Precious Metals Investing

Janet Yellen's recent appearance at the annual government hearing did not inspire confidence. At http://www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com we discuss the importance of diversifying away from things that depend upon monetary policy that is being determined by the FED. Precious metals investments allow you to diversify away from investments that have counter party risk.  Janet Yellen's inability to answer simple questions, and uncertainty in the future course of action left many investors on edge. I've seen other commentators call her appearance that of an Android Robot or Deer in the headlights. Go to google and enter those phrases and see what you think. I think the point expressed in this podcast is well taken. With people like this running the FED and having control of the country's monetary policy shouldn't you be invested in the precious metals?

With all of the economic headlines and prognosticators screaming the headline of the minute it's enough to make your head swim. Too much information, rather than helping us sometimes is just throwing up so much smoke it's confusing. Rather than bringing clarity it just's just additional distraction away from what is important. Today at www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com Ted Sudol talks with Paul Mladjenovic about precious metals and the big picture. Paul is the author of Precious Metals Investing For Dummies, Stock Investing for Dummies and High Level Investing For Dummies. Precious metals have been in a tough market for a while. We assumed the bear market would not last as long as it did. But we firmly believe that  Gold and silver are up in 2016 and the stock market performance in 2016 has been dreadful. Precious metals and precious metals investments should be a part of the diversification of your portfolio. Remember that gold etf's etc are still just paper carrying counter party risk. It's important that par

Retail Sector Dangers & Precious Metals There is a tightening of consumer spending. Consumer spending can often be divided between necessities like food and water and discretionary items. When people have less money they buy fewer discretionary items. When consumers spend less money retailer suffer. Most retailers have razor thin profit margins to begin with so if you have a tighter market and fewer sales you have store closings. Sports Authority has declared bankruptcy. There is a report McDonald is going to be closing 600 stores this year because of falling sales. When have you ever heard about McDonald closing stores? The story was always about them opening stores. I know they closed the store in my town. Walmart is closing stores. When has a story about Walmart ever been about anything other than how it is an unstoppable colossus? It's time for caution in the retail sector. Put on trailing stops and stop loss orders because there is too much debt.  Play it safe take some defensive strategies. Make sur

Bond Market/h2> Bubble In today's volatile stock market some people look to bonds as a safer alternative investment. But is it? Ted Sudol and Paul Mladjenovic, author of Stock Investing For Dummies discuss bond advantages and bond dangers. Because of the low interest rates some people are considering lesser quality bonds often referred to as "junk bonds." Often time that is an appropriate nickname. For any of you who saw the movie The Big Short you got a taste of what happens when underlying assets can's support the paper that supposedly represents them. Bonds carry counter party risk. You are only holding a piece of paper. A claim on the underlying asset. What happens when that company, city government, state government, or even country government can't support the bonds they have issued. What happens when one of these organizations declares bankruptcy?  We think it is a good investment strategy to diversify your investments and part of that diversification should be investments in precious metals. If you ar

Futures Trading Here at http://www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com we recommend precious metals of course, but we also recommend diversifying your investments. Today we have a myriad of investment options, stock market, etfs, options trading, and the futures trading. What part should futures trading play in your investment strategy? If you are not familiar with futures trading what is it? What are the investing risks? What are the rewards. Ted Sudol interviews Charlie Nedoss of the LaSalle Futures Group. Charlie has a wide and deep knowledge of just about all aspects of futures trading. He helps us understand what future trading is. He explains both the rewards and the risks. We are often told in investing that the greater the risk the greater the reward. Since futures trading is speculating the risks are greater but the rewards can also be much greater. If you have ever wondered if futures should play a role in your investment strategy we invite you to learn more here about this potentially profitable addition t

Coming Bond Market Collapse Protect Your Portfolio From the coming Bond Market collapse. Ted Sudol interviews Michael Pento at http://www/preciousmetalsinvesting.com Record debt and prolonged low interest rates are leading to a Bond Market Collapse. Michael Pento is the author of The Coming Bond Market Collapse: How to Survive the Demise of the U.S. Debt Market. He correctly predicted the housing bubble. You need to protect your portfolio and assets. Know what to do and when. Precious metals are one of the safest investments in times of turmoil and stock market risk.He correctly predicted the housing bubble. In this wide ranging interview Michael explains why he feels the coming bond market collapse is inevitable. He also explains how to protect your investments and portfolio. The precious metals he feels are a safe haven in the coming collapse and will do very well for people who invest in them. Mr. Pento is a well-established specialist in the Austrian School of economics and a regular guest on CNBC, Bloomb

