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 &lt;/span&gt;No-one should be surprised to invest and see it fall, even short term, by 40-50% back to the 900$ level.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;What am I basing this on?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It is exactly what happened in 1976, when it fell from 200$ to 100$, even as the long term trend was for gold to move another 5 times higher in 4 years.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;1976 must have been a very hard year to sit there and talk to your friends about gold and reconcile the long term belief with what was really happening in the market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"&gt;The point I want to make is that anything is a risk, but gold is much more of a risk at 1800$ than it was at 400$, when it really could not have fallen much further at all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"&gt;What can you do about it, even if you want to invest in gold or silver now?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Invest monthly in small amounts, via physical bullion ETFs or the internet gold sites such as BullionVault or Goldmoney and promise within yourself to keep those monthly savings going, after all, falling prices mean you actually buy more ounces each month!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-8435894886814612088?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/8435894886814612088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=8435894886814612088' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/8435894886814612088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/8435894886814612088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2012/02/gold-is-risky-investment.html' title='Gold is a Risky Investment'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-78863840364181741</id><published>2012-02-16T03:04:00.004-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-16T03:10:18.645-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HOW TO INVEST IN GOLD AND SILVER'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lulu Discount code'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SUCCESSFUL TAX-FREE ISA INVESTING'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lulu.com'/><title type='text'>LULU Discount Code FEBRUARYCART305GBP Valid Until 19th Feb 2012 on This Gold and Silver Investing Book</title><content type='html'>SUCCESSFUL TAX-FREE ISA INVESTING / HOW TO INVEST IN GOLD AND SILVER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Purchase &lt;a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/2652576"&gt;SUCCESSFUL TAX-FREE ISA INVESTING&lt;/a&gt; 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Great offer from a great website.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-78863840364181741?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/78863840364181741/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=78863840364181741' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/78863840364181741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/78863840364181741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2012/02/lulu-discount-code-februarycart305gbp.html' title='LULU Discount Code FEBRUARYCART305GBP Valid Until 19th Feb 2012 on This Gold and Silver Investing Book'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-8266349292083530936</id><published>2009-04-30T06:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T06:10:04.131-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='indian gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='investgold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold india'/><title type='text'>InvestGold India</title><content type='html'>India has long been reknowned as the last gold standard nation, where, perhaps, the memory of some long-ago fiat money crisis is so ingrained into the population, that they still perceive gold as the ultimate store of value.  With this in mind, Invest Gold has now launched an Indian version of it's site, which can be seen at &lt;a href="http://www.goldinvest.in"&gt;InvestGold India&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-8266349292083530936?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/8266349292083530936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=8266349292083530936' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/8266349292083530936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/8266349292083530936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2009/04/investgold-india.html' title='InvestGold India'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-7525131093278206614</id><published>2008-09-12T05:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-12T05:39:17.165-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='perth mint'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HOW TO INVEST IN GOLD AND SILVER'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goldmoney'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buy gold'/><title type='text'>When is investing in gold and silver not investing in gold and silver?</title><content type='html'>I just saw a fresh review of the book on Amazon.  While I am slightly disappointed "Grasshopper" wasn't a fan, and I do apologise, I am grateful to those people who contacted me thanking me for an insight into an alternative world of hard currency that most people have never known existed.  Given that spread betting and options are, as most experienced gold investors would agree, investments on the &lt;em&gt;price&lt;/em&gt; of Gold or Silver over a given timeframe, rather than an investment on the long-term value of the metal itself, only a short amount of page space was required to explain them.  Reading between the lines, you'll see that my only real recommendations are gold bullion coins (preferably sovereigns although that's because I live in the UK), or a trusted internet gold supplier such as Goldmoney, where you can access your gold and spend it from any location worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When it comes to Gold mining stocks, I agree the returns can be explosive, but they are very exposed to the vagaries of governments, who during a crisis will probably stop at nothing to confiscate assets, etc.  and when you look at ETFs and Perth Mint certificates, there are rumours that the gold and silver behind them is not as real as it could be, if you know what I mean.  Even more galling when you consider the storage fees often charged.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-7525131093278206614?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/7525131093278206614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=7525131093278206614' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7525131093278206614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7525131093278206614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/09/when-is-investing-in-gold-and-silver.html' title='When is investing in gold and silver not investing in gold and silver?'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-454097676767800495</id><published>2008-07-24T13:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T13:57:12.503-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bonds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government borrowing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='golden rule'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inflation'/><title type='text'>Gordon’s Golden Rule gets Stretched</title><content type='html'>Time to go back onto other taxes, one of my favourite taxes, basically because no-one understands that it is a tax, reared it’s ugly head.  I am, of course talking about &lt;em&gt;Inflation&lt;/em&gt;.  In this case, the word was not even mentioned, yet it is the obvious net effect of future government policy.  As Gordon and Alistair employ an army of skivvies to stretch, mangle and twist the “golden rule” for government borrowing, statements have already been made that the overpressed British taxpayer will not be expected to dip any deeper into his or her pockets.  Net outcome therefore is that&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a) The government intends to borrow money by issuing more government bonds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;b) These guys have no idea how basic economics work.  