The following is a brief public service announcement from The Mint. Our affiliate, BullionVault.com, is now offering silver bullion purchase and storage services in Singapore. This is great news for a variety of reasons.
First, silver has taken a significant drop in price over the past month. While there is rarely a bad entry point into the precious metals market given that the fundamental debasement of every currency on the planet is ongoing, the past month has offered a unique opportunity to stock up at the lowest prices of the year.
Second, Singapore is one of the safest countries on the planet in terms of banking sector fundamentals, and the country’s competitive advantage is its friendliness to foreign investment and intolerance of corruption. What better place to store your precious metals.
Third, Singapore is outside of the reach of bankrupt western democracies, which makes it unlikely that gold or silver stored there would be confiscated.
You can even make gold and silver purchases and sales on the go using BullionVault.com‘s convenient iPhone and Android apps.
BullionVault gives you all of the benefits of owning precious metals with the comfort knowing that the security experts at Brinks Global Services are keeping it safe and accessible when you need it.
According to reports on Chinese imports of gold from Hong Kong, the People’s Republic is on track to import more gold bullion in 2012 than the entire official holdings of the ECB. What does it mean for us, fellow taxpayer? Our guest contributor Brad Evans, who is writing on behalf of BullionVault, explores this economic trend and possible implications for your portfolio in the following insightful editorial. Enjoy and stay fresh!
Should You Accumulate Gold Like China?
In recent years, much has been written and speculated about the idea of Chinese authorities buying up massive amounts of gold bullion. Indeed, the amount of gold going to China has increased notably over the course of the past few years, and it certainly seems as if the country is making a concerted effort to accumulate a great deal of the precious metal resource. Is this just a passing trend, representative of independent economic movements, or a greater strategy with implications for the worldwide economy? Ultimately that remains to be seen, but one result of China’s accumulation of gold bullion is clear.
With many of the world’s dominant economies located in the United States and the Euro zone, the U.S. and countries that use the Euro generally prefer to keep the cost of gold low, if possible, so as to avoid the strengthening of the resource against their respective currencies. As things stand now, and have for some time, the U.S. dollar and the Euro are generally seen as popular reserve currencies, meaning that people in other economic zones frequently turn to the U.S. dollar and the Euro as the ultimate safe haven. As long as the price of gold remains relatively low, the dollar and Euro remain strong as reserve currencies. Therefore, it is plain to see why China buying up massive amounts of gold bullion may lead to an unwanted shift in gold prices that could take the focus away from the reserve currency status that U.S. dollar and Euro enjoy.
Perhaps more important for many people is how this economic strategy of China’s could affect your finances. World economic trends will come and go, and economies will strengthen and weaken accordingly – but can you benefit from buying up gold bullion in your personal life, on a smaller scale, in the same way that China hopes to benefit in the long run internationally? While you certainly can’t hope to influence any worldwide economic trends on your own – accumulating gold bullion may not be a bad strategy to consider if you feel that the price of gold will be rising relative to other assets in the coming years.
Buying gold bullion is simple enough. You just need to head to a precious metal trading site such a s BullionVault, where you can buy and sell gold as you please according to constantly updated world prices. These sites also offer you various convenient and secure storage options, meaning that if you want to you can easily accumulate a great deal of gold bullion. However, before making this or any investment decision it is important to formulate a sound investment strategy. For example, if you are looking for short-term stability or gains, gold investment may be risky at the moment, as the dollar is strengthening and gold may be weakening. But for long-term gains, this may be a strategy worth considering.
This has been a guest post on behalf of BullionVault, written by freelancer Brad Evans.
Here at The Mint, we have noticed a common opportunity for processing improvements at a number of companies when it comes to payroll processing. Many companies, both on the larger and smaller end of the spectrum, are held hostage by their payroll processing companies and their antiquated, expensive to upgrade, captive payroll processing systems. Hostage, in the sense that payroll processing, for most businesses, is a mission critical function with countless compliance pitfalls which is extremely difficult to change.
Payroll processing is a function which is so feared and loathed by some that dry shaving with a razor may appear pleasant next to the prospect of processing one’s own payroll and correctly filing the tax returns.
Throw in the Patriot Act requirements and outsourcing payroll to an organization becomes not only a no-brainer, but a “we have no choice”-er.
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For anyone who has attempted to manage their own finances, the sheer amount of paperwork involved in documenting the daily economic impact of a “normal” modern life makes simply keeping bills paid a task. To pull your head out of the woods to see the forest, that is, take stock of your current financial situation, is nearly unheard of.
Heck, if we truly did see the forest, many people would panic at the wildfire decimating their personal balance sheets. What to do? The experts would tell you that you need to make a budget and stick to it. Budget? Not even our most gifted politicians can manage that daunting task.
If you don’t have the extra $3,000 + per year to hire a personal bookkeeper or even if you do but can’t hold on to a receipt to save your life, is there any hope of getting above the forest to spot and put out the fires before they even start?
