{"id":883,"date":"2008-10-17T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=883"},"modified":"2011-07-22T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:08:06","slug":"where-are-you-now-gold-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/where-are-you-now-gold-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are You Now, Gold Bugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/pt-barnum-or-someone-was-right.html\">my thoughts from a week ago<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Gold is down below $800 an ounce (yay!) and headed for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/gold-tumbles-20-down-seventh\/story.aspx?guid=%7BCAE4BC11-FD94-4FA5-9726-B3D758BD84F5%7D&amp;dist=news\">big weekly loss<\/a>. Naturally, I haven&#8217;t heard from any would-be gold investors today, because THIS would be the time to buy gold. I only hear from them when <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/pt-barnum-or-someone-was-right.html\">gold is at a high<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of investing, Warren Buffett has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/17\/opinion\/17buffett.html?partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">a good article in the New York Times<\/a> in which he says, &#8220;A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/07\/11\/1115_philanthropy\/source\/51.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258165311818461906\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SPjBff04ctI\/AAAAAAAAEwE\/tEQwCnOoR90\/s320\/1_warren_buffett_bn.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Warren Buffett<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my thoughts from a week ago&#8230;. Gold is down below $800 an ounce (yay!) and headed for a big weekly loss. Naturally, I haven&#8217;t heard from any would-be gold investors today, because THIS would be the time to buy gold. I only hear from them when gold is at a high. Speaking of investing,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/where-are-you-now-gold-bugs\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,76,49,569],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business","7":"category-gold","8":"category-in-the-news","9":"category-price-of-gold","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11768,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/11768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}