The resultant inflation and pound devaluation will do more damage to people’s pockets.  Although a cynic might argue they know that, but hope it won’t happen until after the next general election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any attempt to issue more sterling denominated bonds means that more Pounds will be created.  The government is obviously the one who gets its hands on these new pounds and feeds them into the economy through it’s own spending.  After that, these pounds continue to circulate, diluting the purchasing power of the pounds already in existence.  Overall, you can see why this is a good plan for Brown and Darling, although there has never been a clearer signal of why you should pull your money almost totally out of Pounds Sterling.  The only solution therefore, considering the currency alternatives are Euros (20% dearer than what they cost last year), Dollars (could work out short-term,  but the US has the same longer-term problems as us) or Gold and silver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can probably guess what I’ll be choosing, especially given I'm the author of &lt;a href="http://www.investgold.co.uk"&gt;How to Invest in Gold and Silver&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-454097676767800495?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/454097676767800495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=454097676767800495' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/454097676767800495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/454097676767800495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/07/gordons-golden-rule-gets-stretched.html' title='Gordon’s Golden Rule gets Stretched'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-4222534195205905733</id><published>2008-06-11T15:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T15:44:32.903-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='how to invest gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wow gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='world of warcraft gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buy gold'/><title type='text'>Buy WOW Gold</title><content type='html'>I recently noticed a huge increase in the number of hits  to my core site, &lt;a href="http://www.investgold.co.uk"&gt;www.investgold.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;.  One of the major search terms was that displayed above.  aside from any thought of "Wow, gold has done well these past few years...", I must explain that WOW is an acronym of &lt;a href="http://www.wowgold.eu"&gt;World of Warcraft&lt;/a&gt;, where gold is the main currency used in trade, in this fantastic, multi-player game, with millions of players worldwide, all connected through their PCs and an internet connection.  Funny how the creators of this game, probably unwittingly, identified gold as the one true worldwide currency.  (Actually, I wonder if inflation can be created in this game through over-issue of currency units?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyhow, to deflect such visitors, I recommend they visit &lt;a href="http://www.wowgold.eu"&gt;www.wowgold.eu&lt;/a&gt;, and check out some of the books for sale advising of the multitude of ways to obtain more gold through the game, legally and 100% above board.  The US Fed, bank of England and EU central bank could all probably learn a thingor two....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-4222534195205905733?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/4222534195205905733/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=4222534195205905733' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/4222534195205905733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/4222534195205905733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/06/buy-wow-gold.html' title='Buy WOW Gold'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-4504846958663936143</id><published>2008-06-04T13:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-04T13:22:18.101-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='how to invest gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='core belief'/><title type='text'>My core belief in life</title><content type='html'>My core belief in life is that no man has any right whatsoever to the earnings or productivity of another man, unless the other man assigns him that right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously, in todays taxation nation society, this right is not being given, and in fact, governments probably need to become more understanding of the fact that many people today are outwardly resentful of the way others are helping themselves to their earnings, pruductivity and past earnt wealth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Government is finished long term, simply because for now they choose to spend the earnings of the productive segment of society on schemes to secure the votes of the non-earning, parasitic portion of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, the more you look into life in general, the more you realise everything is set up to steal your productivity and "redistribute" it to the lazy and the useless.&lt;br /&gt;But thanks to the internet, globalisation, and the greater and freer movement of people, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Deep down, I'm quite optimistic that governments control over their more productive citizens is coming to an end, although there are many years of struggle on the way. It's a secret war that's already going on in many places, witness the USA and it's "patriot act", supposedly a law to counter terrorism, but really an attempt at controlling its citizens, or the EU savings directive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exciting and potentially troubling times ahead. I recommend we all watch governments like a hawk, and be prepared to move if the going gets too tough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where does gold fit into all this?  Well, quite simply, it's the ultimate hard currency and way to put yourself outside of all the issues I just mentioned.  Everyone should have some.  Everyone whose ethos falls on the productive side of the equation, anyway!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-4504846958663936143?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/4504846958663936143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=4504846958663936143' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/4504846958663936143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/4504846958663936143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-core-belief-in-life.html' title='My core belief in life'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-6904126833252613561</id><published>2008-05-09T12:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-09T12:31:18.708-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='invest silver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inside look'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cheap gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HOW TO INVEST IN GOLD AND SILVER'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inside peek'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inflation'/><title type='text'>HOW TO INVEST IN GOLD AND SILVER</title><content type='html'>Time for a sneak inside look at what's covered by the new book &lt;a href="http://www.investgold.co.uk/"&gt;HOW TO INVEST IN GOLD AND SILVER&lt;/a&gt;, by ALAN DUNWIDDIE. Here's the contents page, to give you a taster :-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;INTRODUCTION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;INFLATION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;GOLD AND SILVER AS MONEY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;GOLD CONSPIRACIES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;GOLD AND SILVER COINS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;GOLD AND SILVER BARS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;JEWELLERY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;OTHER GOLD AND SILVER ITEMS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;STORING YOUR GOLD AND SILVER SAFELY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;INVESTMENT FUNDS AND MINING STOCKS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;SPREAD BETTING&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;THE FUTURES MARKET&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;DERIVATIVES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;PERTH MINT CERTIFICATES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;ELECTRONIC GOLD AND SILVER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;E-GOLD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;GOLDMONEY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;BULLIONVAULT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;OTHER WAYS TO INVEST&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;GOLD AND SILVER INVESTING SCAMS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;SUMMARY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHOR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;RECOMMENDED RESOURCES &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-6904126833252613561?