It's far from unprecedented. Similar events happened in Asia a few times from 1200-1870. I'm sure they happened in Europe in the past, as well....
You should pay before the seller ships out the item. It's logical. Otherwise, what happens is the buyer doesn't pay, eBay charges the seller their...
It has to do with investment costs and whatnot. Bonds are usually traded in 25 share blocks of $1000 face. So, to be a bond trader, you either...
ETF is an acronym for exchange traded (mutual) fund. In the case of commodity ETFs, the fund manager purchases a fixed basket (as defined by the...
BTW, to the OP, I'm not calling you a liar, but I doubt you've done much trading in bonds if you're just starting to use commodity ETFs. I bought...
Are you asking how ETFs function? I'm not sure that I'm reading your question correctly. Is it a logistical/functional question on how the...
I'm pretty sure pewter (tin) is the poor man's silver...
The best answer I can give you is scale. Physical metals, in theory, trade off liquidity and premiums for lower transaction costs. If you buy an...
I don't understand the issue(s) here. 1) It's automated. eBay sends you a notification reminder to pay. Then X days after that reminder, you get...
Hah hah. Fine fine... I won't. ;) I thought I addressed automation in the post prior to the one where I outlined the slave labor business. If...
What I like about Kitco is that they show the price for the trending three days with HK/London/NYMEX prices/hours. Since spot is 24 hours, it...
Ironically, at the time that you posted there were 1,992,423 posts, you were recorded as post 1,996,935. So, are you going by the official post...
Revi, I was dead serious.Edit: NK ,I gave you the first one above as a verbal point, but to repeat a financial offer a second time is...
You just purchased twice the daily float on SLV and the price still went down... I'm guessing you didn't really purchase what you claim you did.
If you can actually find someone willing to pay you $1/roll in cash locally, sell. Sell all you have. The likelihood of finding that, however, is...
Debasing the dollar by 50% (100% inflation) would create much greater problems than carrying a large national debt. The national debt is currently...
When Cu was trading above $4 per pound, it could have made sense to sort 95% Cu pennies. You could fill a small flat rate box with ~20-24 rolls of...
If you sell stock for a profit and use the proceeds to buy stock in a DIFFERENT company, you would still owe the taxes on the proceeds. If you...
Bitcoin is also accepted by Paypal soon in North America. I'm guessing that's part of driving value during the spinoff.
I always thought that was what filters are for... As for the daylight temp thing... I don't know. I've always felt that the 5500 CFLs are far too...
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