AuCanary GoldWisdom

For thousands of years Precious Metals (PM) such as Gold (Au) and Silver (Ag) have been utilized as real money for exchange, wealth store, and metric of value. While I am NOT an advocate of one single commodity backing our money (like a gold standard), I do believe that the price trend of PMs are the most important indicators of the value of fiat money, plus the crimes of corrupt banking corporations and governments that manipulate PM prices. The "Canary in the coal mine" is Gold - AuCanary.

Fed President holds $1 million in SPDR's Gold Trust

CNN MONEY - Stock picks from Fed officials

http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/02/news/economy/federal_reserve_stocks/index.htm?iid=HP_LN

[Richard Fisher is President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank]

... Fisher owns more than 7,000 acres in Texas, Georgia, Iowa and Missouri, in addition to more than $1 million in SPDR's Gold Trust (GLD), and at least $50,000 in platinum and uranium each. ...

Update with more poop on FED's Fisher investment at Zero Hedge:
A Gold (And Physical Platinum) Bug At The Fed?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/goldbug-fed