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/6904126833252613561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=6904126833252613561' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/6904126833252613561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/6904126833252613561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-invest-in-gold-and-silver.html' title='HOW TO INVEST IN GOLD AND SILVER'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-7422995261107269101</id><published>2008-05-07T13:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-07T13:51:48.742-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='strong euro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='single currency'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pound devaluation'/><title type='text'>Should Britain join the Euro?</title><content type='html'>I used to be strongly in favour of a single European currency, and my partner is from the continent, but after living over there for 3 years, I've completely revised my opinion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Culturally, Europe is much more socialist and controlling, when compared with the historic British attitude of an island nation based on international trade and financial freedoms, as evidenced by our reputation as one of the best places to conduct international business, and our base as the world's leading financial centre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using the old dictum that "he who controls the currency controls the nation", by giving up the national currency, you are also giving up much of the control and handing it to another power, with vested interests of its own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately, at this point in time, most Britons realise this and are opposed to the single currency. We all know this, so why even bother going to the expense and hassle of a referendum?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-7422995261107269101?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/7422995261107269101/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=7422995261107269101' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7422995261107269101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7422995261107269101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/05/should-britain-join-euro.html' title='Should Britain join the Euro?'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-3410269361101288971</id><published>2008-05-02T11:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-02T11:59:22.757-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='how to invest gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='invest silver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cheap gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='a dunwiddie'/><title type='text'>How to Invest in Gold and Silver New Book Release</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/8792295029?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=inmo-21&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1634&amp;amp;creative=6738&amp;amp;creativeASIN=8792295029"&gt;How to Invest in Gold and Silver&lt;/a&gt; is now available at all good bookshops, including &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/8792295029?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=inmo-21&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1634&amp;amp;creative=6738&amp;amp;creativeASIN=8792295029"&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt; and Book Depository.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a major release to allow greater access to this this unique guide for beginners to the world of investing in precious metals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/8792295029?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=inmo-21&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1634&amp;amp;creative=6738&amp;amp;creativeASIN=8792295029"&gt;How to Invest in Gold and Silver&lt;/a&gt; explains in laymans terms the weaknesses behind the present day financial system and why gold has endured throughout history. It gives clear reasons why you should be investing at least some of your savings in the worlds oldest currency and explains the various ways you can invest profitably. Some of these ways have previously been open to experts and the very wealthy only, but are now available to all. Some of the ways like digital currency are completely newly created by the internet and offer great scope for diversifying your portfolio and improving your investment returns. Unlike many books of this type, the information inside and investing options are just as valid for UK, European Union (EU) or worldwide residents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An unmissable book full of money-saving information that will help you add a major pillar of safety to your investment portfolio.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-3410269361101288971?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/3410269361101288971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=3410269361101288971' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/3410269361101288971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/3410269361101288971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-invest-in-gold-and-silver-new.html' title='How to Invest in Gold and Silver New Book Release'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-1680382380454175607</id><published>2008-04-06T07:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-06T07:46:15.249-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bullionvault'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goldmoney'/><title type='text'>GoldMoney changes its charging structure</title><content type='html'>Goldmoney has decided to change it's Gold storage charging structure from a fixed fraction of a goldgram per month, regardless of holding size, to a % of the total value of gold held.  I must admit, that for me, this fixed fee was one of the best features of Goldmoney, since it gave me extra encouragement to add even small regular sums to my Goldmoney holding, since they would not be subject to an extra storage fee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're still looking for fixed fee gold storage, the best deal for larger holdings, then consider &lt;a href="http://www.bullionvault.com/from/dunwidda"&gt;BullionVault&lt;/a&gt;, which continues to adopt this policy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;t must be said that you will need to calculate your own costs, since even though the Goldmoney fee could add a lot to the expense of your gold holding, whether it is worth selling and then paying new buying fees is another matter.  I guess this is the attitude Goldmoney expect the majority of their customers to have.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-1680382380454175607?