Gold Investment Directory

Archive for December 9th, 2009

When you pick up a paper these days, it’s very easy to feel a bit down about the state our economy is in. It seems there’s one more company filing for bankruptcy every morning and even the funny pages are doing topical humor about the near-collapse of the American market. The news is simply unavoidable.

For serious investors, there just isn’t much in the way of good news to be found inside the daily paper… So if you want to pick your spirits up a bit, put down the paper and take a look at the gold spot price.

The last few months have been very kind to the gold spot price, keeping us in the upper eight hundreds and the nine hundreds per ounce, with enough growth that, if you bought gold at any time last year, you’ve most likely made a profit and in any event you’ve done well to protect yourself against the perpetual declines, collapses and bankruptcies we’ve seen in nearly every other market in the US.

As you know, the gold spot price has skyrocketed since a few years ago thanks largely to the unprecedented demand we’ve been seeing in the market, with investors, growing weary of the stock crashes and other crises, jumping into the gold coin game.

However, while it may be the big automakers and banks whose troubles make the front pages, not much mention is made of the collapsing middle class or the fact that the poor are having a harder time than ever making ends meet. For this reason, it’s a bit unfortunate that gold seems to be regarded as an asset-protecting tool afforded only to the incredibly wealthy.

It would certainly be a good thing for Americans for everyone to realize, first, that gold is accessible to literally anyone and second, that gold isn’t just for a recession, but to purchase at any time to safeguard yourself just in case of a recession.

Regarding the first point, whether you make a few million a year or fewer than thirty thousand, investment grade coins are available within your budget. While the current gold spot price puts the metal at nearly a thousand dollars an ounce, the tenth ounce investor coins, you can purchase a few pieces of peace of mind for less than the cost of a low-end car repair.

Regarding the second point, it is best to have some coins during a recession, but there are very few bad times to hold coins. Regardless of how the gold spot price performs during times of ease, that’s not when you need it the most. You need gold the most during a recession, but there’s no such thing as a bad time to hold the metal. The gold spot price may tend to perform best during times like these, but you

never know when “times like these” are just around the corner, so the wisest investors will always have some investments in gold.

So our advice is this: When you need some money, cash in some of your coins, but if you can help it, it’s always a good idea to keep some savings in the metal for a rainy day.