When one goes to buy gold they want real gold, not some cheap substitute like a fake tungsten gold bar. There has been a lot of rumor, neither credible nor verifiable sources, about bars containing both gold, the Ancient Metal of Kings and tungsten, the ‘heavy stone’.
Just like a $100 bill costs about $.04 to [...]

Trace: Welcome back to the 65th episode of the RunToGold.com podcast. This will be an interview with John Rubino. Welcome John!
John: Hey Trace! How are you?
Trace: Great, great. You’re the author of The Collapse of the Dollar.
John: Co-author.
Trace: Yeah, co-author with James Turk, the founder of Gold Money, and then you also run your own [...]

I like round numbers because they are easier to count.  For example, on 14 July 2009 I recommended buying platinum at $1,118 and today it trades at $1,618.  I like an unrealized gain of $500 per ounce, or 23.1%, in 6 months.  But is platinum overvalued and how can we tell whether we should buy [...]

Gold is the primary tangible monetary asset because of the large above ground stockpiles.  It is primarily produced to be hoarded not consumed.  The other quasi-monetary commodities are silver, platinum, palladium and copper.  The role of the precious metals will be markedly different in the Information Age than during the Industrial Age.
WHAT IS PLATINUM
Platinum is [...]