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/1680382380454175607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=1680382380454175607' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/1680382380454175607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/1680382380454175607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/04/goldmoney-changes-its-charging.html' title='GoldMoney changes its charging structure'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-1776808045557005176</id><published>2008-03-21T13:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T13:11:42.320-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver shortage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='invest silver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver boom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver investment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver investing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver'/><title type='text'>Silver shortages</title><content type='html'>There are rumours these past few days, partly thanks to Jason Hommels Silver Stock Report, of a silver shortage in the USA and Canada.  Interestingly, for all the conspiracy theorists out there, Silver has dropped approx 10% these past few days alone.  Now, if that doesn't fit the description of a conspiracy theory, what does?  Desperate short-sellers trying to flush out a few naive sellers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No such problems in Europe, where the mainstream are not at all onto this story thanks to a strong Euro  and the disappointing rule where VAT of between 15-25% is added to the price of Silver bullion.  They may regret missing their chance though, and there are in fact many ways to buy silver and avoid paying the VAT even in if you live in the EU.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can find out what they are in the new book on &lt;a href="http://www.investgold.co.uk/"&gt;How to Invest in Gold and Silver&lt;/a&gt;. It will repay its purchase price many times over.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-1776808045557005176?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/1776808045557005176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=1776808045557005176' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/1776808045557005176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/1776808045557005176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/03/silver-shortages.html' title='Silver shortages'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-7335018583726595098</id><published>2008-03-19T16:20:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-19T16:34:05.169-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free voucher code'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='play.com'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cheap laptop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='play'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='play voucher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='play laptop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acer laptop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='play code'/><title type='text'>CHEAP LAPTOP OFFER</title><content type='html'>3 of my favourite things in the entire world are :-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Shopping online at reputable net stores&lt;br /&gt;2) Getting a bargain&lt;br /&gt;3) paying NO Sales Taxes to Greedy Goverments&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And thanks to my contacts in the industry, Play.com, one of the stars of tax-free shopping, have allowed me to pass on this discount code &lt;strong&gt;ACER40&lt;/strong&gt;, which enables you to claim an amazing EXTRA £40 off when you buy an Acer Laptop from them &lt;a href="http://playcom.at/dunwidda?DURL=http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/3-/141623/2-/Promo.html?dpr=141623"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The laptops are available &lt;a href="http://playcom.at/dunwidda?DURL=http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/3-/141623/2-/Promo.html?dpr=141623"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on the Play.com site and the code to enable the discount on the laptops is &lt;strong&gt;ACER40&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The laptop code is only valid against the four products &lt;a href="http://playcom.at/dunwidda?DURL=http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/3-/141623/2-/Promo.html?dpr=141623"&gt;listed&lt;/a&gt; and will expire at midnight on Wednesday 26/3/08.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-7335018583726595098?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/7335018583726595098/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=7335018583726595098' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7335018583726595098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7335018583726595098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/03/cheap-laptop-offer.html' title='CHEAP LAPTOP OFFER'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-4071543888736653473</id><published>2008-03-15T05:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-15T05:47:44.131-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='invest silver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver boom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver users association'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver investing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sua'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='investgold'/><title type='text'>Why Silver is on the up too</title><content type='html'>Gold is a purer representative of true wealth than silver.  Although both metals have been heavily used throughout history as currency and to represent wealth, Gold has few uses apart from as money, whereas Silver is a heavily used industrial commodity and that can affect its price and desirability outside of any investment considerations.  For example, some commentators are convinced that the rise of digital photography and the resultant downturn in traditional photography will result in a massive decrease in demand for silver, affecting the price as a result.  This may or may not turn out to be true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a much used industrial commodity, it is in the best interests of many to keep the price as low as possible for as long as possible.  It is thought by many commentators that the price has been manipulated for many years to be artificially low, and is in no way representative of how much Silver exists in physical form.  For example, on COMEX, the main New York USA exchange for trading silver, there may be more short sales than there is silver to back them up.  If this is true, then imagine what would happen if those sellers were all forced to buy silver on the open market to meet their promises?  And more importantly, would they even be able to?  In the USA, there is even a Silver Users Association, representing the viewpoint of businesses that consume silver, and lobbying government when necessary to protect those interests.  They successfully managed to delay, but not stop, the introduction of the first ever Silver investment fund, the Barclays iShares Silver ETF in 2006 (for an explanation of ETFs, see the Exchange-Traded Funds chapter).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read more about this, and other gold and silver government conspiracies, in the new book on &lt;a href="http://www.investgold.co.uk/"&gt;How to Invest in Gold and Silver&lt;/a&gt;.  It will repay its purchase price many times over.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-4071543888736653473?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/4071543888736653473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=4071543888736653473' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/4071543888736653473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/4071543888736653473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-silver-is-on-up-too.html' title='Why Silver is on the up too'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-349005844624774040</id><published>2008-03-15T05:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-15T05:31:10.986-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cheap gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bullionvault'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold investing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='investgold'/><title type='text'>BullionVault Explained</title><content type='html'>Founded by Paul Tustain, &lt;a href="http://www.bullionvault.com/from/dunwidda"&gt;Bullionvault&lt;/a&gt; is UK-based, although an additionally interesting feature is the ability to store your gold in their New York, London or Zurich gold vaults.  