Whether you own any physical gold or not, how do you store it? I have written before about discomfort many of us have with keeping it ourselves. And in case you didn’t know it, a U.S. safe deposit box is NOT a good idea.
Unless you have your own Fort Knox to store your gold, you [...]

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Do The Gold ETF’s Actually Have Any Gold?
This is a legitimate question that I have been seeing a lot lately. The story especially gets life due to the suspicion that those who bring us the EFT’s are the same ones collaborating to hold down the price, i.e., manipulate the market. And the question is many [...]

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GATA.org just ran a full page color ad in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, January 31, 2008.
The ad can be seen here.
I very much admire the work at GATA, and on the link above you will see what the ad cost them (ugh!) and also links to the documentation for such accusations. These are [...]

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Boy, it turns out my posts on Gold in Fort Knox are very popular!
As stated in the previous posts, very few people (and they aren’t talking!) know the truth about whether there is Gold in Fort Knox; and, if there, is it encumbered in such a way as to be the equivalent of not there.
If [...]

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A short time ago I relayed a favorite joke about Fort Knox. In the joke, there is no gold left in Fort Knox.
But is there really?
Today, GATA (Gold Anti-Trust Action committee), publishes a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal asking that very question.
There has been no audit of Gold in Fort Knox since [...]

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I have heard this joke many times but I still laugh every time.
It goes like this:
When George W. Bush became President he said there were a few things he always wanted to do but never could; and now that he is President, he gets to.
The first was that he always wanted to see the Gold [...]

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