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Why Gold Went Up Now With The Feds QE3 – What This Means For Self Directed IRAs
This past week the Fed announced that it would engaged in a continuous stimulus program from now through 2015 due to the continued weak and anemic labor market. The Fed committed to a monthly outlay of $40B to purchase mortgage backed securities. the theory here being that this will help stimulate housing and subsequently the […]
Revisions downward for GNP – What This Means For Self Directed IRAs
What is GNP This is the broadest measure of the U.S. economy published by the BEA. Once the headline number, now it rarely is followed by the popular media. GDP is the GNP net of trade in factor income (interest and dividend payments). GNP growth usually is weaker than GDP growth for net-debtor nations. Games […]
Hyperinflation Around The Corner – Look At Your Self Directed IRA
We’ve recently seen the data that supports that the economy is not recovering, and in fact appears to be sinking back into recession. We’ve also seen that the Fed is going to continue to engage in operation twist, but as we’ve pointed out that’s likely to have little to no impact. There is a confluence […]
The End Of Cheap Oil And The Self Directed IRA
We’ve recently seen a significant decline in the price of oil. This has brought gas prices from north of $4 per gallon to the mid to high $3 per gallon range. This has people cheering as it saves them a few bucks each month. However, if you step back from the forest you will notice […]
The Looming Recession And The Self Directed IRA
The Fed is meeting to discuss new policies and strategies to deal with the looming recession. Their options are few and cannot always make up for bad government policy. We need to briefly look at some of these issues to see how this may affect your self directed IRA and your overall self directed IRA […]
Gold, Hyperinflation And Your Self Directed IRA
Will or would gold hold up under a hyperinflation scenario? This may sound like some sort of scifi, Ayn Rand scenario, but that’s what the people of the Weimar Republic of post WWI Germany thought and yet lived through. The people of Germany had to withstand price increases that doubled every 28 hours or 20 […]
Silver Supply And How This Affects Your Self Directed IRA
We’ve been looking at the fundamentals of silver and the most recent market prices in an effort to try and make sense of the low prices we are seeing for silver. We’ve posted a couple of recent article about putting silver in your self directed IRA and if the time is right. What we want […]
Should You Plan On Adding Silver To Your Self Directed IRA?
We’ve been watching the price and price movement of metals. We specifically have been looking at silver and trying to determine why silver has not bounced back a little. As a general statement, the gold silver ratio is lower than average, and that alone usually means some correction may be coming. Over the last week […]
Self Directed IRA Economic Update – How About That Jobs Number!
This past week we saw one of the fingers of instability give away in the form of a very poor jobs numbers. To be specific, there were only 69,000 new jobs added last month. This number came in at about 1/2 of the recent average and expectations. As you can see from the chart below, […]