Dependent on which country you are a citizen of, you will probably feel most comfortable placing your gold outside of that country so that is not subject to your local government jurisdiction, so top marks for considering that feature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bullionvault.com/from/dunwidda"&gt;BullionVault&lt;/a&gt; allows you to buy and sell Gold on their impressive looking trading platform, where buyers and sellers of gold from each vault can meet and state their required selling/buying prices, so if you are more inclined to hold gold, occasionally sell on a dip, then buy in again later, then this could well be the best service for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their fees for transactions and monthly storage are really low too, so they are very worthy of investigation.  The storage fee is currently $4 per month fixed, regardless of holding size, and only payable for the months in which you held Gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, &lt;a href="http://www.bullionvault.com/from/dunwidda"&gt;Bullionvault&lt;/a&gt; has proved popular with Gold Bugs accumulating gold for the future financial crisis they believe is in the offing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Payment in to &lt;a href="http://www.bullionvault.com/from/dunwidda"&gt;BullionVault&lt;/a&gt; is by bank transfer.  Payment out is by bank wire transfer to your chosen bank account.  A fee of approximately $30 is charged for this transfer, although there may be possibilities for UK residents to request a BACs transfer instead, which can take a few days but will not attract a fee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bullionvault.com/from/dunwidda"&gt;BullionVault&lt;/a&gt; are currently offering a free gram of gold to all new account openings&lt;/strong&gt;, which you can then use to experiment with trading in their system.  Even if you open an account, you are not committed in any way, so well worth trying out to see if it’s for you.  Visit &lt;a href="http://www.investgold.co.uk/"&gt;http://www.investgold.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; to learn more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Overall, &lt;a href="http://www.bullionvault.com/from/dunwidda"&gt;Bullionvault&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent service. Both they and &lt;a href="http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=4861441"&gt;E-gold&lt;/a&gt; seem like decent operations, with much security behind them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-349005844624774040?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/349005844624774040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=349005844624774040' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/349005844624774040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/349005844624774040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/03/bullionvault-explained.html' title='BullionVault Explained'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-152844439923814073</id><published>2008-03-15T05:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-15T05:25:26.122-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eplatinum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='epalladium'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-silver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='esilver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-palladium'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='electronic gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-platinum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cybergold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='egold'/><title type='text'>E-Gold explained</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=4861441"&gt;E-Gold&lt;/a&gt; was one of the first organisations to offer &lt;em&gt;internet&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;electronic gold&lt;/em&gt;.  It was started up by a Dr Jackson who strongly believes in the gold story, and that gold is due a comeback as the trusted medium of exchange.  &lt;a href="http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=4861441"&gt;E-gold&lt;/a&gt; started out in the USA and have since moved their jurisdiction to Nevis in the West Indies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They offer deposit facilities and also heavily promote the use of e-gold for payments. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People conducting business on the internet may find an &lt;a href="http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=4861441"&gt;e-gold&lt;/a&gt; account especially useful because of its slant towards being used as a medium of exchange, and even traditional businesses in countries with high inflation could use it in future to agree prices with customers in terms of gold regardless of what happens to their national currency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=4861441"&gt;E-Gold &lt;/a&gt;have had such success with Gold, that they are now offering &lt;a href="http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=4861441"&gt;e-Silver&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=4861441"&gt;e-Platinum&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=4861441"&gt;e-Palladium&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process for transferring money into and out of &lt;a href="http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=4861441"&gt;E-Gold&lt;/a&gt; involves the use of separate payment providers.  Authorised and recommended organisations are listed on their website.  There is a fee of approximately 2% for transfer of funds in and transfer of funds out, plus you may also be liable to local bank fees.  Different payment providers seem to have different fees, so it is well worth finding the best one for you.  This system is quite flexible in that you can use a variety of payment systems to transfer money in or out, such as a credit card or Paypal account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=4861441"&gt;E-Gold&lt;/a&gt; also charge a storage fee for the days in which you own precious metals within their system.  This is currently 1% per annum.  This system of charging could work well for smaller amounts, or where your metal is used as a medium for exchange and thus many days your account holding is zero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Overall, &lt;a href="http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=4861441"&gt;E-gold&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent service, with excellent levels of confidentiality you'll never find with a bank these days.  Both they and &lt;a href="http://www.bullionvault.com/from/dunwidda"&gt;Bullionvault&lt;/a&gt; seem like decent operations, with much security behind them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-152844439923814073?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/152844439923814073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=152844439923814073' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/152844439923814073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/152844439923814073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/03/e-gold-explained.html' title='E-Gold explained'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-2594769068833464692</id><published>2008-03-08T08:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-15T05:48:45.223-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bullionvault'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver investing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold investing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold pyramid scheme'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hyip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold scam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='egold'/><title type='text'>More Gold Investing Scammers</title><content type='html'>I couldn't help but visit this GoogleAd, Gold investing classic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinvest.biz/index.html"&gt;http://pinvest.biz/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which offers an amazing 1800% in 48 hours! Wow! With that kind of return I could own all the e-gold in the entire world within about 3 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll leave it up to you to decide if it's genuine or a scam, but with no address, telephone number or contact other than admin@ email address, I have already drawn my own conclusions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please don't do it...