8 Reasons Why Silver Is the Investment of the Decade!

Posted on May 4, 2011 by gsfactor

8 reasons for why silver may be the best investment of the decade:

1.Demand is not only up, but still rising.
The US Mint in the months of January and February sold as many dollars of silver as they sold dollars of gold. The Chinese used to export 100 million ounces of silver – they now import 112 million ounces – and that’s in a market that’s a total of 800 million ounces, or a 20% shift in just Chinese demand.

2.Supply and Delivery Challenges for Physical Bullion.
In a market that trades roughly 400 million (paper) ounces a day, when Sprott Asset Management was preparing to open their physical silver trust they had difficulty acquiring just 15 million ounces. Other evidence direct from the US Mint further solidifies this point. The Mint recently advised potential investors that it can longer coin the popular Silver American Eagle saying, “The United States Mint will resume production of American Eagle Silver Uncirculated Coins once sufficient inventories of silver bullion blanks can be acquired to meet market demand for all three American Eagle Silver Coin products.”

3. Technological demand for silver is increasing.
In 2010 industrial production of silver was up 18% due to rising demand from the technology sector. Among other things, silver is increasingly being used in computers, cell phones, and solar panels. Health care, alternative and traditional, is another market segment that will see silver demand increase because of silver’s antibiotic properties. It’s already being used in bandages, clothing, and medical devices.
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Jim Rogers’s Investment Advice

Posted on May 5, 2011 by gsfactor

Investment Advice from Jim Rogers, Warren Buffett and Doug Casey

These investment strategies are derived from the ideas and thoughts of Jim Rogers, Warren Buffett, and Doug Casey among others. This advice has been helpful for me and I hope you too will find it useful applying it on your own portfolio.

The trend is your friend

Look for quality investments in markets where you can identify a positive trend. Then stay in that market until your expectations has been met or until something better comes along. You will notice that it is much easier find a trend and go with the stream rather than fight the current. As in all markets, there will inevitably be corrections along the way so set realistic price target, and sell once you hit those targets.

Be careful with leverage

When someone goes completely broke, it is almost always because he used borrowed money for speculation. Using a margin account puts you at risk because one wrong move or a market correction can completely wipe out your account. You may even be right on the trend, and still be forced to liquidate your position when you get a margin call. If you decide to use leverage, don’t invest money you can’t afford to lose, and decide in advance on how much capital to commit.

Don’t buy every stock

A lot of stocks that look attractive may flash in front of your eyes and you might get an urge to place a bid. But you cannot buy every deal, at least not without selling other positions to make room for new positions. If you buy without selling, you will in no time end up with an unfocused portfolio and be out of touch with most positions. An active investor can keep track of maybe 10 to 15 stocks without losing touch.

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Gold Mutual Funds Performance

Posted on August 8, 2011 by gsfactor

In view of the current situation, while the U.S. dollar is constantly devalued, gold mutual funds may be a better choice.

Investing in gold is often referred to as an investment insurance policy. When things are going bad with let’s say the dollar, gold is most likely to climb in value, protecting you somewhat. Gold funds have been showing great gains for quite some time and with the current problematic world economic circumstances, gold funds aren’t likely to be taking a downward slide any time soon.

Investing in a gold mutual fund is a way to add some flexibility into your investment. Instead of storing the physical product yourself you can simply invest in a fund. A good fund will be able to trade your gold on a daily basis as opposed to if you hold gold yourself you will find the disposal process cumbersome.
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Was Geithner Arrested & Released Last Week?

Posted on March 6, 2012 by gsfactor

Judge Napolitano: Why Was Geithner Arrested Last Week? And Released?

Judge Napolitano testifies of Treasury Secretary and Federal Reserve-insider Timothy Geithner’s arrest in this 4-minute corporate news show. American Kabuki lists the daily-increasing bank resignations. David Wilcock and Benjamin Fulford explain and document history and deceit at the top of US and global finance, leading to current and imminent arrests.

