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Larger allocations to gold are merited, then silver and investors should consider very small allocations to platinum and palladium.

There are many different investment vehicles one can use to invest in gold but the key aspects that we as investors and traders must always look for are the vehicles' relationship and correlation with gold prices, and how much that correlation is or isn’t leveraged to the gold price.

Dr. Martin Murenbeeld, chief economist for Dundee Wealth Economics and one of the smartest gold minds around, outlines below his nine bullish arguments for gold.

Physical gold is money in the most pure and basic form. It will stand when everything else (paper) falls. Not only will it still be standing, it will be standing tall because of fear and panic.

The fact that relatively few investors know much about the various types of companies in the precious metals mining sector is an indication that this market is many years away from peaking. This article provides a basic check-list of what to look for in these companies.

While investing in gold mining companies is not quite as simple as novices to this sector might at first conclude, neither is it so overwhelmingly complicated as to make these companies inaccessible to individual, retail investors. Below are a number of things to look for when considering an investment in such companies. Words: 2745

This scheme of revolving credit will end badly when the pigeons come home to roost; when the piper has to be paid; when we find out that there is no such thing as a free lunch. It is just a matter of time before we become the last of society’s ‘greater fools’ and, as such, are the ones required to pay the inevitable price of achieving future economic and financial stability.

Given the negative real rates, a falling dollar, and heightened correlation between stock and bonds, gold should be an essential part of every investor’s portfolio today.

We all want the best price we can get on our gold & silver purchases. It’s only natural, and any good consumer will consider the timing of their investment decisions. It’s a question almost every investor asks: am I getting a good price now, or should I wait and get a better price in the future? Well, history has an empirical answer for you.

Investing in some form of precious metals is the preferable way to protect oneself from rising inflation/decrease in the value of the U.S. dollar and here are 10 ETFs and ETNs and 5 mutual funds to do just that. Words: 879