If you don't Silver Stack you will be left behind

Wow! No need to duck to avoid that'n. Straight over, way over. 5K? Californian? Wha?

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

I'm noting with interest that some here are calling out others for "saying things here that you wouldn't dare say to someone's face", and in the same post talking about what physical damage they'd do to the offender if only they weren't stuck behind that cursed keyboard.

Maybe I'm just too mousy, or maybe I'm just too tall in person, but I've never ACTUALLY had someone take a swing at me for something I said, at least as an adult. We all have our sense of pride and honor, but most of us also have impulse control, right?

 

Yet at the same time we also have correctional institutions, and, and, and, sparsely populated states apparently. Been there, seen 'em, also flew over 'em. Like 'em, not enough to stay though.

 

He doesn't talk to anybody face to face like that. Keyboard courage is free of any courage.

 

AGAIN, when you see him next, ask Richard Nachbar about the guy that got all up in his grille on the bus to the Shedd Aquarium at ANA 2011. It was me, and I was relentless. When I told him, "no, gold is NOT money" I thought he was going to spit blood. Then I got sarcastic.

 

Do you really punch people's teeth out if you don't like what they say? Do you even threaten to do so, face-to-face?

 

Peace and Kurt, we are getting off of the subject with this line. It stops here! blame the oppression on the mods as usual, but it ends here. Thanks , your buddy DG

 

Or maybe it doesn't end up there at #407, huh? What a brilliant advertisement for the stacker lifestyle and culture, eh?

 

The debt is the main reason the Fed brought interest rates down to almost zero. With the economy taking a major slump in 2008, the Federal Government had little choice but to ramp up deficit spending, so the Fed rates allowed the government to borrow money for next to nothing. The worrisome part is that as the economy has grown, the Federal Government is still borrowing, although at a slower pace.

 

I predict it has. It applies to all!

 

Remember, the federal government briefly was NOT new net borrowing right around the end of the previous century / beginning of this one. The federal budget was in surplus and retiring debt. Then the bubble of tech spending by private industry to ward off Y2K issues ceased, and then 9/11 changed the world of government spending fundamentally. Just when we were starting to get righted a little, "banksters" offloaded their losses onto the taxpayers at large (and they didn't even have to buy us dinner first). As bad as our sovereign debt looks, and it does, it is the result of a confluence of pretty staggeringly unusual circumstances.

 

Now I know that when a post gets deleted, the software re-numbers the remaining ones and there's no ordinal number gap. Cool beans.

 

Hey @desertgem, you asked up thread about Austrian Schoolers ignoring data, kind of slightly sarcastically (you bad boy). That is actually a key precept of Austrian School economic teachings: ignoring actual empirical data. I kid you not! Nice catch!

 

I was wrong about the date, the basket was changed in 1990, so I was off by a year.

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

 

Hold on, PP, now I think you're understating your case. Your previous link, to me, looks like a de facto statement that they reserve the right to alter the basket CONTINUOUSLY, and without notice. That seems at least as sketchy as this new link, probably more. I just feel that basket adjustments are a good thing, not a sinister thing.

 

Aah, problem solved. Thank you 'ignore' option.

 

Actually, it's $18 TRILLION in debt !!
$18,000,000,000,000

 

Big wheel keep on turnin'
Proud Mary keep on burnin' ...

 

Once upon a time 17 million was big deal.

 

Well, I just saw that the economy SHRANK by an annually adjusted 0.7% in the first quarter. Don't expect "Janet and the Jets" to raise interest rates any time soon. The $18 trill is 18 AND CLIMBING, no lie. They can't stop now, unless they think the only reason for the pullback was New England's weather.

This has me looking for at least a temporary metals bump up. Yup, I just checked the Kitco spot graphs, and there it is!