Saturday, November 24, 2012

Gold: A Reliable Financial Investment

By Michael Fung


Considering the fact that gold can't be built or created for the whim of greedy politicos, it cannot be devalued as speedily as the paper currencies that may be printed as needed each time.

Let's take notice about this. The pending currency devaluation is approaching towards us rapidly. As opposed to doing nothing about it and observing it from a distance as it is unfolding, protect yourself against and take advantage from this major crisis that could possibly fundamentally render your paper assets worthless.

We saw a preview of this kind of debacle quite recently. In early 2006 a currency plunge triggered an avalanche of sell orders in emerging markets from Brazil to Indonesia. The Icelandic krona plunged nearly 10 percent in only two days, dragging down Icelandic stocks and bonds with it and subsequently spread to Brazil, Mexico, Poland and Turkey.

A prelude to this was the crash of Asian Forex of 1997, which sent shares south like ducks in winter season. Financial institutions, insurance companies, housing and debt instruments also fled the scene. The only real sensible choice still left was gold.

In the event of another such decline in currency values, gold may possibly be worth at least 10 times its current value.

How can this projection be real? Let's look at it this way: for all practical purpose, gold cannot be created out of thin air in a hurry. Therefore it cannot be devalued as rapidly as other assets because all other paper currencies can be printed on demand as need arise.

Any time when paper money is backed by gold, $1 in paper denomination should be backed by a single dollar's predefined value in gold. In the time when paper currencies aren't any longer backed by gold, governments can print them just as considerably and as rapidly as desired. Certainly, most governments in the modern world have taken their currencies away from the gold backing and that's why paper assets have no intrinsic worth.

As a result, most major trading institutions only speculate short term between those currencies and their associated local values, such as stocks or bonds, and then they convert their profit into gold. This is where some major financial firms specialize in global trading and diversification. They made money in both currency trading, and U.S. small stocks that recently acquired dual listings with the European exchange. They then convert half of their profit every month into gold on behalf of their clients.




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