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Digger’s Friday Triple Play

Doug Digger Eberhardt’s Top 3 Articles, Videos and Posts of the Week – Click on headline for full article

7Aug2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Modern Portfolio Theory’s Biggest Flaw

Modern Portfolio Theory had one major flaw from the beginning. The assumption that there is such a thing as a “risk-free” asset. It is the same flaw that exists for most portfolios today.

4Aug2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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From Green Shoots to Drought? Making Economic Sense of Investing

But calling the exact top isn’t what’s important. Keeping and growing your wealth is. To do this, you must make sense of the economic data that are causing the green shoots and decipher for yourself whether they will blossom from here or wither and die from a potential drought.

3Aug2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Digger’s Friday Triple Play

Bringing Transparency to the Federal Reserve
Alan Grayson: “Which Foreigners Got the Fed’s $500,000,000,000?” Bernanke: “I Don’t Know.”
Ron Paul: What Are They (The Federal Reserve) So Afraid Of?

31Jul2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Why Don’t Limbaugh and Hannity Support Ron Paul’s Bill to Audit the Fed?

There is currently a bill to Audit the Federal Reserve before the House and Senate that has bipartisan support and makes sense for all the People of this country yet Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity (among others) never promote it on their shows. Why is that?

Auditing the Fed is what the People want and Congress needs to provide.

29Jul2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Current Thoughts on the Stock Market: Caveat Emptor!

Government surplus efforts are presently working. Some are calling an end to the recession. Green shoots are sprouting. The stock market is breaking 2009 highs. Life is back to normal. All is well. Or is it?

28Jul2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Gold Investment Bashers Won’t Respond to Critique

If financial advisor’s are willing to critique gold as an investment, then they should at least respond to my criticism of their understanding of how gold fits into a well diversified portfolio.

10Jul2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Challenging Financial Advisors on the Need to Diversify Into Gold

What financial advisor’s need to do is prepare their clients for the coming inflation as a result of all this government spending. What financial advisor’s need to do is diversify their clients into gold.

8Jul2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Gold: Why Doesn’t Your Financial Advisor Recommend It?

When it comes to your investments, diversification hasn’t worked. The “Buy and hold” strategy has become “buy and hope.” The one asset that could have helped stabilize your portfolio isn’t ever recommended by CNBC or your financial adviser. That asset is gold.

30Jun2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued
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Confused About Gold and the Dollar? Understand Their Relationship Before You Invest

It’s not known for sure where the concept that an ounce of gold could always buy a nice businessman’s suit came from, but the analogy is used today by many who want to paint a positive picture for gold.  The premise of the story is used to reveal the fact that the dollar has lost [...]

2Jun2009 | Doug Digger Eberhardt | Comments | Continued