Buy Gold Now

Masterfully researched, and written in a straightforward style, Buy Gold Now makes a case for buying gold as protection against the rising risks of an unprecedented global currency crisis and as a profitable investment vehicle. Divided into five comprehensive parts, this reliable resource examines our country's current financial situation from a historical perspective and addresses some of the alarming issues that many economists are currently pointing to with concern.

Acknowledgments ix About the Author xi Introduction 1 Part One Our Debt: American Financial Risk Has Never Been Higher Chapter 1: The $65 Trillion Wind Blowing from Our Future 11 Chapter 2: How Can Families Really Be Getting Richer by Borrowing More? 15 Chapter 3: Why the World Continues Lending (Most of Its Savings) to Us 23 Chapter 4: Relying on Foreigners: Our Economic Future May Be Out of Our Hands 35 Part Two Our Homes: The Epicenter of American Economic Risk Chapter 5: Real Estate, this Decade's Economic Driver, Could Drive Us into Recession 45 Chapter 6: The Negative Amortization Mortgage Loan Is Born 53 Chapter 7: Tighter Lending Standards and the Fed Can't Help 57 Chapter 8: The Great American Equity Cash-Out Is Coming to an End 63 Chapter 9: Financial Culture Shock: Real Estate Can Have a Negative Return 67 Part Three Our Economy: The Longest Economic Boom Ever Is Probably Ending Chapter 10: Balance Sheet Recession: We Could Be Heading in a Japanese Direction 75 Chapter 11: Smiling on the Lawnmower: Affluent Poverty 87 Chapter 12: As the Fed Cuts Rates This Time, Could the Dollar Finally Collapse? 95 Part Four The Case For Gold Chapter 13: Why the Time Is Right for Gold to Skyrocket 109 Chapter 14: Stocks and Bonds Offer Little Compensation for Risk Today 127 Chapter 15: Gold's Scarcity: New Sources of Demand and Falling Supply 137 Part Five How To Buy Gold Chapter 16: When You Simply Want Financial Insurance 149 Chapter 17: Mining Stocks, ETFs, and GoldMoney 159 Chapter 18: Rare Coins: A Bet on the Highest Possible Gains in Gold 169 Chapter 19: Why Silver Might Rise More Than Gold 187 Conclusion Don't Be A Gold Bug: Sell When It Is Time To Sell 191 Notes 199 Index 217