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		<title>by: ed kahle</title>
		<link>http://www.investorgeeks.com/articles/2006/07/17/basics-of-precious-and-base-metals-investing/#comment-296272</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>I just posted this coment to another web site.

I'm an entrepreneur/business owner of numerous businesses for over twenty years myself (third generation in my family) and have always invested and secured my wealth in traditional means such as stocks, mutual funds, real estate and most importantly, reinvesting in my businesses and maintaining cash flow. After the last eight years of this and slowly watching everything stay stagnant if not loosing value I got fed up and very concerned and sold off my entire stock portfolio on 3/14. I've concluded that I want to invest into precious metals with these funds and I'm really a green horn in this area. 

I've been heavily studying our economic and political situation over the last eight months to try to figure out what's going on and what to do. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but our political situation seems to be the sole directive to investing as opposed to market conditions and stability of companies to invest in. I've discovered that Venezuela, Iran and Iraq are the three large oil producing nations that are not part of OPEC and ironically the same three nations that our government has problems with! In 1971 president Nixon repealed the ban on gold that Roosevelt placed in 1933 and convinced the world to remove all gold backing from their currencies, thus creating a limitless supply of cash and the hidden tax of inflation and the license for governments to grow by leaps and bounds. I've seen Lindsay Williams video on you-tube about Gull Island in Alaska (I will be reading his book soon). He says that Kissinger cut a deal with the OPEC nations to set the barrel price with the stipulation of them buying back our deficit through American dollars. The world bank and the IMF are the middle man here before the product reaches the refinery's and retail markets. This whole scenario uses the cost of a limitless supply of oil that we as consumers pay to be a tax to pay for our deficit through the bankers who hold our national debt. The limitless supply of oil is the backing of our limitless supply of fiat money. It seems to make logical sense as our unimaginable deficit could never be paid down with our income taxes as it now sits. If our taxes are to pay for the deficit, than logically, we should be paying ten times or more taxes! He also says that Iran has threatened to flood the markets with cheap oil. This would cause oil prices to go down which in turn would do three things, cause products to be cheaper, the dollar to gain value and gold to come down. This would be threatening to our government and the world bank, probably causing us to go to war with Iran to stop them from flooding the market with cheap oil. If we go to war with Iran, than I would assume that oil and gold would also go back up and the dollar down. If we do get into a war with Iran, it more than likely would cause our dollar to crash especially considering our current economic conditions both nationally and world wide and gold to run vertically up. If our dollar crashes, our government could reinstate the ban on gold to use it to back our currency and cause it to be worthless. Likewise, the central banks of the world could flood the markets at any time with gold and bring the price down. After all, they have a big stake in this with our deficit! It's possible they could do this soon to get the stock market back up and get confidence in the dollar that they need to pay for oil. Does any of this make sense or am I crazy? Check out Lindsay Williams on the web and see his video. Let me know if what he says is true or could very possibly be true. In the meantime, I'll be reading everything you have on your site and studying metals before I invest very soon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just posted this coment to another web site.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m an entrepreneur/business owner of numerous businesses for over twenty years myself (third generation in my family) and have always invested and secured my wealth in traditional means such as stocks, mutual funds, real estate and most importantly, reinvesting in my businesses and maintaining cash flow. After the last eight years of this and slowly watching everything stay stagnant if not loosing value I got fed up and very concerned and sold off my entire stock portfolio on 3/14. I&#8217;ve concluded that I want to invest into precious metals with these funds and I&#8217;m really a green horn in this area. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been heavily studying our economic and political situation over the last eight months to try to figure out what&#8217;s going on and what to do. Please correct me if I&#8217;m wrong, but our political situation seems to be the sole directive to investing as opposed to market conditions and stability of companies to invest in. I&#8217;ve discovered that Venezuela, Iran and Iraq are the three large oil producing nations that are not part of OPEC and ironically the same three nations that our government has problems with! In 1971 president Nixon repealed the ban on gold that Roosevelt placed in 1933 and convinced the world to remove all gold backing from their currencies, thus creating a limitless supply of cash and the hidden tax of inflation and the license for governments to grow by leaps and bounds. I&#8217;ve seen Lindsay Williams video on you-tube about Gull Island in Alaska (I will be reading his book soon). He says that Kissinger cut a deal with the OPEC nations to set the barrel price with the stipulation of them buying back our deficit through American dollars. The world bank and the IMF are the middle man here before the product reaches the refinery&#8217;s and retail markets. This whole scenario uses the cost of a limitless supply of oil that we as consumers pay to be a tax to pay for our deficit through the bankers who hold our national debt. The limitless supply of oil is the backing of our limitless supply of fiat money. It seems to make logical sense as our unimaginable deficit could never be paid down with our income taxes as it now sits. If our taxes are to pay for the deficit, than logically, we should be paying ten times or more taxes! He also says that Iran has threatened to flood the markets with cheap oil. This would cause oil prices to go down which in turn would do three things, cause products to be cheaper, the dollar to gain value and gold to come down. This would be threatening to our government and the world bank, probably causing us to go to war with Iran to stop them from flooding the market with cheap oil. If we go to war with Iran, than I would assume that oil and gold would also go back up and the dollar down. If we do get into a war with Iran, it more than likely would cause our dollar to crash especially considering our current economic conditions both nationally and world wide and gold to run vertically up. If our dollar crashes, our government could reinstate the ban on gold to use it to back our currency and cause it to be worthless. Likewise, the central banks of the world could flood the markets at any time with gold and bring the price down. After all, they have a big stake in this with our deficit! It&#8217;s possible they could do this soon to get the stock market back up and get confidence in the dollar that they need to pay for oil. Does any of this make sense or am I crazy? Check out Lindsay Williams on the web and see his video. Let me know if what he says is true or could very possibly be true. In the meantime, I&#8217;ll be reading everything you have on your site and studying metals before I invest very soon.
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>[...] A riskier hedge against bonds is to invest in gold &#38; silver and natural resources. In any case, I would suggest that instead of investing your money in bonds which generate a fixed income, you should probably invest into a dividend-paying stock, preferably one who ties its dividends to the price of natural resources. Yes, it may be more volitile, but in the long term your dividends can keep pace with inflation and the price of the natural resources. Here is a list of high yield dividend stocks, yield from 6%+ to almost 20%, mostly tying their dividends to price of gas/oil, or its related business. [...]</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>by: Mark E Hoffer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>As well, I think this is one of the better intro articles on the topic.
Also, you may want to couple this with an inflation-adjusted chart of the DJIA.  And, a chart of the decline in purchasing of the "dollar" since the inception of the FedRes(1913) (today's U$D is roughly = to a nickel in 1913). 