Ok. As we are literally days away from the global financial meltdown just look at what is being broadcast on MAINSTREAM media!
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Go Get Gold Now – Before Currency Collapse

Posted on February 27, 2012 by gsfactor

Protect Against The Currency System’s Final Catastrophe

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of the voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. — Ludwig von Mises

Can we really print ourselves to prosperity? Is this time different? Have we really discovered the secret unlimited potion that makes economies grow? No, no and no.

Over the past 40 years, we have printed money and expanded the credit system to grow our economy. During this period, as we papered over cracks that appeared in the system, we continued to grow the economy in nominal terms. By not resolving underlying issues, economic cracks grew into gaping holes requiring increasing amounts of credit and monetary expansion to maintain a semblance of prosperity.

Crisis after crisis, opportunities to resolve massive imbalances were simply pushed into the future, allowing those imbalances to compound. While many view the 2008 crash as the apex of the credit and monetary cycle, I fear it is not.

Since 2008, economic policy based on credit and monetary expansion has not changed and continues to push an escalating crisis into the future.
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3233.5 Tons Of Gold of PIIGS To Be Confiscated By Insolvent European Banks

Posted on February 26, 2012 by gsfactor

Projected PIIGS Pillage: 3233.5 Tons Of Gold To Be Confiscated By Insolvent European Banks

While hardly discussed broadly in the mainstream media, the top news of the past 24 hours without doubt is that in addition to losing its fiscal sovereignty, and numerous other things, the Greek population is about to lose its gold in a perfectly legitimate fashion, following amendments to the country’s constitution by unelected banker technocrats, who will make it legal for Greek creditors – read insolvent European banks – to plunder the Greek gold which at last check amounts to 111.6 tonnes according to the WGC. And so we come full circle to what the ultimate goal of banker intervention in the European periphery is – nothing short of full gold confiscation.


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The Future of the Euro

Posted on February 26, 2012 by gsfactor

The problems of the eurozone are ultimately malinvestments. In Greece these days the struggle continues about who will ultimately foot the bill for these investments. During the early 2000s an expansionary monetary policy lowered interest rates artificially. Entrepreneurs financed investment projects that only looked profitable due to the low interest rates but were not sustained by real savings. Housing bubbles and consumption booms developed in the periphery.

In 2007 the bubbles began to burst. Housing prices started to stagnate and even to fall. Homeowners and builders started to default on their loans. As banks had financed and invested into these malinvestments, they suffered losses. After the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers interbank lending collapsed and governments intervened. They bailed out banks and, thereby, assumed the losses of the banking system resulting from the malinvestments.

As malinvestments were socialized, public debts soared in the eurozone. Furthermore, tax revenues collapsed due to the crisis. At the same time, governments started to subsidize industrial sectors and unemployment.

Moreover, even before the crisis, governments had accumulated malinvestments due to their excessive welfare spending. Two causes had incentivized social spending in the periphery. The first cause is low interest rates. These low interest rates were caused by an expansionary monetary policy by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the single currency in itself. The euro came with an implicit bailout guarantee. Market participants expected stronger governments to bail out weaker ones in order to save the political project of the euro if worse came to worst. The interest rates that the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Greek governments had to pay came down drastically when these countries were admitted into the euro. The low interest rates gave these countries leeway for deficit spending.
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Jim Rogers: 2012 U.S. Presidential Favorites Clueless on Economy

Posted on February 26, 2012 by gsfactor

Find out what Jim Rogers feels about that. Jim is best for the US economy Romney Santorum. Of those — don’t of the above but Eddie House doesn’t have a clue what’s going on. You know they all have made a mess up it’s so far and others make it worse now none of the above Sosa and his — and doesn’t. That doesn’t he wanted to 31 win and one of the three probably well went up. I would if I were a betting man I would got an Obama would win and he is a sitting president is hard to defeat a sitting president. Anywhere in the world. You know he’s spending lots of money and and printing lots of money. To make sure things the good this year so I would suspect he’s going to win I didn’t think that was good for America I just and I suspect that’s what’s going to happen which candidate will be better for America and — – the only one that understands what’s going on that the ones that are running — you know Ron Paul certainly understands. And a bit.

