Selftrade are offering a pretty impressive ISA deal this year, whereby if you invest the full £10,500 in their ISA account by 30th April 2010, you get 10 free trades worth a total of £125 to use during May.
Not only that, but you can boost that by a further £50 by getting me to recommend you. Obviously, I’m more than happy to do this. You can do that… Continue reading

Just over 4 years since I first enquired, BullionVault have started offering silver in addition to their excellent trading / gold accumulation platform – depending on your point of view, of course. To their credit, when i originally enquired, I got an almost instant reply from Paul Tustain himself, explaining that if things went well it would be something they would offer some day and now it seems they have!… Continue reading

April 30
InvestGold IndiaIndia has long been reknowned as the last gold standard nation, where, perhaps, the memory of some long-ago fiat money crisis is so ingrained into the population, that they still perceive gold as the ultimate store of value. With this in mind, Invest Gold has now launched an Indian version of it’s site, which can be seen at InvestGold India

Time to go back onto other taxes, one of my favourite taxes, basically because no-one understands that it is a tax, reared it’s ugly head. I am, of course talking about Inflation. In this case, the word was not even mentioned, yet it is the obvious net effect of future government policy. As Gordon and Alistair employ an army of skivvies to stretch, mangle and twist the “golden rule” for… Continue reading

June 19
Is Gold heading for a fall?Okay, so even though it’s fallen a bit, from over $1,000 to $882, you’d still have to have been pretty unlucky to not have made a gain in gold and silver this past while. But are we due a temporary decline, as the huge amounts of liquidity governments have been injecting into the financial system give everyone a fresh boost of illusory prosperity? In such circumstances, you could expect a… Continue reading

June 4
My core belief in lifeMy core belief in life is that no man has any right whatsoever to the earnings or productivity of another man, unless the other man assigns him that right.
Obviously, in todays taxation nation society, this right is not being given, and in fact, governments probably need to become more understanding of the fact that many people today are outwardly resentful of the way others are helping themselves to… Continue reading

Time for a sneak inside look at what’s covered by the new book HOW TO INVEST IN GOLD AND SILVER, by ALAN DUNWIDDIE. Here’s the contents page, to give you a taster :-
- INTRODUCTION
- INFLATION
- GOLD AND SILVER AS MONEY
- GOLD CONSPIRACIES
- GOLD AND SILVER COINS
- GOLD AND SILVER BARS
- JEWELLERY
- OTHER GOLD AND SILVER ITEMS
- STORING YOUR GOLD

I used to be strongly in favour of a single European currency, and my partner is from the continent, but after living over there for 3 years, I’ve completely revised my opinion.
Culturally, Europe is much more socialist and controlling, when compared with the historic British attitude of an island nation based on international trade and financial freedoms, as evidenced by our reputation as one of the best places… Continue reading

How to Invest in Gold and Silver is now available at all good bookshops, including Amazon and Book Depository.
This is a major release to allow greater access to this this unique guide for beginners to the world of investing in precious metals.
How to Invest in Gold and Silver explains in laymans terms the weaknesses behind the present day financial system and why gold… Continue reading

Goldmoney has decided to change it’s Gold storage charging structure from a fixed fraction of a goldgram per month, regardless of holding size, to a % of the total value of gold held. I must admit, that for me, this fixed fee was one of the best features of Goldmoney, since it gave me extra encouragement to add even small regular sums to my Goldmoney holding, since they would not… Continue reading



