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I would like to invest in gold online, but I do not know where to go. I have some investments in places like sharebuilder, but where can I go to invest in Gold and Silver?
We are interested to invest in a small gold mine opertion here in the US. The owners already invested 4.7 million USD into the project and are in need of additional 1.2 million USD. The company offers 25% of the proceeds. The mine will be operating profitable after 10 weeks of mining. Please give me your thoughts
What is the best way to invest in Gold and Silver?
Are there any online Gold banks?
This is the time! The day you have been longing for, but perhaps not so sure about. The desk may be cleared and everyone is admiring the presentation gold watch in its smart box. You may even have your retirement lump sum-could be the largest sum of money you have seen in your life. It is a good feeling but can also be an intimidating one. Now more than any time you need good investment advice. Even in being careful, you face financial risks at retirement time.
The Main Risks Are Longevity: the risk of outliving your assets is very real. Inflation: the inexorable price-rise in goods and services will eat away at the purchasing power of your hard-earned savings. Asset allocation: if you haven’t chosen the right mix of investments, your portfolio could fail to grow. Health care expense: you need a reliable source of income to cover rising health-care costs. Withdrawal rate: if you withdraw too much too soon, you are in trouble.
To be Secure In Your Retirement Investing:
Diversify Safety First Build Continued Growth.
With this in mind have you considered gold investing?
1) DIVERSIFICATION
Whether your investment approach is conservative or aggressive, gold investing can play a vital role in the diversification of your portfolio. Most experts recommend a gold holding of 5%-10%.
2) SAFETY
As we painfully learned from the NASDAQ bust, any stock, no matter how seductive it may seem, always has the potential to plunge to zero. This will never happen with gold. Life is full of unpredictables-hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorist attacks. Gold investing is the perfect way to protect the foundations of your portfolio from an unpredictable future.
3) GROWTH
Recently, a long-term subscriber to an investment newsletter wrote: “I have been following your gold suggestions since December of 2001 and have made a barrel of money. The ten gold stocks you recommend now, if held since then, are up about 500% on average. Not too shabby while gold bullion is up about 70%, a 7-1 ratio.”
Currently, world gold demand exceeds global gold supply by 60%-100% annually; as the mines cannot extract gold fast enough to meet this demand. A shortage leads to higher prices. Nobody can guarantee that anything will last forever, but in the short term the gold price will rise.
So what shape could your gold investments be in?
Just as you can diversify your overall portfolio, you can also diversify the gold part of it. Gold investing takes three main forms:
1. Owning physical gold-the safest, “insurance” part of it. And the most exciting part? When you hold gold in your hands for the first time, you understand why it has generated such a passion through time!
2. Gold stock-investment in quality gold mines. This is for the “growth” part of your portfolio.
3. Gold derivatives-only for those who are not averse to risks!
Some people may give you a strange look if you are talking of gold investing! There are great ideas floating around:
Gold provides no return. But it doesn’t need to-it keeps going up in value! Central banks will sell their gold. They have in the past and have recently realized it is not a wise policy. The government could confiscate gold. It is true that this happened in 1933. But things have changed so much since that time; the chances of this now are virtually nil.
If others are uneasy about gold investing, all the more reason for you to do it and do it well! So that you can enjoy your golden years!
Summary:
The main factors of gold investment are… To be mindful of your retirement with diversification, safety and growth. With these in mind, you will do wonderfully well to consider gold.
People have often asked me how I always pick stocks that end up with 20% gains in a couple of months or triple-digit gains in a year. They ask me is it luck? Maybe with a couple of stocks it may have been luck, but luck doesn’t play a role in buying ten or more stocks in the same year that earn more than 80% returns. The key is not to follow the herd, stop listening to the investment talking heads, and to learn an investment system and then be unwaveringly courageous in applying your system. There have been times family and friends have asked me for advice, and I have told them, “Buy this stock. I guarantee you, you will not lose money.”
Now I know that there are no guarantees in the stock market, but if you follow certain strategies, you can be 90% sure that the stock will appreciate. With this particular agricultural stock, it was almost the perfect stock, and I was 99.9% sure that the stock would produce monumental gains. Sure enough, the stock exploded almost 130% higher in about a year. And this stock was not some risky penny stock trading at less than a dollar a share. This stock was trading at about $70 a share at the time I advised my friends to buy it. So below are the 10 surefire rules I employ to build enormous gains in investment portfolios.
