My Gold Party is featured in Wayne State Magazine!

Best Actor Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”) joked that his career is over now that he has the ultimate feather in his cap. If this is truly the case, Colin could rake in some serious cash by selling his coveted Oscar. The Academy Award statuette weighs 8.5 lbs., which is worth roughly $176,467.84 if it were 24k gold.

Or, the golden boy could become one a Hollywood Rep for My Gold Party and have the ladies flocking to his crib to cash in their old gold and he’d save himself from being a commoner forever. Visit mygoldparty.com to find out how you can become a rep or a host.

April 15th is closer than you think. We’re all scrambling to get our taxes

done and it will go one-way or the other – We hope to receive a nice tax return but we’re dreading the notice to send more money to Uncle Sam.

Don’t get caught with the latter. Have a gold party to cover the cost and if you don’t have to pay, use it to play or buy yourself something nice.

Check out mygoldparty.com for reps in the area or send us an e-mail.

We promise it will be the best tax party ever!

Au, the symbol for gold, stems from the Latin word Aurum meaning “shining dawn” or even better, from Aurora the Roman Goddess of the dawn. She renews herself each morning as she flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the sun. Aurora is the perfect inspiration for reinventing yourself this year.

Become a golden goddess and renew your life with economic opportunity. My Gold Party gives women the necessary tools to become their own boss and work from home.

Become a rep or host a party today!

What Celebs have little buns in the oven? Actress Kate Hudson, 31, is expecting with boyfriend rocker Matthew Bellamy, 32.

Singer Jewel, 36, is expecting with husband Ty Murray, 41 and ex Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, wife of super-hot professional

soccer dad David, 35 is expecting as well. Congrats, golden girls!

Have you ever gotten ready for a night out and thought, “my jewelry is ancient!”  Well, it can’t get much older than this:

4,000 year old gold necklace

Unearthed near Lake Titicaca from a burial pit at Jiskairumoko, this piece of jewelry is 4000 years old, dating back to 2100 BC. It is the oldest man-made gold object ever found in the Americas. For more of the story click here.

There’s no telling what the hunter-gatherer would take home from a My Gold Party for this ancient artifact but I bet it’s safe to say the tag would read “Priceless”.

If you have unwanted gold visit www.mygoldparty.com for information about hosting a gold party or for easy tips and tricks to sell your ancient gold.

There’s no doubt the red carpet was full of colorful style last night at the Golden Globe Awards, but we have a few favorites!

1. Anne Hathaway’s rose gold gown by Armani Prive is a 24k stunner.
2. Emma Stone’s golden glow in coral Calvin Klein is sheer perfection.
3. Kyra Sedgwick’s golden accessories: Ofira 18kt yellow gold diamond bangles, a milky emerald and diamond cuff and VBH clutch.

We can’t wait to see how Hollywood dazzles us during awards season and you can bet we’ll let you know who struck gold!

Believe it or not, your mismatched earrings, outdated snake chains and unwanted, outdated ankle bracelets are worth cold, hard cash! It doesn’t matter if these items are broken, tangled beyond use or kinked – you can sell them at a My Gold Party and walk away with a nice stash of cash. If you have a hideous hand-me-down or a piece of jewelry that just evokes bad juju, bring on the good vibrations and either pocket the money or use it to add some sparkle to the new year!

My Gold Party appeared in the December issue of Fortune Magazine! Photographer Brian Finke contacted PW to find out where January Thomas would be holding a My Gold Party and promptly flew out to Las Vegas to capture MGP Rep Pam Lilly inspecting jewelry.

Happy holidays wishes to all, with a special season’s greetings to the permanent gold skeptics.

The decade that ends Thursday is on track to be the worst in recorded history for the U.S. stock market – worse than all of the many boom-and-bust cycles of the 19th century, worse than the Great Depression-era 1930s, worse than the recession-plagued 1970s.

The S&P 500 opened the decade at 1,469.25 on January 3, 2000. When the market closed on Christmas Eve, the S&P 500 stood at 1,125.46 – with four trading days left in the decade, the index’s annual performance over that span is negative 2.6 percent.  The Dow Jones Industrials has lost about 1 percent per year over the same period, and the Nasdaq Composite is down a whopping 5.9 percent annually. When adjusted for inflation, the 10-year returns for these indices are even lower.

Meanwhile, what about gold?

The chart above from Bloomberg tells the story – a $100 investment in gold when the market opened on January 3, 2000, was worth about $380 as of this week (data through December 21) – that’s a total return of 280 percent and an annualized return of 14.3 percent. Gold stocks (as measured by the XAU Index) have also had a good decade, climbing 9.4 percent annually.

Commodities (as measured by the S&P GSCI Enhanced Total Return Index) posted average gains of 13.6 percent per year over the period, driven mostly by rapid economic growth in Asia and elsewhere in the developing world.

There are many commentators out there who see no value in gold and who denounce it as an investment at every opportunity. They are certainly entitled to their opinions, but it’s hard to argue with the numbers over the past 10 years – investors on average would have been better off with a gold allocation than having no exposure.

We consider gold a legitimate asset class, and for that reason, we consistently suggest that investors consider a maximum 10 percent allocation to gold-related assets – half in bullion or bullion ETFs and the other half in gold equities – and that they rebalance each year to capture the swings.

What the next decade will bring for gold? Who knows. But we do know one thing – those who held gold for the past 10 years will have a happier New Year than those who listened to the perma-skeptics.

Source: http://www.kitco.com/ind/Holmes/holmes_dec282009.html