Posts Tagged ‘investment options’

Make gold and other investment alternatives your safety net for the future

Posted on March 28th, 2009, by admin

If you’re unsure where to turn with your investments now that your confidence in traditional investment opportunities has been shaken to the core, you’re not alone. Even the savviest of investors are seeking investment alternatives that will keep their money safe in the rockiest of economic storms.
The short answer: invest your wealth in gold.
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Questioning the safety of long-term U.S. treasury bonds

Posted on March 10th, 2009, by admin

In the recent months, foreign and domestic investors alike have been stocking up on long-term U.S. treasury bills in record numbers, causing a 19.9% surge in the prices of the treasury bills in a single month. (If you’re not sure why that percentage is so significant, you can find more information in my article called [...]

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Putting the U.S. government’s mounting debt into perspective (how big is it, really?)

Posted on February 23rd, 2009, by admin

We all know that the U.S. economy is in trouble. But are you aware of the full extent of the current economic crisis? Basically, in recent months the government has loaned, invested or promised $7.8 trillion not only to failing American institutions but to struggling banks outside U.S. borders.
$7.8 trillion is an obscure number for [...]

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