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-2594769068833464692?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/2594769068833464692/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=2594769068833464692' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/2594769068833464692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/2594769068833464692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-couldnt-help-but-visit-this-googlead.html' title='More Gold Investing Scammers'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-7080272551442101830</id><published>2008-02-24T16:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-24T16:42:11.920-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2010 crash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver boom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold boom'/><title type='text'>Let Gold Speak up Itself</title><content type='html'>Lately, I haven't been posting anything to this blog, and the answer is simply that it has been a time to let Gold and Silver do the talking.  It has been a fairly meteoric rise these past 2 months for the twin precious metals to bring them within sight of the landmark $1,000 gold level never before attained.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even though it's nice to see the 1980 high of $850 well and truly passed, my concern now is that every expert and his dog has been forecasting $1,000 gold in 2008, and with a general concensus of opinion like that then the inclination must be to consider calling it the other way now.  Not that I'm selling, as longer term the fundamentals of currency devaluation and inflation in the coming years are still in place.  Even though I'm too young to remember it, 1975-76 saw gold half in price from $200 to $100 and I can't help but feel something similar may be on the cards here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even though I am waiting for the big stock market crash, I also think the US and UK are about to wrench one more boom out of the economy with their dropping of interest rates against whatever the massaged, official inflation figures saw.  My prediction is 2010, a big crash and gold flying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in the absence of a crystal ball, genie or magic fairy, I'll stick with what I know and hold the gold and silver I've already got and leave it at that for the time being.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-7080272551442101830?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/7080272551442101830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=7080272551442101830' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7080272551442101830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7080272551442101830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/02/let-gold-speak-up-itself.html' title='Let Gold Speak up Itself'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-4479804195207277574</id><published>2008-01-14T12:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-14T12:36:08.838-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='investgold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold scam'/><title type='text'>Gold Investing Scams</title><content type='html'>Following on from my earlier posts, and my warnings in my book, "&lt;a href="http://www.investgold.co.uk/"&gt;How to Invest in Gold and Silver&lt;/a&gt;", I was intrigued to spot this is the Google Ads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://investmentforexonline.com/"&gt;Investment Forex online&lt;/a&gt; are offering amazing profits of 10% or more, per day!  Of course, the money must go through &lt;a href="http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=4861441"&gt;E-gold&lt;/a&gt; or E-Bullion, so anonimity and non-refundable cash, which more naive investors fail to realise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are no links to any contacts or meaningful sources of who might own this site, but If any of their representatives contact me and prove otherwise, I think it's a scam!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-4479804195207277574?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/4479804195207277574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=4479804195207277574' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/4479804195207277574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/4479804195207277574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2008/01/gold-investing-scams.html' title='Gold Investing Scams'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-3902013399418314442</id><published>2007-11-24T13:41:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T13:41:30.112-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='save vat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='euroshop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='expat shop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buy in eu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shop eu'/><title type='text'>How to Shop Online and Get the Best Prices Delivered to Your Door!</title><content type='html'>Living in Britain, I'd become used to logging on to the net and ordering whatever I fancied from sites like Amazon, VAT-free and no delivery costs, but two years ago, life took me to Denmark (or rather the missus did!), and boy, was I in for a shock!  Get this...a 25% sales tax, or MOMs, as it's called here on everything you buy, including food!  Even so, after I'd been here a few months, I naively logged onto Amazon to buy a few English books I fancied.  Everything looked fine as I added to my basket, but once at the checkout, the price of all the items more than DOUBLED, simply as a result of where they were being sent to.&lt;br /&gt;So, get this, Amazon is selling the same goods to you, from the same warehouse, but you have to pay twice the price?  Why?   Well, turns out it isn't Amazons fault at all.  You can blame the EU for this one, and this after all those years of cheek we were sold the EU with the excuse that it was going to be a free trade bloc of one big European Nation.  Just because your books are going to be delivered to Denmark instead of the UK you have to pay delivery (okay, that one you can cope with) and an extra 25% sales tax.  Ha ha, how I laughed as I gave up on my attempted purchase and prepared myself for a life of no reading ever again.&lt;br /&gt;But then I discovered, completely by chance, a rather nifty outfit called Play, who based themselves in a small island off the coast of France, called Jersey that has zero sales tax.  Better still, these guys even do free delivery to Denmark, and best of all to buy from them (or anywhere else in the world for that matter), is 100% legal, subject to certain limits. Wow, I was like a pig in.....err excuse me.  Anyhow, to say the least I was a very happy man and logging on every other night from thereon buying all of the books I could possibly get my hands on to make up for lost time.&lt;br /&gt;After this I really got into buying a lot of things I wanted elsewhere in the EU, and once you start getting into this buying abroad off the internet lark you'll realise that Amazon is the exception in charging Sales Taxes at the buyers' rate.  Most EU based companies will only charge their local rate, 100% legal again.  Well, this little bit of info opened up another new horizon!  Blimey, I even found a little-used, SECRET way of buying from Amazon and avoiding the Sales tax.  100% LEGAL again, and you can read about it here as I'm happy to give you this secret for free.&lt;br /&gt;Then I started thinking...how many other websites or shopping opportunities are there out there like this?  Completely legal opportunities to beat the taxman and keep more of your own money in your own pocket, while buying exactly what you want.  