Time to sell bullion and get back into US stocks.

The most puzzling part of the investment business is seeing how the vast and largely economically illiterate masses interpret any given piece of news.

VIDEO: A precious metal bar that can be broken into one-gram segments.

Testifying before the US Senate this past Tuesday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke made an extraordinary claim about its bloated balance sheet: "We could exit without ever selling by letting it run off."

“People who are saying there is no reason to buy gold now, never understood the reason people were buying it in the first place."

Economists who hold the popular view that expanding the money supply will provide the best medicine for our ailing economy dismiss concerns.

Investors can escape Japan's coming currency deflation by turning to gold and silver

By upping the ante once again in its gamble to revive the economy through monetary action, the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee is now compelling the rest of us to buy into a game that we may not be able to afford.

Central banks fueled the supply of gold by 400-500 tons per year on average between 1989 and 2007, they are now increasing demand by the same factor.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made news last week by proposing to transfer the Congressional prerogative to raise the debt ceiling to the President.

The unremitting deterioration of the eurozone's sovereign debt landscape continues to fuel uncertainties about the longevity of the euro as a hard currency.

This past Friday, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered his annual address from Jackson Hole - the State of the Dollar, if you will - I couldn't help but hear it as an incumbent's campaign speech.