On www.preciousmetalsinvesting.comTed Sudol interviews Paul Mladjenovic, author of Stock Investing For Dummies about front loading and asset inflation.  We been saying for months that the high level of the stock market was due to artificial stimulation. This was something that several commentators claimed the FED was doing too. But of course the FED wouldn't comment. Just recently a FED governor or Ex-Governor admitted the FED was doing this in the hopes of generating a "wealth effect" that would lead to prosperity. The FED has many different ways to flood the market with money. That leads to asset inflation. The recent admission was vindication for a lot of people that were claiming this was happening several months ago.  

Auto Loans and Record Debt Are sales fueled by bad debt good? In this audio interview at http://www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com we discuss the record auto sales. We have been told this is a sign that the economy is healthy. But is it really? A precursor to a bubble is the stimulus of artificial debt. Typically auto sales means consumer is in good shape. But you find today's auto sales have been fueled by an explosion of low quality debt. The ways sub-prime loans fueled the housing bubble today's auto sales have also been fueled by lesser quality loans. If I can get an auto with little money down and great terms that might be great for me. But if I run into economic trouble and can't maintain that debt by making payments that is not a good thing. In the past typically you would be able to get a 36 month loan. Today auto buyers are being offered now an 84 month loans. Although this certainly lowers the monthly payments it also makes autos available to people who might not be able to support the payments in the

FANGS are in the news. But what are FANGS? Today on www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com   Ted Sudol and Paul Mladjenovic, author of Stock Investing for Dummies, High Level Investing For Dummies, Precious Metals Investing For Dummies and High Level Investing For Dummies discuss FANGS. FANGS stand for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google. At today's high prices is it a good investment? An important piece of data to look at is the price to earnings ratio. As recently reported although Amazon's sales were at record levels they were only making a tiny sliver of profit. Whenever you are looking at a stock in a slowing market a P/E ratio of over 900 as Amazon's was a few weeks ago is an extreme danger sign. At hyper heated levels like this investing in the precious metals makes them a bargain. Twitter for instance doesn't even make a profit. So what is to justify the stratospheric level of the FANGS prices at these astronomical P/E ratios?  

On www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com we discuss factors behind the headline statistics we are bombarded with almost daily. I read a recent article that seemed at first to have a very strange headline relating the FED to the current Star Wars Movie. Sales are currently being touted as the best of all of the movies in the Star Wars Franchise. However those headline statistics may not tell the whole story. People often just take the statistics touted in the headlines and don't ask about factors that are involved. When you compare the INFLATION ADJUSTED sales of the current Star Wars movie against the first Star Wars movie it is actually worse. The sales of the Star Wars movies pale in comparison to the all time champion Gone With The Wind. The point the author was making is that we often hear statistics without hearing about the factors that influenced them. As in the Star Wars movie comparison there are often factors that make what on the surface seem like positive statistics into something deserves less cheering

On www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com Ted Sudol interviews Richard Maybury Richard is the author of the Uncle Eric series of books. His US and World Early Warning Report geopolitical analysis has been guiding his subscribers to profit.  Richard views the world through the prism of empire building. The United States has intervened in wars that extended back to 64 B.C. Western governments have been trying to conquer the Muslims and the Muslims have been trying to make them go away. The US is meddling in wars that have been fought for thousands of years without having reached a solution. On of the images Richard uses to describe the US meddling against the Muslims is "poking rattlesnakes with sticks."  The problem is that the average US citizen is not aware of all of the times the US has "poked the rattlesnakes with a stick" by installing dictators around the world, intervening in wars we have no business in, and otherwise trying to tell others around the world how they should live. The only thing the average US ci

Ted Sudol interviews Paul Mladjenovic at www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com about the energy sector. The oil boom fueled a lot of debt. Energy companies that pile on debt are now having problems servicing that debt. Saudi Arabia produced at high levels to cause difficulty for high cost producers now are forced to pump at high levels and low oil prices for revenue to meet their people's needs.

