E-gold is a privately issued digital currency backed by real gold and silver stored in banks in Europe and Dubai.
Similar price pressures are being experienced in the industrial (i.e. aluminum and copper) and precious metals (i.e. gold and silver) markets.
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Jackson says about 1, 000 new e-gold accounts are opened daily, and the system processes between 50, 000 and 100, 000 transactions a day.
Instead, criminals are often using virtual currencies like the Russian service Web Money and, until its founder was indicted last year, E-Gold.
Asset classes that promise safety (e.g. gold) may actually prove to be more volatile rather than less.
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President Barack Obama called the successful completion of the U.A.E. deal the "gold standard" for future U.S. nuclear-cooperation agreements.
Brian Domitrovic, former presidential candidate Steve Forbes, philanthropist Sean Fieler (chairman of American Principles in Action, which actively promotes competing currencies together with the gold standard), and the eminence grise of the conservative gold proponents, Reagan Gold Commissioner Lewis E.
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Gingrich, with less than a week to go before an election where most analysts put him as an unlikely victor, announced that he would convene a new Gold Commission, and then that it would be chaired by (pro-gold) Reagan Gold Commissioner Lewis E.
One alternative for China is to declare itself the buyer of last resort for gold, i.e. it will buy all that is offered for sale at their specified dollar price.
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But the glitter of e-tailing is fool's gold compared to cold hard cost savings through B2B (business-to-business) electronic commerce.
Prominent among these are the great Reagan Gold Commissioners Rep. Ron Paul, the eminence grise of the Austrian gold standard, and Lewis E.
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Libertarian icon Dr. Ron Paul conducted perhaps the most important monetary policy hearing in 40 years on rising prices, featuring three distinguished gold standard proponents: James Grant, Lewis E.
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And rapper producer Pharrell Williams proved even mundane tasks like e-mail could be blinged out when he showed off his gold-plated BlackBerry.
You would not give your Gold Amex to a stranger in the street, so don't e-mail its numb er to any old website.
That intellectual leadership came in the persons of Ron Paul, who has continued to carry the torch of gold to this day at the level of presidential politics, and Lewis E.
The gold miners have also rallied, but the Market Vectors Gold Miners ( GDX) has just reached its long-term downtrend (line e).
The daily chart of the SPDR Gold Trust ( GLD) also shows a completion of the flag formation (lines e and f).
The daily chart of the Spyder Gold Trust ( GLD) shows the completion of the flag formation, lines d and e.
Investors continue to view gold as a substitute currency to preserve purchasing power and as insurance against potential monetary turmoil (e.g. inflation).
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