More on the Gold Price Drop

Earlier we posted Peter Schiff’s thoughts on the gold price drop.  What do you think, is this a market correction?  Will the price of gold rise as the economy and the dollar weaken or has the economy stablized?

Below are a series of articles on the topic with information and varying opinions on the subject.

Gold plunges to lowest in more than 2 years
http://news.yahoo.com/gold-plunges-lowest-more-2-181027539.html

Zero-Hedge: What happened the last time we saw gold drop like this?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-15/what-happened-last-time-we-saw-gold-drop

Daily Paul: Gold and Silver Doom and Gloom or Crack Up Boom?
http://www.dailypaul.com/281931/gold-and-silver-doom-and-gloom-or-crack-up-boom

Ben Bernanke Swamps the Gold Bugs
http://news.yahoo.com/ben-bernanke-swamps-gold-bugs-173938980.html

Business Insider: The Gold Collapse Is Personally Costing Ron Paul A Fortune
http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-paul-investment-gold-2013-4

CNN Money: Gold plunges to two-year low
http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/15/investing/gold-prices-china/index.html

Reuters: Gold investors run for the exits, prices suffer biggest-ever drop
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/04/15/markets-gold-idINDEE93E0CK20130415

Tax Day Special: With Both 2012 POTUS Tax Rates Under Attack, Just what is a fair tax rate?

Has President Obama been taking advice from Mitt Romney’s tax accountant?

Months after attacking Mr. Romney for his low tax rate, some critics are now turning the tables on the president, saying his 2012 tax rate is too low.

The president paid $112,214 in federal income taxes on an adjusted gross income of $608,611 in 2012, making his effective federal tax rate 18.4 percent. (The Obamas also paid $29,450 in Illinois income tax.)

Apparently, that’s a lot less than some folks at MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” pay.

“The president was talking about how shameful it is that Mitt Romney paid less in taxes than teachers paid in taxes, and yet Barack Obama, reportedly worth $14 million, paid less in taxes than teachers or Warren Buffet’s poor, overworked secretary,” “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough said on Monday’s show.

Is Obama’s tax rate too low?

Click below for the full article.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2013/0415/Obama-s-tax-rate-is-18.4-percent.-Is-that-too-low-for-a-millionaire?nav=topic-tag_topic_page-storyList

Peter Schiff on CNBC About Gold Drop: We’re Headed To A Currency Crisis One Way Or Another

Video of Peter Schiff talking about potential currency crisis and his belief in Gold. Also below that is an older video of Peter Schiff on MSNBC debating policies of the FED as part of a panel. One thing to think about is the role of the Federal Reserve and whether it is good policy to inflate currency and print money out of thin air?

Federal Reserve Partial Stakeholder Goldman Sachs Tells Investors to Shun Gold

Federal Reserve Partial Stakeholder Goldman Sachs Tells Investors to Shun Gold……….

Doug Ehrman:  For the second time this year, Goldman Sachs slashed its forecasts for gold prices for both 2013 and 2014, adding to the pressure on gold prices lately. So far, 2013 has seen the Dow Jones Industrial Average up nearly 11%, the S&P 500 up nearly 9%, and gold prices down more than 5%.

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[http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/04/14/the-worlds-top-bank-tells-investors-to-shun-gold.aspx]

Bloomberg’s Amanda Crawford: Trust in Gold Not Bernanke as U.S. States Promote Bullion

Distrust of the Federal Reserve and concern that U.S. dollars may become worthless are fueling a push in more than a dozen states to recognize gold and silver coins as legal tender.

Arizona is poised to follow Utah, which authorized bullion for currency in 2011. Similar bills are advancing in Kansas, South Carolina and other states.

The measures backed by the limited-government Tea Party movement are mostly symbolic — you still can’t pay for groceries with gold in Utah. They reflect lingering dollar concerns, amplified by the Fed’s unconventional moves in recent years to stabilize the economy, said Loren Gatch, who teaches politics at the University of Central Oklahoma.

“The legislation is about signaling discontent with monetary policy and about what Ben Bernanke is doing,” said Gatch, who studies alternative currencies at the Edmond, Oklahoma-based school. “There is a fear that the government, or Bernanke in particular and the Federal Reserve, is pursuing a policy that will lead to the collapse of the dollar. That’s what is behind it.”

Bernanke has pushed interest rates to near zero since the 18-month recession that began in December 2007. The Fed said in March it would continue buying $85 billion in securities each month in a program known as quantitative easing that has ballooned its assets beyond $3 trillion and is aimed at keeping long-term borrowing costs low to support economic growth.

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[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-08/trust-in-gold-not-bernanke-as-u-s-states-promote-bullion.html]