Silver

June 11, 2012

Market Update

Last week was excellent for almost all investment categories. Only the long bonds (TLT) showed a loss, taking a breather after an extended series of gains that have left them up 7.4% for the last month and almost 31% over the last 12 months.

Saving with Gold

Subscriber Mark Cloney recently wrote to me with some great questions:

Hello, Sir Charles – I have a couple questions for you:

How can someone on a tight budget best get invested in silver and/or gold? I don't have a lot of savings, but I do not want to see them destroyed by more and more "quantitative easing".

Investment Real Estate

Priced in Gold reader Shaun C. recently wrote me asking for a chart of investment farmland in gold, and suggesting some sources of data. This was very intriguing, as I have been considering investments in timberland and farmland for myself. After a little research, I prepared the following charts, which will be updated quarterly on an Investment Real Estate chart page. They suggest that farmland is the best place for real estate investment money in the near future, but once the "bottom is in", timberland may be the way to go.

The Week in Gold – Food Prices

With fiat currencies all over the world being manipulated by central banks, prices are being distorted beyond all recognition. Successful investing requires having a good idea what things cost, and what they are really worth – and using the world's oldest and most stable form of money, gold, to compare prices is one way to get that insight. Below you'll find a sample of prices measured in grams or milligrams (1/1000 of a gram) of gold.

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