Hell, half this stuff isn't even available here!  The same probably applies to whatever European country you happen to be living in right now.  Am I right?&lt;br /&gt;Now, just think about all those people out there who know nothing about these sites.  Maybe this even includes you?  You come back from the UK with a holdall full of English books or decent underwear (my partner does!) simply because you think you'll never get the chance to stock up again.  Well, forget it!  Now you can buy from the comfort of your own home with delivery to your door!&lt;br /&gt;There is now a site of my favourite online shops!  These are personally tested and recommended shops with great prices, a fantastic range, and best of all, free or low delivery costs to Denmark and most of the rest of Europe.  You can visit it right now at &lt;a href="http://www.expatshop.eu/"&gt;www.expatshop.eu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-3902013399418314442?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/3902013399418314442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=3902013399418314442' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/3902013399418314442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/3902013399418314442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-shop-online-and-get-best-prices.html' title='How to Shop Online and Get the Best Prices Delivered to Your Door!'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-7693820308695310283</id><published>2007-11-22T02:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-22T02:58:31.235-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='strong euro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='budget deficit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar devaluation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trade deficit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='northern rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pound devaluation'/><title type='text'>Pound in freefall, but the dollar hides it</title><content type='html'>I must admit that I have been worried about the Pound for some time, what with the trade deficit, budget deficit and now the Northern Rock crisis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, the trade deficit bothers me least of the problems, as Britain has a large reputation for investing abroad.  The others are not so good.  especially the Northern Rock crisis, since the implication is the government have magically created the necessary backup reserves out of thin air (is there any other method?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I notice that in the past couple of months, the Pound has dropped about 6% against the Euro and Danish Krone.  This has hardly got a mention, as all the media are going on about the weakening Dollar and the bargains available for those taking a shopping trip to the USA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So please, Germany and Holland, don't give in to whingeing France and Italy about needing a weaker Euro, and the usual rubbish about generating exports.  A devalued currency helps no-one long term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it carries on like this, the Euro could become the world's new reserve currency, especially for pricing oil, at least until China is ready to claim its spot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just a thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for me, I'm off to browse the internet for some bargains from Britain...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-7693820308695310283?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/7693820308695310283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=7693820308695310283' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7693820308695310283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7693820308695310283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2007/11/pound-in-freefall-but-dollar-hides-it.html' title='Pound in freefall, but the dollar hides it'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-2692276313559369959</id><published>2007-11-21T03:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-21T03:41:48.673-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold Prices'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold Coins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold Market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold Stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver'/><title type='text'>Questions and Answers From The Author</title><content type='html'>This book, by Alan Dunwiddie, is the ideal gold and silver investing guide for beginners.  It is packed full of honest advice  on the whys and hows of investing in gold and silver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here, Alan answers some of your questions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.investgold.co.uk/invest_in_gold_and_silver_uk_fast_track.html"&gt;http://www.investgold.co.uk/invest_in_gold_and_silver_uk_fast_track.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-2692276313559369959?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/2692276313559369959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=2692276313559369959' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/2692276313559369959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/2692276313559369959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2007/11/questions-and-answers-from-author.html' title='Questions and Answers From The Author'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-7499548198115442459</id><published>2007-11-19T10:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-19T10:09:49.453-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fascist usa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1930s germany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='liberty dollar'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jZHepUhX3cYLnSqZV2tm_byrun3AD8SV1B5O2"&gt;http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jZHepUhX3cYLnSqZV2tm_byrun3AD8SV1B5O2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Liberty Dollar is now under attack by the US goverment, as well as E-gold.  It's no surprise, since to many, the USA is turning into a fascist state reminiscent of 1930s Germany.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What made me laugh was that apparently the Fed says their minting of Silver dollars violates the constitution.  Surely in any free nation, currency is whatever the people themselves decide it is, so if enough people had decided to use Liberty Dollars, in what way could that possibly have been illegal?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tragic.  In a funny way, I actually feel safer in the more socialist EU.  For a start, with 24 nations in the EU, the chances of them agreeing on anything cross-borders are remote, and if one country does become not to your liking, then the answer is to move to another one with rules that suit you better.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-7499548198115442459?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/7499548198115442459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=7499548198115442459' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7499548198115442459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7499548198115442459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2007/11/httpap.html' title=''/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-209702674511025187</id><published>2007-11-13T03:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-13T03:18:30.416-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hyip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold scam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold scams'/><title type='text'>Gold Investing cons</title><content type='html'>Please don't ever be conned by those dubious emails or websites offering you the chance to earn 0.5 to 5% PER DAY.  Through "e-currency", gold or whatever.  They often also chuck in a load of acronyms like HYIP  (high yield investment plan), and the like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just found this example advertising on Google Adwords.