imports leap by 500%.

A while ago I wrote about how the Chinese people were buying more and more gold coins and gold bars. Here is an excerpt from that post: “The total amount of household savings invested in gold has grown from about $200 billion in the late 1990s to $1.2 trillion in 2010. Jewelry demand alone has …

Gold: Why are experts so bad at predicting gold prices?

Turn to any business news channel on TV, or read one of hundreds of websites online, and you’ll find very well qualified experts making predictions about where gold prices are going over the next few days, weeks or months.   But the funny thing is, when the next few days, weeks or months arrive, these …

The next big financial crash may happen for the same reasons that airplanes crash. (And if it does, you’ll be thankful you own gold.)

  Can you really compare a global financial crash with an airplane crash? I think you can.   Modern commercial aircraft are high-tech flying machines, flown most of the time by their onboard computer systems. But sometimes, as was the case with the Air France flight off the coast of Brazil, these planes crash. In …

If you own gold as a hedge, stop worrying about gold prices.

Before you buy more gold you need to make up your mind about something. Are you buying gold coins and bars as a hedge against future events? Or are you buying gold as an investment?   If you are buying and taking physical possession of gold as a hedge against some future downturn in the …