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Investor Insight: Peter Schiff On The Gold Pullback

Peter Schiff | 7 October 2011
It's important to understand the fundamental reasons for owning gold, and those reasons have not changed.

Gold is the True Reserve Currency

Michael Pento | 4 August 2011
Adding fuel to the gold fire is the recent debt deal reached in Washington. The disgusting agreement virtually assures that over the next decade the U.S. will add an additional $8 trillion in public debt, an increase of nearly 80% in ten years! The back-end-loaded deal will cause the amount of deficit reduction to be just $21 billion in 2012 and $42 billion in 2013.

Gold and Silver Beyond The Limit

Peter Schiff | 29 July 2011
While I have little doubt that the ceiling will be raised, my readers have been curious as to the implications for gold in each of the debt and "default" scenarios possible after August 2nd. This month, I'll outline how each outcome could affect the price of gold and silver.

Gold is Money: Morgan Opens Gold Window

John Browne | 28 February 2011
Morgan is telling the world that gold is gaining greater traction as a medium of exchange.

The Confiscation Con

Peter Schiff | 7 December 2010
If the situation really gets this bad, you aren't going to trust some government agent with the intelligence of your average TSA officer to judge whether your coins are "numismatic" enough to be exempt from confiscation.

More Stimulus Means Fewer Jobs

Peter Schiff | 6 December 2010
Politicians cannot create economic growth at will simply by doling out money.

Gold's Allure Tied to Interest Rates

Michael Pento | 17 November 2010
The truth is the main drivers for the price of gold are the level and direction of real interest rates and the intrinsic value of the dollar.

Gold and a Free Market: The Solutions to Our Financial Crisis

Brian Simpson | 31 October 2008
Ayn Rand observed decades ago that "one of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary."

In Defense of the "Barbarous Relic": Why The Enemies of Capitalism Smear The Gold Standard

Ludwig Von Mises | 16 October 2008
The gold standard did not fail. The governments were eager to destroy it, because they were committed to the fallacies that credit expansion is an appropriate means of lowering the rate of interest and of "improving" the balance of trade. What the expansionists call the defects of the gold standard are indeed its very eminence and usefulness. It checks large-scale inflationary ventures on the part of governments.

Greenspan Returns to "Barbarous Relic" Gold

Don Luskin | 5 February 2003
The last time that gold was above $370 was December 6, 1996. Students of military history won't find that date significant, but Fed-watchers will. That was the day following Alan Greenspan's speech in which he first warned of "irrational exuberance" in the stock market. And it was the day that Alan Greenspan took America off the gold standard.
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