Hard Money

Acknowledgments.
<p>Introduction: The World Doesn′t Have to End for Gold to Go Hyperbolic.</p>
<p>The Logic of Gold in the New Investment World: Follow the Money.</p>
<p>Taking Gold to a Higher Level: Setting Up Your Own Gold Portfolio.</p>
<p>Part One: The Logic of Hard Money in the New Investment World.</p>
<p>Chapter 1 Gold Driver 1: The Increasing Likelihood of Fiscal Crises in Major Economies of the World.</p>
<p>Chapter 2 Gold Driver 2: The Return of Inflation as a Major Investment Risk.</p>
<p>The Risk of Hyperinflation.</p>
<p>Chapter 3 Gold Driver 3: The Return of Gold as a Significant Asset in the World′s Largest Investment Funds.</p>
<p>Chapter 4 Gold Driver 4: The Rise of China.</p>
<p>Chapter 5 Driver 5: Gold′s Potential Return to being the Dominant Financial Asset in the Global Monetary System (A Return to Normal).</p>
<p>Chapter 6 Gold: How a $10K Ounce is Possible (Taking a Closer Look at Supply and Demand).</p>
<p>Supply: Even When Gold Skyrockets, Supply Barely Moves.</p>
<p>Demand: The Gold Market Is So Small That Little Is Needed to Make It Surge.</p>
<p>$10K Gold.</p>
<p>Is the Price of Gold being Manipulated?</p>
<p>Chapter 7 Silver: Poor Man′s Gold May Offer the Richest Returns.</p>
<p>Chapter 8 Platinum and Palladium.</p>
<p>Chapter 9 Taking Gold to a Higher Level: Creating Your Gold Portfolio.</p>
<p>Constructing your Gold Portfolio.</p>
<p>Decision Outside the Gold Portfolio: What Percentage of your Total Wealth do you want to Hold in Gold?</p>
<p>Gold Portfolio Decision One: Degree of Diversification Among Metals.</p>
<p>Decision Two: What Part of your Gold Portfolio do you want to hold in ETFs and What Part in Precious Metals Stocks?</p>
<p>Decision Three: What Part of your Gold Portfolio do you want to be in Physical Gold and What Part in Paper Gold?</p>
<p>Decision Four: Do you Want to Roll up your Sleeves and Pick Stocks, or Do you Want to have Passive Exposure to Gold Stocks?</p>
<p>Managing your Gold Portfolio.</p>
<p>Portfolio Rebalancing.</p>
<p>Protecting your Portfolio if you Believe the Price of Gold will Decline.</p>
<p>A Few Final Thoughts Regarding the Gold Portfolio.</p>
<p>Chapter 10 Keeping It Simple with Precious Metals ETFs.</p>
<p>A Different Animal: Return Magnification Vehicles.</p>
<p>Chapter 11 Mining Stocks.</p>
<p>Valuation.</p>
<p>Royalty Companies: A Different Play on Precious Metals.</p>
<p>Part Three: Hard Money (Investing the Old–Fashioned Way).</p>
<p>Chapter 12 The Importance of Wealth You Can Hold in your Hands.</p>
<p>Would the U.S. Government Ever Confiscate Gold Again (as it did in 1933)?</p>
<p>Chapter 13 How to Invest in Coins and Bars (Without Getting Ripped Off).</p>
<p>Chapter 14 The Most Widely Respected Investment Coins.</p>
<p>Gold American Eagle.</p>
<p>Gold American Buffalo.</p>
<p>Canadian Maple Leaf.</p>
<p>South African Gold Krugerrand.</p>
<p>British Gold Sovereign.</p>
<p>Chinese Gold Panda.</p>
<p>Australian Gold Kangaroo.</p>
<p>Austrian Gold Philharmonic.</p>
<p>Swiss PAMP Gold Bars.</p>
<p>Silver American Eagle.</p>
<p>Silver Kookaburra.</p>
<p>Platinum American Eagle.</p>
<p>Chapter 15 Rare Coins: A Bet on the Highest Possible Gains in Gold.</p>
<p>Conclusion: What Will Cause Gold′s Bull Market to End?</p>
<p>About the Author.</p>
<p>Index.</p>