Nobody none of the others and on the does have a clue there are part of the same the same problem they made the problem. Why would we think that those guys who made the problem can now solve the problem. I you know I know digit — them blind to this this recovery story in the US right now but if we look at the numbers. Via the jobless numbers and we look at that that the housing market these things these these fundamentals are starting to look bad — we’ve got to start somewhere right. Yeah there’s no question about dad there’s going to be a lot of good news coming out there have been reported this year but at any if you look at the employment numbers if you get into them. You say what who is this really trying to — In other jiggling employment numbers again. And they keep telling us how good things out but if you look at other things that you cannot jail that is the amount of electricity being used in America is going down. America’s got a population which is rising. And a recovering we think we’re told the electricity usage is going down energy use is is going down that’s something wrong — all these numbers. You’re you’re you’re — borrowed dollars right you’re — dollars right now. I don’t US dollars yes — what have — woke — feeling like — what would be the catalyst Jim — so you dollars. Thought it goes a hundred — – in — I don’t know if it goes up a lot. You always have to start thinking about. Selling US dollars. But it them at the moment there’s nothing that’s gonna make me sell my US army and I think what I’d like it has to have war. Well that would make the dollar go up for a lot of them being written wrongly but it would make a dollar go up. I cannot think of anything at the moment it would make me so much doubt what treasuries. No I don’t own treasures and I’m not sure treasures I’ve I’m waiting to short I should have been long and should have been all this time. I’m waiting to shore I don’t know what will make me fell short by a — tonight and that’s kids if — leave. If we’re gonna get so much more similar isn’t gonna get QE3 want a — the treasury story. Right they have QE3 — let me get out the Federal Reserve is valid she’d used state. That they’d been pumping up you can see on adjusted M two is going through the roof look at their — – you’ll see that they bought also it’s. Also lots of assets are suddenly appearing on their balance — Where did they come from income from the Tooth Fairy they came because there and they’re buying. Buying in the market as fast as they — there is QE3 already they don’t call it bad but it there. And why but that’s not good for the dollar down the road but at the moment there are many reasons don’t that are.

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Argentine: Greece Default Now!

Posted on February 26, 2012 by gsfactor

That’s exactly what happened in Argentina in 2001 and 2002. Argentine advice for Greece: ‘Default Now!’

Here in Argentina, when we watch the terrible things that are happening today in Greece, we can only exclaim, “Hey!! That’s exactly what happened in Argentina in 2001 and 2002…!”

A decade ago, Argentina too went through a systemic Sovereign Public Debt collapse resulting in social turmoil, worker hardship, rioting and street fights with the police.

Some months before Argentina exploded, then-President Fernando de la Rúa – forced to resign at the height of the 2001 crisis – had called back as finance minister the notorious pro-banker, Trilateral Commission member and Rockefeller/Soros/Rhodes protégée Domingo Cavallo.

Cavallo was the gruesome architect of Argentina’s political and economic capitulation to the US and UK when he was President Carlos Menem’s foreign minister and economy minister in the ’90s.


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Silver is a golden Opportunity, Now!

Posted on January 10, 2012 by gsfactor

Silver, platinum and gold all rise as the dollar weakens. Watch key technical levels, says Reuters metals correspondent Jan Harvey

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Bankers want Inflation?

Posted on December 15, 2011 by gsfactor

Peter Schiff: “All the Speculators, all the Bankers…all the Financiers want Inflation”

