For Whom Wealth Matters
April 4, 2012 5 Comments
“Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce – gold’s price as I write this – its value would be $9.6 trillion. Call this cube pile A. Read more of this post
March 27, 2012 Leave a comment
The following is the work of Ila Patnaik,a professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Delhi.It was published in today’s Indian Express.
These days it is fashionable to talk about how gold is draining away India’s precious forex,how gold is the refuge of black money and how opting for gold is somewhat anti-social and unpatriotic.I decided to post this article here to remind people of how gold has long been a good friend of Indians of all classes and especially of Indian women.Gold has been around a lot longer than the subject of economics and economists.Economic fads come and go but gold worked for our grandparents and will not fail us.Keep your gold.Hold it as bullion or high karat jewellery and keep it safe and do not be tempted,pursuaded or coerced to exchanging it for paper of any sort whether currency notes or gold deposit/accumulation schemes,ETFs,certificates or dematerialized units.
Having said my piece I will now leave you to get on with reading the article below
With increased import duties on gold, we return to pre-liberalisation thinking
The inflation crisis of the last six years, coupled with a persistent lack of financial inclusion alongside a decade of high GDP growth, has given an upsurge in demand for gold. The increase in custom duty on gold proposed by the Union budget, and the reduction in the loan-to-value ratio of gold loans by the RBI, will hurt the poor. Read more of this post
February 6, 2012 1 Comment
Collecting coins can be an engrossing and rewarding hobby.
I started collecting coins when I was about 2 years old.My dad worked in the airport then.Every few days he would bring me a few foreign coins and my mom used to tell me about these far away countries.My mom was also trying to prepare me to begin school and her way of teaching me about money and counting was to get me to play with the brass coins of those days.These were the earliest coins to make their way into my collection.
When I started collecting coins I didn’t have any focus nor did I care about the value of the coins might have in future.But years later I was pleasantly surprised to find out just how much my coins were worth.A brass 20 paisa with a lotus picture was a pretty common coin then and even now.Nevertheless it sells for no less than 8 rupees today.A compounded annual gain of close to 10% per year for 48 years. Read more of this post
February 3, 2012 1 Comment
If you are like me, the contents of the table here https://wealthymatters.com/2012/02/01/heart-stopping-silver-price-movements/ should be unsettling.But at the same time it shows how much money could be made in silver in relatively shorter periods and in a pretty passive way too.So the key to making some money from silver is to know when to buy it and when to exit it safely.The article below from yesterday’s ET should help a bit in buying and selling silver profitably.I have highlighted the parts I felt would be useful.
February 3, 2012 Leave a comment
Below is a nice write-up I found here: http://www.numbersleuth.org/trends/.It has some pretty sage advice if you like to gamble or speculate.
Personally,while my brain can grasp the fact that Warren Buffett’s style of investing is the best way to make and keep money,I find it hard to control my urge to speculate.I deal with this problem by clearly delineating what resources I will gamble with and what I won’t ever hazard ,come what may.Next I’m willing to do what ever I need to to better my odds.Do read the article below;I have highlighted the important part.It will remind you of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s advice to buy with conviction.
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