(1)Buy When Fear is Rampant, Sell When Mania is the Greatest
Every investing course should be accompanied by a psychology course as well. The most difficult thing to do in investing is to buy more when fear and panic is rampant and to sell when mania is the highest. Stock markets and asset classes cycle in peaks and troughs. Most people will not buy stocks until after stocks are plastered all over the news and after they have just risen by 30%, 40%, 50% or more, believing that they will rise higher forever. Buying at the troughs when nobody is talking about a stock or during steep corrections provides a low-risk, \high-reward setup for your portfolio.
(2)Learn What Your Neighbor is Doing, Watch Investment Shows on MSNBC and Bloomberg on TV, Listen to the Recommendations of Your Financial Consultant - Then Make Sure that You Don’t Have a Single Thing in Common With Their Strategies
If you are one of the thundering sheep herd and perpetually follow the mindless actions of others, you are virtually guaranteed to lose money or forever relegate your portfolio to average to below-average returns. The surest way to build an investment fortune is to buy asset classes and stocks when nobody is discussing them and to sell them when everyone is talking about them. This requires a nose for market timing. Is market timing impossible as all the global investment firms always tell you? Hardly. Learning what asset classes and individual stocks are poised to skyrocket every year just takes a little bit of time, but is really not that difficult. Since time is a commodity that Private Wealth Mangers and Financial Consultants employed by large commercial investment houses lack, they tell you that market timing is impossible merely because they don’t have the time to perform the necessary research.
However, purchasing stocks that are likely close to cyclical bottoms instead of believing that market timing is impossible and indiscriminately buying stocks will easily add another 10% in returns to your portfolio per year. Do you really believe that you can make a fortune by buying any stock that is advertised on a TV program watched by millions of investors worldwide? Ultimately, if you own the same stocks as your neighbor to the right, your neighbor to the left, the talking head on TV, and the talking head at your commercial investment firm, then are doing something the proper things to build an investment fortune.
If you don’t seek out stocks and asset classes at times when nobody is considering them, you will never make serious money in investing. You may make 10% a year or maybe even 15% a year but if you want to enter the world of the big boys and earn 25% or more in annual returns, you have to dig a lot deeper than your investment peers. Just a couple of months ago (June 25, 2007) this email landed in my inbox from a big investment newsletter publisher. “Over the past week, I’ve crisscrossed northwestern Canada looking for the next great investment. I’m up here to find out what everyone’s invested in. And after attending an investment conference in Vancouver last week, I can tell you absolutely that no one is interested in gold…Base and minor metals will continue to be the best place to have your money over the next few years. Gold, as a virtually useless metal that has few industrial uses, appears to have hit its peak and could be running sideways for years like it has many times in the past.”
Then, in August, when the HUI (the major AMEX gold index) took a sharp hit in response to global market corrections, everyone proclaimed that gold was no longer a safe haven and that gold was “done”. Now, just a one-month later, on September 26, 2007, a lot of people are talking about gold’s strong rapid surge. So was the newsletter that ended up in my mailbox that proclaimed gold as dead in June right in June but terribly wrong in September? The answer is neither. The only person that is wrong is you if you blindly listen to talking heads that end up in your inbox or that you watch on TV. The fact is that little-discussed asset classes and stocks are ignored because perhaps 1 out of 1000 investors truly understand them, and even the ones that parade as experts on TV have been more terribly wrong about their calls than right. So it’s up to you to get off your proverbial bum and learn how to invest for yourself. Chasing stocks higher and buying when everyone else is speaking about them is a sure way to lose money. And so is listening to talking heads. Learn a system that teaches you to buy assets when everyone is ignoring them and you’ll outperform everyone else.
(3)Concentrate, Don’t Diversify
If you’ve read the paragraph above, you already realize that Private Wealth Managers and Financial Consultants are in short supply of time as they partake in the race to gather as many assets as possible for their respective firms. Thus, this is the reason they employ the rule of diversification for your portfolio. U.S. Navy SEALs will tell you that during an operation exfil exercise, the easiest way out is rarely the safest way out. The same holds true in investing, yet diversification is by far and away, the easiest investment strategy that anyone could possibly teach to tens of thousands of financial consultants. Certainly, diversification cannot be a complex strategy if tens of thousand consultants from varied backgrounds and industries can all efficiently apply this concept to their clients’ portfolios with very little training. Diversification is the biggest cop-out investment strategy of all time. It screams of incompetence and lack of skill - “I have no idea what asset classes are going to perform well this year so I’m going to invest you in everything under the sun.”