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://e-currencyprofitshome.com/?gclid=COjug5DY2Y8CFQJxaAodlSaW8g"&gt;http://e-currencyprofitshome.com/?gclid=COjug5DY2Y8CFQJxaAodlSaW8g&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anyone can truly find an investment that returns that much per day, the best approach would be to keep quiet until you owned all the money in the entire world, which, with compounding actually probably wouldn't take as long as you think!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are plenty of sites out there full of sad cases of people who are complaining about how their money has gone, no replies, no money back, etc.  Actually, I don't think they are totally to blame because of their naiveity, since none of us ever get the right financial training in school to prepare us for the serious financial decisions we'll have to make in our adult lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other sad thing is that E-gold is often the route for this money because it's harder to trace.  I don't blame e-gold in the slightest, as these irreversible payments are a feature of a cash-based society instead of a credit one, but it probably will affect their credibility longer term.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-209702674511025187?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/209702674511025187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=209702674511025187' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/209702674511025187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/209702674511025187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2007/11/gold-investing-cons.html' title='Gold Investing cons'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-7662202196207893331</id><published>2007-11-12T01:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T01:01:06.777-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='invest gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='invest silver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold investment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver investment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='investgold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inflation'/><title type='text'>The Big Government Inflation Game</title><content type='html'>When it comes to the official government inflation figures, these often understate true increases in the cost of living, due to the statistical reporting methods used.  As the famous old adage goes, there are "lies, damned lies and statistics", and nowhere could this be truer than here.  One trick is to reduce the real price still further if the assumed quality of an item included in the basket of goods has gone up in quality.  For example, a 2007 computer could be classified as ten times more powerful than a 1997 computer, and even though they have the same retail price of say, £1,000; the figures are adjusted downward due to the increased processing power: whether you really needed that extra processing power, or whether it is even possible to buy a 1997 specification computer is not considered.  Another trick is replacement, or substitution theory, where, say, if high quality beef rises in price, then it is assumed that many households will trade down to cheaper beef, or even some other type of meat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neither of these sound like correct ways to measure price increases in anything, but they do sound like nice ways to massage the true inflation figure downward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's the best way to get yourself and your savings outside of the inflationary, currency devaluation, welath destruction cycle?  &lt;a href="http://www.investgold.co.uk/"&gt;Buy Gold and Silver&lt;/a&gt;, and any other commodities you use in your daily life.  Historically proven to usually work.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-7662202196207893331?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/7662202196207893331/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=7662202196207893331' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7662202196207893331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7662202196207893331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2007/11/big-government-inflation-game.html' title='The Big Government Inflation Game'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-7002685543647302839</id><published>2007-10-20T12:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-20T12:44:48.565-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='low fee isa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='best isa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='share isa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cash isa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='good isa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='investment trust'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='unit trust'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etf'/><title type='text'>More Investing tips for UK Investors</title><content type='html'>If you live in the UK, you'll often hear  a lot about how great tax-free ISAs (Individual Savings Accounts) are.  But did you know about all the vested interests of financial advisors, banks, building societies and governments?  Furthermore, did you ever realise how these interests all revolve about how much money they can squeeze out of you without you noticing?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit the &lt;a href="http://www.doityourselfisa.co.uk/"&gt;Successful Tax-Free ISA Investing &lt;/a&gt;site and see this great new ebook that can give you all kinds of tips on saving fees and making the most of your investment pot.  It even explains how you can put plain old gold and silver into your ISA ...legally!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It'll pay itself back many times over, for sure.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-7002685543647302839?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/7002685543647302839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=7002685543647302839' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7002685543647302839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7002685543647302839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-investing-tips-for-uk-investors.html' title='More Investing tips for UK Investors'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6170758104382995172.post-7714074728105611648</id><published>2007-10-12T08:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-12T08:14:26.853-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-silver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='esilver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bullionvault'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goldinvest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goldmoney'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='invest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='investgold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='egold'/><title type='text'>Invest Gold UK</title><content type='html'>This blog has been created in conjunction with the new gold investing book &lt;a href="http://www.investgold.co.uk/"&gt;How to Invest in Gold and Silver&lt;/a&gt;, and website available at &lt;a href="http://www.investgold.co.uk/"&gt;Invest Gold UK&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hopefully it can become a forum for free and open Gold and Silver investing discussion.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6170758104382995172-7714074728105611648?l=investgold-uk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/feeds/7714074728105611648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6170758104382995172&amp;postID=7714074728105611648' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7714074728105611648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6170758104382995172/posts/default/7714074728105611648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://investgold-uk.blogspot.com/2007/10/invest-gold-uk.html' title='Invest Gold UK'/><author><name>VikingRaider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12138308063390183330</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
