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Only mere months ago were analysts calling for individuals to buy gold like it was well, gold. Now as stocks seem to be on the up and up, suddenly precious yellow metal is less in vogue, at least by the golden standard. Gold is considered to be the safest bet in terms of commodities holding or increasing value in questionable economic times. When the strength of currency comes into question, banks around the world purchase gold as a store of currency, as gold holds value at a higher rate than its paper and even precious metal counterparts. It should come as no surprise then the demand for gold has increased over the since recession induced panic throughout the United States.Still sitting well over 1,300 per ounce, to say gold has completely fallen out of favor would be far too extreme. After all, it was only within the last 3 years, March of 2008 to be precise, that the price of gold first rose above the 1,000 per ounce plateau. Breaking 1,400 at its high water mark, it appears gold astronomical rise is finally cooling, however, largely due to the relative leveling out of the United States economy, believed to be well on its way to recovery. So is it time to sell your gold? Read the rest of this entry »

The beginning of this month saw a paradigm shift among voting tendencies of the American people. As the economic epicenter of the global and world leader in policy, any changes in the American markets certainly feel a powerful ripple overseas. As we saw in the economic meltdown, the world economy is an ecosystem. When the most powerful presence in the world trade system suddenly taking a hit, in what began with the housing crisis and quickly spread to major flaws in the financial sector, the entire rest of the world soon found itself in an equally critical free fall. With the Dow Jones dropping and stocks reaching record lows, shareholders not only in the United States but far and wide soon felt the effects of money tightening, or in worst cases disappearing entirely. Conversely, a healthy United States makes for a generally healthy world, not to say the US is immune from financial crisis elsewhere. Read the rest of this entry »