Assume everyday, a NBA coach looked at his active roster of 12 players and said, “I have no idea who are the best players. Because I don’t know, and don’t care to take the time to figure it out, I’m going to ensure that all 12 players share equal time every game.” This coach is unlikely to win many games versus the coach that takes the time in training camp to assess who his best 5 players are and then consequently plays these 5 players the majority of minutes during every game. This is the difference between diversification and concentration. The coach that diversifies may win some games based upon pure luck because maybe he has a couple great players that can make up for the deficiencies of the poor players he puts on the court every night. Still, most nights, the deficiencies of the poor players will drag down the performance of the excellent players.
However, the coach that concentrates and puts his best players on the court every night will be able to field a team every night that has an excellent chance of winning. This is why we concentrate in investing. To give us the best possible chance of winning. Diversification will never achieve this.Study the best investors in the world. The best investors in the world always manage their own money and they concentrate their portfolios in the best asset classes every year. Don’t believe the hype about diversification - diversification stinks, it doesn’t protect your portfolio, and it certainly will never make you wealthy.
(4)Learn Everything You Can About the Relationship Between Politics and Stocks
On September 18, 2007, the U.S. Federal Reserve cut the Federal Funds Rate (the rates banks borrow from each other and the rates the rates banks loan to customers) by 50 basis points. The U.S. stock markets soared that day, followed by strong surges in Asian markets the following morning. The interest rate cut undoubtedly was not just motivated by a desire to manufacture stability and confidence in the U.S. economy, but also motivated by politics. If you don’t \understand what I mean by this, then you have homework to do.
Governments and corporations in every major global economy in the world have formed relationships that have since been coined as “corporatocracies”. Politics has a major hand in all of the following: interest rate cuts, interest rate increases, the price of oil, the price of gold, the valuation of the Euro, the valuation of the dollar, the valuation of the Pound Sterling, permits to mine uranium in Australia, defense spending for national security, decisions to go to war, and contracts awarded to corporations. If you don’t understand politics, you cannot possibly understand global macro-economic trends and what asset classes and stocks offer the best low-risk, high-reward opportunities year after year. The lack of understanding of politics is what causes Chief Investment Officers of major commercial investment houses to make poor calls in the direction of commodity prices and the direction of global economies. Understand politics and your investment returns should increase tremendously.
(5)Learn Everything You Can About Gold as an Investment.
Gold, as an investment, is perhaps the most misunderstood and poorest understood asset class in the world. Some people believe that the physical commodity is the only way to invest in this asset, and as such, only put money into the paper gold ETFs. Other people that invest in gold stocks don’t understand the differences in price behavior between the juniors and majors; explorers, developers, and producers; hedged and unhedged companies; and the political risk of operating in different countries. Therefore, they never understand the risk-reward quotient of their gold portfolio, sell out during steep corrections, always lose money, and think that gold investments are speculative and stink. Furthermore, they don’t understand that short-term manipulation of prices of the underlying commodity and stocks can’t change the long-term outlook and performance. However, learn how to buy and sell this asset class properly and you will be rewarded as no other asset class can reward you
Article continued under same title, part II. To read the rest of the article, merely perform a search for “10 Surefire Ways to Make an Investment Fortune, Part II) or visit us at http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com
Investing In Jewelry
28/05/09
To the serious and single-minded investor Gold, Platinum and Silver jewelry items are unlikely to come near the top of the potentially profitable opportunities that he or she will research.
It is reasonable to propose, that before venturing into this market, a tremendous amount of investigation should be carried out and knowledge assimilated that is not relevant to other investment vehicles.
Reliable contacts and dealers in the jewelry trade must be sought out and cultivated.
Perhaps most importantly the investor should treat jewelry as an all-consuming hobby so collecting aesthetically pleasing items that may, or may not, show a profit will still give pleasure.
This is as good a reason as any to explain why many savvy female investors take an interest in this market.
