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So, what did gold do today?

Not much,. Yesterday, Kamaaina Loan blog wondered if gold would track the stock market, which in theory it sort of does — gold up when stocks fall and vice versa. Over the past couple years,. stocks have reached record highs and gold has taken a swan dive, off around 30%. But is the relationship real? […]

What does Ron Paul think about gold?

He likes it. We do, too, but possibly not for the same reasons. Although it has been getting almost no attention in the United States, Switzerland, home of one of the solidest currencies in the world, is going to vote in a month on whether to add more gold to its money. In an interview […]

Slow motion stock market crash

The graceful swan dive by Wall Street — the DJIA managed to get under 15,000 today before closing at 16,141, about a thousand below where it was just a couple weeks ago — merits some comment: Listen up, people. Inflation is whipped. Beat, over and done with. Deflation is the problem, the hardest of all […]

Should you line up to buy silver?

You might have to, according to this report from Numismatic News: Rationing the supply of new 2014 silver American Eagle bullion coins might return if current extraordinary demand for them continues. The real question is not whether you should wait in line but whether you should buy now. All we can say is, silver is […]

What the heck is going on in the markets?

At Kamaaina Loan we often say — it’s not a lament, just a fact — that we are at the mercy of the world gold market. Buying and selling (or making loans against) gold is our bread-and-butter, and when the price falls as it has recently, it hurts. Not just our bottom line, but it […]