At the end of this month, the US Federal Reserve’s second bout of quantitative easing (QE2), or money printing, comes to an end. It will have bought $600bn of US Treasury securities with newly-created money …
Can gold climb without QE?
Category: Gold
An absolute must for serious investors
I was in the middle of typing up my intended topic for today: Why now is the time for investment in antiques. It was looking like an interesting piece. But then I started listening to …
Should you punt everything on gold?
Recently, I’ve been talking about the grave risks of relying too heavily on sterling assets for your savings. The brutal fact is that things are going to get a whole lot dearer for us poor …
Has gold further to go?
Last year, billionaire financier George Soros said he thought gold was “the ultimate bubble”. So those worried that gold could be nearing the end of its ten-year bull market have noted that he has sold …
Gold could rise as far as $12,000 – but will peak by 2015, says Robin Griffiths
Silver might have tanked recently but famed City chartist Robin Griffiths thinks it will go up ten-fold in the next few years. Likewise he thinks gold, which has wobbled of late and currently trades at …
This great stock could go from zero to the FTSE 100 in a week
This great stock could go from zero to the FTSE 100 in a week My plan with The Right Side is to bring you ideas of how to make money from the markets. We’ve had some …
Gold and silver hit new highs – but gold is a safer bet for now
Another week, another high in gold and silver. Gold has set a new all-time peak around $1,520 an ounce and silver has almost matched its 1980 peak of $50 an ounce. While gold has made …
How much gold should you own?
In the last Right Side I told you about a fascinating discussion I had with Simon Caufield in Paris recently. We talked about the City. And we talked about the best ways that you, as …
Why gold really is your best defence
I wrote a few mild criticisms of Warren Buffett last week. It didn’t go too badly on the hate mail front – but I didn’t get away with it entirely, either. One reader wrote in …
The race to seize colossal gold resources in ‘elephant country’
Alexander Betts began smelting and refining precious metals in Birmingham’s jewellery quarter in 1760. Remarkably, the business is still there today. And if you are ever tempted to answer Dale Winton’s plea to ‘cash your …