Now is the time to buy gold and silver. One way you can tell this is all of the “We Buy Gold” signs in store windows throughout America. Gold and silver dealers don’t need to “push” their products – there is more than enough demand for them. In fact, one way we’ll know the precious [...]
In investment terms, the presidential cycle refers to the fact that stocks have historically performed better in years 3 and 4 of a president’s term than they have in years 1 and 2. Historically speaking, this is fact, even if some analysts want to call it nonsense. Looking back to 1948, Investopedia finds that stocks [...]
The month of November opened on a down note for gold, silver, and stocks, as renewed fears from Europe sent commodities and paper securities crashing, while the dollar firmed against the euro. Gold closed a dollar under $1700 on Tuesday, November 1, down 1.3% from its Halloween day close. Silver suffered more severely, closing at [...]
Steve Jobs did more for humanity than any politician, mystic, activist, or charity worker who ever lived. He was motivated, by profit, to create; and thanks to his creations, the world became a better place. Jobs founded Apple with his good friend and fellow Phone Phreaker Steve Wozniak in 1976. Jobs was 21 and Wozniak [...]
Exchange-traded funds are a hybrid between mutual funds and individual stocks. They are like mutual funds in that they are funds that hold an entire portfolio of assets. They are like individual stocks in that they trade on stock exchanges, unlike mutual funds, which makes them easy to buy and sell. The basic idea behind [...]
Silver dipped below $30 today for the first time since January 16. What’s causing silver to decline in price? Forbes columnist Panos Mourdoukoutas says we’re framing the question wrong. He says the reasons that people were bullish on silver in the first place have been proven false, and that the metal is about to experience [...]
April was another tough month for silver, as it underperformed most other asset classes for the month. Gold was also down for the month, as were the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted gains of just 0.1% in April, and it was actually the dollar that was strongest, gaining 0.76% [...]
Newmont Mining Corporation is the second largest producer of gold in the world. As of December 31, 2011, Newmont had 99 million ounces of gold in its reserves. At current prices, this is more than $164 billion worth of the precious metal. Last year, Newmont produced 5.9 million ounces of gold and 352 million pounds [...]
Newmont Mining Corporation is the second largest producer of gold in the world. As of December 31, 2011, Newmont had 99 million ounces of gold in its reserves. At current prices, this is more than $164 billion worth of the precious metal. Last year, Newmont produced 5.9 million ounces of gold and 352 million pounds [...]
Gold stocks are a great place to put that portion of your money that can’t, for whatever reason, be devoted to physical bullion. In this article, we examine and rank the top 15 gold stocks trading on major indices in the U.S. Our rankings are based almost entirely on financial and share data, and we [...]
Tax Day falls on April 17 this year. To most Americans, this is just another day – they have their taxes automatically withheld from their paychecks, and by now, they’ve probably already received the refunds they earned by intentionally overpaying their taxes and giving the federal government an interest-free loan. For the financially undisciplined and [...]
Christmas is just four days away, and New Year’s is just around the corner. If you still have shopping to do, you’ve been naughty – but Silver Monthly has gift ideas. If you’re all done and therefore on Santa’s nice list, treat yourself: Here are twelve books you should read in 2012 — Twelve in [...]
With the recent financial meltdown and continuing economic uncertainty, investing in precious metals such as gold, silver, and platinum may become a more attractive alternative. In fact, J. D. Seagraves, editor of the blog Silver Monthly and author of REAL WEALTH: The Simple Guide to Silver Investing, says “There are numerous bullish signs for silver…the historical silver-to-gold ratio is [...]
Real Wealth: The Simple Guide to Silver Investing By J. D. Seagraves Silver Monthly Publications 2010 130 pages. $24.99 On the subject of money, in his Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler wrote, “Thinking in money has subjects and objects: those who by force of their personality generate and guide money, and those who are maintained by [...]
Republican congresswoman Michelle Bachmann recently claimed dual Swiss citizenship, making her a dual citizen of Switzerland and the United States. This might sound like a strange move from a flag-waving, nationalistic, power-seeking pol, but Bachmann’s husband of thirty-four years was born in Switzerland, and she has thus been eligible for dual citizenship since 1978. But [...]
When Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008, he promised to deliver “change we could believe in.” And yet, once in office, the supposedly far-left Obama reappointed George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and the Bush-appointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke. I guess Obama’s “change” did not extend to the [...]
Many (if not most) gold and silver investors consider themselves to be patriots. This, in the minds of some, creates a dilemma: If gold and silver increase in value in response to the U.S. government’s failures, isn’t it unpatriotic to tie one’s financial interests to precious metals? After all, doesn’t a patriot put the interests [...]
Selling gold and silver bullion is broken. And its been broken for a while. It’s complicated. It’s expensive. Most people don’t know where to begin. If you use eBay: you get charged for listing, you get charged for promoting the listing, you get charged a percentage of the final sale price, and you get [...]
A study by Ibbotson Associates, commissioned by Bullion Management Services Inc., confirms that holding a percentage of an investment portfolio in precious metals increases portfolio returns over time. It’s portfolio diversification that makes the prudent investors beat the average investor. For some gold stocks will be the avenue for diversification, while many other investors will [...]
Trying to find a reputable dealer can be a bit confusing for the novice investor, wish to purchase Silver Eagle Monster Boxes. After all, there are crooks in every business – the precious metal sector being no exception. However, the following tips will help you to select a quality, online silver bullion dealer.
Seeds of Destruction The Federal Reserve System was established in 1913 for the express purpose of inflating the money supply. As a result, the dollar has lost more than 95% of its value since the birth of the Fed. This is according to the government’s own Bureau of Labor Statistics, which says that $100 has [...]
Alternatives to Gold There is no perfect substitute for holding real, physical gold bullion. However, for some investors, Krugerrands and gold bars just aren’t viable options. After all, a single ounce of gold is now worth over $1,500, and buying in increments of less than one ounce can be costly, as the cost of producing [...]
Inflation in Pop Culture In 1976, The Bad News Bears was released. The film tells the story of a motley crew of youngsters who are allowed into an elite little league after a liberal city councilman sues on their behalf. The film stars Tatum O’Neal, then twelve years old, who was making her first on-screen [...]
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