It’s a recession but Byron King tells us that it is not too late for gold investing.  He has been encouraging gold bugs for over ten years now. Here he explains why owning gold and silver is the safest way to weather out this economic storm.

If the global economy were a hospital patient, you’d definitely find it in the Intensive Care Unit.

Renowned investor George Soros said Friday the world financial system has effectively disintegrated, and there’s no near-term bottom to this financial crisis in sight.

America may be banged up, but Europe is teetering on the edge of flat-out fiscal disaster… which helps explain the bizarre action in gold and the dollar as of late.

In the face of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Money Morning Investment Director Keith Fitz-Gerald continues to uncover solid profit opportunities – including China, oil and other key commodities, and possibly even U.S. stocks.

Gold Bug Ted Peroulakis of Investors Daily Edge suggests that “you should own some gold in your portfolio as an insurance policy…” He recommends this Gold EFT as a safe haven during the global financial crisis, because no matter what happens with the markets, gold will always shine.

Gold’s performance in 2008 could look like a real yawner. After all, it only managed to eke out a 5.7% gain.  Not the kind you’d normally brag about over cocktails.

Investors turn to gold as a safe haven in crazy economic times, but in actuality gold may prove the place to be even during an eventual economic recovery.

SilverForecaster.com announces that “silver has done well” recently, as far as its price is concerned….

No surprise from the Federal Reserve.  Well, not really. Bernanke & Co. did as everyone expected them to do and slashed U.S. interest rates. But it was the size of the cut – from 1% to a record low of 0.25% that caught some folks off guard.