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US Treasury's Gold Valued: US Gold Reserves Total $288 Billion, But Not Really

Washington Post / Big Money | Martha C. White | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Taxes, Milken Institute, Fort Knox, Us Gold Reserves, Gold Reserves, Spot Gold, Liquidity, Cato Institute, Treasury, Bretton Woods, Gold, Gold Prices, Home News

Buried in the Treasury's International Reserve Position report is an intriguing bit of math. The document details the total amount, by weight, of the ...

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A Brief History of the Dollar

Nathan Lewis | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Dollar Value, Gold, US Dollar, Dollar, Business News
Nathan Lewis

Some people are saying that the dollar's days are numbered. Maybe so. Let's look at the dollar's long history, and see how we got to where we are today.

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Too Poor For Insurance, Too Rich For Free Help

Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Janel Campbell, Homelessness, Indigent Health Care, Homeless Shelters, Stacy Campbell, Terri Fuji, Gold, Foreclosure, Bearing Witness 2.0, Class Action Lawsuit, Paul Nicoletti, Bearing Witness, Health Care, Jeff Pickett, Montrose Patient Advocates, Business News

As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Bryan Rupp reports for So...

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How to Live On $0 a Day: Bailouts for the Rest of Us

Lesley Stern | Posted 10.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Michael Jackson, Gold, Economic Crisis, Humor, Economy, Credit Cards, Recession, Lawsuit, Conan O'Brien, Bailout, Satire, Oxycontin, Financial Crisis, Extortion, Comedy, David Letterman, Insurance Companies, Emotional Damage, Pharmaceutical Industry, Banks, Depression, Windfall, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Comedy News
Lesley Stern

It doesn't really matter why you need the money, all you know is that life as you know it will cease to exist if you don't get your hands on a big chunk of cash. Yesterday.

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Bye-Bye Baubles

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Friends, Social Responsibility, Ecnomic Meltdown, Party, Economy, Selling, Economic Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Gold, Poor, Consumer Protection, Financial Crisis, Living News
Lita Smith-Mines

I was encouraged to "bring my useless or broken gold" to an acquaintance's home, where I could "sell it all and take home cash." This was a new one for me, I've never left a social gathering richer than when I came in.

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No Love for Uncle Buck

Garrett Johnson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Gold, Reserve Currency, Weak Dollar, Dollar, Financial Crisis, Gold Currency, Dollar Currency, Wall Street, Business News
Garrett Johnson

The dollar will not be allowed to collapse. Instead its decline will be managed. This will include violent corrections that will savage any dollar bear who is trying to make a quick buck.

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Columbus: Blundering into Immortality

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: History, Gold, Columbus, Indians, America, Genocide, New World, Taino People, Christopher Columbus, Spice Islands, Native Americans, Discovery of America, World News
Michael Kaplan

It is as well that Christopher Columbus was so sure of himself, because he was in many respects staggeringly incompetent. The very basis of his journey to the New World was a miscalculation.

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New Highs for Gold

Nathan Lewis | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Gold Standard, Gold, Gold Stocks, Gold Bull Market, Gold Market, Business News
Nathan Lewis

Here's a funny fact: since 1965, if you owned stocks, bonds, or gold, your investment would be worth about the same today, 45 years later. This is the entire history of floating currencies, which began in 1971.

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Next Stop: Inflation

James Berman | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Gdx, Depression, Gdp, Deflation, Federal Reserve, Fed, Cpi, Bernanke, Tips, Gold, Monetary Policy, Rising Inflation, Recession, Inlfation, Business News
James Berman

The market has had the biggest six month rally since the 1930s and stocks cannot go up forever. We can't time the sell-off, but we can prepare for one of its likely causes: inflation.

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Where Do We Go From Here?

Alan Schram | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Gold, Dow, Macroeconomic Policy, Recession, S&P 500, Business News
Alan Schram

The only sensible approach to investing is to buy into well-understood businesses when they are offered substantially below what they are worth, and to sell them as they approach intrinsic value.

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What $1000+ Gold Means To You

Nathan Lewis | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Dollar Value, Gold Standard, Gold, Inflation, Gold Bullion, Business News
Nathan Lewis

If you look more closely at gold, you discover that there is hardly any compelling investment thesis at all. In fact, it appears that gold is among the most useless things on the planet.

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Whatever Gets You Through the Night, or, Six Ways to Get to Sleep and Stay That Way!

Ellen Whitehurst | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Pillows, Bailout, Essential Oils, Money, Gold, Sheets, China, Clutter, Sleep, Living News
Ellen Whitehurst

First, clean up the clutter in your bedroom. All the clutter in your bedroom. Period. No ifs, ands or boxers that recently came off your butt about it.

