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Why owners of physical gold think like insurance agents.

If you are a gold trader, you’ll be watching the Comex gold futures contract numbers, and you’ll start fidgeting and worrying every time gold prices go up or down by a dollar or two. If you buy gold mutual funds or ETFs, you won’t be as fidgety as the trader, but you’ll still be watching …

Owning gold makes us less vulnerable to centralized dependency.

John Aziz of azizonomics.com recently wrote a post about how the centralization of the global economy puts us all at risk. Here is a quote from his post: “Centralisation concentrates decision-making. Centralisation acts as a transmission mechanism to transmit and amplify the effects of centralised decisions throughout a system. This means that when bad decisions …

What the price of gold is telling us: Protect your wealth!

Over the last several months gold prices have been rising steeply, albeit with the occasional correction along the way.   Some experts are now looking at gold as being in a bubble, ready to burst, followed by a dramatic fall in price. In the words of an analyst at Wells Fargo: “We have seen the …

The Queen’s stockbroker predicts gold at $12,000 an ounce. I hope he’s wrong.

Cazenove is a British stockbroker and investment bank, founded in 1823 by Philip Cazenove. Although the firm won’t confirm or deny its relations to the Royal Family, it is said by many that the company handles investments and wealth management for Queen Elizabeth II.   What has this got to do with gold? Well, Robin …

When you’re not sure who or what to believe, you can always believe in gold.

Here is a great quote, attributed to George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. “You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the honesty and intelligence of the members of government. And with all due respect to those gentlemen, I advise you, as long …