Jim Rickards Explains About Gold What Ben Bernanke Cannot Jim Rickards, author of the best selling book Currency Wars, explains why owning an ETF like GLD is NOT THE SAME AS OWNING GOLD. Maybe Ben Bernanke doesn’t understand Gold or how it’s priced (and manipulated) which is what he told Congress the other day as […]
Can You Spend Your Paper Gold?
When she was young(er) my youngest daughter would look at a gold coin she had been given by her grandpa and ask “When do I get to spend it?” When I told her that it was to be stored away, she asked “What good is it if I never get to spend it?” Sometimes I […]
4 Facts Every GLD Investor Must Know
This is a guest post from Hard Assets Alliance. I have long known that GLD was at best a trading vehicle and at worst consorting with the enemy. We personally prefer SGOL for a trading vehicle since we think the gold probably is present whereas with GLD we pretty much doubt it. HAA is a […]