How To Invest in Gold and Other Hard Assets

Using Ratios to Decide Cheapest Metal

Platinum:Gold Ratio While gold is trading near all-time highs, platinum is trading about $700 below its all-time high reached in 2008. Since 1972, platinum has*traded at about 1.35 times the price of Gold on average. Right now, however,*platinum is even cheaper than gold, trading at only 0.92 times the price of Gold. This is a [...]

Perth Mint Silver / High Numismatic Potential

If you are a stacker or collector of Silver coins you are probably already familiar with the Perth Mint Lunar Series. After the success of their first Lunar releases that began in 1999 the Perth Mint kicked off Series II with release of the 2008 Year of the Mouse coin. The most recent coin, 2011 [...]

Wildlife Series Canadian Maples/ Future Numismatic Upside

I wanted to alert you to an opportunity I see taking place in a certain silver coin…. One year ago, the Canadian Mint began producing a “Wildlife Series” coin with a strict mintage of one million ounces with 5 future introductions of a different animal every 6 months…. First coin that was produced in the [...]

Platinum Portfolio ($250,000-$1,500,000)

Silver Portfolio ($10,000-$50,000)

Junk Silver: Understanding the Calculation

I get confused on calculating ” junk silver” so I might be writing this for my benefit as much as yours. Anyway, I have been hearing the word survival coins attached to this type of silver, so don’t get confused. In my opinion, 90% silver (junk silver) is the cheapest form of investment silver. The [...]

Emergency Food Basics: Preparation for Hyperinflation

Dollar Collapse Preparation Thread: My Low-Budget Steps + What Steps You Have Taken To Prepare

A kid in college taking it upon himself to prepare for some tough times ahead… After following the words of Dr. Paul, Peter Schiff, Marc Faber and Jim Rodgers for a few years now, I feel that I am pretty much 100% jaded towards the near-term and medium term outlook for the United States. I [...]

5 Worst Silver Coins To Own

People can choose to buy silver coins for a variety of reasons: Maybe they like a particular coin’s design, or its history, or they just like holding on to it. Maybe they derive happiness from having all of the coins of a particular set. Or maybe they enjoy owning a particular coin simply because it [...]

Top Five Silver Coins

In the cult comedy classic UHF, the antagonist R.J. Fletcher unknowingly gives a rare collectible penny to a panhandling bum. “Don’t spend it all in one place,” says evil-businessman Fletcher, thinking the coin is only worth one cent. The bum, however, knows the coin’s worth and thanks Fletcher profusely. Later, the bum foils Fletcher’s plot [...]