Posts Tagged ‘Gold’
The Relationship between Gold and Inflation
July 7th, 2010 | Author: Will Holt
Historically, gold has been used as a hedge against inflation. During the run up in to its peak price in 1980, gold was chasing the inflation rate as investors feared that their purchasing power was going to be destroyed by runaway prices. What they didn’t realize was that the inflation rate had already peaked above [...]
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A Gold Standard?
February 22nd, 2010 | Author: Will Holt
The gold standard discussion in the mainstream media over the last year or so has been driven by the extreme measures taken by the Federal Reserve to shore up our banking system during the credit crisis. Brad Delong, an economics professor at U.C. Berkeley has an interesting summary of why the gold standard monetary policy [...]
Should We Be Investing in Gold?
February 12th, 2010 | Author: Chad Smith
Investing in gold is on the tip of many investors’ tongues these days. The fact that gold has tripled in value over the last seven years and recently has been hovering at a price of $1,100 an ounce, has certainly helped. This is coupled with the realization that gold has outperformed most of the major [...]
