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1. Canada Sells Nearly Half Of All Its Gold ...
Earlier this year the government of Canada sold off most of its gold reserves, mainly in the sole form of selling their gold coins. The gold coins that were sold are iconic to Canada; the Royal Canadian Mint has produced pure maple Leaf gold coins in a variety of denominations ...

2. Gold vs. bitcoin in the post apocalypse scenario
We try not to get too caught up in the post-apocalyptic-zombie apocalypse-Mad Max-SHTF type of scenarios when it comes to the question of money. Everyone should be prepared for unforeseen emergencies but it is not very healthy to be continuously living in a paranoid state. Some cash and precious metals ...

3. Peter Schiff compares Bitcoin and gold
Gold investors have a pretty good idea on where Peter Schiff stands on the precious metal. In this video, the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital provides his views on Bitcoin.

4. Bo Polny on gold, silver, stocks and bonds
Greg Hunter at USA Watchdog did this interview over the weekend with Bo Polny of Gold2020Forecast.com. Polny purports to use cycles and technical analysis to predict the value of stocks, bonds and of course gold (and silver). In his view, gold has bottomed and will be up to $2,500; silver ...

5. Passing the love of gold prospecting to the ...
Over a century ago, the "American West" was flooded by gold prospectors and small mining companies as the prospect of striking it rich drove a boom in the search for gold, silver and other metals. As mining became a substantial industry and started applying large scale industrial technology, the prospectors ...

6. Ukrainian gold swap
Ukraine had sadly been on a road leading to nowhere for the last few years, and they really seem to have switched to high gear over the last year. A few months ago, there were a lot of "stories" about Ukrainian gold being loaded into unmarked trucks and flown out ...

7. Gold and silver market rigging back in the ...
The United States Justice Department granted UBS immunity after fining it a total of about $545 million dollars and getting a promise of co-operation. Other banks also agreed to settle for FOREX manipulation but UBS apparently agreed to "to help investigators examine whether there was “manipulation of, or fraud in” ...

8. Chinese herder strikes gold with 17 pound nugget
A man who was herding his flock of animals in the far flung, gold rich and also restive region of Xinjiang in north-western China, came across quite a golden fine. He found a 17 pound nugget of gold, shaped like the map of China. This is not a pure gold ...

9. Hyperinflation: Is it just around the corner?
The prospect of inflation getting out of control in a zero interest rate, money printing, Central Bank heavy environment has long been a given amongst many commentators and experts. This has translated into increased values of bonds, the stock markets, real estate and art (as a Picaso fetched $160 million ...

10. Columbia's illegal gold mining crisis
The properties that make gold a much sought after investment are also to blame for the heights people will go through to get gold out of the ground by whatever means necessary. This ignores the human and environmental plight that is often caused by such illegal gold mining. Last year ...

11. Harry Dent talks gold price and the market
Those keeping up with various gold commentary would have noted that the last couple of months have seen a lot of bearish calls on the price of gold. Some are short term while a few do call for gold (and silver) being stuck in a longer term downward or sideways ...

12. Gold, a safe haven from the time of ...
Does a unit of gold still buy the same amount of bread today as it did 2000 years ago during the time of Jesus? This is a good interview from Bloomberg for a non-paper/financial instrument perspective on gold. In it, Petropavlovsk Chairman and Co-Founder Peter Hambro brings some much needed ...

13. China to have more say in gold price ...
The 95 year old daily "gold fix" went through some major changes last year. The LBMA (London Bullion Market Association) members Barclays, ScotiaMocatta, HSBC and Société Générale were setting the price of gold at 10:30 am and 3:00 pm, London time. Now further changes are coming up in March as ...

14. Tough times for Barrick gold
Barrick gold has been through an interesting few decades. Mergers and acquisitions aside, it has been the darling of the gold stock investor with its old hedging program; accused to manipulating the gold price through said hedges; and a loser when the price of gold started a long sustained move ...

15. A new beginning
It is time to start a new chapter in the life of Gold-Investor.com. The original site came online in the summer of 2002 and as technology has evolved, the site was having serious problems and needed to have its backend updated. Unfortunately we could not upgrade the site and instead ...

