Nick Barisheff

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• Preserve Your Wealth with Precious Metals - Updated

  Published 28 September 2009 | viewed 3,394 times

  "I'm not so much interested in the return on my money as I am the return of my capital." -- Will Rogers In this extraordinary…

• 2004-2009 Pompous Prognosticators Revisited

  Published 09 July 2009 | viewed 3,436 times

  The experts go into denial as the credit crisis unfolds In 2001, Colin Seymour published an article entitled 1927-1933 Chart of Pompous Prognosticators. In it,…

• Preserve Your Wealth with Precious Metals

  Published 02 July 2009 | viewed 3,143 times

  "I'm not so much interested in the return on my money as I am the return of my capital." - Will Rogers In this extraordinary…

• Bullion and Mining Stocks - Two Different Investments

  Published 22 April 2009 | viewed 3,975 times

  Many investors believe their portfolios have exposure to gold and precious metals because they hold stocks in mining companies. Bullion and mining stocks should be…

• Making Money in Troubled Times

  Published 14 January 2009 | viewed 4,563 times

  Keynote Speech Presented by Nick Barisheff at the Empire Club's 15th Annual Investment Outlook Luncheon Thursday January 8, 2009 Today's topic at this 15th Annual…

• Why This Crisis Will Send Inflation Soaring

  Published 15 December 2008 | viewed 8,180 times

  As published on www.canadianmoneysaver.ca October 2008 The US financial crisis has now spread across the globe. Years of easy credit created massive asset bubbles in…

• Gold Myths

  Published 19 November 2008 | viewed 4,534 times

  The first and second editions of this article are published in Canadian MoneySaver September 2008 and Wealth Management Review 2008 Volume 2. This article was…

• Bullion or Mining Stocks - Do You Have the Right Mix?

  Published 13 February 2008 | viewed 3,590 times

  Many investors believe their portfolios have exposure to precious metals because they hold stocks in mining companies. But as a safe haven, no gold or…

• 2008 Investment Outlook for Precious Metals

  Published 10 January 2008 | viewed 4,023 times

  In January 2005, I wrote an article that began: "It's January, the beginning of a new year, and the time when economists, analysts and even…

• Time to Rebalance Portfolios

  Published 26 April 2007 | viewed 5,144 times

  Everyone has heard the clichés - stocks always go up, hold for the long term. Many have even seen the long-term charts showing how $1,000…

• Platinum - Dark Horse, Bright Future

  Published 03 April 2007 | viewed 4,579 times

  As president of The Millennium BullionFund, I am often asked, "Why does the Fund hold platinum? Why not just gold and silver?" Platinum provides a…

• What A Fool Believes

  Published 31 January 2007 | viewed 7,239 times

  I am frequently surprised by the various myths, misconceptions and negative biases that are prevalent among investors, financial advisors and journalists when it comes to…

• Precious Metals - Critical Diversifier

  Published 14 November 2006 | viewed 4,732 times

  Gold is on the rise. It recently surpassed $630 per ounce, an increase of more than 145% from its low of $254. As of mid-2005,…

• The Role of Precious Metals in an Investment Portfolio

  Published 26 June 2006 | viewed 7,413 times

  While some investors view precious metals as a short-term cyclical speculation, there are actually three important reasons for including precious metals in every investment portfolio.…

• August 15, 1971: Inflation Unleashed

  Published 11 May 2006 | viewed 5,209 times

  The general public, the media and most financial observers were largely unaware of the momentous event that took place on August 15, 1971. However, the…

• The Greenspan Warnings

  Published 01 December 2005 | viewed 8,031 times

  As gold flirts with 20-year highs, we are hearing more from the "gold bugs" or, as they are sometimes appropriately called, the "doom-and-gloomers". Appropriately, because…

• Protecting Your Savings From Inflation

  Published 26 July 2005 | viewed 6,428 times

  Historically, one of the primary reasons for owning gold, silver or platinum bullion has been their ability to preserve purchasing power during inflationary periods. Over…

• Is The Gold Bull Market Over?

  Published 06 May 2005 | viewed 7,911 times

  In an April 28, 2005 news release, GFMS announced that the year-end price of gold could reach a 22 year high of US$500. With the…

• The Gold, Oil And US Dollar Relationship

  Published 23 April 2005 | viewed 7,111 times

  Of the various vulnerabilities that traditional financial assets are exposed to, a rising oil price is of particular concern. In 2004, oil hit an all-time…

• General Motors, the Stock Market and Gold

  Published 06 April 2005 | viewed 7,411 times

  If the saying "As goes General Motors so goes America" holds true then it doesn't look very good for America or for the stock market.…