A Las Vegas barber led me to gold.

I was lounging in a beauty salon, waiting for my son to come back. Like every salon, there were myriad magazines on beauty, apparel and hair care. Like all waiting parents, I picked up a magazine at random, started filliping through when my eyes told me to stop and read about the odd rules for barbers in Las Vegas.

When I returned to my home, I searched the web about those odd barber rules in Las Vegas. It could make an interesting blog post for one of my blogs.

The search made me land at Ed Shull’s Filthy Lucre, a blog on varied topics. Before I could actually read his blog post on Las Vegas barber, I got attracted to his article on investing in gold. The first few lines about the drawbacks in investing in gold made me sit up and I read further.

I was under the impression that no one needs an education to buy gold coins. How wrong I was! Ed Shull had put forward a few valuable guidelines to consider when buying gold.

Another popular belief is, gold bar is a better option than buying gold coins. However, Ed Shull says that gold bar can be easily counterfeited. I agree with his views on trading in gold futures. There is big money in it but risky to the core.

Now, let me get back to Las Vegas. I must catch with that barber laws.

Why gold from U.S. Gold Bureau?

What BBC, Times of India, Reuters and Business Week have failed to attract the attention of investors who buy gold coins at every small slump in price, the U.S. Gold Bureau commanded the full attention of bullion market.

In their latest web release, the U.S. Gold Bureau has published the gold price has received a small boost after news reports about the South Korean Naval ship that sank near the North Korean border.

Minor precious metals investors like you and I will ignorantly ask how the remote Korean incident can leave a mark on the global gold price movement. Nevertheless, the effect was true and all of us who recently bought some gold, stood to gain financially.

Yesterday, the gold price dipped again. Any takers?