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Gold Is Safer than Treasuries as an Inflation Hedge

January 14, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Paco Ahlgren submits: “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Any time an asset increases in dollar terms, you have to ask yourself two questions: 1. Is the asset rising alone, relative to the rest of [...]

US Dollar in Need of a Tourniquet

October 9, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

The Daily Reckoning OK, front and center this morning, gold has soared to another all-time high! When I turned on the screen this morning, gold was flashing a great big $1,055 figure… WOW! But wait! Gold – and silver for that matter – aren’t the only risk assets moving higher… All 16 of the countries [...]

Capital Gold Group Report: GOLD RISES TO RECORD AS INFLATION OUTLOOK FUELS INVESTOR DEMAND

October 7, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) — Gold rose to a record on speculation that inflation will accelerate and erode the value of the dollar, boosting the appeal of the precious metal for investors seeking to preserve their wealth. Gold futures climbed as high as $1,038 an ounce in New York, topping the previous record of $1,033.90 in [...]

Why Gold, If Deflation Is the Threat?

October 2, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

Rolfe Winkler, CFA submits: Alice Schroeder wrote a great column for Bloomberg yesterday that I’m just getting to. The best stuff comes at the end, where she describes why some people are buying gold even though inflation doesn’t seem to be a big risk. (Apologies in advance for block-quoting lots of stuff in this post, [...]

Gold vs. Oil as an Inflation Hedge

August 20, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

Bullion Vault The relentless march of inflation against crude oil and Gold Prices GOLD IS CONSTANTLY advertised as an inflation hedge, writes Brad Zigler at Hard Assets Investor. So many people think that Buying Gold provides constant insulation from the ravages of rising consumer prices. Year-by-year through 2008, however, it turns out that crude oil [...]

Gold or Oil: What’s a Better Inflation Hedge?

August 20, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler A reader recently wrote in with kudos for our April article on the gold/oil ratio ("How Much Oil Can Gold Buy?"). The ratio, if you’re not familiar with it, measures gold’s purchasing power in barrels of crude. That got me thinking about what else gold can buy. Gold [...]

Gold extends losses, sinks towards $940

August 17, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

Gold slipped towards $940 on Monday to extend losses from late last week when lacklustre US consumer confidence data clouded the economic outlook, causing oil to fall and dulling the metal’s appeal as an inflation hedge. The precious metal is now nearing the month’s trough of $939,40 marked last week, while its fate remains closely [...]

Gold as an Inflation Hedge

June 6, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

Living4Dividends submits: Investing in Gold is the latest rage. The Gold craze has only been fanned by recent moves into Gold by the hedge-fund legends David Einhorn, John Paulson and others. Gold as a Diversifying Asset Class. Historically, Gold has had zero correlation to the stock market. No one has shown a ironclad inverse correlation between the price of [...]