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  7 Reasons Gold Is Falling: Currency Manager Merk

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 16, 2013

  A gold brick is still a brick, and hurts just as much when it falls on your foot, Axel Merk says.

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  Gold at $10,000? Bullion Buff Barisheff Makes the Case

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  January 6, 2012

  Nick Barisheff offers a spirited defense of gold’s inevitable rise, arguing that increasing governmental indebtedness and currency debasement make today’s gold price insignificant.

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  Gold: Worth the Risk?

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  November 13, 2011

  Gold has many attributes that investors want, and it has been one of the few assets to deliver positive returns consistently since 2005.

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  News Analysis: Are We in a Recession?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  August 30, 2011

  Consumer confidence plunged to two-year lows in August, stoking predictions and outright declarations that the economy has slipped into recession. The latest Consumer Confidence Index reading of 44.5 is lower than the 53.9 average for the 2007-2009 recession.