TY - BOOK AU - McGuire,Shayne ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Buy gold now: how a real estate bust, our bulging national debt, and the languishing dollar will push gold to record highs AV - HG289 .M375 2008 U1 - 332.63/28 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Hoboken, N.J. PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Gold KW - Investments KW - United States KW - Monetary policy KW - Balance of payments KW - Economic conditions KW - 2001-2009 KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-215) and index; Our debt: American financial risk has never been higher -- The 65-trillion-dollar wind blowing from our futures -- How can families really be getting richer by borrowing more? -- Why the world continues lending (most of its savings) to us -- Relying on foreigners: our economic future may be out of our hands -- Our homes: the epicenter of American economic risk -- Real estate, this decade's economic driver, could drive us into recession -- The negative amortization mortgage loan is born -- Tighter lending standards and no help from the fed -- The great American equity cash-out is coming to an end -- Financial culture shock: real estate investment can have a negative return -- Our economy: the longest economic boom ever is probably ending -- Balance sheet recession: we could be heading in a Japanese direction -- Smiling on the lawnmower: affluent poverty -- When the fed cuts rates again, will the dollar finally collapse? -- The case for owning gold -- Why the time is right for gold to skyrocket -- Stocks and bonds offer little compensation for risk today -- Gold's scarcity: new sources of demand and falling supply -- How to buy gold -- When you simply want financial insurance -- Mining stocks, ETFs and goldmoney -- Rare coins: a bet on the highest possible gains in gold -- Why silver might outperform gold -- Conclusion: don't be a gold bug: sell when it is time to sell; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=331636 ER -