The European Union’s summit solution or no solution? Friday, markets were excited for a day, but now is it just back to reality? Moody’s reiterates that its ratings for the eurozone are still negative, with a downgrade still in the card for a number of sovereigns, including, you guessed it, France. Sarkozy says the loss of a triple A (AAA) would not be “insurmountable,” and that If the rating companies did “pull it, we’ll face the situation coolly and calmly.” Really? Maybe for Napoleon this is true, but in Latvia, depositors are already lining up to take their money out of banks, which proves that “cool and calm” is not always something that can be achieved simply by words alone. And this should concern France and the rest of the Eurozone, in light of reports like this latest one by the OECD, which warns that industrialized governments should expect to struggle with borrowing more than 10 trillion dollars this year as they remain at the mercy of the market’s “animal spirits.” And speaking of bank runs, it’s the anniversary of one that started in the US in 1930, credited with bringing down the banking system. So what could stop that from happening today? While people talk about jobs, the deficit, the president…is this the silent threat that could bring down the economy? Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital joins us to discuss all these issues. He is host of the Peter Schiff show, as well as author of many books including “Crash Proof,” and “The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets.”

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Bullish on Gold

Posted on December 15, 2011 by gsfactor

We’re live at the nasdaq market site in times square. our next guest says not to get out of your positions in bullion just yet. let’s bring in james west, portfolio adviser at the midas letter. did we really think he would say sell gold? james, always good to see you. i want to first ask specifically about this notion of a seasonal trade for gold. we had very bad economic data out of india, and that seemed to contribute to the sell-off we saw in gold today. do you think that that’s demand that’s seasonal demand from asia still materializes this year? no, i don’t really feel that’s a strong factor in the fluctuations in the gold. you have combined u.s. dollar backed interests that are active the relationship of gold to copper, that breakdown really of copper tells me more that we’re heading towards recession, but do you try to put gold against some of its fundamental peers, the reasons why we buy golds are obviously the many that include world falling apart and inflation but there’s other things as well. sure, i absolutely do compare it to its historic equivalence but not copper because i find that too short term a view. i compare it to 5,000 years of recorded history and the fact that every printed currency ever created by man when measured against the monetary standard that gold has always been fails miserably and usually within 100 years. certainly we’re seeing that in this century and we’ll see it in the next. james, it’s guy. how are you? so central banks have been the buyer of last resort. is there any chance that any of these central banks that have balance sheet problems will have to monetize their gold in terms of making sales or is that just no way that’s going to happen? no, absolutely you can see that happen. you saw the imf sold 400 tons to india to, you know, to beef up its cash balance sheet, and that’s something that, you know, who cares if they have to monetize some of their gold. there’s always going to be a buyer for it, and that’s really proof of the fact that — james, but — and i agree with you and i hate to jump on it, but you know if the market caught wind of central bank sales that didn’t have another central bank on the other side, they would do serious damage to the price of gold. i’m in your camp, by the way, i think it’s going higher, but is there the chance the central bank sells and there’s no central bank to take the other side is my question? if there’s no central bank to take the other side because they don’t have enough currency or their currency isn’t worth enough to actually take the other side of the transaction, then absolutely. but is there going to be another investor out there to take the other side of a physical trade in gold? i think you’re going to have no problem finding that. the problem is finding takers for currencies like usd and especially now the euro. these things are in the process of complete crisis breakdown, and so even though we’re seeing short-term weakness in gold largely predicated by u.s. dollar interests, in the long term you’re going to see gold doing what it’s been doing for ten years. going up 21% a year, it’s going to continue to do that every time a nation announces it’s only way out of its debt is to print more money, you will get a higher gold price and it’s just a matter of time before we pop $2,500 gold. james west of the midas portfolio. anthony, what’s your take on what’s going on with gold? is it because the ecb didn’t step in there is a notion they will not be printing money and gold doesn’t continue higher? i think he’s going to be right in the long term, gold will trade higher but in the short term there’s huge deflationary fears across the central banks. also, the hedge funds are unloading gold because of this deflationary fear. so, you know, markets trade intermediate term, daily, and then long term. i think these guys will be right in the long term but for right now there will be downward pressure on gold because of this specter of deflation. and for the viewers of our show, they don’t have a gold mine that they can fall back on a very bullish opinion with and if central banks and guy is right are selling, there is a problem coming. gold has not broken below the 200 day moving average since the beginning of 2009. since all this credit crisis stuff happened. it’s potentially within $50 of 200 days at $1,610 we are trading $1,664.

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