The poster, above, that gave rise to this being the "season" of commodities, is spot on.  There are cycles in investable assets, much like the four seasons of the year(in temperate climes).  The "season" for "Paper"/ financial assets has passed. We are in in the "season" of "Things"/ Commodities.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As well, I think this is one of the better intro articles on the topic.<br />
Also, you may want to couple this with an inflation-adjusted chart of the DJIA.  And, a chart of the decline in purchasing of the &#8220;dollar&#8221; since the inception of the FedRes(1913) (today&#8217;s U$D is roughly = to a nickel in 1913). </p>
<p>The poster, above, that gave rise to this being the &#8220;season&#8221; of commodities, is spot on.  There are cycles in investable assets, much like the four seasons of the year(in temperate climes).  The &#8220;season&#8221; for &#8220;Paper&#8221;/ financial assets has passed. We are in in the &#8220;season&#8221; of &#8220;Things&#8221;/ Commodities.
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		<title>by: Nathan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>I am a macro-economic investor.  By that, I mean I tend to focus on sectors and macro trends more than individual companies.  As far as I can tell, at least for the next several years, commodity is the place to be.  Therefore, I'm putting my money into this sector.  Bullion is one of the less volatile choices that you can consider.

As far as the age is concerned, one should normally diversify the portfolio for a balance of risk.  It only depends on how much risk one is willing to take, and how much conviction one has.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a macro-economic investor.  By that, I mean I tend to focus on sectors and macro trends more than individual companies.  As far as I can tell, at least for the next several years, commodity is the place to be.  Therefore, I&#8217;m putting my money into this sector.  Bullion is one of the less volatile choices that you can consider.</p>
<p>As far as the age is concerned, one should normally diversify the portfolio for a balance of risk.  It only depends on how much risk one is willing to take, and how much conviction one has.
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