An Inflation Play as Good as — or Better Than — Gold
Street.Com - Until it is sold, gold bullion just languishes in a safety deposit box, while the metal succumbs to the market’s price swings. And despite its recent run up through the $720 mark, gold is not the all-encompassing, “pure play” answer to inflation many

The businesswoman, the 17m necklace and a criminal secret
Guardian Unlimited - In April 2006, after allegations about her alleged role in a 20m jewellery theft in Tokyo in 2004, Milan prosecutors issued a European arrest warrant linked to her conviction in absentia for setting up a fake gold bullion robbery. Further warrants

Set Expectations & Track Your Results
Motley Fool - Don’t buy stocks, bonds, gold bullion, heating oil futures, or (especially) managed mutual funds. If you can afford to put money away for five years, but don’t have the time to keep tabs on how you’re doing, buy an index fund and leave it at that. To

America Used To Be Really Goddamn Awesome
Common Dreams - I ve been captivated by Ken Burns The War this week and it struck me how awesome America used to be. The prevailing attitude of the ladies and gentlemen featured in Burns film, and by proxy all Americans of that era, was that if we had to

Bill Conlin | There’s gold in them thar end zones
Philadelphia Daily News - One of the radical steps FDR took in the fall of 1933 was to order the confiscation of all publicly owned gold bullion and coins. When the president issued that decree, gold was selling for - brace yourself, Jeff - $35 an ounce. In Germany, people

Campbell Resources signs deal to sell thee Joe Mann mine property in
Canada East - MONTREAL - Gold miner Campbell Resources Inc. (TSX:CCH) says it has signed a deal to sell to Gold Bullion Development Corp. the Joe Mann Mine property south of Chibougamau, Que. for $200,000 in cash and a $5.1 million debenture. The proposed

Suit over property use takes a bit of shine off art show
Louisville Courier-Journal - There are a myriad of urban myths that hang on out there like the one that we’re some rich enclave that has gold bullion stashed way and money falling out our front doors,” Keeling said. “The truth is that is not the case at all, the money goes