Why you need a gold nest egg

If you're not diversified, your nest egg can be severely affected by a stockmarket crash. The good news is that gold is a safe haven - and you can put it in your pension fund too.

One of the most well known auditors in the world is David Walker. He is the top auditor of the U.S. government - the Comptroller and Auditor General and the head of the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO). He cannot be pigeon-holed as a "doom and gloom merchant".

Last March he was interviewed on CBS' "60 Minutes'. He said that politicians in Washington were 'bankrupting America'. He's now on a 'Fiscal Wake-up Tour" across America taking his message directly to the people, as he feels that much of the media and politicians in Washington are ignoring the massive long term fiscal challenges facing the U.S.

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