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  • What analysts are saying
    • Steve Forbes "A return to the gold standard by the United States within the next five years now seems likely, because that move would help the nation..." Human Events: "Forbes Predicts U.S. Gold Standard Within 5 Years" (5/11/2011)
    • John Embry - $100.00 (no period cited) "We haven't even really seen money start to significantly flow into hard assets... it's going to have an outsized impact on the price [of silver and gold.]... King World News (July 2011)
    • Doug Casey - $5,000 (by end of 2013) "Gold could hit $5,000 an ounce in the next couple of years, as paper currencies in the United States, Europe, and Japan drop in value..." Mineweb (03/2011)
    • Tom Fitzpatrick - $100.00 (no period cited) "While the high so far this year was at the same level as the peak in January 1980, we are not convinced that the long-term trend is over yet." Bloomberg (July 2011)
    • Hal Lehr - $2,000 (in 2011) "Gold, which reached a record on May 2, may surge a further 30 percent by [2012] as investors seek to protect themselves from 'economic uncertainty'..." Bloomberg (5/2011)
    • Peter Krauth - $250 (no period cited) "...silver prices could reach as high as $250 per ounce before the silver bull finally stops running." Commodity Online (May 2011)
    • Robert McEwen - $5,000 (by end of 2015) "Gold is a favored asset relative to equities and other assets. In times of financial stress, you have people going towards precious metals and hard assets..." CNBC (4/2011)
    • Dr. Stephen Leeb - $200 (by August 2013) "My guess is that 24 months from now, that silver coin you are holding that you bought for $35 or $40, you are going to see a $200 tag on it." King World News (August 2011)
    • John Paulson - $4,000 (in 3-5 years) "Gold prices could go as high as $4,000 an ounce over the next three to five years, as the U.S. and U.K. flood the money supply." Wall Street Journal (5/2011)
    • David Morgan - $75 (no period cited) "The next leg up [for silver] could take out the $50/oz. level after a few tries and then not look back until establishing a new nominal level of $65/oz. - $75/oz. Silver demand is growing for both industry and as an investment." The Gold Report (August 2011)
    • Jim Sinclair - $5,000 "Looking for a major upturn in gold as soon as June and targeting $5,000 as a longer term objective." Mineweb (5/2011)
    • Charles Oliver - $50 to $100 (next few years) "...the long-term story for precious metals is still very firmly intact." Reuters (May 2011)
    • Christopher Wyke - $2,000 (by 2012) "Gold has been going up for the past ten years, but we think gold is going to continue to rally over at least next five years..." Professional Advisor (3/2011)
    • Louise Yamada - $2,000 (in next year) "Gold looks fine as it is moving to a new high. Gold remains in a structural bull market that was initiated in 2002." King World News (3/2011)
    • Peter Krauth - $86.75 "An important metric to understand and watch is the silver-to-gold ratio. It tells you how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold..." Silver Price Forecast" (12/2/2010)
    • Mac Slavo - $50.00 "Based on just the supply/demand equations, the price of silver should continue to rise and approach its historical silver-to-gold ratio..." Silver Will Be Worth More Than Gold" (12/31/2010)

Gold Backed IRA



The definitive retirement asset having the most solid long-term value just may be a gold backed IRA with gold coins and bullion. Among the investment vehicles most often used in retirement planning (stocks, bonds, annuities and savings accounts) gold stands out as the only one that does not depend on the performance of another individual or institution for its value. Referring to gold, former president of France, Charles DeGaulle once said, it 'has no nationality and is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence'. What better way to save for retirement than with the ultimate savings vehicle -- physical gold.


At the time of this writing, gold bars must have a purity of 24 karat (0.995+ fineness) to be allowed into a gold backed IRA. A NYMEX- or COMEX-approved refiner/assayer must have also stamped them with an assay mark. These bars are produced in 1 ounce, 10 ounces, kilo (32.15 ounces), 100 and 400 ounce bars. With the exception of the 22 karat American Gold Eagle Gold, only coins having a purity of 24 karat (0.9999 fineness) are permitted in an IRA. The South African Krugerrand, being a 22 karat bullion coin, is not permitted as part of a gold backed IRA. Readily available and permitted for use in a gold backed IRA are the bullion coins from the US, Australia, Austria, and Canada.


There is a vast difference in owning bullion versus investor coins. If you had purchased $25,000 of gold bullion coins in the early 1970s and held on to it during the oil crisis, inflation, devaluation of the U.S. dollar, Savings and Loan scandal, recession, tech and internet bubbles, cooked books, 9-11, and the recent real estate bubble you could sell that gold today for $524,999, a little over half a million dollars. If, on the other hand, in the early 1970s you had purchased $25,000 of limited mintage investor gold coins and kept them for the next 40 years, you could sell that gold today for $1,377,257, over two and a half times as much!


A gold backed IRA is the empyrean asset.  It is the purest form of money, and the oldest, most durable wealth-preserving agent known to man.  Governing boards can’t declare or alter its value.  Gold has thus survived every economic catastrophe and pinnacle history has ever encountered, and it has preserved investors’ purchasing power for a span of more than 5000 years and will continue to do so for your gold backed IRA.


Gold has always been referred to as the “crisis commodity”, surviving negative economic, political, environmental, or monetary conditions. All these contribute to rising gold prices.  This is why investors are rolling their retirement accounts into Roth and Traditional gold backed IRA accounts. United Gold Direct can assist you in determining the right diversity in your gold backed IRA.