16. Spiritual perspective on the value of gold (or ...
"To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same." Bhagavad Gita This verse from the ancient Hindu holy text came to my attention when reading through Eknath Easwaran's excellent book, Words to Live By. We look at the prices of gold, silver, ...

17. Chinese gold reserves spike 57%
In what is at the very least a stunning move, the Peoples Bank of China (PBOC) has announced that the country's official gold reserves increase by 57% between May and June 2015. Any suggestion that this 604 metric ton increase in gold holdings took place in one month would be ...

18. Revisiting Jim Rogers mid $900s gold call
Jim Rogers does not profess to know exactly where the price of gold will bottom, but back in July he made a (educated) guess in this clip with Fox Business News. He believed that after rising in price for over a decade, a 50% correction from the recent high would ...

19. Is a gold medal really made of gold?
The winter games are just around the corner and the southern Russian city of Sochi is all set to host the much hyped event. But a question that often comes up is whether the gold medal is actually made of gold (and the same with the composition of silver and ...

20. Indian government forcing gold trade underground
Indian government policies are giving us a first hand view of what happens when the powers that be try to force the hand of a population that doesn't really trust them. Higher taxes, duties, tariffs and regulations cannot stem the demand for gold in a country where the purchasing power ...

21. Jim Rogers talks markets and owning gold
Jim Rogers is if anything a very astute investor who called the emerging market and commodity boom a long time ago. He has been so confident of this trend to have moved (himself and his family) East to Asia. Jim has been pretty bullish on gold as well though he ...

22. Why melt historic gold coins?
Ever since the economic downturn of 2008, the Canadian government has been on an asset sale spree - getting rid of many foreign real estate holdings, art, investments and old gold coins. These were $5 and $10 gold coins that were minted in 1914 and removed from circulation almost immediately ...

23. Jesse Owens’ gold medal at auction
Jesse Owens won four gold medals (the 100 meter, 200 meter, the 400 meter relay and the long jump) at the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Germany. With this win, he put a real dent in Hitler's propaganda war but really struggled when he returned back home to a segregated ...

24. Indian politicians flipping on gold import duties
Indian politicians are not that different from others of their ilk, in that they want to be able to keep their (cushy) jobs. So it shouldn't come as a huge surprise, that as India heads to election for the lower house of its Parliament (Lok Sabha), the president of the ...

25. The gold Aurums
Adam Taggart at the Peak Prosperity podcast has an interesting interview and article about a new type of physical gold product - the Aurum. These notes contain 1/20 or 1/10 of a gram of gold and are a high-tech way of manufacturing portable gold. "In today's podcast, I speak with ...

26. Contemporary Canadian art on a 2 oz gold ...
The Royal Canadian Mint is well known for gold, silver and platinum bullion coins that are much loved by precious metals investors but its real money maker is the vast number of numismatic coins geared towards collectors. These non-circulating legal tender (NCLT) coins are limited run coins that sell at ...

27. Grow mushrooms to extract gold from e-waste
The meteoric advances in computers, cell phones and electronics in general have resulted in a lot of outdated gadgets either ending up in landfills, expensive recycling operations or third world countries where components are burned off or treated with harsh chemicals, to extract the minute amount of gold, silver, copper ...

28. All That Glitters is Gold: The Beginner’s Guide ...
Money is universally recognised as the way that capitalist societies trade products and services, but there is nothing intrinsically valuable about currency itself. A coin is only worth the good or service it is being exchanged for, though theoretically, it is being exchanged for some sum of gold which is ...

29. How to test for fake gold and silver ...
Not all gold and silver bullion/coins are created equal. Literally. We have long known that there was a robust fake coin manufacturing industry in China and even high value gold bars have found to be filled with tungsten. So gold and silver investors and collectors need to aware that there ...

30. Swiss Central Banker warns against gold referendum
On November 30th, the Swiss people will embark on a national referendum tackling three issues, one of which relates to gold. They will vote on whether their country's central bank (Swiss National Bank) should hold at least 20% of its reserves in the form of gold and also repatriate all ...


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