Wealth Building Course

The world is abuzz these days with the talk of an imminent and upcoming Facebook IPO, or Initial Public Offering. Facebook has been somewhat tight lipped about the offering, but they have let out that if they sell their stock and bring in an enormous ten billion dollars for their imperious expansion plans, then they will make the world a better place due to both significant additional employment they create and to substantial technological innovation that they plan to introduce…[Continue Reading]

When you decide that you want to invest in silver, you have a variety of means to go about this activity. Two of the most popular silver investment vehicles are silver mining company stocks and silver exchange traded funds. There are many silver mining corporations that trade on the various major stock exchanges, but some of them are more viable than others. In the paragraphs that follow, you will learn about one of the best opportunities in silver corporation stocks…[Continue Reading]

Professional money managers will admit to you that it is not so easy to make money in the stock market in these current down economic times. When you see the markets plunge by hundreds of points in a day, sometimes for days at a time, you can get pretty discouraged about the old buy and hold strategy that your financial adviser has always pushed on your money in the stock market. The good news is that you can also make…[Continue Reading]

If you are unaware of the historical price relationship between gold and silver, then you are in the comfortable majority. It is a disadvantage not to understand the ratio that the two precious metals have traded at in the past, as you are missing out on opportunity to make money when the ratio changes to one extreme or the other. The good news is that you can effectively understand the proper balance between gold and silver prices, and it does…[Continue Reading]

Misery loves company, and particularly the company, comfort and security of gold. Since the financial breakdown of 2008, the Misery Index – unemployment and inflation added together – has been in a steep upward trajectory, so has the demand for gold coins and bullion. The Misery Index was first popularized by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential campaign. Reagan used it as a barometer for how well the country was doing economically. During Jimmy Carter’s presidency, the Misery Index hit…[Continue Reading]

Few investment vehicles have underwent as much scrutiny, criticism, and drama as real estate. The housing bubble didn’t merely pop back in 2007, after all; it exploded, and we are still feeling the aftershocks. Entire blocks have been surrendered to foreclosure, and prices have sunken deeply with no real indication that they will recover quickly. With all the doom and gloom in the market today about residential real estate investing, many would-be investors have turned away from this asset class…[Continue Reading]

Silver is an interesting precious metal in which you can invest. For many long years, it stayed in a depressed price range of from four to seven dollars per ounce. Since 2001, this trend has radically changed. Silver has run up from its old low a few years ago to nearly fifty dollars per ounce in 2011 and has peaked at just under its prior lifetime high along the way. The gray metal is a volatile animal though, and while…[Continue Reading]

These days, you hear a great deal of analysts and money managers suggest that you should allocate at least some of your investment dollars to precious metals such as silver. When you decide to take their advice and diversify a portion of your money out of the paper green back and into something tangible and real, you will need to think about how you will acquire your silver. In the paragraphs below, you will see that there are a number…[Continue Reading]

If you have followed the markets’ wild gyrations in the last month, you may wonder what causes them to rise and fall by three to five hundred points in a matter of a day or two almost every week. Even gold and silver prices have experienced incredible declines in the last few weeks that have shocked many believers in the future of the precious metals. The reason for these events is not a mystery. To understand why the markets are…[Continue Reading]

You should know that it is crucial for your personal economic well being and future to have a good financial education. When you think of ways that you can significantly improve your financial education, one idea that might come to mind is to attend a good investment seminar somewhere. You might select from one or more of many different such seminars that are held ever year. The gold standard in financial investment conferences is the New Orleans Investment Conference. In…[Continue Reading]