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There's Gold in Them Hills...I Mean, Vending Machines

Reyne Haines | Posted 11.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Currency, Gold, Antiques, Collecting, Coins, Vending Machines, Style News
Reyne Haines

A German firm, TG-Gold Supr Markt, installed vending machines in the Frankfurt Airport. What does it dispense? You guessed it: gold bars!

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Venezuela's Moscow Maneuvers

Diane Francis | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Lloyds of London, Nationalization, Venezuela, Moscow, President Chavez, Confiscation Without Compensation, Kleptocracy, Vladimir Putin, Gold, China, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, World News
Diane Francis

All enlightened governments, including Canada's, which just signed an investment agreement, should deem Venezuela a "no-go" zone.

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Jeweler Makes Wedding Rings Collected From Gold Found In Rivers

Daily Mail | Posted 08.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Found Gold, Gold, Marriage, Daisy Thurkettle-Roper, Wedding Ring, Jewelry, Love, Style News

A life-long passion for panning for gold helped Daisy Thurkettle-Roper save some cash when it came to getting wedding rings. The 25-year-old has been...

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Canadian Mint Loses Gold Worth $16 Million

ABC News | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

Read More: Gold, Canadian Mint Gold, Canada Missing Gold, Canadaian Mint, Foreign Affairs, Canada, Advocacy, World News

Canadian officials have not been able to explain the disappearance of more than $16 million in gold from the Royal Canadian Mint, leaving open the pos...

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Where's The Gold?

Nathan Lewis | Posted 07.27.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Gold, New York, Money, Local, New York City, Comex, Gold, Gold Depository, Precious Metals, New York News
Nathan Lewis

The Comex warehouse is one of the most secure forms of gold investment in the world. If they can't be trusted, what does that say about ETFs, pooled accounts, futures, forwards, options?

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Why Gold Won't Fold

Dan Dorfman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Investing, Mark Leibovit, Central Fund of Canada, Inflation, Weak Dollar, Dollar Value, Gold, Investing in Gold, Market Vector Gold Miners, Central Gold Trust, Recession, Global Economic Crisis, Business News
Dan Dorfman

The precious metal, many gold traders gripe, is not getting the respect it deserves. A surge to new highs is just around the corner.

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Dollar Doomed, Gold Glitters

Diane Francis | Posted 06.06.2009 | Business

Read More: US Dollar, US Crisis, Global Economy, Falling Dollar, Economic Crisis, Reserve Currency, Meltdown, Washington DC, Us Economic Crisis, Gold, Global Financial Crisis, Economic Stimulus, China, Business News
Diane Francis

In a G2 world (the US and China), he who is the piper calls the tune and China holds a US$2-trillion mortgage on the U.S. and is not happy.

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Keep the Baby -- Throw Out the Bathwater

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Google, Energy, Investments, Ibm, Stock Market, Economic Crisis, Bank of America, Gold, Democrats, Barack Obama, Amazon.com, Apple, General Motors, Finance, Financial Crisis, Republican Party, Personal Finance, Republicans, Citigroup, Akamai, Business News
Larry Gellman

Those of you who are waiting for the economy to get "back" to normal will probably be waiting for the rest of your lives.

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Gold Not Money: Bling's the Thing

Diane Francis | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Gold Standard, Gold Stocks, General Motors, Money, Bank Bailouts, Economic Meltdown, Bailouts, Gold, Financial Crisis, Banks, Gold Producing, Banking Crisis, Credit Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Business News
Diane Francis

The future is always a matter of opinion, as is political competency, which is why it's a good idea to own a little gold.

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Cash 4 Gold Investigated (VIDEO)

Huffington Post via ABC | Julie Satow | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Cash-4-Gold, Gold, Business News

Ever wonder about the veracity of those "Cash For Gold" commercials? Good Morning America did too, and so they decided to investigate. They found tha...

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Eartha Kitt and the Meaning of Life

Dr. Brent Ridge | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Diamonds, Farming, Hamptons, Farm, Donald Trump, Eartha Kitt, Gold, Schoharie County, Dirt, Dr. Brent, Beekman 1802, Living News
Dr. Brent Ridge

After a while, you learn that many of the diamonds are zirconium and a lot of the gold is just left over brass from one of Donald Trump's construction projects.

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More Nightmares Lurk on Street of Dreams

Dan Dorfman | Posted 03.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, Mark Leibovit, VRTrader.Com, Stocks, Money, Investment Banks, Bonds, Gold, S&P 500, Arnold Silver, Investing, Housing Slump, Dow Jones, Banking, Financial Crisis, Business News, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Wall Street, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Taking a longer term outlook, Leibovit thinks "we're in for five or six years of hell," with the Dow tumbling to about 2,000. So where should investors put their money? Consider cash and gold.

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Dow 11-Year Low Reached

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Stocks, Citibank, Bank Stocks, Gold, Stock Market, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Paul Volcker, Dow Jones, Business News

For immediate news on where the Dow is trading now go here. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below its lowest close since 1997 on concerns that ...

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