By Tim McMahon, editor When planning for retirement, most financial planners make a lot of assumptions about financial trends and how much money you will spend per year. They estimate the average inflation rate, the average return on your investments etc. all in order to estimate how much you will need in order to retire. The problem […]
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by Tim McMahon It’s the investor’s dream… going back in time… investing a few thousand dollars and letting it compound over a long period of time and returning a multi-millionaire. If you invested a couple of thousand dollars in the 1780’s, what would the effects of compound interest over the next two hundred years really
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Today we have an analysis by Chris Vermeulen “The Gold and Oil Guy”.  Chris has some rock solid tips on trading choppy markets like we are seeing now. Picking tops can be very difficult and costly so check out Chris’ advice in the final paragraph. It’s worh its weight in Gold!~ Tim McMahon, editor Dollar, Gold
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Video (Part 1): Prechter On Market Rally (Note: This interview was originally recorded on September 20, 2010) In the video below, Robert Prechter talks to Yahoo! Finance Tech Ticker host Aaron Task and Henry Blodget about extreme readings in various indicators that confirm his bear-market forecast. If you can’t see the video it is no
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Investors have been told for years that diversification lowers risk. While that may be true in certain instances, it certainly isn’t true in the current world equity market. Let me give you an example: Using five ETF’s as a proxy for “BRICA” the five supposedly up and coming economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and
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Historically whenever the 10-year Treasury yield drops 1.2% over a short period of time a bear market for stocks resulted within two months . This signal presaged steep market crashes in 1990, 2000, and 2007.
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Technical analysis commentary by Adam Hewison of Ino.com about the current condition of gold.
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(Reuters Life!) – A Spanish precious metals trading company bought the world’s largest gold coin for 3.27 million euros ($4.02 million), its exact material worth, from the estate of an insolvent investment firm at a rare auction in Vienna on Friday. The 100 kg (220.5 lb) piece, one of only five Canadian $1,000,000 Maple Leaf
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The world’s money has lost almost 75% of its value against gold in the last 10 years… We’ve SAID IT BEFORE, but we’ll say it again. The bull market in gold starting 10 years ago is about much more than the Dollar – a fact that investors and savers worldwide might want to consider in 2010 if the US currency continues to rally.
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