Silver jewelry as an investment, unless in the specialized antique market, is unlikely to provide serious investment opportunities unless sufficient volume can be purchased to produce a profit on the melt down value of the metal.
Investing in Gold Jewelry
Gold Jewelry as an Investment Vehicle.
Points to consider
Gold jewelry has been around for thousands of years, it has never gone out of fashion, never dates or fades. As a consequence there is a choice of two investment paths to take, antique or modern.
Antique jewelry with or without gemstones follows the pattern of other antique items in so far as age is not by any means the overriding factor.
There will be items of 100 years old or more that may not have a scarcity value to attract buyers into paying a premium over the basic value of the metal and gemstone content.
Entering this end of the market will therefore require an additional specialized knowledge of antiques and hallmarks. This will also apply to the antique silver jewelry market.
2700 tonnes of Gold is used annually in manufacturing jewelry.
Gold has a tendency to wear away over time and decrease in volume and weight when in use. It can also be subject to scratching resulting in loss of weight.
It is important to be familiar with the hallmarks and the symbols denoting purity. 18K means that the item is 75% pure, 14K = 58.5% pure. 1K is one twenty fourth part of 100% pure metal.
The balance is made up of other ingredients to make the item more durable or whiter.
It is believed that half of all the gold sold in the United States is stamped with a false
Karat weighting so only deal with established, reliable and registered merchants.
Trust is paramount; it is easy for jewelers to take advantage of unsuspecting investors who are not fully versed in the pitfalls of the market.
Investing in Platinum Jewelry
Platinum Jewelry as an Investment Vehicle.
Points to Consider.
Unlike Gold, Platinum has not got a long history of use in jewelry, anything earlier than 1900 is rare indeed.
Examples of Edwardian Platinum jewelry, often rings set with gemstones, can be purchased but beware of modern antique style platinum jewelry.
Studying antique platinum jewelry will need less application than studying gold antiques but it is essential to have a sound knowledge, particularly of the hallmarks, before entering the market.
Platinum is over thirty times more rare than Gold.
Approximately 85 tonnes of Platinum is used annually in the manufacture of jewelry.
Most of the Platinum used in jewelry is between 90% and 95 % pure.
The content is indicated in parts per thousand and not in Karats as in gold.
The properties of Platinum allow for more intricate and finer jewelry designs than possible with Gold.
Platinum is considerably more durable than Gold and will wear better and last longer in use.
Platinum is more resistant to scratching than Gold and if this occurs the metal is displaced and can be restored by a specialist and not lost, as is the case with Gold.
Platinum jewelry has become extremely fashionable and could be considered as the preferred jewellery of choice amongst the ‘glitterati’
In the US during the II world war Platinum was designated as a strategic metal and supplies were cut off from the jewelry trade.
Items that can be guaranteed as sourced from this period will have a considerable rarity value.
As with Gold, find a trusted and established dealer before parting with your money.
Bear in mind that the current value of the metal content of the piece and a view on the future direction of the price of the metal becomes an intrinsic factor in determining its’ potential as an investment.
Probably the best known of all diamonds is the Koh-I-Nor.
This gem is part of the British Crown Jewels and is set in Platinum.
It can be said that you get more for your money when investing in Platinum.
Palladium, which is recognized as a Platinum Group Metal (PGM) has overtaken
Platinum in the amount used in jewelry manufacture.
Both metals have considerable use in industry, particularly in automobile manufacturing where they are often interchangeable, so that usage can become dependant upon any price/supply differences.
When one has a price or supply advantage over the other a buying opportunity may occur in the jewelry market.
Summary
Investing in precious metal jewelry is to enter a highly specialized market with many hazards for the unwary and ill equipped.
Trust and integrity are priorities when buying or selling through a dealer in the market place.
There is no substitute for intensive research into all aspects, not only in the jewelry application, of the metal under consideration as an investment.
As an investment guru once said, ” If in doubt, stay out”.
Throughout history, gold has been a highly valued substance. It’s unique properties and relative scarcity caused almost every world culture to use it as a form of money, as well as a way to “store” value. Although it has lost much of its importance as a form of currency, gold investments still provide a great way to protect your money and diversify a portfolio.