What is the average Joe or Jane public to do? Seriously, if you are a busy person without a lot of time or money to dedicate to money matters yet have this deep nagging feeling (most non-politicians call it a conscience) that it is time to be responsible, is there any hope or must you wander aimlessly until the fires get too hot to ignore and it is too late to right the ship?
Hope for Joe and Jane financial comes in the form of a humble mint. Mint.com, that is. Mint.com is a miracle product which allows you to manage all of your checking, savings, loans, credit cards, investments, and mortgages in a single place. How’s that for simple?
Mint.comaccomplishes this seemingly mammoth task with the greatest of ease and minimal user maintenance beyond the initial set up. Once your accounts are set up, you are almost instantly elevated above the forest and ready to identify your hot spots.
If you are ready to attack, create a budget at Mint.com and then simply live your life. Mint.com will warn you when you are overspending. Mint.com cannot, however, keep you from overspending. They leave that unpleasant task to the banks.
This miracle product requires minimal technical skills to operate which, if you are reading this on a computer, it is highly likely that you possess them.
Once over the technical hurdle, which most of us already are, use of Mint.com requires a decent level of trust (think about how you would respond to Aladdin’s question “do you trust me?” to the princess) as the service logically needs your online banking login information to perform its modern bookkeeping miracle.
By using 128-bit SSL encryption (the same as banks) and validation by VeriSign and TRUSTe, Mint.com has gained the trust of over 4 million persons and growing.
Did we mention that this service is free?
While many products exist to help people with their bookkeeping, investments, and budgeting, Mint.com is by far the solution which requires the least amount of maintenance and offers the greatest benefit of any service. By offering this service for free, Mint.com is in a class of its own.
More than miraculous, the creators of Mint.com offer what by most stretches is a premium bookkeeping and planning service for free.
So what are you waiting for? If you are ready to tackle and dominate your personal financial situation, bring in Mint.com for backup. The two of you will have your personal finances in custody in no time!
If you are interested in buying gold without the hassle of storing it, we encourage you to register with KB Vision. Just like a normal savings plan, you can purchase a set amount of gold, in any quantity, each month and then sell it when you need to.
There are many advantages to holding savings in gold which are being understood by millions of persons around the planet during this time of financial chaos, which is largely a symptom of man’s departure from the use of gold and silver as money and embracing debt based currencies.
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For anyone who has attempted to manage their own finances, the sheer amount of paperwork involved in documenting the daily economic impact of a “normal” modern life makes simply keeping bills paid a task. To pull your head out of the woods to see the forest, that is, take stock of your current financial situation, is nearly unheard of.
Heck, if we truly did see the forest, many people would panic at the wildfire decimating their personal balance sheets. What to do? The experts would tell you that you need to make a budget and stick to it. Budget? Not even our most gifted politicians can manage that daunting task.
If you don’t have the extra $3,000 + per year to hire a personal bookkeeper or even if you do but can’t hold on to a receipt to save your life, is there any hope of getting above the forest to spot and put out the fires before they even start?
What is the average Joe or Jane public to do? Seriously, if you are a busy person without a lot of time or money to dedicate to money matters yet have this deep nagging feeling (most non-politicians call it a conscience) that it is time to be responsible, is there any hope or must you wander aimlessly until the fires get too hot to ignore and it is too late to right the ship?
Hope for Joe and Jane financial comes in the form of a humble mint. Mint.com, that is. Mint.com is a miracle product which allows you to manage all of your checking, savings, loans, credit cards, investments, and mortgages in a single place. How’s that for simple?
Mint.com accomplishes this seemingly mammoth task with the greatest of ease and minimal user maintenance beyond the initial set up. Once your accounts are set up, you are almost instantly elevated above the forest and ready to identify your hot spots.
If you are ready to attack, create a budget at Mint.com and then simply live your life. Mint.com will warn you when you are overspending. Mint.com cannot, however, keep you from overspending. They leave that unpleasant task to the banks.
This miracle product requires minimal technical skills to operate which, if you are reading this on a computer, it is highly likely that you possess them.
Once over the technical hurdle, which most of us already are, use of Mint.com requires a decent level of trust (think about how you would respond to Aladdin’s question “do you trust me?” to the princess) as the service logically needs your online banking login information to perform its modern bookkeeping miracle.
By using 128-bit SSL encryption (the same as banks) and validation by VeriSign and TRUSTe, Mint.com has gained the trust of over 4 million persons and growing.
Did we mention that this service is free?
While many products exist to help people with their bookkeeping, investments, and budgeting, Mint.com is by far the solution which requires the least amount of maintenance and offers the greatest benefit of any service. By offering this service for free, Mint.com is in a class of its own.
More than miraculous, the creators of Mint.com offer what by most stretches is a premium bookkeeping and planning service for free.
So what are you waiting for? If you are ready to tackle and dominate your personal financial situation, bring in Mint.com for backup. The two of you will have your personal finances in custody in no time!
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