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Stewardship

Silver & Gold: Why? How?

by Wes Bridel on October 24, 2011

in Stewardship

We’re continuing a series on silver and gold in which I’m including parts of a letter I drew up to document our rationale for the board of an associations decision to hold gold and silver for a portion of savings.  This association currently holds US Dollar cash as its only form of savings.  I’m going [...]

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Gold & Silver: Out of Favor, About to Take Off?

by Wes Bridel on October 21, 2011

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Gold and Silver have lost all favor.  We’re started a series discussing the precious metals markets here, and those pieces will continue, but some important information has come out between the time we wrote the series and the time we’re editing them for the blog.  This post will quickly address this important information.
The Weekly Commitment [...]

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The Reasons to Buy Gold & Silver

by Wes Bridel on October 19, 2011

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Gold and silver markets have been extremely volatile.  We began a new series on this topic here.  Today, we’ll finish our explanation of the big picture view of the market and then give the details of why it’s important to have exposure to gold and silver as a hedge against the financial chaos currently mounting!
The [...]

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Gold & Silver on Sale

by Wes Bridel on October 5, 2011

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Gold and Silver have seen big corrections to begin the traditionally strong Fall season.  It’s important to ask yourself, “Is this correction a good buying opportunity or is it the beginning of crash from an all time high?” (See recent pre-rocket launch gold commentary here.)   I’m on a board that manages a small amount [...]

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I read an interesting article recently called “The Rage of the Indignants” which talks about the phenomenon sweeping the globe of people being fed up with their governments and leaders.  This article is from Spiegel in Germany and focuses on the mass movements of people in many of the major capitals of Europe revolting against [...]

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Economic Turmoil in the 2nd Half of 2011?

by Wes Bridel on June 10, 2011

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What do we know that will lead towards or away from Economic Turmoil? (See beginning of newsletter here.)
The largest holder of US Debt (after the US Federal Reserve that is) is China.  Just this week they announced that they would be drastically reducing the amount of US Debt which they hold.  So they are a [...]

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The Fed’s Big Decision

by Wes Bridel on June 8, 2011

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That leads us to the Fed’s Big Decision. (Find Part 1 Here)

The current QE2 will end at the June 30th.  The Fed can’t really ignore what has been going on any longer.  The US Dollar has fallen dramatically since QE2 was announced.  It’s within only a couple points of reaching its all time low against [...]

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Selling Put & Call Options: A Full Cycle
We’ve now shown you how to sell put and call options for income. How do these two option strategies fit together?  Very nicely.  You can sell Put Options until you are put the stock and then sell covered call options until your stock is called away.  If the [...]

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The Federal Reserve’s Problem

by Wes Bridel on June 3, 2011

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The Federal Reserve & Ben Bernanke held his first press conference yesterday.  He maintained that the Federal Reserve would not be changing course yet.  The Dollar continued to fall and gold and silver continued to surge.  Today’s letter will take a look at the predicament the Federal Reserve finds itself in.
Which is better the rock [...]

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The Extreme Income Portfolio

by Wes Bridel on May 27, 2011

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An Income Portfolio is not easy for most people to come by today, but since we’ve been discussing various portfolios for different types of people, we wanted to show you a way to create a portfolio that pays you a large income.  Meet our newest couple…
Louis & Janette need income!  They are really depressed at [...]

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