Over the past few years, gold prices have been steadily rising. There is a very good chance this trend will continue over the long-term, making it a good idea to put some money into gold investments now. Also, buying gold is a great way to hedge against other investments. Due to uncertainty in the stock market and the value of the US dollar, it’s a good idea to put 10-20% of your money into a hedge fund in order to protect yourself. Gold and silver have always been considered to be among the best forms of hedge investments because they have relatively stable values (due to very small changes in supply).
How to Invest in Gold
Before you buy gold, it’s a good idea to get the help of an investment consultant. This is especially true if you’ve never invested in gold before. He or she can help you determine the best moves to make based on your own personal financial goals and risk tolerance. If you already have a personal financial adviser, tell him or her that you’d like to use gold to hedge your portfolio. If he or she doesn’t have much experience dealing in gold investments you may want to find someone who does.
If you’re interested in profiting from the price movements of gold, buying gold bullion coins are an excellent option. The best choices are the American Eagle, the Canadian Maple Leaf, the Britannia, and the Australian Nugget coins. You can buy gold bullion coins from precious metal and coin dealers, both offline and online.
Before making a gold bullion purchase, always shop around for the best prices, as the markup on coins will vary from dealer to dealer. Also, do everything possible to make sure the dealer you’re buying from has been in business for awhile and has a good reputation. If possible preserve your gold coins in the original mint packaging and protect them from scratches to maximize resale value.
Gold bars are another gold investment option you may want to look into. Smaller bars are usually more expensive (per ounce) than large bars but are often easier to sell. In general, bars carry a higher price premium than coins. As with gold bullion coins, only buy and trade with reputable dealers.
Gold to Rise?
26/05/09
So with the credit crunch and economic slump still with us, oil still sliding (and giving confusing pricing signals) what will gold do this year?
The inflation bears look at all the government debt and say, it’s good news for us, even though price deflation is more likely than an upturn in price inflation.
The strength of the slump is too strong and economies from Australia, to the US, Japan and Europe, are still feeling the pinch and will go on doing so for months to come.
But the combination of low interest rates, government bailouts and huge Government debt, makes gold bugs bullish and feel giddy.
Just how that will stimulate inflation in the midst of the worst economic downturn for 80 years, is a little mysterious.
The respected London-based researcher, GFMS said last week in its first look at the prospects for gold in 2009, that gold prices may climb to a record in the first half of this year because those historically low interest rates could weaken the dollar and government bailouts spark inflation.
Gold reached a record $US1,033.90 an ounce on March 17 and since then has fallen back to trade between US800 an ounce and $US900 an ounce.
According to media reports GFMS reckons gold could very well top the $US1,000 an ounce mark in the June half.
GFMS forecast in its September gold update that gold would rally to $US950 an ounce at the end of 2008. That was $US70 more than the actual year-end price.
The group still believes the gold bull market may now be extended, with a peak higher than previously expected sometime in the first half. It sees a weaker US dollar boosting the metal; (So far no sign of that though).
But the group also cautioned that the deflationary pressures, which should emerge more strongly in the second half of the year, could push gold prices down to around $US700 an ounce.
“It might be thought that recessionary conditions and an associated decline in inflationary pressures could undermine” demand, lowering prices to about $700 an ounce.
“This money-printing will at some point usher in a period of high inflation. Deflationary pressures could only be in evidence for a relatively short time.”
“The rally is unlikely to be derailed by supply due to relatively flat mine output, subdued central bank sales and, unless prices go to $950, little change for scrap supply,” GFMS said.
The group said that the massive fiscal commitments made by the US government could alarm foreign investors and cause official inflows into the Treasury debt market to weaken, undercutting support for the dollar.
(The US Treasuries market in particular seems to be a bomb waiting to explode with yields at record lows which do not seem sustainable)
Expecting stimulus and bank support spending in the US and UK to be announced this week and next will add more than $US1.2 trillion to that already bloated spending.
GFMS said in the report that it believed that strong investor demand for the metal had been “masked” by heavy selling by hedge funds which required cash to cover losses elsewhere, meet margin calls and pay for redemptions. And if it wasn’t for the selling, prices would have bounced back over the $US1,000 level.
While it expects mine production to remain stable at 1,170 tonnes in the first half, it predicts investment demand for bars may climb 49% to 201 tonnes, while consumption from jewelers and other fabricators probably could drop 4% to 1,254 tonnes.