First Glance at the Headline Statistics Does Not Reveal Some of the Worrying Factors behind the News. If someone who had a good paying full time job can only find a lower paid part time job and must get two part time jobs to make ends meet is that good news? What do the Positive Job Statistics Really Reveal? If so many Jobs are being created why is there no growth in income? If someone who had a good paying full time job can only find a lower paid part time job and must get two part time jobs to make ends meet is that good news? What is the quality of the Jobs being created? On www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com Ted Sudol and Paul Mladjenovic let some of the air out of the job statistics by discussing the worrying factors behind the headlines.  

High Level Investing For Dummies Paul Mladjenovic, a frequent guest here at www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com and author or Precious Metals Investing for Dummies and Stock Investing for Dummies has just published a new book in the Wiley series High Level Investing for Dummies.  This book is aimed at and investing audience that has some familiarity with basic stock market investments and is ready to learn some more advanced investing techniques. One of the chapters that I found fascinating was the chapter where Paul talks about the legendary investors throughout history and the investing advice their strategies teach us.  

Economic Collapse This is the audio version of the Economic Collapse video available on www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com It's the first in our Collapse series of interviews. This audio is one of thePrecious Metals Investing podcasts available on iTunes. lick here to listen or subscribe: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/precious-metals-investing/id530765475?mt=2 Economic Collapse is less likely to occur than the other types of collapses we discussed in this series. When we are talk about Economic collapse we are talking about the system of exchange of goods and series. Generally in a healthy economy there is a balance between demand and consumption.  There are things that we all want which makes up demand and consumption. On the other side we have production to satisfied those demands. When supply and demand becomes adversely affected and they are out of balance we can have an economic collapse. For instance in a capitalistic society you have a wide variety of firms competing with each other to supply the go

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Debt Collapse Debt Collapse is in the news today with the default of Puerto Rico on it's debt. That follows other government debt crises like the Greek debt Crisis. This audio is the third part in our crisis series that was originally posted in a video you can find here at

Richard Maybury is one of the world's top free market thinkers and in this wide ranging interview at www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com we talk about investing, war, politics and precious metal investing. Richard's long term view is not in terms of years but decades. The two things you can depend upon that politicians and governments give us you can use to guide your investments are War and Currency Debasement. Richard talks about the geopolitical situation are now in and how we got here. Richard is the author of 22 books including The Great Monetary Calamity series. One of his book series, the Uncle Eric books, are written in the form of letters written from a favorite uncle to his nephew. One of Mr. Maybury's greatest strengths is his ability put financial concepts, monetary concepts, and geopolitical concepts in terms that are clear and easy to understand. The Early Warning Report, Richard's Newsletter, has been read by government officials, the CIA and individual investors. You can find more information and

Chinese Currency & Reserve Status Chinese Currency to achieve reserve status - what does it mean for the stock market, the precious metals market and you? The International monetary fund will give the Chinese currency known as the Yuan or Renminbi reserve status. Sometimes there is confusion on the correct name. To clear up some of the confusion Renminbi means "People's Currency" and the name of their currency while the Yuan is the unit of currency. In this audio interview on www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com Ted Sudol and Paul Mladjenovic talk about the Chinese currency, reserve status and what it will mean for both the US dollar and your investments Some commentators believe there will hardly be any effects from this. They feel the dollar will not be challenged in any way and point to China's closed policies and many of the changes they have to make politically to cause people to have full faith in their currency. The fact that it will take some time for the Yuan to challenge the dollar is no doubt true.

The Fed Rate Hike has been in the news lately. Some commentators think that there won't be any effects. They say the rate hike is a measure of the strength of the recovery. Other commentators feel that the economy is still weak and this will start a cascade of negative effects. comment. In this interview at www.preciousmetalsinvesting.com I talk with Paul Mladjenovic, author or Stock Investing For Dummies on what he thinks it means for the stock market, the precious metals market and the future for investors. I don't know if you feel as I do that a drop of the stock market of over 300 points negates the argument that their won't be any effects and I think that we will see increasing economic repercussions. One of the reasons it is wise to invest in the precious metals is for diversification We have seen how some of the junk bond funds have told their investors lately that they can't get their money out. That has made other investors in junk bond funds nervous and has lead to some big withdrawal numbers. As Pa