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Best Gold IRA Accounts | Choose The Right One

Ted Root on May 1, 2013 · 0 comments

The best gold IRA accounts are those started at the right time. Perhaps we’re being a little glib here, but keep in mind that when planning for your retirement, sooner is the right time. Even if this seems a bit obvious, there are those who desire to secure their retirement nest egg with physical gold [...]

Gold IRA Rollover

Even though the stock market continues on a bull run for 2013, there is still plenty of up-side for bringing precious metals investments into your IRA with an eye for great returns in the long run. Consider that fixed-income investments still return anemic results while rising tax policies coming out of Washington keeps the risk [...]

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Low Interest Rates: Good For Government, Bad For Savers

ON THE SURFACE, the Federal Reserve’s objective is to make sure America doesn’t fall into ruins, writes George Leong for Investment Contrarians. Following an aggressive strategy of monetary easing, the end result is interest rates at nearly zero percent and an endless flow of easy money. The Federal Reserve has created an artificial economy.Yet, if [...]

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Gold Coins Investing

Gold Coins Investing  in a self-directed Investment Retirement account has increased in popularity in recent years. Gold has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 over the last 10 years. Gold performance can be viewed here.

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European Inflation Looms On Horizon

Those fearing the spectre of inflationary spirals following government monetary policies just got another confirmation: A Bloomberg News Story regarding Euro inflation forecasts: The European Central Bank will revise up its growth and inflation forecasts next week and keep interest rates unchanged as confidence among entrepreneurs and investors improves, Commerzbank AG predicts. The ECB will lift its [...]

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Gold Trust Financial: Are We In An Another Real Estate Bubble?

From GoldTrustFinancial.com A front page article in the Los Angeles Times states that since 2007, 471 U.S. Banks have failed thereby nearly depleting the FDIC deposit insurance fund with $92.5 billion in losses. This front page LA Times article also describes how Deutsche Bank, now the world’s largest, settled to resolve claims that subsidiary Mortgage T sold [...]

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National Debt: How Big Is It Really? (Not Good)

How big is the national debt? You’d think this would be an easy question. Surely we know how much the government owes. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. The true national debt could be triple the conventional estimate, anywhere from $11 trillion to $31 trillion by my reckoning. The differences mostly reflect explicit and implicit “off-budget” [...]

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