Showing posts with label gold coins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gold coins. Show all posts

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Gold coins

Gold may not be the most liquid of assets you could invest in. Lets look at it more closely. First off, where open market transactions are concerned people hardly, if ever use gold as a means for paying for goods. Those days are long gone. Now, credit/debit cards and cash are the primary means for paying for goods/services. Despite this, if you have some cash to set aside it would be wise not to keep it in a traditional savings/checking account as the fees/returns do not benefit you - the investor. Instead, something like a certificate of deposit (CD), stocks/bonds, or commodities (gold coins) would be a wiser investment.

Not only are the returns higher on gold coin investment but seeing that the economy is still going through some rough times gold is forecasted to continue increasing in value. Do not wait until the market rebounds and the US economy experiences another expansion.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Silver and Gold

Wait.. don't change your channel. This is not Gospel hour on BET. Sit back, relax as i give you a different kind of sermon. You don't have to give an offering, actually, this advice will help put money your pocket!

What's there to say about gold coins, or investing in a rich commodity such as gold or silver that has not already been said? Thing is, even though pundits continue to preach the gospel about how important it is to invest in gold, consumers/investors still prefer to take their chances in the currency and stock markets. Not to say that these aren't lucrative avenues. However, has anyone heard of a little something called a recession? The fact remains that whenever a country is doing poorly economically, commodities such as gold do well.

Gold will never face inflatory challenges because ... well, its gold. You can't go out and just make more gold, it's mined in caves. It's a precious commodity. The fed cannot go and print more gold to bail out a company or boost the economy. Why not? It's gold. Therefore, if you have gold, you have something a lot of people do not have. And you have a store of value that more often than not increases in value as time goes on (Unlike cash).

People, lets get with it. Be smart, buy gold coins.