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In addition to offering a full transactional platform for buying gold and buying silver, BullionStar's website features a wide variety of original research, analysis and content addressing the global precious metals markets. BullionStar's goal with this content is to provide readers and viewers with unique and up-to-date insights into the precious metals markets that are not available elsewhere.
A case in point is the BullionStar Perspectives video series which provides viewers with free access to original and independent opinions on the precious metals markets. In July, BullionStar had the privilege of hosting an exclusive interview in Singapore with legendary investor, author and financial commentator Jim Rogers, and this interview has now been published as part of the BullionStar Perspectives series.
Jim Rogers - Catastrophe and Opportunity
Rogers, who currently resides in Singapore, co-founded the famous Quantum Fund in 1973, and has written a number of best-selling investment and travel themed books.
The interview touches on potential crises that Rogers thinks could impact the global economy and the opportunities that such crises may offer investors. According to Rogers, catastrophe and opportunity can be viewed as two sides of the same phenomenon, and catastrophe and panic often create buying opportunities.
Ideally, Rogers thinks the Federal Reserve should stand aside or even be aolished given that it is the cause of many finanical market problems, for example, for having driven interest rates to zero which is wiping out savers. Realistically, however, Rogers doubts that the Fed would be abolished, and in a future crisis will, as per usual, be pressured by vested interests into generating financial market rallies, reallies which will ultimately be futile.
Crucially, Rogers believes in the importance of acquiring physical gold and silver as an insurance policy, and in understanding what you are investing in. Everybody, he says, should have some gold and silver as an insurance policy if nothing else. “You hope you never need it”, but “its the best insurance policy in the world” he says.
Rogers owns his own physical gold, and thinks that due to future financial market instabilities, gold could well turn into its own bubble. This is because, when financial crises hit, people go to gold and silver as a safe haven asset. "That’s what they do", he says.
Rogers appreciates that the gold market is a fractional-reserve market, with only partial backing by real physical metal. On the subject of paper gold versus physical gold, Rogers envisages that in a real crisis, there won’t be a paper gold market - the paper gold markets will close down due to widespread market chaos. That is why there is a need for physical gold ownership, gold in your pocket or gold stoted in a vault.
Jim, who has some of his own gold stored in Singapore, thinks that Singapore is a better jurisdiction than most for storing gold, and offers an added attraction is that buying investment gold and silver in Singapore is free of sales tax (GST free).
The Jim Rogers Interview, which is just over 14 minutes long, can be viewed here:
Other videos in the BullionStar Perspectives videos series include Marcus Grubb of the World Platinum Investment Council on the Case for Platinum. Bron Suchecki of Monetary Metals on the intricacies between the physical and paper gold markets, Chris Powell of GATA on price manipulation in the gold market, analyst Jayant Bhandari on the Indian gold market, and Ronan Manly of BullionStar on Secrecy vs Transparency in the gold market.
The BullionStar website also features in-depth factual gold market information in BullionStar's Gold University portal, original research and analysis of the global precious metals markets by BullionStar analysts Koos Jansen and Ronan Manly, a unique monthly review of the world's most important physical gold markets in chart form in BullionStar's Gold Market Charts series, and a specific company-focused blog series known as BullionStar Blogs (aka 'Inside BullionStar').
BullionStar's Gold University is a Wikipedia-style resource for use by the gold industry, by financial media and reporters and by general readers. It features contemporary factual information covering the world's gold markets, a selection of the world's largest gold vaults, profiles of the world's largest precious metals refineries and mints, and profiles gold industry associations. It also contains sections addressing the core concepts of the Chinese gold market, central bank policies on gold, and the mechanics of bullion banking and gold ETFs.
Articles and analysis by BullionStar analysts Koos Jansen and Ronan Manly, published in the form of blogs, keep readers up to date with developments in the precious metals markets. These blogs contain original research, such as in-depth analysis of the Chinese and London gold markets, and these blogs are popular across the precious metals industry as well as being frequently featured across many other websites.
BullionStar's Gold Market Charts uses charts by webite www.GoldChartsRUs.com to capture current developments and demand and flow trends in the world’s most important physical gold markets. These markets include China, India, Russia and Switzerland.
The BullionStar Blog's series (Inside BullionStar) features posts relevant to the company BullionStar and its products, but also extends to hosting interesting articles on aspects of the gold market and it also hosts BullionStar's unique Infographics on the gold market, such as an infographic on the Chinese Gold Market.
All of the above content can be found on the BullionStar site under the 'BullionStar Research' menu.
This article originally appeared under the title of 'BullionStar Media' on the BullionStar.com website.
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