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Since a few years ago the main motivation for owning gold has been in preserving assets due to the fact that stock markets around the world have started collapsing and yields are trending to very little if nothing these days since as we all know, the dollar is falling in all the international markets. Gold has however functioned in an admirable way though. There is currently a new enthusiasm about owning gold that has come into the market and it has to do with the energetic change in the supply of gold, demand fundamentals, and the suggestions that exist that there is going to be a higher price in the following months and years. Besides the fact that gold has a foundation role in the financial aspect as the last fiduciary asset, there are many investors that believe that gold is a possession of prosperity. As has been seen, the price of gold has started to increase in international markets with the precious metal price increase of more than twenty percent in the years 2002 and 2003. There are a lot of analysts and experts that consider this to be the new bull market of gold. And there is such a concern about the economy and financial aspects in the world right now that many foresee gold’s prices to have a future increase in ways that has not been seen since over twenty years ago.

There are a lot of things that are now causing the currency and economy in the United States to become strained in both the financial and political panorama. There are many things that we are now able to see which involve high structural inflation rates, taxation, confiscatory, huge federal government deficits, a very big and almost impossible to pay national debt, a very speedily increasing foreign debt, shaky levels of private debts etc. There are very few people though, that truly understand the level of these problems and that they are interconnected and that they directly affect feasibility and value of investment portfolios for all the American citizens. The saddest thing is that these are not problems that have only just now sprung up, these are problems that we have been facing for a long time now and they require we pay attention to them now. These problems have been little by little eating away at the foundation of our economy, which in this case is the United States dollar. We have all at some point heard that there is economy problems, however there are many that simply opt to believe that these problems are simply going to go away on their own but many know that this is most likely not going to happen. Most likely, the situation will just get worse as time goes by. We have simply to look at the difference in our economy in the seventies and look at what it is like now and the results are absolutely shocking. In the seventies the budget deficit was only 2.8 billion. It is currently at 8.8 trillion dollars and increasing. As a last resort benefit, gold is one of the investments that offers a very important role to the welfare of the world. It has been seen how in many economic tragedies in history gold has helped many to survive financially due to the gold they owned. There are presently many investors that have become more interested in it as well. The interest that can be seen in gold these days is not only due to interest in being precautious in case of war but also due to the prospective devastation of the economy due to an international collapse of the dollar which will in turn result in economic collapse.

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