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There are a number of conventional reasons why a segment of people have always resisted the urge to hire an investment advisor. Nevertheless, there comes a time in virtually everyone’s life when circumstances change at which time finding a trusted advisor may well become a priority and a rewarding proposition that leads to less stress, superior execution, or simply a safety net for your family.

You can be 100% assured that acquiring both or either metal is the smartest move one can make to escape the certainty of the Western world financial calamity that is destined to follow. Keep buying as much gold and silver as possible, and we continue to prefer silver over gold, for now.

A remarkable but little noticed development has occurred behind the scenes of the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) over the last 3 years. This development concerns the very high level of executive staff turnover at World Gold Trust Services, the New York based ‘Sponsor’ of the mammoth gold GLD gold-backed Exchange Traded Fund that is listed on the NYSE.

As demonstrated by his previous market calls George Soros is an investor worth paying attention stock to. He is currently buying gold hand over fist, as he believes that we are closing in on a bear market.

I have created a model that will predict the price of gold for a year from now and the results suggest that there will not be much of an increase. As such, the best way to play this sector is to find companies with solid financials, a history of turning a profit margin even during tough times and outperform the gold index over a long period of time. These are the ones to consider.

I knew the monetary base had grown wildly but did not realize the extent until seeing it in graph form [in an article by Peter Degraaf. It is truly the Chart of the Century]. While Peter spent just one paragraph on this, let's look at it in depth to get a better understanding of why it is so important and what it really means.

With the Olympic Games underway, many eyes are on Rio...[and, as such,] investors...are...directing more attention to Brazil. While its stock market has had one of the world's best performances to date this year with the MSCI Brazil 25/50 Index up more than 50%...[and] the MSCI Brazil Small Cap Index...[up] over 60%, the question now is, can the rally continue? My take is that it could potentially, but investors need to be willing to accept significant risk. [Let me explain.]

"The artist Christopher Wool has a word painting: ‘Sell the house, sell the car, sell the kids.’ That’s exactly how I feel — sell everything. Nothing here looks good" … "The stock markets should be down massively but investors seem to have been hypnotized that nothing can go wrong." - Jeffrey Gundlach

Many investors live by the saying – “Cash is King.” The gold sector should be no exception as those gold miners that are able to bring in positive cash flow from their operations, while at the same time using some of it towards capital expansion, are the ones that are likely to appreciate most in value and price. This could apply to the five gold stocks on our list today.

The First Rebuttal website has coined a term that gets to the heart of an increasingly dysfunctional system: the too-big-to-fail stock market. Markets no longer serve their intended purpose of efficiently allocating capital. Since capitalist wealth creation depends on that function, today’s world can no longer be called “free” or “market-based” in any meaningful sense.