This is a terrific time to declare your independence from Wall Street and secure a retirement under your own terms with gold coin investments.

July 05, 2011 – This is a terrific time to declare your independence from Wall Street and secure a retirement under your own terms with gold coin investments. Unfortunately individuals are awash in indecision, torn between a tepid gold market on one hand and rosy pictures painted by the status quo on the other. So lets take a reality check.

The Rasmussen Investor Index fell 15 points last month and a recent survey shows that less than half of investor portfolios made any gains year to year while 41% declined – and that’s not adjusted for the true rate of inflation. Gold, however, returned 23%.

The Rasmussen Consumer Index, which measures confidence in the economy, is a scant 0.1% above its lowest level throughout 2010 and 2011, and six out of every 10 Americans believe the economy is getting worse. Another Rasmussen poll reveals almost two thirds of Americans now believe that politicians are incapable of implementing positive change.

Summing it all up, we know the economy is going downhill and the government can’t fix it. We know our traditional investments are losing value against inflation. And we know gold is not only holding its own, it is gaining. So why the indecision?

Understandably, Americans – especially the older ones – are cynical and don’t know who they can trust. No matter where they turn they cannot find a leader they can faithfully follow. And unfortunately there are as many crackpots promoting gold these days as there are “investment advisers” trying to lure investors back to the Street so the average individual can’t make heads or tails of the endless barrage of conflicting analyses.

There is a very simple solution to the conundrum: stop letting others do our thinking for us. These words from the Declaration of Independence should inspire every one of us to take back the rights and powers granted to us and demand fundamental change:

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

We survived the Revolution and flourished with little more than the American spirit and the secure wealth of gold coins – there is no reason we cannot do it again.

Kevin Johnson

Senior Staff Writer – GoldCoin.net