‘Metals in Your IRA’ Archives
What About IRAs?
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER A reader recently asked me what my thoughts were on IRAs. Last year, I liquidated all of my IRA positions, paid the tax and re-invested the money into physical gold and silver, which now resides in the Brinks vault in Montreal through the Miles Franklin Precious Metal Storage Program. It is obvious that our current [...]
Post Election, Pre Fiscal Cliff Webinar Questions Answered
On December 4th, Miles Franklin hosted a webinar titled "Post Election, Pre Fiscal Cliff." We received more questions than we could answer during the webinar and decided to answer them here. In case you missed the webinar, here is the recording: Post Election, Pre Fiscal Cliff Webinar Your Questions Answered: Q: How is it that you [...]
Precious Metals Q&A Rap Session: Diversification Strategies
Miles Franklin Ltd. conducted a special Webinar event, titled "Precious Metals Q&A Rap Session: Diversification Strategies," featuring Andy Schectman, President, and "Ranting Andy" Hoffman, Marketing Director. We received many questions from the audience regarding our new storage programs. We have a brief introduction, describing Miles [...]
Retirement Threats
Read the Friday Afternoon Wrap-up for 8/17/2012 and the Monday Morning Commentary for 8/20/2012 This afternoon, I'm highlighting the work of Miles Franklin blog reader "G," who sent me a detailed analysis of the various "RETIREMENT THREATS" we all face, taken from the financial perspective. Such analysis was done in the context of making [...]
GLD/SLV Theory, From the Desk of the President
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER During Miles Franklin’s first educational Webinar last week (replay link HERE), our Q&A queue was so long, we had to answer most of the questions in follow-up reports (read HERE and HERE). By far, the most oft-asked question related to the potential for gold confiscation by the U.S. government, a topic I have [...]
Retirement Plan “Confiscation”
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER After yesterday’s marathon RANT - and Webinar to boot - I am thankful to present a “guest speaker of sorts” for today’s topic. The below article by Ron Holland, though written in March 2011, is an excellent synopsis of the upcoming “confiscation” of U.S. retirement plans I have written of for some time now [...]
Forced Conversion Of I.R.A. And 401K Personal Retirement Accounts Into US Treasury
Rick Ackerman is a very bright guy. I have followed his work for a long time and though I don't embrace his deflationary views, I look forward to what he has to say. In the first paragraph of his article "Has BP Summoned the Fires of Hell?" his views are basically the same that you find on these pages every day. But the rest of the article [...]
