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Don’t let the inflation monster devour your savings and retirement. It will unless you take positive steps to protect your savings and retirement. I have the answers as to: •why inflation occurs, •why your purchasing power will decrease, •what happens if you don’t protect your purchasing power, and •how to protect your savings and retirement.

For precious metals investors, understanding seasonality can help to determine when to buy and sell at optimal price points. Analysts often mention gold’s seasonality and refer to the “Summer doldrums” as a buying opportunity and the Winter months as the high season. To verify gold’s seasonality and identify opportunities to profit from the trends, I decided to update the data and charts that I had originally created a few years ago. [Take a look.] Words: 295

The upside potential following this correction still looks huge for Gold and for Silver. We expect Gold and Silver to soon make a run back up to the recent highs - but at a sharper angle than they fell. [Let me explain why this will likely be the case.] Words: 528

If you aren't already in, this coming Monday or Tuesday (Nov. 5-6th) should represent an exceptional buying opportunity as gold moves into its final intermediate cycle bottom. Now that the 38% retracement has been breached I would look for a final exhaustion move to test the 50% level early next week as we move into the elections. Words: 284

The U.S. economy is careening toward a fiscal cliff. Europe is stuck in a financial abyss. China is economy, a bastion of strength for the last decade, is throttling down. Given this less-than-rosy economic backdrop, how could I possibly predict that U.S. stocks are poised to rally as 2012 comes to a close? Glad you asked....Here are 10 reasons why I’m taking such a contrarian stance. (Hint: I saved the most important reasons for last). Words: 1420

Since the Financial Crisis erupted in 2007, the US Federal Reserve has engaged in dozens of interventions/ bailouts to try and prop up the financial system...and the amount of money printed is absolutely staggering. As a result of this, inflation hedges, particularly Gold, have been soaring...[but] for gold, for example, to hit a new all time high adjusted for inflation, it would have to clear at least $2,193 per ounce. If you go by 1970 dollars (when gold started its last bull market) it would have to hit $4,666 per ounce. Words: 581

My previous article on gold & silver went viral with almost 30,000 reads on munKNEE.com alone and continues to be read by hundreds of goldbugs daily. Below is an updated chart and analysis suggesting that gold & silver have further to drop before they go parabolic. Take a look and share it with friends.

I have been bearish on hard commodities for the past two years and, while prices may have dropped substantially from their peaks during this time, I don’t think the bear market is over. I think we still have a very long way to go and there are four reasons why I expect prices to drop a lot more. Words: 3978

It is very difficult to see any factor that could stop a continued very strong rise of the physical gold price...[due to] two main drivers...[as mentioned below. Let me explain.] Words: 444

Silver has thousands of industrial uses and is considered a store of wealth by investors. The infographic below illustrates silver's history as a currency in the past and as an essential component in industry and technology today.