Portable Wealth: The Complete Guide to Precious Metals Investment (Paperback)

by Adam Starchild (Author) "The significance of gold as a highly valuable substance is almost entirely the product of the fertile mind of man..." (more)
Key Phrases: United States, Perth Mint, New York (more...)

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Product Description
None of us wants to watch our hard-earned money go up like paper in the wind. Open this book and discover how precious metals can add weight and substance to your investment portfolio in a time when very little is considered solid or certain. It could be worth its weight in gold.

About the Author
Adam Starchild is the author of more than a dozen books and hundreds of magazine articles on international business and finance.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Paladin Press (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873649591
• ISBN-13: 978-0873649599
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #624,913 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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61 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why should you read Adam Starchild's important new book?, September 15, 1998

By A Customer

Several powerful reasons exist today that completely change the old way of thinking about gold (and other precious metals).

1. The crisis in Asia clearly shows the ultimate outcome of credit expansion. The U.S. economy lives and breathes on low interest rates, easy credit and loose money. Mortgage refinancing, consumer credit, margin debt, leveraging, and credit cards heat up the economy and encourage speculation and overconsumption.

2. Shocking structural changes in the foundations of the U.S. economy have enhanced the need for gold. Low savings, low investment, excessive leverage, disastrous liquidity trends, trade deficits, high speculation and astronomical public and private debt are a vew of these revolutionary changes.

3. Mainstream financial advisors and economists scorn gold to the extent it has become the premier contrary opinion investment of all time. In the debt- and deficit-ridden countries such as the U.S. and Canada, many people commit their funds exclusively to stocks and neglect hedging with gold.

60 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great financial talent, May 17, 1999

By A Customer

As I said in my book, The Offshore Update, published by Eden Press:

Of all the financial experts who have demonstrated literary talent, Adam Starchild is perhaps the least appreciated. This is unfortunate because Starchild is not only a lucid writer -- he is also a credible and conscientious reporter working in an area that until recently has belonged in the same chapter of financial literature with Fort Knox, Howard Hughes, and the Gnomes of Switzerland.

48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars George Bernard Shaw on Gold and Government, October 13, 2000

By A Customer

"You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the honesty and intelligence of the members of government. And with all due respect for those gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, vote for gold." -- George Bernard Shaw