Demand for gold has been hit by the downturn from the jewellery and industrial sectors, while demand for coins and investment in physical metal has been very strong for months. Many producers of specialist gold coins and other products have a long waiting list of clients wanting to buy.
On the supply side GFMS said gold output in South Africa in 2008 fell by the largest amount in 107 years, pushing the country into third place in the league of global producers behind China and the US.
The country’s gold output dropped by an estimated 14%, the sharpest decline since 1901.
South Africa gold production was a provisional 232 tonnes, down 38 tonnes on 2007, thanks to power supply limitations, an industry-wide skills shortage and an overhaul of mine safety procedures.
China extended its lead as the world’s largest gold producer, with output up 3% last year to 288 tonnes while output in the US eased 2% to 234 tonnes.
GFMS said the fall in South African output contributed to a substantial drop in global mine production which sank 3.6% to 2,385 tonnes, the lowest level since 1995.
Selling by central banks dropped sharply in 2008, down 42% from 2007 to 279 tonnes, the lowest annual total since 1996.
GFMS said it expected central banks to sell 127 tonnes of gold in the first half of 2009, down 23% on the same period of 2008.
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There are many different reasons a person would choose to buy gold coins. A person may choose to buy gold coins for investment purposes. With the way today’s economy is shaping up, investing in gold is the safest way to protect one’s portfolio. Another reason a person might choose to buy gold coins is gold’s ability to increase in value. There is a high demand for rare gold coins among collectors. Regardless of the reasons, buying gold coins is safe way for someone to invest his or her money without fear that the investment will lose its value.
The first step to buy gold coins is to find an honest and reputable dealer. Avoid to buy gold coins from places that are not members of the Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) and the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC). The most important thing is to deal with a trustworthy dealer. If you deal with someone who is not a member of these organizations, you risk dealing with someone who will sell you counterfeit gold.
Perhaps the only downside to buy gold coins is the possibility of overpaying for the product. This is why buying from the right dealer is particularly important. Nobody wants to get cheated out of their money. Generally, most gold dealers sell their merchandise at prices slightly higher than true market value. This is because they, too, need to make a profit to stay in business. Doing the proper research and knowing the true market value of the gold coins will help you manage your investment safely and prevent you from getting cheated.
As the world’s economy stutters along, and the economic future looks a bit cloudy, it would be a good idea to consider how the ordinary man in the street could go about protecting his hard earned nest egg if the world slipped into a full recession.
Here are more good reasons Why to buy gold coins: -
Gold has an intrinsic value that has been recognised and utilised by man for thousands of years. In times of economic instability, gold has maintained or even increased it’s value. Gold coins are a practical and legal way for individuals to physically keep gold. Most gold bullion coins have a certifiable content of gold (usually 1 oz or fractions thereof) and thus the value of gold coins is easily determined as it will track the quoted value of 1 oz gold on the open market. In some cases, rare gold coins might have an enhanced value due to their scarcity factor.
You can easily sell gold coins as there is always a market for gold. In times of need you are thus not stuck with an asset you cannot liquidate. You can buy one gold coin at a time and build your pool of wealth preserving gold coins up over time if you haven’t got much spare cash to invest right now.
Last year, in July of 2007, I attended the Agora Financial investment Symposium in Vancouver, BC. There were a lot of excellent speakers and sessions covering all aspects of investment, with quite a bit of emphasis on natural resources and a strong international flavor. One of the speakers who impressed me the most was Paul van Edeen. On my return home I subscribed to his newsletter - which has since become one of my favorites.
Last month I had an opportunity to interview Paul on the phone, and I picked up some great investment ideas and tidbits of investing wisdom that I am excited to pass along to you.
Because of it’s length, I’m breaking the interview up into two podcasts. The first will cover Paul’s background and lay out his views on gold, inflation and interest rates. In the second, we’ll discuss what to do about this situation - how to translate this view of the world into profitable investment action.
I heartily recommend Paul’s newsletter, and would love to see you at the upcoming 2008 Agora Financial Investment Symposium, to be held in Vancouver, BC from July 22 to 25. Paul and I will be there along with the legendary Jim Rogers, Rick Rule, Bill Bonner and a boatload of other excellent speakers. If you will be attending, be sure to drop me an email or leave a message on the Priced In Gold Hotline at 888-868-5656, and we’ll see what we can work out for a get-together. Just watch for my pith helmet!